Pandering with Palin

http://www.politicsincolor.com/articles/opinions/09/08/2008/senator-mccain%E2%80%99s-decision-pandering-with-palin.html

Her perspective on the Iraq war is quite troubling. The LA Times writes, “When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."” This is her response but Senator McCain touts her experience as “Commander In Chief” of the Alaska National Guard? According to the Associated Press Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God… there is a plan and that plan is God's plan." She’s ignoring the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction and the invasion of Iraq was baseless, immoral, and illegal. Her religious justifications for the invasion sound very similar to the Muslim fundamentalists that attacked America; they were carrying out the will of God.” This is why religious fundamentalism has no place in foreign or domestic policy.

for brutality and cruelty, death and destruction, torture and rape.

If there is a god, I'm sure it's just tickled pink that there should be so much bloodshed in its name.