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 10:32am (UK)
Christian group blasts Bush remarks 


A Labour-affiliated Christian group has criticised US president George Bush for allegedly saying he was instructed by God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is claimed the president made the comments during his first meeting with the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) and Abbas' then foreign minister in June 2003.
  The ministers say that Bush also revealed to them that he had been told by God to create a Palestinian state.
Former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath, now the information minister, describes the meeting with the US leader in the BBC2 programme Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs.
He says: "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'."
Andrew Blackstock, director of the Christian Socialist Movement, said: "History is littered with examples of people doing the most bizarre and sometimes wicked things on this basis. It is a line of argument that can be used to justify anything without ever being verifiable.
"If Bush really wants to obey God during his time as president he should start with what is blindingly obvious from the Bible rather than perceived supernatural messages. That would lead him to the rather less glamorous business of prioritising the needs of the poor, the downtrodden and the marginalised in his own country and abroad."
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. Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace - is being screened on October 10, 17 and 24 from 9pm to 10pm on BBC2.
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Dick Kroeger
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