1 We admitted we were powerless over petroholism -- that our lives had become unmanageable. Really there yet?
2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Church state separation issue?
3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. ditto
4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The rest of the world can give some helpful hints here [some of us can even not be too smug about it having been there and still there]
5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. See 2
7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. ditto
8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. That'd be interesting: let me see ...
9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12 Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other petroleum addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Nah, Bush can't have been in AA mode.
President George Bush has admitted the US is "addicted to oil"
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | America must break its addiction to oil, says Bush:
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