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Chauncy

Jun 5 2007, 12:45 AM

Here's some good quotes from the American leader. ......Religion , God, Jesus are definetly used to control the masses, rally the troops, fight in the name of GOD sons and daughters!!!!!!

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"On the other hand, I don't see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord."

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"What we are going to do in the second term is to make sure that the grant money is available for faith communities to bid on, to make sure these faith-based offices are staffed and open. But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important."
--George W. Bush, January 11, 2005

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I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
--George W. Bush commenting to Texas evangelist James Robinson in the run-up to his presidential campaign

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"We share common goals and a common faith."
--George W. Bush, addressing the Christian Coalition's "Road To Victory" convention

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"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
--Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen quoting Bush when they met in Aqaba; reported in The Haaretz Reporter by Arnon Regular

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"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job."

-- President Bush, quoted in the Lancaster New Era, during a private meeting with an Amish group.

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"We see in Islam a religion that traces its origins back to God's call on Abraham. We share your belief in God's justice, and your insistence on man's moral responsibility. We thank the many Muslim nations who stand with us against terror. Nations that are often victims of terror, themselves."
President Hosts Iftaar Dinner
Remarks by the President at Iftaar Dinner
State Dining Room

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"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
(Reuters: September 21, 2001).

Lt_Ripley

Jun 5 2007, 12:49 AM

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"What we are going to do in the second term is to make sure that the grant money is available for faith communities to bid on, to make sure these faith-based offices are staffed and open. But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important."
--George W. Bush, January 11, 2005

funny thing is bush shafted them. proving he only used the christian right to gain office. far better to have one honest about his/her faith then to be a lying hypocrite like bush.

Book says Bush just using Christians
‘Tempting Faith’ author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003

“Tempting Faith’s” author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft

He says some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’” Kuo writes.

More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly “nonpartisan” events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.

In fact, when Bush asks Kuo how much money was being spent on “compassion” social programs, Kuo claims he discovered the amount was $20 million a year less than during the Clinton Administration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15228489/

Chauncy

Jun 5 2007, 12:55 AM

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In fact, when Bush asks Kuo how much money was being spent on “compassion” social programs, Kuo claims he discovered the amount was $20 million a year less than during the Clinton Administration.

The fact of the matter is that religion, or religious devoutness is used as a tool of the leaders of the masses. Bush is not the only president to use God to reach the masses, to sway them to manipulate them......Every
American leader has!!!!!

Is this because religion is the proper path in life or is it the very reason for the existence of religion......to control, sway, manipulate the masses?

Argen

Jun 5 2007, 03:12 AM

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I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
--George W. Bush commenting to Texas evangelist James Robinson in the run-up to his presidential campaign

Of course, when that time came he decided to just keep on reading My Pet Goat while the prominent members of the administration went into hiding. Then he rose from the ashes for a convenient photo op.

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