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God would tell me, 'George, go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

Shaath's public recounting of his conversations with Bush on the subject divine missions, good evil, religious wars, crusades and Americans as the chosen people, come two years after the Palestinian delegation publicly refused to acknowledge the US President's remarks to be true when they were published in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.