It’s amusing to read the oh-so-troubled quotes from the seculars who get their panties in a twist whenever someone appeals to the Supreme Being, particularly when they link soldiers and deity in the same sentence.
Mrs. Palin does it in a church youth fellowship video the establishment media thugs at MSNBC have scarfed up for their next round of Sarah-bashing. These people really are running scared. They prove it by not reading their own polls, which show that three-quarters of Americans are believers whether they attend services or not.
So urging the believing youngsters to pray "that our leaders — that our national leaders — are sending [soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” as Sarah apparently says in the video, is just common sense. Unless you’re a secular media heavy who gets all squirmey at the thought of anyone believing in a higher power than you.
Even Baby Barry prays to be "an instrument of God’s will," though his church bashes whitey.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Er… dunno, I don’t take someone’s religious beliefs personally, esp. when in a specific case deity commands to do something I believe in anyway.
Of course, when the deity commands me to off my firstborn, I may have some qualms.
Well, of course, you got to retain a measure of independence. As most do, following the lead of the famous “stiff-necked” Jews.