What About the War, Benedict? By Ray McGovern
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108a.html
What About the War, Benedict?
By Ray McGovern
April 21, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice.
Torture: Fresh reporting by ABC from inside sources depicted George W. Bush’s most senior aides (Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice and Tenet) meeting dozens of times in the White House during 2002/03 to sort out the most efficient mix of torture techniques for captured “terrorists.”
When initially ABC attempted to insulate the president from this sordid activity, Bush abruptly bragged that he knew all about it and approved. That comment and the action memorandum Bush signed on Feb. 7, 2002, dispelled any lingering doubt regarding his personal responsibility for authorizing torture.
Execution: Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court, with a majority of judges calling themselves Catholic, was openly deliberating on whether one gram, or two, or perhaps three of this or that chemical would be the preferred way to execute people.
Always colorful prominent Catholic layman Antonin Scalia complained impatiently, “Where does it say in the Constitution that executions have to be painless?”
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The Pope
he just looks evil . . . a wolf in sheep's clothing
Yeah, 4 Catholics on the Bench
Capital Punishment is condemned by the Church, where's Benedict's voice?
Murder for hire, condemned by the Catholic Church, heard of Blackwater, Benedict ?and its elite corps of ultra right wing Catholic principles...Eric Prince?
The Illegal Iraq war, Torture, depleted uranium munitions, cluster bombs and land mines? Where's your strong voice of moral authority Benedict?
I do not know why this man (real name, Joseph Ratzinger) was
made pope. Instead of fighting Nazis, Ratzinger served in Hitler Youth and later in the German Army during WWII.
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That's unfair
I'm sorry, but this is unfair. I'm not a fan of Joseph Ratzinger (he's always been a controversial figure, after all), but you can't condemn a 14-year-old boy for being forced to join the Hitler Youth as well as being forced to serve in the army two years later. There is no indication that Joseph Ratzinger was ever a convinced Nazi - more the opposite, as he deserted eventually. Some great German liberals were Nazis in their youth and you should not condemn them unless you have lived through such a situation yourself. It's always easier to judge things from a geographical and timely distance - you should be more careful about this, I suggest.
Of all possible candidates for pope, I'm sure there were tons
with far less dubious backgrounds than serving as a Hitler Youth & Nazi Soldier, who "eventually" deserted in 1945, at the end of the war. Why pick Ratzinger? You yourself say "he's always been a controversial figure"?
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Yeah -
How about a bunch of Opus Dei members, P2-members or just one of the paedophile -priests ?
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"Listen carefully now : DO NOT DESTROY OIL-WELLS" Dubya
Our 1st Nazi Pope
Well it gives me a warm fuzzy...
Knowing the Pope is a former Nazi and Bush supporter.
Seems like he is on the side of God and speaks with great moral authority.
Did he speak out against the Iraq war...
Oh...he must have forgot. After all he was dealing with the Preist pedophilia controversy here in the states.
Did Sabrina & Luke truth-squad Pope at GZ?
I had fun imagining, anyway, the receiving line going by the Pope, whispering: 9/11 was an inside job ... Bush knew ... 9/11 is a lie ... What happened to Bldg. 7? ... There was no plane at the Pentagon or in Pennsylvania.
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
The Pope Is Part of the New world Order
Anyone that shakes Bush's Hand and calls him a modern day Prophet is Part of the Madness
Here is a Great Video On the Pope and his call for a One World Order
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4315834925200441495&hl=en
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the General of the International Military Order of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as ?the Black Pope?, ordered the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, with the advice and consent of his General Staff, composed of five assistants (each representing a hemisphere and under whom are many advisory Provincials), an advisor (resembling the likes of a military commander to warn him of any faults or mistakes), and his confessor (to ease his conscience and absolve him of his many sins).
Why? Because the appointed time has arrived for the Jesuit General to destroy both the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, secretly using his CIA/Nazi-trained, Masonic Zionist Mossad in conjunction with his CIA/Nazi-trained, Masonic Islamic Intelligence Agencies, including Osama bin Laden?s MAK and Pakistan?s ISI, while shrouded in the confusion of a huge aerial war yet to come. This will enable the General?s crusading Knights Templars (the present day Shriner Freemasons) to rebuild Solomon?s Temple ? for the Papal Caesar in Rome?s Vatican. And how could the Black Pope destroy these Moslem Mosques, they comprising the third most important Islamic religious site in the world behind Saudi Arabia?s Mecca and Medina, without causing an uncontrollable Moslem holy war, called a ?jihad?, resulting in the destruction of Pope Pius XII?s creation of Zionist Israel? (Remember, Israel was admitted into the New York-based United Nations in 1949 through the efforts of Jesuit-trained Francis Cardinal Spellman ? the darling of Pope Pius XII who, after his Jesuits carried out the Jewish Holocaust in Europe and then driving the survivors to Palestine, intended, under the guidance of his Jesuit confessor, Augustin Cardinal Bea, to make Jerusalem an international city ? while governed by the Papal Caesar?s Chaim Weizmann and his Masonic Jewish Zionists.) The Black Pope must cause a war using a country he also wishes to further destroy. Enter the ?Holy Roman? Fourteenth Amendment American Jesuit Empire created in 1868 on the ruins of George Washington?s Calvinist Republic, the last political stronghold of the Protestant Reformation with freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
The Pope Returned to the Scene of His Crime
It has been shown that people who commit crimes like to return to the scene of the crime later.
The Pope is no different.
He returned to the scene of his crime.
http://www.worldslastchance.com/
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/
Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance!!!!!!!!!!!!