It's probably not Bush's exact words, but it is definitely close. Abbas himself recounted it similarly 2 years ago:
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According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/S...ID=0&listSrc=Y
I think Bush's point was that God, not just his God but their God as well, told him this was what he needed to do.
That antagonizes atheists such as myself, but he probably figured it would endear himself to these Muslims and he may be right.