[mrguyorama]

We did not go to war with the desert because of religion, but rather much more boring and banal evils like "It will make me more likely to win the next election" and "it will be good for profits" and "my daddy was attacked by this guy"

[boffinAudio]

I don't believe this - I think that the US' oligarchic/military-industrial classes are very definitely motivated by their religious beliefs, and this gives them the false moral altitude they require to blatantly, with impunity, commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and massive violations of human rights - in the name of their One True God™ ..

See also: the slavish devotion to maintaining the Palestinian peoples' suffering. A people deemed inferior by religious institutions which have their grasp deep, deep within the American ruling classes' psyche ..