We used to call guys who said things like this "lunatics"

Now we call them "Mr. President."

Further proof of the sociopathic, narcissistic nature of George W. Bush:

President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.

In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.

Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

And if God tells him to nuke New York, or to release a vial of avian flu on the BART, that would be OK too? Are we supposed to believe that someone who acts based on what he believes God tells him to do is in any mental condition to be president? How many mass murderers have committed their crimes because God told them to? Family killer John List may not have said he was explicitly instructed by God, but he did feel justified in killing his family because they were straying from God and he knew he'd be forgiven and see them in heaven:

Asked why he had not just killed himself when he saw debt mounting up, he explained that suicide barred him from heaven. He had a better chance of going to heaven if he murdered his family and then sought forgiveness. In fact, he fully expected not only to see all of them in heaven but that they'd have either forgiven him or would not know about the "tragedy that had happened," as he'd put it in his trial statement to the judge. He suspected they would all get along as before.

Many other killings and other atrocities have taken place because people claim to know the will of God. Osama Bin Laden and those who follow him are among them, and we've seen what happens when people think they are personally guided by God.

I don't know about you, but when I see a U.S. president, with access to all kinds of nuclear and biological weapons -- the kind he said we had to keep from Saddam Hussein who was a madman -- and he's saying God talks to him, well, that scares the living daylights out of me.