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Page 2 of 2 Doug Wead, a political advisor to George W's father, got to know Bush and recalls 'I was friendly with the guy who produced Billy Graham's television shows, and I suggested that we could have a camera isolated on the vice president [Bush], and he would be carefully following Graham's words, and at the right moment he would wipe away a [fake] tear. It was the only time I recall the older Bush getting angry with me. He didn't want political use made of it, but it happened anyway. They [George W. Bush and the other advisors] got shots of him, and they used them...' Billy says: 'I have known the Bush family for many years, and have seen how their faith in God has sustained them through some very trying times,' he continued. 'I pray for them daily, and it is a great honor to pray publicly for our president, his family, and our nation as he begins his second term.'
But Jesus, who advised against public prayer, also warned: "Thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues to be seen of men!" Franklin Graham, clone-like copy of his father, also disobeys Jesus' instructions. Frankie boy read the opening prayer at the first inauguration of George W, where the ritual of the swearing-in of the President took place, hand on bible, and hand in air. I swear, it's as if they'd never read the Sermon on the Mount! What's that Jesus is saying? "Swear not at all!"{mosgoogle right} Jesus said: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits." Is Mr Billy Graham a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'? Let's examine his fruit. Ah, see! Here's one not far from the tree... Graham has been close to the Bushes since the 1950s, when he befriended George W. Bush's grandfather, Connecticut Sen. Prescott Bush. He has vacationed with them at their Kennebunkport, Maine, home annually since 1962. In his autobiography, Bush says that it was at such a retreat in 1985 that Graham 'planted a mustard seed in my soul' leading him to reaffirm his faith in Christ and culminating in his decision the following year to stop drinking. Graham participated in Bush's swearing-in as Texas governor in 1995, and Bush returned the favor, appearing at a Graham crusade in south Texas in 1997. 'Speaking of my great family, Dr. Billy Graham has meant a lot to all of us,' Bush said. 'He helped change my own life in a very personal and profound way.' President Bush is the fruit of Billy Graham. The mustard seed he planted in Bush's soul could not have grown and blossomed in any other way. It's also not surprising that after years under the holy influence of Doctor Billy Graham, the man in charge of the most powerful country in the world, with the biggest collection of deadly weapons, should say of his illegal invasion of Iraq, "God told me to smite Saddam Hussein, and I smote him. Billy's not long for the world now. It's a shame he won't be able to return from beyond the grave to warn his followers of the reception he received in heaven and tell them to repent. It'll be too late for him. Meanwhile here on earth, the evil fruit from his corrupt tree march madly on in their misguided Crusade, brandishing the Cross as a weapon of war. MICHAEL DICKINSON is a writer and artist who works as an English teacher in Istanbul, Turkey. He designed the cover art for two CounterPunch books, Serpents in the Garden and Dime's Worth of Difference, as well as Grand Theft Pentagon, forthcoming from Common Courage Press. He can be contacted at www.stuckism.com, where collages from his recently banned website can be seen.
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