No, you don't count as having beliefs.

So, the military is doing all the crap they're doing because they buy into Bush's screed that we must protect liberty and spread democracy and liberate the Iraqis and the Afghanis (only the ones that survive our carpet-bombing of their cities, though. Don't want any weak ones to slip through). So: liberty, freedom, and so on. Religious freedom, perhaps? Forcing the new Iraqi government to have all ethnic groups represented?

It's funny, sometimes, the difference between things "there" and things on the homefront.