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Somehow or other, it never IS the wine, in these cases. -- The Pickwick Papers

Thursday, June 16, 2005

It Was Never About WMDs

You hear again and again that the Catholic Church was against the Iraqi war, and again and again many catholics argue back that some Catholics (like the Pope, and most or all the bishops) where against the war but not the Church. Granted the Pope and all the bishops do have alot of force behind them, but still when would a war be just if not this one? I am not talking about defensive wars of course. If I am not mistaken the just war doctrine does allow for the removing of tyrants. The church has always upheld the right of revolution. What else was the soliderity movement in Poland? So if the war was really about Saddam and not about WMDs than it could be justified, right? Now, any one with half a brain could see it was about "That Camel F***er in Iraq" and not about WMDs. The whole WMD thing was just there to sell the war to the American people, a very isolationst bunch when you get down to it. So what does the Church say about Totalitarian tyrants? Well lets look at the new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, which says,
"The Church place[s] herself as a bulwark against every totalitarian temptation".
So much for the Curia now what does the late Pope have to say about Iraq,

"Iraq is currently in the throes of the difficult process of transition from a totalitarian regime to the formation of a democratic State in which the dignity of each person is respected and all citizens enjoy equal rights."
So tell me again, why where the bishops and pope againt the war?

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