The Pope issued a statement yesterday saying, "Any country that wages war against Iraq without global consensus, must take responsibility before God, their conscience and history". This is well said. I must say that I am concerned when I hear President Bush tell the American people that all diplomatic options have been exhausted in dealing with Iraq. I just don't believe that this is true. While it is true that France, Russia and China must take some of the blame for the President's failure to bring the UN Security Council to vote with us, it must be said that these three countries were trying hard to make sure that we wouldn't take unilateral action against Iraq. Their position was not so much anti-American as it was anti-war. If what we were trying to do was just, it wouldn't have come down to this. The UN would have voted with us and just maybe we wouldn't be giving ourselves a black eye in the world community. I don't believe giving the inspectors more time was unreasonable.

By the way, the new polls that came out saying support is on the rise for the President's decision to go to war is incredible to me. I wonder who these pollsters are calling? Most people I know and hear about are not too thrilled about the U.S. going in without the UN. Just listen to what the people around the world are saying. I bet that if they were to poll the millions of people living in the big U.S. cities, those poll results would echo what people in the International community feel. Sure, Saddam must be dealt with, but it just shouldn't be done by shutting out the world community with American arrogance. God help us!
May God Bless everyone on the planet!