The American Spectator

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p>It also calls into question the sanity of one of the UN Security Council's members, France. Because I've heard the exact same argument from bartenders, taxi drivers and people-in-general all over Paris. br> -- unsigned /p> p> FOGGY BOTTOMS br> Re: George Neumayr's Nervous Bullies : /p>

The Vatican's "diplomacy" in the Iraq affair is driven by a desire to enhance the Chaldean Catholic community in Iraq. In other words, it's politics.

Tariq Aziz, whose opportunity to be the new Talleyrand may have been cut short by a daisy cutter, got an audience with the pope because he is a Chaldean Catholic and Rome wants to encourage that community's growth.

Solicitude for one's co-religionists is all well and good. But cloaking it with pious piffle about peace and God's will is dishonest.

p>It seems Departments of State are the same everywhere. Maybe we should bring back the Papal States so the Vatican can measure words against responsibility.

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