Originally posted by Pontius
neoreef, if you could point me to the quote where Bush said he was sent by God to do anything, I'd love to see it. War is a necessary evil sometimes.
I was recently reminded of where I got the notion. A Frontline show on public television in late April 2004 showed a friend/colleague of Bush's saying that George W told him that GWB thought God wanted him to be president. This was a show about the evangelical background and motivation of George W.
I am not against faith per se, but it should not be used to justify evil. Killing people is evil by George's lights in abortion and stem cell research, but it is necessary (george thinks) to put our youth in harm's way to serve him? Perhaps some wars are necessary, but this one wasn't.
If we are worried about threats to our country, why didn't we invade North Korea? They have weapons of mass destruction, they hate us and they brutalize their population. Same as what we thought of Iraq....