A screed of doctrine: Bush, Chirac, and Gog

Janos wrote:

Unless Jaques Chirac contradicts it, the story attributed to him today about Bush raising the specter of Gog and Magog in asking for French participation in the war on Iraq (http://jonathanturley.org/2009/05/25/report-bush-told-french-president-jacques-chirac-that-iraq-war-was-biblically-ordained-with-story-of-gog-and-magog/) will stand and raise a few interesting questions.

W's Biblical preoccupation is not a question, but who/what in hell Gog and Magog is/are should be. The extensive Wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog) left me unenlightened probably because there the information is so diffuse, from the Ahmadiyya (also unknown to me) to Alexander the Great to Kazars to the Goths to the Lord Mayor's Show in London.

I began part of that Wikipedia article, the part that deals with British mythology.

( This calls first for a screed of doctrine. )