BENNY JETS TO THE U.S.

Pope Benedict XVI and his views on the Iraq War

Before he became Pope Benny (settle down – I’m a Catlik, so I can say that – also, my favourite Pope was JPII – not for what he stood for but for being quite the congenial fellow) he was Cardinal Ratzinger. Then playing the role of - what was it? - "God's rottweiler"? - he really did not seem to mince words about the so-called “Iraq War” and the excuses leading up to it. Not when he was a Cardinal. Many believe that his views have not changed. We can only hope.

Nope, Benny said “it was right to resist the war and its threats of destruction . . . It should never be the responsibility of just one nation to make decisions for the world.”

Now, tomorrow Pope Benny makes his first visit to the U.S. as Pope. Protocol says that he should visit the White House and the fellow living there. So, he will. I would love to be a fly on the wall when he does and he repeats that comment to Dubya. I expect that if Pope Benny has any – uh – well – you know – those two things down there, then he will pummel Dubya with “I told you so’s.”

After the invasion, at around the time Dubya donned his codpiece and rode on a jet onto that aircraft carrier to let the world know that his “mission” was accomplished, while then still a Cardinal, Ratzy said “There were not sufficient reasons to unleash a war against Iraq. To say nothing of the fact that, given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, (likely talking about cluster bombs) today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a ‘just war’.” He also said that the Catechism said nothing about the concept of “preventative war.” Dubya's in deep doo-doo.

I also hope that Pope Benny is very, very cautious. I remember what happened when the late, great Pope JPII met with Bush. Before that meeting, he was the picture of health:

You may recall how Pope JPII reacted to discovering the extent of Dubya’s intellect:

It went on – the poor Pope was really suffering as Dubya went on. He actually felt like God had abandoned him:

Finally, as President Dubya prepared to leave and offered to shake the Pope's hand, we can see clearly how much that single meeting took out of the Pope:

This candid moment was caught after Dubya left - it really tells the whole story:

Not long after that, many Catliks began to blame Dubya for killing the Pope. He never recovered from meeting and talking with ol' 43.

To cap it off, Dubya received a congratulatory kiss from Laura right in front of the late Pope JPII’s body. Disgraceful!

My message to Pope Benny? Get on your Jet and get out of here.

In other news, during the call-in portion of the Diane Rehm show on NPR this morning, while discussing Pope Benny's visit to the U.S., a caller observed that the Christian community in the U.S. is complicit in the mayhem that has come to be referred to as the "Iraq War" - you remember, the Operation Iraqi Liberation before Karl Rove realized the acronym was too accurate - since it was the Christian community that elected Dubya to his second term. Hmmm. Good point.