Was he? Indeed I remember not any president of the USA, who was more criticized than George W. Bush. He called an offensive war "preemptive strike" and nearly all big Christian churches made him clear that this is not compatible with the Christian moral. He rejected every influence of Christians to the US-american politics and continued this wrong way of the USA.
Example:
John Paul II stated before the 2003 war that this war would be a defeat for humanity which could not be morally or legally justified.
In the weeks and months before the U.S. attacked Iraq, not only the Holy Father, but also one Cardinal and Archbishop after another at the Vatican spoke out against a "preemptive" or "preventive" strike. They declared that the just war theory could not justify such a war. Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran said that such a "war of aggression" is a crime against peace. Archbishop Renato Martino, who used the same words in calling the possible military intervention a "crime against peace that cries out vengeance before God," also criticized the pressure that the most powerful nations exerted on the less powerful ones on the U.N. Security Council to support the war. The Pope spoke out almost every day against war and in support of diplomatic efforts for peace.
John Paul II sent his personal representative, Cardinal Pio Laghi, a friend of the Bush family, to remonstrate with the U.S. President before the war began. The message: God is not on your side if you invade Iraq.
source:
Pope John Paul II calls War a Defeat for Humanity: Neoconservative Iraq Just War Theories Rejected - Featured Today - Catholic Online
John Paul II was right to say so. This war created for example the terror-organization ISIS. And while the same time George W. Bush ignored the way of North-Korea into a new nuclear war-power this conceited war in Iraq bore today the damned cruel war in Syria and gigantic streams of refugees. And it's not over yet. Looks like the West lost Turkey too.
Oh by the way: When will the USA close the concentration camp Guantanamo? ...
Bush Jr. was a fundamentalist Christian which is different from Catholic.
Is it? There's only one fundament.
Even his enemies admit that.
When I think of fundamentalist, I think of fundamentalist Christian.
¿Saint Francis?
I didn't want to get into a discussion of differences between Christians and Catholics.
Between what? Catholics are Christians.
There is plenty of common ground of belief in God and Christ Jesus as our savior.
or not.
When I think of fundamentalist, I think of Christian of sola scriptura
¿Protestants? My wife is one this ugly damned dirty bastards ... I love her very much.
I'm not his enemy. But I remember well when the bishop of him criticized him (he made even TV-spots because George W. did not like to speak with him ) then George W. became a so called "born again Christian" - a Christian without church.
I did not take a look into this political propaganda now. George W. knows on his own why he did what he did. In general I do not understand the "philosophy" which seem to think, if everyone is using the same lies then the lies will become true. The facts are clear. I do not remember any president of the USA who was so under fire of Christian critics how president George W. Bush. That he was seen as a typical "fundamental" Christian (the word "fundamental" as an expression for extremisms is on its own an antichristian political propaganda) is nothing new to me. Because of this propaganda worldwide lots of Christians have to suffer a lot. Are still living Christians in the Iraq? In Syria?
Why not? I don't have a real problem to be called a Christian with fundament.
I think the article by liberal NPR explained it well even though it's biased opinion.
The ideas of US-Americans and Englishmen in context with religion sound in my ears nearly always a little absurde. To read such a long text about this absurde religious views of US-Americans would be a problem for me. I fear I would need a long time to understand it - and a long time to think about - and a long time to fight against.
The presidency is more politics, but with Bush Jr., I seem to remember his referring to his Christianity in how he ran things, e.g. prayer before meetings.
We prayed afterwards.
As for war, all presidents have led us into war.
So you had only bad presidents. One problem of the USA is that "you" do not know what war is. If other nations would do the same in the USA what the USA is doing in other nations then you would hate "yourself".
Even "Muslim" (CINO) Obama led us into war in the Middle East.
No. Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with the war of the USA in Iraq. ... ah a sorry. You spoke about president Barack Obama and not about Osama Bin Laden. ... Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen ... But president Barack Obama was not able to close the US-American concentration camp Guantanamo. Strange ... and all this happens somewhere in the world.