of course the pope is against a war in Iraq ... where's the surprise in that????
it has nothing to to with THIS particular pope or THIS particular war .. all popes are against all wars ... they'd rather we just all got along ... which would be nice ... unhappily, there are those with whom reasonable people are not able to "make nice" ... some people are brutish louts that will take as much advantage of the "make nice" crowd as they possibly can to further their own selfish interest ... some of those brutish louts can be seen on the streets of almost any city in every country ... some of them are gang leaders who incite their gangs to take advantage of weaker or more docile neighbors ... some of them manage to take control of entire countries and would willingly prey on weaker or more docile countries ... Hitler was an example of a brutish lout who preyed on the weak and docile in his own country and then in neighboring countries ... had we not finally stood up to him in WWII, he'd have taken control of all Europe and would've looked to expand from there ...
Saddam is not the only brutish lout in the world today to have control of a country ... he's one who's developed a degree of means to strengthen himself and impose his will on the weaker and more docile countries around him ... we stood up to him when he over-ran Kuwait a few years ago and we chased him back to his own little neighborhood ... but no one, including the US paid much attention to him during the 90's and no one did anything to enforce the limitations that the UN placed on him insofar as disarming himself and ridding his "gang" of what has come to be known as weapons of mass destruction ... everyone, including us, looked the other way while he re-armed himself and sought to gain even more strength than he'd had at the outset of his incursion into Kuwait ... no one, including us, did anything as he befriended enemies of the US such as Bin Laden ... the list of those who he would willingly help does not begin and end with Bin Laden's name, either ... it includes any terrorist group with enough moxie and enough brute loutishness to take action, whether on a grand scale such as the attack on the Trade Center, the Pentagon and on whatever other target the 9/11 hijackers were thwarted by true American heros from striking ...
Frankly, while I understand the pope, I have no understanding of why anyone else, would have a problem with us acting in concert with other countries or acting on our own, going to Iraq and exterminating the brutish, loutish rat that is Saddam ... most importantly, I have no understanding of American citizens who oppose such action ... I cannot understand those who don't see the problem he poses ...and while I understand those among us who are weak and docile being afraid, I don't understand why they aren't grateful that there are those among us who are strong enough and brave enough to step forward and take care of business on behalf of all of us ...
INMSHO, the pope needs to go to whatever part of the Vatican he goes to when he says his prayers and have a word with whatever divine being he has the ear of and ask that this brutish lout and those who are in his gang of thugs can be rooted out and removed from a position of being a threat to all the innocent citizens of this country, their own countries and all the neighboring countries around them ...
Beyond that ... the prominent among us who speak out against the United States should be held accountable ... Jane Fonda should be in prison for treason and those who emulate her actions in this time should be her cellmates ...
As for "God" ... he's no more than a remote observer of the antics of the ants in his antfarm ... don't expect him to take sides, it ain't gonna happen.
