And I THANK GOD that they don't actually march "under the rubric of the cross of Christ."
I think you are allowing your political beliefs to influence your religious beliefs. You don't convert people at the end of a sword. Christianity is about conversion of the heart, and is not about opposing evil through war. The Iraqis did not harm us, didn't want to harm us, and didn't have the means to harm us. Don't use Christ to justify the war! How sad.
The Iraqis were under the most vicious of despots. They are a free people today because we were not afraid to go to war in the name of humanity.