Daddy bush slightly worried about his crazy son and Israel.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/washington/02prexy.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Others say Mr. Bush cannot help looking at Israel through the prism of his Christian faith. “There is a religiously inspired connection to Israel in which he feels, as president, a responsibility for Israel’s survival,” said Martin S. Indyk, who was President Clinton’s ambassador to Israel and kept that post for several months under President Bush. He also suggested that Republican politics were at work, saying Mr. Bush came into office determined to “build his Christian base.”

But the White House press secretary, Tony Snow, dismissed that idea, telling reporters last week that Mr. Bush does not view the current conflict through a “theological lens.”

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But Mr. Bush has enjoyed singularly warm relations, particularly after 9/11. “It is this event, 9/11, that caused the president to really associate himself with Israel, with this notion that now, for the first time, Americans can feel on their skin what Israelis have been feeling all along,” said Shai Feldman, an Israeli scholar at Brandeis University who has been in Tel Aviv since the hostilities began. “There is huge, huge appreciation here for the president.”

[DRoseDARs]

1. Tony apparently hasn't been paying attention to Bush for the past 6 years

Bush looks at EVERYTHING through a theological lens... that or beer goggles.

[madokie]

2. the bottom of a jim beam bottle is more like it

whisky drinkers don't usually drink much beer, or that was my experience with booze.

[liberal N proud]

3. If the WH is saying there is no theological ideals behind their reaction

to Israel, then you can most assuredly assume there is. Like anything else that is spun from the White House and their talking heads they will start with the complete opposite of what they are doing.

[Philosoraptor]

4. Simply believe the opposite of what they say.

That's how to understand them. If they said the sky was blue I would'nt believe it.

[Missy M]

5. This article certainly gives the reason Bush is doing....

nothing to stop the invasion of Lebanon. He won't be happy until the only thing left standing in the ME is Israel. It's hard to believe we have a president who is totally OUT OF HIS MIND.

[BlueManDude]

6. Bush is playing out his "end times" delusions on our dime

the man is a loon.

[gratuitous]

9. Yeah, more dog whistle politics

Tony Snow's denial notwithstanding, Bush is clearly making sure he plays to the End Times delusional wing of the electorate, and signals them in ways large and small that he stands with them. Odd, though, that Stupidhead thinks its his job to protect Israel while flushing the United States and the rest of the world down the toilet. Maybe he and Laura are thinking of retiring to a kibbutz?

[napi21]

7. In this situation, I dont think I believe Indyk, or Snow, or Feldman!

Shrub didn't pay close attention to Israel before Or after 9/11. He ignored everything except his war plans, and everything else was off his radar. NOW Israel is in the top of the news and he has no choice, so he's playing to his base AGAIN in all his decisions!

He spent 6 years gnoring the ME, and now that it's blown up and causing him problems, he's handeling the situation in the only way he knows...VIOLENCE!

[Virginia Dare]

8. Silly me,

I thought the job of the President of the United States was to protect the people of the United States and its Constitution. Here, all along it was to take responsibility for Israel's survival.

:banghead:

[never_get_over_it]

10. I have never believed and never will

that Bush cares one bit about the religous stuff - I think it is a COMPLETE fraud and think he uses it to appeal to the base - to seem like a good guy while he loots the treasury and causes the deaths of hundreds of thousands. The only two things this freak worships is the almighty dollar and power

[spanone]

11. If Bush* is a Christian, I'm the Pope.

Trust me, I'm not the Pope.

[mcscajun]

12. He's a Christianist, not a Christian.

You're correct.

[Kolesar]

13. Old Bush was so tightly coupled to the Saudis

that he could not give such overwhelming support for Israel. It seems that Old Bush built the family power on Texas and Arabian crude oil, and bush43* is spending that power to advance Israel's interests. Friggin' ironic

[Philosoraptor]

14. Jr. kisses Saudi ass too.

All the while playing all sides against the other for the highest profit. I remember when Ironic used to actually mean something.

[Kolesar]

15. Kissed Joe-mentum--Still holding hands with the Saudis

SSDD

[Tinksrival]

16. This reads like a steaming pile of shit!

I will never believe the cocky cokehead fratboy wannabe cowboy has a true christian thought in his pea brain head. Nope!