I just looked at the MSNBC video again (here (choose Iraqis on the Run when it loads in the list), and one of the interviewed said “The Iraqis are SOMEHOW assocaiating Christians with the American occupation.” Well ,DUH! Of course they would. An embarassingly and disgustingly high number of American “Christians” support the war. How hypocritical to be dismayed by their associating Christians with the American military when we do the same with Islam over a much much smaller minority within the Islamic world.

They have every logical reason to associate Christians with the quagmire and the destructyion and the death. The thing is, our actions in Iraq, much less the reasons given for it, are no more Christian than the actions of Al_queida or the insurgents are Islam. I abhor and oppose violence under all but the most defensive and protective circumstances, and never based upon the theories of “what might happen”. Actual human lives are worth infinitely more than the theories of “what might happen”; and in this case, most of us know just how wrong those turned out to be.