LOL, cut the drama, it does not work on me. This has nothing to do with religion. The pope comments were on politics and policy.
I just explained to you about sovereignty and pope, and asked you to explain why the he even brought the subject up?
Why bring it up to the Pres?
Has the Pres indicated he wanted no gov chosen by the Iraqi people?
Has the Pres been somehow preventing Iraq elections? a written constitution? and a rule of law, or a census which enables an election?
No.
But who has been preventing those advances?
Did the pope address those groups, individuals and those who claim responsibility for blowing up innocents in Iraq?
No.
BTW, speaking of facts, do a search, and read the vatican statements about the US and our Pres, for the past 3 years.
Or for that matter, search on the vaticans statements on subjects such as the "occupation", Arafat, the UN, Israel, AQ, BL, Islam, ect.
Vs, the Iraq war and Bush, I don't recall the vatican calling Arafat or BL immoral or barbaric.
Do you honestly think Arafat, OBL, Saddam, and other terrorists give a crap what the Pope thinks?
What could be better for a jihad than having the head of the "infidel" Catholic Church declare these Islamic figures evil?
I mean, come on, no offense, but use your head.
It takes a special breed of idiot to think that this was some type of upbraiding the Pope was delivering to the President. He was merely encouraging him to rstore sovereignty as soon as possible. There is no question that the Pope thought we weren't going to do it at all. If you weren't a Pope-hater, you'd understand the message.
BTW, you still haven't explained why you think Iraq has never had "sovereignty" and what you think the word means.
SD