Dubya really was a nutcase.

So, Iraq wasn't a war against Islam? Had nothing to do with religion? All about weapons of mass destruction? Turns out George W. Bush contacted French President Jacque Chirac in 2003, and made no bones about the true nature of his plans:

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

That's what a lot of us wonder over here, too. Read more, if you can stomach it.