Cardinal who pushed Bush to avert US-Iraq war dies

[deminks]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jan/11/cardinal-who-pushed-bush-to-avert-us-iraq-war-dies/

Cardinal Pio Laghi, a longtime Vatican diplomat who went to Washington to try to dissuade U.S. President George W. Bush from launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died, the Vatican said Sunday. He was 86.

Laghi died Saturday evening in Rome, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Ciro Benedettini. He had been unwell in hospital for some time, news reports said.

Pope John Paul II tapped Laghi, a former envoy to Washington, in 2003 to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush on the eve of war. Laghi was trying to prevent what he said was a morally and legally unjustified invasion.

Laghi, who had been friendly with the Bush family, delivered a letter from John Paul and pressed Bush on whether he was doing everything to avert war.

"You might start and you don't know how to end it," Laghi said at the time.

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edited to add picture of the meeting:



In this March 5, 2003 file photo President Bush welcomes Cardinal Pio Laghi, Pope John Paul II's envoy, left, during a meeting on the looming war with Iraq, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Cardinal Pio Laghi, a longtime Vatican diplomat who went to Washington in 2003 to personally try to dissuade President George Bush from launching the Iraq war, died in the evening of Saturday Jan. 10, 2009 in Rome, the Vatican said Sunday, Jan 11, 2009. He was 86.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)



OK, so Gawd talked to the Smirk but not the Vatican?
I really want to see a copy of that letter.
How hard did they really try to stop him?
Did they know how he lied to get us into war?
Can the Vatican et al be subpoenaed to testify at the Hague?
"was morally and legally unjustified"? Where was the press? Oh, nevermind.


RIP Cardinal Pio Laghi. I thank you for your efforts.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The Vatican has been solidly against the Iraq War. From the get-go. nt

[WhiteTara]

2. that picture says it all

you can see * trying to pull away and make a joke and the cardinal is hanging on and continuing to try and reason.