God Made Him Do It

The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz is reporting this rather remarkable statement by Bush from the recent Aqaba summit. According to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Bush told him that:

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

I don't know what is more disconcerting: that Bush believes God is giving him specific instructions about foreign policy, or that there simply won't be time to deal with such matters at all once his re-election effort revs up. (Via Brad DeLong.)