Originally Posted by: PonyOneAnd this war that's going on right now is about oil (Bush) and the preservation of a tyrranic empire (Saddam) and using God (let's rally the midwest) and Allah (let's get Al Quaida/Hamas/Al Aqsa/Islamic Jihad onboard) were just bad exuses to justify something much larger. And yes it is ironic that both parties successfully lured a sickening amount of idiots to agree with them by using the same fellow as a rallying call.

Your're right, they use poeples beliefs for their own purposes. But I wouldn't call them idiots, especielly not the poor poeple in the middle east. If you barely have food for the day, of course you put trust into a god who at least will take you to a paradise when you die if you're faithfull. And when this god's choosen (I guess Saddam called himself that (choosen by bugger, haha), kings and tyrants have dont that for millenniums) tells them that their god is on their side if you fight, of course they listen, cause then you're faithfull. By the way, that hasn't got very much do to with the suicide-bombers in Palestina. That's another issue