How, in the name of God, does an army base monthly utility bill reach $1.4million? This absurdity fairly screams out its representation of where the imbalance lies in this world.
How many people would be homeless, starving, and dying of disease were the funds now used to light up military bases instead applied to the goal of sustaining human life instead of being devoted to bringing about destruction and death?

Amen Marlene you said it better than I could have.

Instead of spending all this money on an illegal war which benefits only a few industries America could have used some of this money to help many small and medium businesses just as the Japanese have done for the last 40 years.

For only ten billion per year every poor starving child could have had the basic necessities of life including food, clothing, health care and an education. Ten billion for ten years would still only be 100 billion dollars which is far less than this war and would have done far more to win the hearts and minds of people in non democratic middle eastern countries. But Bush, the neocons and all those 59 million Americans who put them in office and kept them there for a second term would never allow such 'good works' to be done.

And these people including the Catholic Church, my church I am embarrassed to admit, have the audacity to call themselves PRO-LIFE. The Catholics and white southern Baptists sin against the laws of God very second of everday that this war goes on.

That is what the Theocrats have done and continue to do in this world.

I can face God on judgement day with a clear conscience. What did Pope John Paul II do on his judgement day and what will Benedict XVI do when his time comes.

For all those who think they know the mind of God like the Catholics and the Baptists you just might not know what you think you know. If I were you people I would shake in fear of judgement day every moment of my life. Does anyone remember 'Thou shalt not kill'. Being PRO-LIFE extends far, far, far beyond just protecting the embryo.