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The Vatican said countries that decide to wage war on Iraq without a global consensus must take responsibility before God. "Those who decide that all peaceful means that international law makes available are exhausted assume a grave responsibility before God, their conscience and history," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.
A historian who is a columnist for L'Osservatore Romano speculated as to the great lesson John Paul II took from his experiences in occupied Poland in the Second World War -- appeasement works!
The Saddam apologists in the Communion and Liberation movement trotted out Ratzinger and Martinoet al to make the case that the defense of the United States and the Free World must rest with the United Nations.
That is, under the veto power of the venal Jacques Chirac, and of an international body whose Human Rights Commission is chaired by Libya's Gaddafi and whose Disarmament Conference is to be chaired by -- get this -- Iraq.