[dila813]

Central to the beliefs of Catholics is the belief that you are either for the Lord or against the Lord. There isn't a gray area allowed. Another way to say this is you are either for Good or for Evil.

Catholics are also always willing to point out the difference between the secular world and the Catholic world is this understanding.

By any reasonable estimate, over 1mill Iraq civilians will die over the next 10 years (25% Children under 14). By the most extreme estimates, about 250k people will die in the invasion, mostly military (99%).

Bottom line, with the invasion we save 750k peoples lives and provide a country with a new chance of freedom.

Saddam is a secular government, nay atheist. With all that is know about this regime it is indefensibly Evil.

So how could the church possibly support not saving all these people which would clearly be on the side of Good?

Because the church has adopted the beliefs of the secular world, the gray area. In two words, political convenience

[TradicalRC]

Your first sentence sounds Manicheeist. That was an early Church heresy, attacked by St. Augustine.