On Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003, the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition held a panel discussion/press conference entitled Iraq: George W. Bush's "Vietnam"? at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The panel featured former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, family members of U.S. GIs, and other leaders of the anti-war movement, who collectively discussed the growing mood in the United States to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq and to end the occupation.
Couple this with the recent coming out party for Jim Wallis and Clinton's new-found charitableness ... and I have to wonder if the recent abduction of a Catholic archbishop in Iraq will be the next thing libs can associate with to try to draw some religious folks to their ranks.
Might be revealing to see if/how Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin and/or Archbishop Renato Raffaele Martino (the former Vatica-UN liaison who was the most shrill Vatican critic of US action against Iraq, along with Jean-Louis Tauran, who issued statements that went beyond what John Paul himself said) chime in on it.