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

Published: Monday May 14, 2007 Print This Email This 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.



