[drstevej]

***There is even talk that the pope could win the Nobel Peace Prize***

Jimmy Carter made it clear what it takes to win the "Peace" Prize, criticize the United States.

[ultima ratio]

The Vatican bureaucracy has publicly remarked that the US was acting against Iraq "to get its oil." This is typically mindless liberal-speak. It is France and Germany and Russia who have Iraqi oil interests, not us. What this does show, however, is what US conservative Catholics have been denying for years: that there is no daylight between the American bishops and the Vatican. It is in sync with the bishops on most issues.