Comments for Election 2008: Playing the Pope Card at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:46:16 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/1739-election-2008-playing-the-pope-card.html#comment-1614 It is a bit late in the day for the Pope to distancing himself from the war either in Iraq or Afgthanistan. Popes like to say many things. Like American Presidents, they like to keep on record some sayings which allow them ex post facto to point to their denial in small print, where in action and in large print their intentions are more easily deciphered. It's a bit like the Holocaust all over again! What's the point of having 1bn people in your pocket if you don't occasionally inform them that they can do something about warfare in the world! One might well remember that at the height of clerical pedophelia in the world, It was with the Pope's specific help and good will that George Bush came to power. And now that the writing has been truly on the wall , and that the Pope has received the overwhelming number of negative messages from his agents across the world, he wants to detach himself belatedly from what has happened on his watch. Before the elections he got his bishops to vote against John Kerry -- the rationale put about at the time was that John Kerry was pro-choice on abortion whereas George Bush was. Some people believe , however, that the Pope was really punishing Massachusettes for standing up to Bishop Law as well as the Pope's for very lax attitudes to clerical pedophelia in general and to the negligence of Bishop Law in particular. Furthermore, the cultivation of Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern , both in their sortie in East Timor as a prelude to the the war-- and the general support of Bush by an orchestrated Papal effort to homogenise Anglo-America around Christianity,is further evidence of the Pope's interest in the military ventures of the Americans. Their common hatred of Communism has seem them through so many campaigns from Vietnam to South America, that their relations , whatever the theatre that accompanies them says, are cement hard. Finally, prior Vatican-American campaigns aside, the obvious animus of Pope Benedict XVI for Islam, as revealed quite clearly in his Regensberg Lecture, belies any distancing he now wishes to achieve before the star of George Bush, in line with Blair's and the venality of Ahern, falls out of total focus. If Regensberg wasn't an attempt at 'preaching' the tenth and final crusade against Islam, then I don't know what is. Vatican hypocrisy is not an anomaly; it's a way of life! Seamus Breathnach www.irish-criminology.com - seamus breathnach Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:59:34 +0100