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You should have stayed on the sidelines a bit longer.

<> No doubt others think the same. But, really, didn't you miss my perfervid polemics?<>

I disagree, vehemently, with almost everything your wrote.

<> Well, much of it is factual, so, I don't think you really mean that. I can understand you (inexplicably) disagreeing with how I deal with those facts though:)<>

I'm disappointed that, for a man who is so steeped in sound theology, you are so galactically ignorant politically.

<> That sentence was unnecessarily long. It should have stopped after thirteen words. Nevertheless, thank you for the compliment.<>

Your paranoia suggests you're really a Bircher in disguise.

<> LOL "A Bircher in disguise" would make a great song title.

I think I will post an analysis of the impending UnJust War against Iraq. It was written by a career CIA analyst. Of course, he may just be a paranoid Bircher too:)<>

I think I will post an analysis of the impending UnJust War against Iraq.

Save the bandwidth. He's likely a Scott-Ritter-wannabe, anxious for some publicity.

Seriously, though, the fact that you think our action against the Taliban was also an "Unjust War" makes you a genuine peacenik. Even the Pope approved of that war.

"Peace and love" is a quaint, naive notion, unless you're in kindergarten.

We have a rarity here. Sinkspur's right and Catholicguy is wrong. The foreign policy views you are espousing, CG, are more likely to come from the usual gang of SSPX suspects than from Catholic Americans. If SSPX is often wrong, so also are those who always desperately search, on behalf of "Peace and Justice Commissions" of AmChurch, to find something, anything wrong with the projection of American power in the world. Roger Cardinal Etchegarry was a very poor excuse for a cardinal before going to schmooze with Saddam. Our Church has its own interest in the situation in that there is an entire rite of the Catholic Church (the Chaldean) which is headquartered in Iraq and, on the sole condition of no Jesuits, has all of its bills and salaries paid by Saddam Hussein's government. This does not excuse toleration of Saddam Hussein.

We may be Catholics but we need not be total gluttons for punishment by volunteering to defend the morally indefensible.

Career CIA analysts got Fidel Castro his job along with the New York Times. Career CIA analysts are not infallible and neither is Pope John Paul II on matters of politics or foreign policy. I understand that there are moral considerations to war but, just as his opposition to the death penalty is not dogmatic, neither is his prudential decision as to war between the US and Iraq. Consider also that he maintains much better relations with Muslim countries than does the US and maintains alliances in favor of the culture of life in that fashion.

There is much more to this situation than meets the eye.