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I feel sorry for Saddam, says Pope's aide
John Hooper in Rome
Wednesday December 17, 2003
In a move that seems certain to outrage the US administration, one of the Pope's most senior officials yesterday expressed "pity" and "compassion" for Saddam Hussein, and warned that his capture might do more harm than good.
Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the pontifical council for justice and peace and the equivalent of a minister in the Catholic church's "government", was speaking at the presentation in Rome of a message from the Pope in which, among other things, he included a coded reminder to the world that the invasion of Iraq had been carried out without UN backing.
Cardinal Martino, whose department deals with a wide range of international issues, said he was pleased with the capture of Saddam and hoped it would bring peace and democracy. But he added: "I felt pity to see this man destroyed, [the military] looking at his teeth as if he were a cow. They could have spared us these pictures ... Seeing him like this, a man in his tragedy, despite all the heavy blame he bears, I had a sense of compassion for him."
The Pope was fiercely critical of the Iraq war, which he repeatedly described as a "defeat for humanity".
The cardinal described the capture of the former dictator as a "watershed", but hoped "this will not have worse ... consequences". He said it was "illusory to hope that this will repair the dramas and the damage of the defeat for humanity that a war always brings about".
A similar note was sounded in the Pope's own message, prepared for the World Day of Peace which the Vatican celebrates on January 1. The pontiff did not allude directly to the US, but in a clear allusion to its side-stepping of the UN, he said: "Peace and international law are closely linked to each other: law favours peace."
His message also appeared to echo the Vatican's disquiet over the way that Washington is conducting its "war on terror". Acknowledging that international law, as presently framed, was unable to cope properly with the phenomenon of terrorism, the Pope called for reforms to equip the world with "effective means for the prevention, monitoring and suppression of crime".
But he pointedly remarked that "democratic governments know well that the use of force against terrorists cannot justify a renunciation of the principles of the rule of law."
He added that the war on terrorism required more than just repression and retaliation. The Pope said those who wanted to put a stop to it had to do so "by eliminating the underlying causes" and "insisting on an education inspired by respect for human life".
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This makes me insane. How the fuck can the vatican spew shit like this from their mouth's when they hide pedophiles!? They absolutely know there's a problem, but not only do the look the other way.... They fucking hide these sick pricks. As far as I'm concerned this pile of shit cardinal and the pope are all a bunch of pedophiles who need to be locked up and treated even worse than fucking cows. Better yet, put Saddam on an island with those pedophiles, and let him torture the sick fucks. Then ask them if they pity him.. Idiots! They, and everything they stand for, make me fucking ill.
Wanna bet these idiots barely had any compassion for all the people that Saddam has killed and tortured over the past 20 years? I'm gonna go to sleep because I can go on and on about just how fucked this is....
