[BlessedBeGod]

Martino has a reputation for being an idiot and saying stupid things.

Let’s hope Il Papa dumps him immediately, since he’s past the age of retirement.

[nickcarraway]

Is Pope Benedict supposed to have made this remark? It doesn’t sound like him.

[Mr. Mojo]

In his annual speech to diplomats in the Vatican the Pope sought to damp down the dispute.

The best way to do that is to say that the Cardinal was out of line in comparing Gaza to a concentration camp.

[LibFreeOrDie]

More about Martino’s remarks:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160643/posts

[FlyVet]

The military solution is never an option,” he said

So, Israel should just go on absorbing rockets and mortars indefinitely.

If they were pumping rockets into Vatican City, I'm sure the cardinal would roll over and take it.

[norge]

If the Vatican, and I repeat, IF, the Vatican cannot tell evil from good, then we are in trouble. The UN can indulge in moral equivalency, but not the Vatican.

[skinkinthegrass]

...after a prominent cardinal said that Gazans were living in a “big concentration camp”.

Its' they're own fault (Pali-Arabs), They lost "the War in '48 "
The surrounding Arab Rulers; at the time ordered the Pali-Arabs to evacuate their lands/properties in '48, So they could launch unfetter attacks on the Israeli Forces....well, the Arabs lost, very badly.

If the Pali-Arabs, would committed to peace instead of "rocketing" the Israeli, every night.
They (& the Israeli), could've had one of the highest standard of living in the Mideast (if not Asia) by now.

"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke

[familyop]

As usual, the Vatican's timing for those comments is very telling.

Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts

Hopefully, our US Government won't follow the cue this time.

US pressure prompts delay of [Israel's] offensive ("We do not want escalations" - White House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680983/posts

Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast-State Department seeks to delay supply
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681771/posts

Commencement Address at Boston College (Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 2006. US Department of State)

Excerpts:

As a student of a Catholic high school, the Sisters of Loretta taught me, I am pleased to be at an institution of higher education with such strong and celebrated Catholic and Jesuit traditions . . . You see, I got my Master's Degree at Notre Dame. (Boos.) I acquired a passion for the fighting Irish . . . and my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.) . . . I wandered into a course on international politics taught by a Czech refugee who specialized in Soviet studies, a man who had a daughter by the name of Madeleine Albright. With that one class, I was hooked. I discovered that my passion was Russia and all things Russian.

Rice: Better to have Hamas in power than in streets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733397/posts

Rice: Palestinians deserve to live free of 'occupation'[at an event of pro-Palestinian group]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717847/posts

US Supplies Fatah With Arms, Rice Decries "Occupation"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718348/posts

[montag813]

Pope Benedict did not say this bullshit. There are scumbag cardinals everywhere, whether Arabs or that illegals lover in L.A., or leftists like this one.

I am a Jew and I love this Pope. Please do not let this nonsense do anything to sully the trip to Israel.

[autumnraine]

Maybe I was absent that day in school, but I don’t recall Jews shooting rockets at Nazi’s.

[livius]

Martino strikes again.