should a christian be a republican? Options

[Retrogressive]

I guess since republicans do not believe in homosexual marriages and abortion most christians I know are republicans. But what about the seperation between church and state? I guess morals have a lot to do with who you will vote for, but shouldn't it be the right person for the job? A lot of christian republicans that I know don't believe in abortion and that is a big issue of why they voted for bush, but I haven't seen bush do anything about abortion. I don't know is it wrong to be a democrat christian? Isn't kerry a christian?

[ComradeRed]

What terrorism? Most insurgents are identified as Iraqi nationals, many of them were former members of the Iraqi army. Considering that the countries around Iraq except for Turkey have all closed their borders, there are very few foreign fighters in Iraq.

PEW Research interviewed a few hundred US Marines. 35% say that they have killed an enemy noncombatant, and 80% say that they have killed an enemy combatant. This means that the absolute minimum amount of civilians killed by the US Marines is about 23,000. When you add in the amount of civilians killed by the US Air Force and US Army, it is believable that we have killed probably close to 50,000 Iraqi civilians in one year. In Saddam Hussein's 30 years in power, he killed about 400,000. Or about 12,500 a year. Thus, we've caused four times more harm than Saddam has.

In addition, under the Geneva Convention, an occupying force is responsible for all deaths caused by resistance forces. If you add in the number of civilians killed by the insurgents, the total number of civilian deaths probably comes out to about 60 thousand.