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Despite the fact that the notoriously anti-American Angelo Cardinal Sodano (His question to an American journalist regarding Iraq: "Haven't you people learned ANYTHING from Viet Nam?" My response: "And who liberated Rome in 1945? And whose side was Italy on until it became clear they were losing, your Eminence?") has been reconfirmed as Secretary of State, could we hope that SOMEONE at SOME LEVEL in Pope Benedict XVI's administration may, at long last, look into the activities of the notorious Father Jean-Marie Benjamin, former UN staffer, then priest, then travel companion of two consecutive Secretaries of State, Cardinals Casaroli and Sodano?

Not only is the man's website a breath-taking hodge-podge of lies and a veritable encyclopedia of anti-George Bush, anti-USA propaganda, but more troubling (OR AT LEAST IT SHOULD BE) is the fact that his name shows up in the final Duelfer Report on WMD's as having qualified for 4.5 million barrels of oil in the now outrageously notorious UN Oil for Food Scandal:

(see: http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/12/vatican-and-iraq.html).

It's time for conservative Catholics in the USA to let SOMEONE in Rome know what we think about this travel-junketing, guitar-strumming, CD-recording, Bush-bashing, AZZIZ-defending FRAUD. If Fr. Reese at AMERICA was causing confusion among Catholics, what are we to think of someone who, apparently with the blessing of the Secretariat of State under two Cardinal Prefects, is personal friends with the right-hand man of the "Butcher of Baghdad" - enough to coordinate his defense fund - and who shows up in the Duelfer Report (THANK GOD that FOX News has not YET got ahold of THAT scandalous tidbit!) - not to mention hob-nobbing with the disgraced Palestinian gun-runner, Archbishop Hilarion Capucci?

Culture of death, indeed!