President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq “diplomatically to the max.”

Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. “I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true,” he said. “One, I believe there’s an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody’s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.”
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Setting up a new tag when I get home: Signs of the apocalypse.