Your preaching to the choir Mr. Maher. I think everyone should see this movie and contemplate their beliefs a bit more critically.

Does society really need the facade of religion as discussed by Socrates/Plato, or can we have our moral values sans religion?

Tony Blair basically followed the USA's lead. Mr. Blair was popular when mirroring Clinton. Once he started following the lead of the least popular US president in history (read entered Iraq War/Downing Street Memo), Mr Blair also lost popularity. The UK decided after WWII to tie their fate to ours, you won't find many examples of where their leadership has differed in regard to foreign policy since then.

There's no debate that the most casualties were on the Eastern front. 75% of Germanies losses were on the Eastern front, not to mention the horrible losses the Soviets suffered. Here's a breakdown of the losses http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2stats.htm