{"id":65466,"date":"2003-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/09\/gw-la-cia-et-dieu\/"},"modified":"2003-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-09T00:00:00","slug":"gw-la-cia-et-dieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/09\/gw-la-cia-et-dieu\/","title":{"rendered":"GW, la CIA et Dieu<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

GW, la CIA et Dieu<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t9 f\u00e9vrier 2003 Nous reprenons ici une partie d’un texte que nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans Nos Choix<\/a>, pour une pr\u00e9sentation plus approfondie. Seule la fin du texte nous int\u00e9resse (nous l’avions d\u00e9j\u00e0 signal\u00e9e dans notre petit commentaire), qui figure sans le moindre commentaire, sans la moindre humeur de la part des deux r\u00e9dacteurs (Jonathan Wright and Vicki Allen), dirions-nous. Ce que cette partie du texte nous pr\u00e9sente est un \u00e9v\u00e9nement peu ordinaire mais cela n’a pas troubl\u00e9 l’humeur de nos r\u00e9dacteurs ; peut-\u00eatre ne l’ont-ils par remarqu\u00e9 ou, plus s\u00fbrement, malheureusement et pour notre plus grande inqui\u00e9tude, sans doute n’y a-t-il pas lieu qu’un tel \u00e9v\u00e9nement leur paraisse remarquable en quoi que ce soit. En d’autres mots, ce serait la nature m\u00eame des choses, aux USA, aujourd’hui, et cela le fut potentiellement de tous les temps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici le passage :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Prayers offered<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Earlier on Thursday, Bush said the United States faced a decisive period with U.S. troops building up in the Gulf against Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbThis is a testing time for our country,\u00a0\u00bb Bush said at the 51st annual National Prayer Breakfast, which brings together lawmakers, foreign leaders and spiritual leaders in prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Bush referred to the confrontation with Iraq, the \u00a0\u00bbwar on terrorism,\u00a0\u00bb apparently the challenge offered by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia crash as he offered prayers for the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbAt this hour we have troops that are assembling in the Middle East. There’s oppressive regimes that seek terrible weapons. We face an ongoing threat of terror. One thing is for certain, we didn’t ask for these challenges. But we will meet them,\u00a0\u00bb Bush said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb CIA Director George Tenet told the breakfast, \u00a0\u00bbGod teaches us to be resolute in the face of evil, using all of the weapons and armor that the word of God supplies.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCe qui nous importe pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, outre l’atmosph\u00e8re g\u00e9n\u00e9rale refl\u00e9t\u00e9e par cett d\u00e9p\u00e8che, c’est la derni\u00e8re phrase, r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9e ici pour qu’elle soit bien dans notre esprit, et bien dans notre esprit qu’il s’agit du directeur de la CIA : \u00ab CIA Director George Tenet told the breakfast, \u00a0\u00bbGod teaches us to be resolute in the face of evil, using all of the weapons and armor that the word of God supplies.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl est facile et tentant d’ironiser. C’est un travers des continentaux europ\u00e9ens, et des Fran\u00e7ais encore plus. Il ne faut pas trop y c\u00e9der, apr\u00e8s y avoir sacrifi\u00e9 rituellement. Ces d\u00e9clarations de George Tenet ont une dimension qui a de quoi pr\u00e9occuper, voire effrayer fortement, par ce qu’elles nous disent de l’\u00e9tat d’esprit qui, d\u00e9sormais, pr\u00e9vaut publiquement dans l’administration GW Bush. (Que cet \u00e9tat d’esprit soit assis sur une conviction consid\u00e9rable ou en bonne partie un arrangement avec le Bon Dieu ne nous importe pas, affaire de convictions personnelles. Le point est diff\u00e9rent ici ; la conviction s’exprime \u00e0 haute voix, elle tend \u00e0 devenir une consigne, elle est maintenant la voix du conformisme g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. On sait qu’\u00e0 Washington, le conformisme est la seule voie laiss\u00e9e \u00e0 la r\u00e9flexion. On imagine de quoi cette r\u00e9flexion sera faite.) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette administration sans contr\u00f4le ni la moindre colonne vert\u00e9brale d’une strat\u00e9gie, sans v\u00e9ritable chef, sans r\u00e9elle substance et confront\u00e9e au vide de ses conception (Dieu avec nous, qui n’est pas avec nous est contre nous, etc, cela n’occupe pas longtemps l’esprit), aux scandales (Enron et compagnie) et aux \u00e9checs (l’\u00e9conomie), cette administration n’a plus que la voie de la guerre d\u00e8s lors que l’opportunit\u00e9 en est venue \u00e0 l’esprit, que l’opportunit\u00e9 s’en est impos\u00e9e. Elle s’y tiendra ou succombera. (Peut-\u00eatre aussi : elle s’y tiendra et succombera. On verra.) Pour renforcer la cause de la guerre et favoriser la sortie des m\u00e9diocres p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties des montages, falsifications, fabrications \u00e9hont\u00e9es, etc, il faut trouver une assise ferme et glorieuse. Quoi de mieux \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard que la Gloire de Dieu, d’autant que tous ces gens y sont inclin\u00e9es par m\u00e9saventures personnelles et coutumes familiales ? Nous aurons donc la croisade alli\u00e9e \u00e0 Microsoft, avec Microsoft ainsi sanctifi\u00e9, et Microsoft au service de dieu (avec Dieu s’activant pour faire vendre un si pr\u00e9cieux produit). C’est l\u00e0 un \u00e9l\u00e9ment s\u00e9rieux de politique, m\u00eame si le sujet pourrait para\u00eetre d\u00e9plac\u00e9 en politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tC’est d’autant plus un \u00e9l\u00e9ment s\u00e9rieux qu’\u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la description que nous faisons, qui semble laisser envisager l’hypoth\u00e8se qu’il y a une manipulation, que la foi est utilis\u00e9e, il y a l’autre hypoth\u00e8se selon laquelle cet \u00e9lan mystique et de ferveur religieuse repr\u00e9sente une r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Cette hypoth\u00e8se est loin, tr\u00e8s loin d’\u00eatre improbable ou d\u00e9risoire, et nous-m\u00eames ne serions pas loin de la favoriser.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCette circonstance et le commentaire que nous en faisons nous conduisent \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter, ci-dessous, un texte d’analyse sur la religiosit\u00e9 de GW Bush, notamment son suppos\u00e9 penchant pour Armageddon, la bataille ultime entre le Bien et le Mal. L’auteur est un sp\u00e9cialiste de ces questions (voir quelques mots de biographie en fin de texte) et adopte une approche th\u00e9ologique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\tBush’s Armageddon Obsession, Revisited<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tBy Michael Ortiz Hill, CounterPunch, January 4, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbWe are lived by forces we scarcely understand,\u00a0\u00bb wrote W.H. Auden. What forces live us now as America again torques toward war?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGeorge W. Bush is certainly the plaything of such forces as the geopolitics of oil but it seems that he is susceptible to other even darker archetypal concerns. Let me be blunt. The man is delusional and the shape of his delusion is specifically apocalyptic in belief and intent. That Bush would attack so many vital systems on so many fronts from foreign policy to the environment may seem confusing from the point of view of realpolitik but becomes transparent in terms of the apocalyptic worldview to which he subscribes. All systems are supposed to go down so the Messiah can come and Bush, seemingly, has taken on the role of the one who brings this to pass.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe Reverend Billy Graham taught Bush to live in anticipation of the Second Coming but it was his friendship with Dr. Tony Evans that shaped Bush’s political understanding of how to deport himself in an apocalyptic era. Dr. Evans, the pastor of a large Dallas church and a founder of the Promise Keepers movement taught Bush about \u00a0\u00bbhow the world should be seen from a divine viewpoint,\u00a0\u00bb according to Dr. Martin Hawkins, Evans assistant pastor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tS.R. Shearer of Antipas Ministries writes, \u00a0\u00bbMost of the leaders of the Promise Keepers embrace a doctrine of ‘end time’ (eschatology), known as ‘dominionim.’ Dominionism pictures the seizure of earthly (temporal) power by the ‘people of God’ as the only means through which the world can be rescued…. It is the eschatology that Bush has imbibed; an eschatology through which he has gradually (and easily) come to see himself as an agent of God who has been called by him to ‘restore the earth to God’s control’, a ‘chosen vessel’, so to speak, to bring in the Restoration of All Thingss.\u00a0\u00bb Shearer calls this delusion, \u00a0\u00bbMessianic leadership\u00a0\u00bb– that is to say usurping the role usually ascribed to the Messiah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIn Bush at War Bob Woodward writes, \u00a0\u00bbMost presidents have high hopes. Some have grandiose visions of what they will achieve, and he was firmly in that camp.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbTo answer these attacks and rid the world of evil,\u00a0\u00bb says Bush. And again, \u00a0\u00bbWe will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great nation.\u00a0\u00bb Grandiose visions. Woodward comments, \u00a0\u00bbThe president was casting his mission and that of the country in the grand vision of Gods Master Plan.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIn dominionism we can see the theological source of Bush’s monomania. Not to be distracted by the fact that he lost the popular election by a half a million votes, that the Joint Chief of Staff at the Pentagon were so concerned about his plans to invade Iraq that they leaked their unanimous objection, that he has systematically alienated much of the world, that roughly seventy percent of Americans remain unconvinced of the imminent threat of Saddam Hussein and the same percentage object to war if there will be significant American casualties–none of this is in the least relevant. He believes his mandate toward action is from God.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAs humans we live within stories. Some stories, like apocalypse are thousands of years old. The scriptured text that informs Bush understanding of and enactment of the End of Days (Revelations 19) depicts Christ returning as the Heavenly Avenger. Revelations is the only New Testament book that justifies violence of any kind, and this it takes to the limit: Christ himself the agent of mass murder.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbI saw heaven open and there before me was a white horse who is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war…He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood and his name is the word of God…Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the Nations. And I saw an angel standing in the sun who cried in a low voice to all the birds flying in midair–come gather together for the great supper of God, so you may eat the flesh of kings, generals and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSuch is \u00a0\u00bbthe glory of the coming of the Lord.\u00a0\u00bb Truth, carnage, and the ecstasy of vultures. In a ruined world the Messiah slays the antichrist and creates \u00a0\u00bba new heaven and a new earth.\u00a0\u00bb The dead are judged, the Christians saved and the rest damned to eternal torment. The New Jerusalem is established and the Lord rules it \u00a0\u00bbwith an iron scepter.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIt is not inconceivable that Bush is literally and determinedly drawn, consciously and unconsciously, toward the enactment of such a scenario, as he believes, for God’s sake. Indeed the stark relentlessness of his policy in the Middle East suggests as much.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIt dishonors the profundity of the Christian tradition if one doesn’t note that Revelations has always been a rogue text. Because of its association with the Montanist heresy (which like contemporary fundamentalists took it to be literal rather than allegorical) it was with great reluctance that it was made scripture three centuries after the death of Christ. Traditionally attributed to St. John, most Biblical scholars now recognize its literary style and its theology has little in common with John’s gospel or his epistles and was likely written after his death. Martin Luther found the vindictive God of Revelations incompatible with the gospels and relegated it to the appendix of his German translation of the New Testament instead of the body of scripture. All the Protestant reformers except Calvin regarded apocalyptic millenialism to be heresy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBut Revelations is also a rogue text because it is unmoored from its origins, which are far from Christian. It is a late variant on a story that was pervasive in the ancient world: the defeat of the wild and the uncivilized by a superior order upon which a New World would be established. Two thousand years before Revelations depicted Christ slaying the antichrist and laying out the New Jerusalem, Marduk slayed Tiamat and founded Babylon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThis pagan myth recycled as a suspiciously unchristian Biblical test found new credence in the 19th century when John Darby virtually revived the Montanist heresy of investing it with a passionate literalism. Given to visions (he saw the British as one of the ten tribes of Israel) Darby left the priesthood of the Church of Ireland and preached Revelations as both prophecy and imminent history. In this he inaugurated a lineage in which Bush’s mentors, the Reverend Billy Graham and Dr. Tony Evans are recent heirs. Revelations is much beloved by Muslim fundamentalists and like their Christian compatriots they also thrill to redemption through apocalypse. Jewish fundamentalists of course do not believe in Revelations but have nonetheless made common cause with the Christian Right. \u00a0\u00bbIt’s a very tragic situation in which Christian fundamentalists, certain groups of them that focus on Armageddon and the Rapture and the role of a war between Muslims and Jews in bringing about the Second Coming, are involved in a folie a deux with extremist Jews,\u00a0\u00bb said Ian Lustick, the author of For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition (and yes it is a single tradition) is being led by its fringe into the abyss and the rest of us with it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe world has been readied for the fire but the critical element is the Bush Administration. Never in the history of Christendom has there been a moment when this rogue element has carried anything like the credibility and political power that it carries now.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMichael Ortiz Hill is the author of Dreaming the End of the World (Spring 1994) and, (with Augustine Kandemwa) Gathering in the Names (Spring Journal books, 2002). The companion to this essay, The Looking Glass War, is posted at<\/em> http:\/\/www.gatheringin.com<\/a>. He can be reached at<\/em> michaelortizhill@earthlink.net.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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