We're on a Mission from God, Ma'am.

"We're on a mission from God, ma'am."

Dan Ackroyd's deadpan delivery of this line was funny, especially when the mission was to pull together a blues band, save an orphanage, and piss off some neo-Nazis.  By the way, this is from the film, "The Blues Brothers," in case you did not know.

President Bush's delivery of similar statements is no where near so amusing.  Even discounting heavily for the source of the statement, we need to seriously question our Chief Executive.  Whose God is speaking to him, and how can our Constitutional government take orders from a God who seems to give conflicting orders to conflicting adherents?

Is it God as seen by the Catholics, the Episcopalians, the Baptists, the Mormons, the Seventh-Day Adventists, or the non-denominationals?  Is God the same as Allah?  Yahweh?   Buddha?  The Tao?  Eru the One?

Is God playing us?  After all, according to Bush, there is a vast conspiracy to create a Muslim mega-state.  As Dubya seems to think that the United States is one, vast Christian state (with conservatively Protestant overtones), is God wearing his Allah face in fact allowed to give another region the impetus to band together under their viewpoints?

Does Dubya realize that he sounds more and more like exactly the kind of religious zealot that spawned little mistakes like the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition?  Those little mistakes are a big part of the age-old hatred of Christian zealots, after all.  Maybe Dubya should re-think his language.

Will God tell Dubya that the Catholic stranglehold on the Republican of Ireland is also evil and to be purged?  How will the Pope feel about this? 

Did God tell Dubya to appoint Miers to the Supreme Court and to plan to use the U.S. military to quarantine civilian populations?  Did God forget that the U.S. Constitution asks Him to let us run things without catering to all of the conflicting views of His rules?  If so, which of the conflicting versions of Truth is God really giving to Dubya?  Maybe God can re-animate George Burns to come out and tell us what to do, the way he did in another movie that I saw when I was younger (proving, of course, that I am a geezer).

Did God give Dubya the list of ten alleged terrorist plots, which we are to believe both existed and were foiled?  Should we believe God has anointed Dubya despite the misinformation and outright lies that led us to war with Iraq?

Is God behind the increasingly incoherent rhetoric coming out of Dubya?  Or is Dubya just saying anything to regain the trust of his shaken conservative, religious constituency? 

Is it just possible that Dubya is finally unraveling for all the world to see?

Dubya, you are not King David of Old Testament fame.  Stop saying that you are.  If you can't stop making such a preposterous claim, though, read the whole story.  God got pissed with David, remember?  God abandoned King David.

Copyright © 2005 by Gregory P. Lee.