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Vatican: Bush Taking Heavy Moral Burden
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VATICAN, Mar 18, 03 (CWNews.com) -- US President George W. Bush has assumed a heavy moral burden by saying his intention to go to war against Iraq, the Vatican has warned.
In response to the American leader's announcement that the US will soon launch a military assault, the Holy See issued a terse one-sentence statement: "Whoever decides that all peaceful means that international law has put at our disposition have been exhausted assumes a serious responsibility before God, his conscience and history."

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"Whoever decides that all peaceful means that international law has put at our disposition have been exhausted assumes a serious responsibility before God, his conscience and history."

That is, of course, true of any President.