[Texas_Dawg]

"And what are we to say of the threat of a war which could strike the people of Iraq, the land of the prophets, a people already sorely tried by more than 12 years of embargo?" he said.

http://www.americancatholic.org/News/JustWar/Iraq/papalstatement.asp

The American-led U.N. embargo was the reason for their suffering??

Tariq Aziz's 4th Vatican Visit

"He received red carpet treatment at the Vatican for his fourth visit there since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, entering by the gate normally reserved for heads of state in a motorcade of 10 limousines."

I don't mean to bash this Pope because as I said in a post above, I believe he is a great man and was once a great crusader against Communist tyranny. But he is very old and suffering from a terrible disease and has some horrendous advisers around him. The combination of all those things resulted in them being way too easy on tyranny this time around.

[sinkspur]

"He received red carpet treatment at the Vatican for his fourth visit there since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, entering by the gate normally reserved for heads of state in a motorcade of 10 limousines."

Aziz, a war criminal, received the red carpet treatment, and the Pope read Tony Blair the riot act when he visited shortly before the war began.

Ironically, when Aziz called on the Italian Prime Minister, he was told the Prime Minister couldn't squeeze him into his schedule.