The Vatican (and others) seem to have a deliberate blind spot here.
If Saddam would have disarmed, as he promised and stuck to the deal he made himself then this would all be history.
Right now Clinton would be polishing his Nobel Peace Prize and Saddam would be sanction free and busily (if covertly) rebuilding his arsenal.
There's nothing pre-emptive about this war and we are not the agressors. This isn't Gulf War 2, this is Gulf War 1, part 3.
I thought that would be obvious to everyone. Guess I was mistaken.
The Jihadists have declared holy war on western civilization, but the church never met a nation of Jew killers it didn't make excuses for.