This Iraq veteran's confession about the damaging role he played in an innocent family's death reveals the all too human aspect of war. Life and death decisions are made in a matter of seconds. The soldier then said how the mother of the family came up to his shoulder and expressed to him that it was "God's will," - but he was not buying the religious get-away card, and took full responsibility of his actions. He refused to look to God to explain his violent decision that laid out a family flat. It was definitely a daring revelation, and his experience is by far a common one.
For all the fundamentalist rhetoric about a new crusade, this is not a religious war, but a commercial and territorial one. God did not march into Baghdad with the 33rd infantry. And he is not there now, justifying the murder of innocent human beings.
