The Colossus of Hormuz (or Corporate Sam god of War)

When the Twin Towers were struck in a unprecedented terrorist attack, 2,819 people died. As a country all of us felt shocked, vulnerable, we felt rage and we cried out for some kind of retribution, some kind of vengeance, and like so many I too wanted someone to strike back at. So it was then quite simple for our government in lieu of such national  fervor to pick someone, something, a country perhapes to vent our outrage on whether they were guilty or not, and certainly the 10 years of war that followed seems in retrospect like a bit of overkill for poor Iraq.

According to the "Iraq Body Count database" 105,000-115,000 civilian deaths occurred since the onset of the "Second Iraq War." As for our own troops, according to the Official Department of Defense statistics there have been 4,484 US military deaths and 1,487 private contractors as well as 319 "Coalition troops", 348 journalists and 448 academics. Estimates of Americans wounded range from an official count of 33,000 to estimates of over 100,000 and that is just the good old USA going on the pretext that Iraq was somehow totally responsible for 9-11 and, oh yeah, it seemed they were developing weapons of mass destruction (which were never proved). But "HEY!" Want some weapons of mass destruction? Well, we will give you some and what's more, we will make them radioactive so when we are done with you, you will still be thinking of us a thousand years from now if by some slim chance anybody is still alive there.

Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years so it a pain to get rid of and we had a huge stock pile that was ever so perplexing to find a safe place for, until some bright weapons specialist figured out that it makes really devastatingly awesome missile and bullet tips. So in the first Gulf War we dropped an estimated 800-1,000 tons of depleted uranium by tipping our bullets and missile shells with depleted uranium and needless to say the effects on the Iraqi PEOPLE (Humans) are not in the least bit healthy. In fact, a big spike in Iraqi cancer rates and birth defects which will plague them for the next few thousand years (see: Uranium 4.7 billion year half-life; also you may want to Google Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars, by Abdulhaq Al-Ani), and that was just the first Gulf War that lasted eight months, give or take an empty depleted Uranium shell casing. Here is as good of a short explanation from Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11 Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan by Doug Westerman"

"Depleted uranium (DU) is ideal in military applications for two of the physical properties of uranium that are unique to uranium as a metal. One is that the metal it is extremely heavy and extremely dense. It is thereby able to penetrate the armor of tanks or thick slabs of concrete like cutting through a block of butter with a hot knife. And it really does become a hot knife in the process. It becomes enormously heated by friction as it penetrates the barriers.

"The other quality for which DU is used by the military is that Uranium becomes extremely flammable at high temperatures. At the moment of impact the uranium metal heats up and then explodes. The impact friction heats the uranium so intensely that the metal burns up in an extremely high temperature explosion exceeding 5000 degrees C. The resulting heat is said to be so fierce that some children that were playing near a tank that was hit had their clothes and skin burnt off instantly. Of course the 'enemy' soldiers inside the tank suffered the same fate. The Americans soldiers developed a name for them: 'crispy critters.'"

So with this information would it be a good idea to attack Iran? According to the Atomic Energy agency (IAEA) Iran is not currently building weapons of mass destruction but on the other hand if we or Israel were to bomb any of Iran's underground nuclear research sites they would most likely need to employ a number of 5000 lb. Bunker Busters (with depleted uranium shell tips) that are capable of penetrating the ground 100 feet into the earth (hello earth quake zone here) and through 20 feet of solid concrete, could also render ground water unfit for human consumption also lots of natural gas around there. WOW there's some Armageddon for you.

So prognosis: It must be true we Americans are exceptional we are freaking a "Shining city on a Hill" we know best and we do what ever we want so I will be surprised if this blows over peacefully and I will add that this is on President Obama's watch (see not a fan of his either). Rather I blame Corporate SAM god of WAR!!

So is war worth it? Any PRO-LIFERS out there? Or are humans only sacred if they are still in the womb, mmmm the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan don't seem to do so well once out, so I will end with the last verse in Jonah: "And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”  So to be sure there are people to harm and kick butt on and it's oviously not the USA's modus operandi to care about civilians, after all they fall into acceptable loss'e , but should we not at least consider all the wasted livestock and other useful stuff in Iran? I think that was God's point to Jonah, how about you?