Before-and-after shots of the Doura section of Baghdad

President Eisenhower warned not to let the military industrial complex take over the government. The whole Iraq war is a scam. We tax payers paid the military industrial complex hundreds of billions of dollars to destroy Iraq's infrastructure and then paid Haliburton billions more to rebuild it. Also we notice how the government never tries to deny the claim that the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing but a war for oil. That’s because they want us to think that. These invasions are religious crusades (Bush even slipped up a few times at the beginning and called them that) started by the religious right and our evangelical Bible believing Christian president who thinks he speaks for God. These people are doing nothing more than purposely trying to hasten the rapture and the return of someone who never existed in the first place.

Michael,
You said: I am baffled by the warmongering blood-lust of someone who is advertised as a Christian.

Boris says: I am baffled at how one could be baffled by the warmongering blood-lust of someone who is advertised as a Christian. These are the same people who were behind the Inquisitions, Crusades, centuries of Witch burnings, the Holocaust and 2000 years of fighting and denying science and defaming and murdering scientists. Christians are and always have been the most violent, oppressive, nasty, culturally prejudiced and scientifically and socially ignorant people on the planet

Look how they’ve made a hero out of John McCain. This war criminal shot up defenseless villages full of women and children in Viet Nam and it was civilians who shot down his plane. He deserved to be tortured and they should have hung him. They did extract this and other confessions from him: "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate. I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors." – John McCain

There’s your big tough war hero Christians.

I'm with you, Michael. Beyond sad.