In the winter of 2003 George Bush attempted to sell the invasion of
Iraq to Jacques Chirac using biblical prophecy. G. Bush and Tony Blair
were frantically gathering support for their planned invasion, Professor
Thomas Romer, an Old Testament expert at the university of Lausanne,
was rung up by the Protestant Federation of France. They asked him to
supply them with a summary of the legends surrounding Gog and Magog
and as the conversation progressed, he realized that this had originally
come from the highest reaches of the France government.
President Jacques Chirac wanted to know what the hell President Bush
had been on about in their last conversation. Bush had then said that
when he looked at the Middle East, he saw "Gog and Magog at work"
and the biblical prophecies unfolding. But who the hell were Gog
Magog? Neither Chirac nor his office had any idea. But they knew Bush
was an evangelical Christian, so they asked the French Federation of
Protestants, who in turn asked Professor Romer.
He explained that Gog and Magog were, to use theological jargon,
crazy talk. They appear twice in the Old Testament, once as a name,
and once in a truly strange prophecy in the book of Ezekiel.
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