and this just in.
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The Pope, on whose agony and rest George W. Bush is shedding crocodile tears, did not relent even after the war had started.
Pope John Paul II's Resistance to the "Unjust War" on Iraq
By Pasquale Maria Aliberti
Apr 4, 2005, 20:41
After 26 dramatic years of pontificate, His Holiness John Paul II died today.
His last years were characterized by a courageous and principled opposition -- on religious, moral, and political grounds -- to the US led war on Iraq and its ideological foundations.
The latter consisted in justifying the "war on terrorism", as a legitimate response to the so-called "Clash of Civilizations", between the West predominantly Christian on the one hand the Muslim world on the other hand.
Following his rest, we now see many world leaders -- starting with George W. Bush -- who maliciously attempted to thwart Pope John Paul's antiwar stance, pouring gallons of crocodile tears over the TV cameras.
However, this media propaganda cannot overshadow the fact that John Paul II,s last big battle was against the Bush administration's "preemptive war" doctrine.
The Pontiff and his closest collaborators resisted an unprecedented buttault by the men of the would be new roman emperor on the Potomac and told directly Bush and his minions that their war was an "unjust war."
Needless to say, Pope John Paul II's rejection of America's military agenda contributed immensely to weakening the Pentagon's propaganda campaign.
The issue of his succession in the Vatican is, therefore, a matter of paramount importance for Catholics and non-Catholics.
Will John Paul's principled stance prevail or will his successor succumb to the political pressures of the Bush administration?
What will be criteria for selecting his successor?
Will the new Pope be chosen as a result of US pressures?
Or will the successor of John Paul II follow and broaden his moral strategy of defending humanity from the imperial predators?
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Will the successor accept the proposal to become the "chaplain of the new world order" that, reportedly, Bush senior made unsuccessfully to the Pope during the first Gulf war?
Or will he draw -- from the root of Christianity and the experience of the Church -- the language and the strategy to evoke the resistance of the quasi totality of the peoples of the world to the new US led empire?
Will he be an instrumentum regni or an instrumentum Christi?
The world has entered now into a critical and momentous period filled with existential dangers of apocalyptic proportions; but, at the same time, we have the possibility to create a concrete alternative to this descent into the Inferno.
In this context, and as a contribution to clarifying what is at stake, we bring to the attention of Global Research readers, a private memorandum written in April 2003, by someone apparently familiar with the "geo-religious" situation in the Vatican, at the time of the war against Iraq.
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The memorandum was written originally in Italian and was made available for private circulation among political and religious leaders including high ranking members of the clergy inside the Vatican .
The memorandum was specifically addressed to the leadership of the Vatican , which was under tremendous pressure from Washington .
The Bush administration's goal was to enlist Pope Paul II and the Vatican Curia, as key supporters of the US-led "crusade."
The Vatican leadership refused to accept the role Washington wanted it to play in the intended religious war.
The Pope not only rejected the war but did everything possible to prevent it.
The Pope had stated that the war on Iraq would be a defeat for humanity.
He sent one of the most important prelates of the Vatican, Cardinal Pio Laghi ( former Pro Nuncio in Washington and a friend of the Bush family) on a special mission to President Bush carrying a letter signed by the Pope, stating that this was a truly "unjust war".
The Pope was trying to communicate with a petulant child, so..........
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