[Vision2020] Bush knows the Bible

[Ralph Nielsen]

An e-mail acquaintance in Alabama had this letter published in a  
Birmingham newspaper.
Ralph

Feb. 19, 2007
Bush knows the Bible

President Bush has created controversy with his plans to house the  
Dubya Library on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Bush's  
opponents, which include thousands of faculty, students and others at  
SMU, claim that Bush's pre-emptive war on Iraq and his ignoring the  
Geneva Convention's protections against torture both contradict their  
Christian faith.

It is arguable that Bush slept through his classes in history,  
science and economics at Yale, but there can be no doubt that Bush  
was paying attention in Sunday School.

The Bible is abundantly clear in its support for pre-emptive war,  
provided you think God told you to do it. At God's insistence, Israel  
massacred the inhabitants of Hormah and Bashan (Numbers 21), smote  
the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15), everyone in Heshbon (Deuteronomy 2 and  
3), the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,  
Hivites and Jebusites (Deuteronomy 7:1-2 and 20:16) and almost every  
person living in Jericho (Joshua 6), as well as all of the  
inhabitants of Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Gezer, Eglon, Hebron,  
Debir, Hazor, Madon and Shimron (Joshua 10 and 11).

Every one of the above wars was pre-emptive, because of what those  
millions of men, women and children might do in the future, not what  
they were doing or had done (Deuteronomy 20:17-18).

King David was "a man after God's own heart" (1 Samuel 13:14). Every  
time he conquered an Ammonite city, he "brought out the people that  
were in it and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with  
axes, even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of  
Ammon" (1 Chronicles 20:3). Lest anyone think that God disapproved of  
this, "David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and  
turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of  
his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite" (1 Kings 15:5).

Coincidentally, David pre-emptively extended the boundaries of Israel  
all the way to the Euphrates River (2 Samuel 8:3), exactly where U.S.  
Hummers are parked today. Will Syria be next (2 Samuel 8:5-7)?