“I heard a soldier say that he had talked to his priest about killing Iraqis, and that his priest had told him it was all right to kill for his government as along as he did not enjoy it. After he had killed at least four men, I heard the soldier say that he had begun to have doubts: ‘Where the fuck did Jesus say it’s OK to kill people for your government?”Everyone who feels even vaguely uncomfortable about the war in Iraq and the nonsensical justifications made for it should read this article: ‘What I Heard about Iraq’ by Eliot Weinberger, published in the London Review of Books. Here is what Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest said, in their own words, together with more wild lunacy and monstrousness.What got into those people? Here is Corey Robin, again from the LRB (19 May 2005): “Rumsfeld’s war on the rule-bound culture and risk aversion of the military reveals a deep antipathy to law and order – not something usually associated with conservatives but familiar enough to any historian of 20th century Europe.”