

The Book of Revelation took up the Old Testament prophesy: In Genesis and Ezekiel Gog and Magog are forces of the Apocalypse who are prophesied to come out of the north and destroy Israel unless stopped. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated. In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush’s Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?

The revelation this month in GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question.
