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Abstract
Before winning the presidential elections in the United States, George W. Bush acknowledged that he had been divinely called to serve his country at an unspecified moment of crisis: ”I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can’t explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. And at that time my country will need me” (Mansfield 109). He was consciously playing on the chords of the deeply ingrained and often overlooked apocalyptic psych of the American society.
Again, on the twentieth of January 2001, George W. Bush clearly expressed his belief in his own and America’s divine calling to lead the world in an apocalyptic struggle between the forces of good and evil, and to shape the world after American values of the free market, liberty and democracy:
We have a place, all of us, in a long story- a story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not to possess, to defend but not to conquer (Northcott 3) .
The use of apocalyptic discourse is by no means unique to Bush who continually implemented this form. Almost all the dominant presidents of the United States, including George Washington, Carter, Reagan and Clinton have used this powerful weapon of mass deception to persuade the American People to blindly support unexplainable intentions on their behalf such as the invasion of Iraq which was sold to the American public under the terms of ”the war on terror”.