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I keep reading interesting articles about our impending war with Iraq. They aren’t about what Bush just said or what France just vetoed—I’m more drawn to the psychological and cultural parts of war. From the Eiffel Tower stabbing Homer Simpson through the heart on tonight’s The Simpsons to Middle Eastern brothels gearing up for U.S. soldiers, it’s a different tune these days.

The people of Baghdad are preparing for war. It’s creating a class of haves and have-nots—those with money to flee and those who cannot. Iraq is already arresting people they fear could start an uprising.

Our own and our allied troops are feeling the pressures of war. They continue the tradition of inscribing messages into bombs and missiles. Some have risked their lives (and now lost them) by deploying themselves in Iraq to deter a war.

This war may spark World War III. People everywhere are protesting: Chicago, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Mexico City. There’s even a new wave of protests in the nude.

Americans have taken a disliking to the French. Meanwhile, troops are already preparing for the reality of death. I wonder if all this was also the case during earlier wars.

You’d think if someone found the reincarnation of God, they wouldn’t chop him up and sell him for food.