Re: Flip

oh i adore flip wilson beyond reason.
but wasn't he the one who said...

well i just heard the story on bbc and the white house has chimed in
heavily by this hour saing false, false he never said it. <R>
Connie wrote:
> The following reminds me of Flip Wilson (anybody here get that
> reference?) -Connie
>
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051006/ts_alt_afp/mideastbritainusiraq_0510062
> 14432
> Bush claimed God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan: BBC
>
> Thu Oct 6, 6:05 PM ET
>
> US President George W. Bush allegedly said God told him to invade Iraq and
> Afghanistan, a new BBC documentary will reveal, according to details.
>
> Bush made the claim when he met Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and then
> foreign minister Nabil Shaath in June 2003, the ministers told the
> documentary series to be broadcast in Britain later this month.
>
> The US leader also told them he had been ordered by God to create a
> Palestinian state, the ministers said.
>
> Shaath, now the Palestinian information minister, said: "President Bush said
> to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God.
>
> 'God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan'.'
>
> "And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George, go and end the tyranny in
> Iraq...' And I did.
>
> "'And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians
> their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle
> East.' And by God I'm gonna do it'," said Shaath.
>
> Abbas, who was also at the meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm
> al-Sheikh, recalled how the president told him: "I have a moral and
> religious obligation.
>
> "So I will get you a Palestinian state."
>
> A BBC spokesman said the content of the programme had been put to the White
> House but it had refused to comment on a private conversation.
>
> The three-part series, "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs", charts the
> attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from former US president Bill
> Clinton's peace talks in 1999-2000 to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza
> strip.
>
> The programme speaks to presidents and prime ministers, their generals and
> ministers, about what happened behind closed doors as the peace talks failed
> and the intifada grew.
>
> The series is due to be screened in Britain on October 10, 17 and 24.

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