"When George W. Bush ran for President in 2000, he said the United States must be "humble" in the world. Now he has cast humility aside and replaced it with hubris. Supremely confident in his gut instincts, wrapped up in a fundamentalist belief system, endowed with the most powerful military of all time, and unchecked by Congress, Bush feels he can "rid the world of evil"--at the barrel of a gun.

A picture emerges from the President's public statements--and even from such adulatory accounts as Bob Woodward's Bush at War and David Frum's The Right Man--of a President on a divine mission.

f!Call it messianic militarism." - The Progressive , February 2003

President Bush feels compelled to bring peace to the world...at the point of a gun. I don't know about anyone else, but this little creep is startin' to scare the shit outta me. I mean, here is a man who claims Jesus Christ as his "role model", then he goes and presides over the executions of nearly 150 people in Texas. I don't think Jesus would have approved. I know the Bible says "...Blessed are the peacemakers..." but I don't think what Bush and his merry band are up to is what Jesus had in mind.

Howdy's mindset here is like unto that of the Southern Baptist Convention, "Kill 'em all...Let God sort 'em out!" Fortunately most of the rest of the Christendom seems more of "...the meek shall inherit the earth..." mindset, with the exception of the Christian Identity movement and the KKK.

What a fucking creepshow.

For the full text of the editorial, goto:

http://www.progressive.org/feb03/comm0203.html