Before September 11, President George W Bush kept his evangelical Christian
beliefs largely to himself.
He had turned to God at the age of 40 as a way of kicking alcoholism, and
his faith had kept him on the straight and narrow ever since, giving him
the drive to reach the White House.
But all that changed on the day of the attacks on the Pentagon and World
Trade Center.
Those close to Mr Bush say that day he discovered his life’s mission.
He became convinced that God was calling him to engage the forces of evil
in battle, and this one time baseball-team owner from Texas did not shrink
from the task.
“We are in a conflict between good and evil. And America will call evil by
its name,” Mr Bush told West Point graduates in a speech last year.
