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George Bush, Sr. and his speech writers had their creative pens on the pulse of popular Judeo-Christian American Messianic beliefs. With skillful wit and apocalyptic religio-political rhetoric they successfully employed and combined Messianic myths with social failings in order to rationalize, gain support, and sustain the Persian War in the Gulf. Americans were glued to their televisions. George Bush, Sr.’s grandiose aims included nothing less than economic and military world domination. From his nominating speech in New Orleans to the final days of Desert Storm, he planned to create a New World Order. He began his acceptance of the nomination speech in New Orleans with a hint that something new was dawning in America. He would move the country forward toward “an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light.”