Larry434 wrote:"better yet why don't they all do what their merciful and loving Gods actually say and put their weapons down and go the hell home....."
I think if you study the bible you will find many more passages where god is commanding his people to kill their enemies...man, woman, and child, and take their cities and land, than to put down there weapons and stay home.
Yes - that is the problem with stupid human-made religions where people projected their savagery (as well as their more loving impulses) onto a god 2,000 years ago - and are still haunted by the dreams of their ancestors made irreversible, to some, by irrational adherence to dogma.
I am of two minds on this stuff - on the one hand, good luck to the poor bastards on both sides with whatever comforts and helps them before they have to go and suffer, and do, unspeakable things to other humans. I cannot imagine the horror of their position - and, given that I do not think we can unscramble this egg, I wish the American troops the cleanest and fastest victory imaginable and, if I prayed, I would be praying for every fellow being embroiled in this mess.
On the other hand, I find both sides' notion that some god - whom both sides claim to be merciful and loving (!) is looking down and backing their sides' army, unspeakably primitive and repulsive - and full of the blackest irony imaginable.
