Bush met with Dobson and conservative Christian leaders to rally support for Iran policy

From Raw Story
President George W. Bush met privately with Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson and approximately a dozen Christian right leaders last week to rally support for his policies on Iraq, Iran and the so-called "war on terror."“I was invited to go to Washington DC to meet with President Bush in the White House along with 12 or 13 other leaders of the pro-family movement," Dobson disclosed on his radio program Monday. “And the topic of the discussion that day was Iraq, Iran and international terrorism. And we were together for 90 minutes and it was very enlightening and in some ways disturbing too."
Details of the meeting were disclosed by Dobson during Monday's edition of his Focus on the Family radio program.
Dobson described Bush as “upbeat and determined and convinced, adding, “I wish the American people could have sat in on that meeting we had.”
Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings convened by Christian right leaders in Washington to discuss the supposedly existential threat to the United States from a nuclear Iran.
“I heard about this danger [from Iran] not only at the White House but from other pro-family leaders that I met during that week in Washington," he said. “Many people in a position to know are talking about the possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological or chemical attack. And if we can lose one we can lose ten.
"If we can lose ten we can lose a hundred," he added, “especially if North Korea and Russia and China pile on.”
Later in his broadcast, during a discussion about Iran with author and self-proclaimed “prophecy expert” Joel Rosenberg, Dobson drew a parallel between current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Adolf Hitler.
“The world looked at Hitler and just didn't believe him and tried to appease him the way we're hearing in Washington today,” Dobson remarked. “You know, the President seems to me does understand this, as I told you from that meeting I had with him the other day, but even there it feels like somebody ought to be standing up and saying, ‘We are being threatened and we are going to meet this with force -- whatever's necessary.’”
Dobson continued, “Some of our listeners might not like that but I tell you, if we didn't stand up to Hitler, we'd be speaking German today.”
You can listen to the broadcast here. [Fast forward to the 20 minute mark]
This week, Dobson is featuring a series on the "imminent" threat of Iran and Islam. Dobson's resident "prophetic" expert, Joel Rosenberg, is sounding the alarm that the apocalypse is near, if we fail to attack Iran immediately:
"To misunderstand the nature of evil is to risk being blindsided by it... [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is telling people inside Iran that he believes that the end of the world is just two or three years away ... and he believes that the way to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah -- known as the Mahdi or as the Twelth Imam -- is to annihilate two countries: Israel ... and the United States."
And Dobson clearly believes the Iranian threat is imminent: [From his Monday broadcast]
"Iran has promised to to blow Israel off the face of the Earth, they've made no bones about that, and then they plan to come after us... Jihad is their sacred duty... The leaders of Iran and especially the president of Iran fully intend to wage war on us."
This is pretty scary shit considering Rosenberg and Dobson have the ear of our president, "The Decider."


















Bill McCartney


