Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn’t comply with Bush’s request. Instead, his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal. Dr. Romer explained that the Old Testament book of Ezekiel contains two chapters (38 and 39) in which God rages against Gog and Magog, sinister and mysterious forces menacing Israel. Jehovah vows to smite them savagely, to “turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,” and slaughter them ruthlessly. In the New Testament, the mystical book of Revelation envisions Gog and Magog gathering nations for battle, “and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

Tired of the government interfering and don't want socialism?

Pledge to do the following and get others to do the same:

1. TEAR UP your Medicare card! This is one of the biggest socialist programs in America! (Republicans tried to prevent it from happening in the first place all those years ago!)

2. If you're retired military, REFUSE ANY FURTHER BENEFITS! You served your country well, but you don't want to live off of anything run by the incompetent government.

3. Discourage anyone from joining the military, since our military is one of the biggest government-run programs we have!

4. REFUSE TO RECEIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS! That ugly word "social" is right there in the name!!!

5. Heck, we also have socialized police and fire protection, roads and bridges, public health programs like vaccinations, food and drug laws, etc. Do your part to advocate for the dismantling of these socialist programs! We're Americans -- we can do everything ourselves and, if you can't, you don't deserve to be here. Pay extra to have all your mail delivered by companies such as UPS and DHL

6. And, since the government can't do anything right, why do we even vote, even for Republicans? They're the ones who say the government doesn't work, so why do we vote them into office in the government only to collect a paycheck we're paying for? JUST DON'T VOTE AT ALL!

(One warning: Since we don't want the government interfering in our personal lives, we absolutely can't be hypocrites. We will have to give up the fight against legislating abortion, gay marriage, end-of-life issues and other values we hold so dear.)


And, finally, just so we don't let those "liberal elite" types try to confuse us with fancy language, let's take a stand on who we are and what we are all about.

WE ARE PROUD CONSERVATIVES! That means "we are disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change."

We want to restore things to pre-Civil Rights days. The country REALLY went to hell in a hand basket starting with all that civil rights legislation. NOW look who's in the White House!

WE DEPLORE ANYTHING PROGRESSIVE (progressive: "favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are").

We don't want anything to improve. We're perfect. We're Americans. WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!!

Ok I'll Bite....
Lincoln was a Republican...He started he civil rights movement...Freed the slaves.

The Military is a career. Many jobs have benefits and they are earned. People who seved EARNED the benefits. You are confusing earning and wanting an entitlement.

The consevatives have been fighting for social security to be privatized for years. Can't do that though because the government blew the money on other social prograns years ago. The piggy bank is empty..but I'll opt out of paying into it today and give up the benefit anytime.

UPS, Fedex, and DHLwould crush the USPS, and they're not even subsidized by the federal government. The USPS has a over a 70 Billion dollar budget and has a 6 billion Dollar deficit. Could you run a business with an extra 70 Billion?

The Military, Police, and Fire are not entitlements. Our tax $'s buy those services.

Jim, Your tax dollars can buy any thing the government wants. Schools, welfare, armies, heath care. We chose what we want to pay for, so by your definition all public expenditures are entitlements. We just decide which ones add to the general good of all. I have news for you, but I pay for social security so I believe I have earned it. So when I get to be old enough to collect I expect too. This piggy bank is never empty just as long as we keep having kids and they keep working. That is how social security works.
Sorry Jim your arguments don't hold water. Stop listing to Rush and take a history or economics class. Then you will see your errors. I don't have time to address them all. To compare Lincoln Republicans to modern Republicans is just stupid.