WELL: I know I'm horning in on Chris Lawrence's territory (as he's been making the 'isn't it odd when non-Christians tell Christians what to believe' argument a bit), but the following examples of egregious bias do sort of strike me:
" * He says his son understood he had to go to Iraq because “our current President is a very devout Christian … [who] had the knowledge, and understood what was going on, and it’s far deeper than we as a people will every really know, because we don’t get the information that the President gets.” What can one say in the face of such belief? The President is simply unworthy of the trust these people have placed in him." Crooked Timber
What can one say in the face of such belief? Well, the last part is almost undisputably true, so obviously the problem's not there; the father premises his support on the notion that Bush is a Christian who has some idea of the moral gravity of the situation we're in and what he's asking soldiers to go out there and do (I don't have access to GWB's mental states, but I suppose that's not prima facie unreasonable, though maybe I should ask Joe Carter), and, on the basis of that (as well as some soul-searching about what defending our country and the value of democracy mean, presumably), the father and the son involved made a decision that fighting in this case was morally right. Call me perfectly naive, but I don't see any reason to think they were deluded to think so.
See also this post, which makes hefty use of the old 'Christians are irrational' trope, rather than actually trying to deal with or understand the basis of some Christians' moral and ethical positions.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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