It depend what Politicians, for example, Dick Cheney's team and Tony Blair were paid for every Military equipment and bomb in Iraq.

Tony Blair was not, of course, the only head of government to promise to be at America’s side as it embarked on what became known as the “war on terror”. One of the first world leaders on the phone to Washington was the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. The day after the attack, he reported to the Bundestag that he had promised Bush “Germany's full – I repeat, full – solidarity.”

Why does anyone believe in scary fairy tales?

A good attitude, but does it conclude the topic of the myths does not exist? There is still a vague possibility that a causal force of creation might exist beyond man's observation and comprehension. There are still things we can't explain but can't deny, like origin of the universe, life from lifelessness, memories ...

We used to lay anything we did not understand off to god. As science learned more of the working of the universe we used the term god less. So is the objective of science to understand the ways of god?