RIDICULOUS

"Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse." So says an increasingly verified report about why we've spent $672 billion (and counting) lowering the world population and putting gold flakes on the food on the table for 'private contractors' everywhere.

Sullivan's been tracking this, and I really hope Bill Maher brings it up on Real Time (he didn't). It's nice that money - like suffering, greed, war, and everything else - seems more real because of this administration. But everyday Obama keeps the Iraq farce going is a vote for our costliest and most reprehensible absurdist fantasy: religion.