It doesn’t matter what reason one gives for these invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan they are still indefensible. This Mitchell person is complaining about how much of his tax dollars are being spent on abortions overseas. It’s a ludicrous compliant when compared to how much money Bush and his cronies looted from the national treasury to first pay hundreds of billions of dollars to “defense” (read offense) contractors to destroy the infrastructures of these countries and then hundreds of billions more to Dick Cheney’s company, Haliburton, to rebuild the infrastructure. It’s also bogus because we all have to pay for things we’d rather not. My critic accuses me of trying to convince readers of something that isn’t true but is clearly seen using this tactic himself. First of all abortion is not murder, babies are not killed, life is not taken. A POTENTIAL life is terminated and that’s NOT murder. The critic would like people to believe the Christian propaganda that no legal abortions were performed before Roe v Wade and that since then there has been some kind of holocaust where 50 million babies have been murdered. This is just not so. Abortion has been performed for thousands of years, and in every society that has been studied. It was legal in the United States from the time the earliest settlers arrived. At the time the Constitution was adopted, abortions before "quickening" were openly advertised and commonly performed. Gradually, with the rise of religious fundamentalism in the 1920’s some state began to pass laws against abortion. These were shown to be unconstitutional in the Roe v Wade case. This fact is never going to change unless we rewrite the Constitution. I really shouldn’t have to point out that Bible believing Christians have also been on the wrong side of the social sciences for over 1,500 years, actively promoting slavery, anti-Semitism, anti-feminism, homophobia, the torture and murder of women as witches, sexual repression, censorship, cultural prejudice, and the Inquisition, Crusades and other aggressive wars, and capital punishment for misdemeanors. History will show they’re on the wrong side of this one too. The more people like Mitchell rage and people like my critic publicly display their arrogance and ignorance of the issues, the more Christians marginalize themselves and paint themselves into a corner of their flat immovable earth.