uberreiniger | I feel I should say something....

I've been trying not to think about "the war." Most of my friends are against it. I have one friend who's very Biblical who's convinced that this is "it." I try not to go there despite the Revelation being one of my fascinations. He's hyped for Jesus to return, but then again he believes in the rapture which I do not. (And if someone can show me in scripture where it specifically says the rapture is going to happen, show it to me. I've been looking for years and can't find it.) I personally could do without it being "it", oh, for the rest of my life or so. A lot of people are going to die very painfully when "it" happens and not all of them are going to heaven.
As for protesting the war, criticizing the president, or doing anything else, I'm not doing it because I don't know what the use is. This war, I fear will happen whether anybody wants it to or not. Protests don't change leaders' minds once things are this far out of control. But I suppose you give people the illusion once every four years that the people who rule them give any kind of a damn whatsoever what they think and it won't be long before they think the leaders hang on every word they say.
It's not the war I fear, it's everything that happens afterward. We'll be in Iraq for years rebuilding it; more of our precious forces diverted in futile police actions when they should be used to defend us. Maybe more muslim zealots will rally to the imams' call of global jihad, maybe they won't. Maybe something will happen which, deservedly or not, paints us as butchers in the eyes of the world, maybe it won't. As for the UN I won't even go there. Maybe I'll read this entry two months from now and laugh at how foolish I sound. Maybe I won't.
I don't want there to be a war. I think it's high time to realize that protesting wars only when they're about to happen or are happening that by then, it's already too late. But is the alternative any better? Reading the Bible, it would seem that world peace is exactly what the antichrist wants...