We wage war in the name of Jesus Christ/Muhammad/God.
Christians support war because the bible says there will always be war. They believe that God is on their side, just as people of the Muslim faith believe God is on theirs. All religions believe that God is on their side and only on their side.
We unconsciously wage war because we associate God with our patriotism, our nationalism, and our militarism.
We wage war because we ignorantly believe in the lies put forth by our government, and in our current quagmire because we have believed in the untruths of our god fearing, jingoistic, born again Christian, President George W. Bush.
Americans become infuriated when people like Reverend Wright use “God Damn” in their rhetoric of abhorrence to America’s hypocrisy. It’s not the substance of what is said, but rather the audacity to use “God Damn” in the rhetoric. Well … “God Damn” America and George Bush for what he has done to people like Tomas Young. There are many of them, American as well as others.
In the words of Phil Donahue, Body of War:
To all the main-streamers in the press who supported the invasion of Iraq, to the pundits who continue to talk tough while other people's kids die, to all the merry warriors who recruited Jesus to assist them in this massive foreign policy blunder -
I have a soldier for you.
Before the next President swaggers to the cameras challenging the enemy to "Bring it on," before the next Congress votes another War Resolution, my hope is that all these heavy breathing, lap top bombers take a moment to meet the First Cavalry's Honorably Discharged United States Army Specialist - Tomas Young.
