I'm sure you are probably right. The press consistently misquotes him.
The press misquotes him, sometimes.
In regards to war and peace, the Pope has, for 25 years, advocated that the United Nations be the vehicle. So it is not likely he was misquoted in calling for a "new international order" with the UN at its head, to head off American unilateralism.
I'm still waiting for John Paul II to be publicly grateful to God for the liberation of the Iraqi people.