The Iraq example isn't relevant -- it just blows the situation out of proportion. And for the record, I found UberCart by Googling "e-commerce cart" (or something among those lines ). In fact, 80% of web traffic comes from web searches.

You can remove the code from the cart. No ones holding a gun to your head. In the time that has been spent ranting about this, one could have easily removed the footer message.

Anyways, I'd prefer the UB team to spend their time working on bugs and or better features rather than wasting time by adding some option to disable a footer that any one with half a brain could remove by editing a few lines of code.

$0.02