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President Bush Hears from the Almighty

by Terry Jones



"George, God Here....."

"George?"

"Yes?"

"This is God here....."

"Hi, God. What can I do for you?"

"I want you to stop this Iraq thing, George."

"But you told me to do it, God!"

"No I didn't, George....."

"But you did! You spoke to me through Karl, Rumsey and Dick and all those
other really clever guys!"

"How did you know it was me talking, George?"

"Instinct, God. I just knew it!"

"Do you really think I'd want you to unleash all this horror and bloodshed
on another lot of human beings?"
"But they're Muslims! They don't believe in You, God!"

"But, George, they do believe in me. Jews, Christians and Moslems all
worship the same Me! Didn't you do comparative theology at school, George?"

"No, of course not! You think I'm some sort of peace-waving dope-headed
liberal faggot-lover, God?"

"No, of course not, George, but I expect you to know something about the
people you're bombing."

"Oh, come on! I know it's right to bomb those oily rag-heads until there's
not one left to wipe a wrench on!"

"How do you know that, George?"

"Cause You tell me that's what I should do, God."

"George, I do not tell you to do that!"

"But I hear You, God! You speak to me! You tell me what to do! You tell me
what is Right and what is Wrong! That's why I don't need to listen to any
soft-baked, mealy-mouthed liberal Kerry-pickers!"

"George, you're deluding yourself."

"God! How can you say that? I got some of the most powerful people on this
planet down on their knees every day in the White House just a-praying to
You! Now are you gonna tell me You ain't listening? Because if You ain't
listening, God, that's Your problem - not mine!"

"George, of course I'm listening - it's you who is not listening to Me!"

"And I'll tell you why! 'Cause You ain't addressing me right."

"What d'you mean, you jumped-up little Ivy League draft-dodger?"

"If you're so 'omniscient', God, you oughta know that you gotta go through
Karl Rove, John Ashcroft, Rumsey and Dick ... those fellas know what they're
talking about! I can't listen to just any deity who can pick up the phone!"

"But, I'm God, George!"

"Does Karl say you are?"

"But why do you believe Karl?"

"Because my gut tells me he's right!"

"Listen, you ignorant little pinch-eyed Billy Graham convert! Can't you get
it into your head that I'm God and I'm telling you to stop all this
pre-emptive strike' nonsense! Stop destroying Iraq! Stop supporting that
monster Sharon! Stop picking a fight with the only other human beings on the
planet that believe in Me! You're leading the world into unbelievable chaos
and horror!"

"That's enough, God! That's just the sort of defeatist crap that I won't
allow in the White House! Get out of here!"

"I cannot believe I'm hearing this, George."

"Well you better start believing, God, because this is the new reality. Don
tcha know that a recent Gallup poll shows that 42% of Americans identify
themselves as 'born again'? That cuts across Republicans and Democrats, rich
and poor, white and black! This is a real political power base, God, and you
d better believe it!"

"Look, all I'm asking is for you to show a little compassion to your fellow
human beings!"

"I'm not going to debate this with you, God! You're beginning to sound like
you belong to the reality-based community!"

"What the hell does that mean?"

"Well by the 'reality-based community', we mean people who believe that
solutions emerge from their judicious study of discernible reality."

"Sounds fair enough....."

"But, as one of my advisors told Ron Suskind of the Wall Street Journal:
The reality-based community is not the way the world really works any more.
We're an empire now and, when we act, we create our own reality. And while
you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again,
creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things
will sort out. We're history's actors.....and you, all of you, will be left
to just study what we do'."

"You mean.....you don't give a damn, George?"

"I mean You speak through me, God, not the other way round! Is that clear?"

"Yes, Mr President."



Terry Jones is a writer, film director, actor and Python member