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This piece is rather incoherent. He praises the Pope for not being influenced by polls, while pointing out that the majority of the world agrees with him, and accuses Bush of following the polls while again, pointing out that the majority of the world disagrees with him. It seems Sobran is more impressed by popularity polls than anyone.

This ignores the fact, of course, that Bush has obtained the support he has by hard-fought leadership. The American electorate had to be convinced and he convinced them.

Sobran is impressed that Russia, France, and Germany all opposed our action without examining their collusion in propping up and profiting from Saddam's regime. They armed him, financed him, carried the water for him in the UN, and did business with him like there was no tomorrow.

The opinions of those businessmen impress him, while the willingness of US businessmen to abstain from business dealings with Saddam on moral grounds doesn't.

He rightly points out that Jesus warned us against putting too much importance on the treasures of this world, while failing to note Saddam's billions, and the billions that went to precisely France, Russia, Germany, and the millions more that went to pliant politicians and journalists around the world.

Sobran coyly mocks Bush's religious faith; the man who freed Iraq couldn't possibly be a man of God. But men of God come in more than one flavor. There are the men of God who write opinion pieces, and there are men of God who wear boots and kick in the doors of torture chambers. Sobran shouldn't concern himself with the souls of the rough men who opened the prison doors, or the men who lead them. He should concern himself with the men of God who knew what Saddam was doing and did nothing to stop it.

I think there was a parable about such men.