Not that this character has any legitimate credibility but it must be mentioned ... the pope see's our fighting against this evil as "unjust". Good God! How can anyone suggest that removing saddam insane isn't right? After tweleve years of sanctions and U.N. violations and still, this is an "unjust war"?
What ever happened to the sanctity of life? Has that gone by the wayside as well? It's clear to me that sexually molested children don't matter. Now we have evil personified being removed as "unjust". God help this pope when he has to stand before God and account for HIS life and HIS statements and HIS actions. The Judeo CHristian God would expect a God fearing person to stop this evil.
The Pope's position is completely untenable and an outright betrayal of the will of God. Perhaps he has forgotten the many times in the Bible that God is depicted as raising up armies to destroy evil governments and regimes. The Old Testament is filled with example after example of God bringing down evil nations by waging war against them through another nation's armies. God sits on His throne and allows evil nations to flourish for periods of time which to us seem unbearable, but He operates on His own timetable and allows nations maximum time to change their ways and repent. But when repentance is not forthcoming, He pronounces judgment and delivers justice. And that justice is not delivered through supernatural means. It is delivered through human means on the human stage, by directing human armies against the offending nation.
I know you know this, nmh, but I reply to your post because so many who consider themselves followers of Christ do not understand this, and have been blinded to the truth of Scripture and the ways of God, whose ways are not our own. There is no doubt that the Pope refuses to see this truth himself, so he stands along with Hollywood, the peaceniks, the socialists, and the Axis of Weasels. Tragic, but that is the reality of our times, just as Jesus warned us it would be.
Please don't take this wrong. I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the Pope does not look so good lately. I am not sure that Pope John Paul even knows which month it is. I think that maybe his handlers express their views through him and pass them off as his.