Today I was walking to work and I noticed a sam adam's beer truck that had "god bless our troops" on the back of it. forked thoughts split through my little mind.

tine one: what happens when we find out that there isn't a "god" or he doesn't wish to "bless us." wow! that's a lot of empty gestures. how many times have you said or heard some one say "god bless..." it must have been said billions or trillions of times now and then we find out that they don't mean anything. weird.

tine two: i really dislike the idea of saying "god bless our troops" as it implies that this god condones our actions or that we are doing these deeds in his name and he's going to protect our troops but not theirs. garbage.

tine three: w. can't be that religious of a man to start the war that he did in iraq. from what i know about the god that he professes to worship would never condone a war for material goods. i doubt he would condone a preemptive war. an eye for the possibility that it's possible at some time in the future this other guy is going to gouge your eye. actually w's now saying it's an eye for "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities." he's garbage. anyone but w in '04.

n.b. I fully support our troops. I just don't agree with why they are there. I especially disagree with the people responsible for putting them there.