Reid still won't admit that he was wrong about the war in Iraq

ZZ unseating Hitler was necessary because he was attempting to Christianize the entire world. Evangelical Christians had rounded up 6 million Jews and 5 million other non-Christians and murdered them their religious holy war.

When God Sanctions Violence, Believers Act More Aggressively
Reading violent scriptures increases aggressive behavior, especially among believers, according to a new study. The study by University of Michigan social psychologist Brad Bushman and colleagues helps to illuminate one of the ways that violence and behavior are linked.

"To justify their actions, violent people often claim that God has sanctioned their behavior," said Bushman, faculty associate at the U-M Institute for Social Research and lead author of the article published in the March 2007 issue of Psychological Science. "Christian extremists, Jewish reactionaries and Islamic fundamentalists all can cite scriptures that seem to encourage or at least support aggression against unbelievers."

"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved fire sides to smite the foe.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead
help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst,
sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it
-- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
-- Mark Twain, "The War Prayer".

"To justify their actions, violent people often claim that God has sanctioned their behavior"

The key word is CLAIM, genius. People always try to co-op the most respectable thing around for their schemes. If Christianity didn't exist, they probably would have said they were doing it with the sanction of the Bee Gees or apple pie or something. You TRULY have no point.

The Iraqi war was not a war of necessity; it is a war of luxury. The Afghanistan war was not a war of luxury; it was necessity.

As such, Harry Reid, who was deceived by President Bush in 2003 about the Iraqi invasion has the right to oppose a war that was launched for corrupted reasons. As such he was showing patriotism to his country because he didn't want young men and women to lose their limbs, get their nerves shattered or even get killed for the mistakes of those who did not go to war, and whom were then thinking it'd be a cakewalk.

Similarly there are those who sincerely believed that Saddam was somehow linked with 9/11 and will never deviate from that view. As such they believe the invasion was right and the costs suffered is worth the price.

In any case, all these bickering is really silly, and frankly the old dog about patriotism, blind or not, doesn't bite. We all know the Iraqi war is unnecessary in the first place. The surge was to simply patch up and rectify the huge mistakes that the Bush administration approved in previous years. Some supported, some did not.

Still, in the end, Michele, the whole world has a dim view about the Iraqi nonsense. Yes the CENTCOM general has done very well in the surge and he's a good guy. But don't accuse and dismiss everyone just because he didn't support the Iraqi war or the surge. People have the right to state their opinion, even if they differ from yours. This is about respect Michele, and I hope you still have some of it.