Suskind calls this a revelatory moment about the Bush Administration – and indeed it was.
The quotation encompasses a hubris that is pre-Age of Enlightenment. More than that, it is an assumption of God-like powers by Cheney, Bush, Rove, (Rumsfeld while he was Secretary of Defense) and their underlings.
It is not that Bush believes that he is listening to the directives of God, as he has claimed. It is rather that he – and especially Cheney – believe that they have God-like powers.
No reality intrudes into the decision of a deity, because a deity creates reality, as revealed by the quotation that Suskind recalls.
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