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You and people like you are tiresome. Nothing will convince you of how wrong-headed this pope has been. He has said nary a word about Saddam's cruelties and tyranny. Instead, like all knee-jerk European anti-Americans, he has castigated the US through press releases and remarks by papal officials. All Catholics should be ashamed.

As for your phony analogy about doctors and cancer, you can stash that nonsense. We might have had a diplomatic solution had people like the Pope and Chirac been willing to put some bite behind UN threats. Instead, they tied Bush's hands diplomatically and assured a war would follow.

This Pope has been consistently and absolutely wrong about a lot of things--in this case too morally blinded by his anti-Americanism to hear the cries of Saddam's victims--cries which should have been audible to him twelve years ago when he also opposed Gulf War I. What was his excuse back then, do you suppose?

You are an idiot. I have a son who is going to the Gulf to fight, and I don't mean from behind a desk. It is a fight I think was inevitable necessary but scary. Stow all the intellectual crap; there's a real world out there.

You attribute malice to the Pope where there is none.

The Pope is not pro-Saddam. He never condemns heads of state; he even went to a country headed by a brutal leader, Fidel Castro.

The Pope is concerned about a Muslim-Christian war, so his circumspection is understandable.

I've condemned the Pope for speaking. He should simply pray for peace and urge Catholics to pray for peace. No comments about "negotiation" or the UN.

Seeming to weigh in on one side has, as you said, given cover to Hussein and the French to fracture any hope for a united front against this butcher.

The Pope blew a unique opportunity to stay above the fray here. He also should silence those in his Curia and employ who actually scorn the United States, like the reprehensible Archbishop Martino, and the rag La Civilta Catolica.

Nothing will convince you of how wrong-headed this pope has been.

Did it ever occur to you that George W. Bush could be wrong? Don't blame this one on the Pope. There's hundreds of millions of people in the world that think Bush has gotten a little too big for his britches on this one.

Don't put so much faith in a man who is seperated from the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The very fact that he doesn't have the true Faith demonstrates that you shouldn't place so much faith in him.

Oh, yes. I know you like to check your Catholicism at the door when it comes to political decisions. Ted Kennedy wont get away with that and neither can you.