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Eminem Blasts Bush's Mission From God

Author: Jonty Skrufff
Saturday, October 23, 2004
US rap star Eminen has labelled George Bush "a weapon of mass destruction' on his new album Encore and attacked him for going to war over Iraq.

"Maybe this is God just saying we are responsible for this monster/ this coward that we have empowered," he raps on Mosh. "Let him go fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way." (Mirror)

While Eminem's rant is unlikely to concern Republican strategists unduly, a much more damaging assessment of the President's competence appeared in the New York Times this week, courtesy of leading Republican libertarian politico Bruce Bartlett. The Washington insider, who served as both an advisor to Ronald Reagan and George Bush senior in the past, claimed George W genuinely believes he's on a mission from God, allowing him to ignore inconvenient facts, whenever it suits him.

"This instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do," Mr Bartlett explained.

"This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them," he said.
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