Posted on 01/10/2005 7:29:30 AM PST by areafiftyone
VATICAN CITY - The Italian cardinal sent by Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II last year to try to dissuade President Bush (news - web sites) from invading Iraq (news - web sites) said Monday the president promised that the U.S. operation would be "quick."
Cardinal Pio Laghi visited Bush at the White House on March 5, 2003, to relay the pope's position that dialogue, not arms, should be used to resolve the crisis over Iraq, which the United States accused of harboring weapons of mass destruction.
"When I went to Washington as the pope's envoy just before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, he (Bush) told me: `Don't worry, your eminence. We'll be quick and do well in Iraq,'" Laghi told Italian Catholic TV station Telepace, which was broadcasting the pontiff's annual address to diplomats.
When the United States went to war in Iraq, Laghi called the attack on Baghdad "tragic and unacceptable."
"Unfortunately, the facts have demonstrated afterward that things took a different course not rapid and not favorable," the prelate told Telepace. "Bush was wrong."
Laghi was the Vatican (news - web sites)'s first envoy to Washington in the 1980s and established a friendship with Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush.
The attack by Islamic fanatics on 9-11 was one in a series of recent attacks initiated during the Clinton Administration - the first attack on the World Trade Center, the attack on U.S. forces overseas, and the Oklahoma City bombing. Even now MORE information is leaking out about Timothy McVeigh, the American NAZI Party and Islamist fanatics in the U.S. who assisted there.
Saddam had claimed victory after his defeat in the First Persian Gulf War, he waged a war of extermination against segments of his own population, he refused to abide by the terms of the Armistice he signed after the first Persian Gulf War, he fired at British and American air planes flying over no-fly zones, he attempted to assinate an American President, and he was actively conspiring with North Korea, Al Quaida, Libya and Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction.
And most of all, he served as an icon and idol for all the Islamofascists out there who hate America, the West, and everything wesatern civilization stands for.
Taking out Saddam was like a crushing a germ-ridden roach.
Destruction of the Saddam regime was as essential as capturing and destroying Taliban held Afghanistan. And it is as important as removing the threat from the equally insane lunatics in Iran and Syria. And Iraq will serve as a great launching pad for attacks against the Syrian Baathists and in support of any popular uprising against the fiends in Iran. It is the Keystone of the archway of terror which runs from the Sudan to Pakistan.
If employ it correctly, the archway will crumble as easily as did Libya.
Never miss a good chance to slander, right a-hole?
"Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?"
Your posts on this thread make me wonder what you are smoking.
"war, Church fathers and doctors recognized, is a necessary part of establishing justice."
They also knew that kicking Muslim butt was a good thing.
"If it was a success, why are we still there?"
WWII was a success and we are still in Germany and Japan,
If WWII was a success, what was the Cold War all about?
Why do you think we are in Germany and Japan? Fighting werewolves?
"If WWII was a success, what was the Cold War all about?"
Take your meds.
I don't care what you post.
"What was the "grievance" in World War II?"
That's the ticket. You two wing nuts debate each other.
"I could present arguments from both sides on this."
Knock yourself out, chump.
"So World War I,rather than being the final chapter became the 'prologue' to the volume we are still writing as we speak."
Apparently you are not too old to blather meaningless nonsense. Pity.
"Fighting werewolves?"
Keeping them away and doing a darn good job of it, too.
Really? You seriously think that we are fighting something in Germany/Japan? What is it?
Good overlooked point. Of interest, the Commies are still around with growing military and economic muscle. China and Russia just had some joint war games.
The Commies should wait until we have finished fighting WW III against those Islam Fascists who threaten us with car bombs, improvised explosives and box cutters.
It is us against the world. Start the draft. Replace those tax cuts with war bonds. Bring the factories back. Suit up Rosie the Riveter. Be patriotic Uncle Sam wants you. Pray for us.
Pity you don't understnd what the enlightened self intereste man is all about. Or maybe you do,and think that's the way to go,I don't.
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