Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RedBloodedAmerican

Your more scurrilous posts been deleted already. So enjoy your tirading. As a special favor to me, could you include the words "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" in there somewhere, so the kids get a little history lesson as to the rewards of bigotry when they look the phrase up?

There are plenty of reasons to dislike the Catholic church. Please pick one of those and lobby the Vatican directly, instead of doing what you're doing. It might result in the Vatican doing something to change the things you dislike.


136 posted on 09/29/2004 3:56:48 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 134 | View Replies ]


To: LibertarianInExile

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A top Vatican official said Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticized the U.S. military for showing video footage of him being treated “like a cow.”

Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department and a former papal envoy to the United Nations, told a news conference it would be “illusory” to think the arrest of the former Iraqi president would heal all the damage caused by a war which the Holy See opposed.

“I felt pity to see this man destroyed, (the military) looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures,” he said.

“Seeing him like this, a man in his tragedy, despite all the heavy blame he bears, I had a sense of compassion for him,” he said in answer to questions about Saddam’s arrest.


137 posted on 09/29/2004 3:57:55 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson