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Sorry, though, intelligence experts knew that old sarin was there b/c the U.S. provided it to him back when we set him up against Iran. It simply does not follow that there is any newer sarin--there has never been any evidence of that, and old sarin that we knew was there is hardly the evidence you're yearning for. Also, I feel it says something that you are unable to discuss this war on it's own merits, on the basis of Catholic teaching. It makes no sense to use questionable former wars or Republican soundbites to justify a gravely mistaken policy. Actually, after the second world war in 30 years, we did agree along with the rest of the world to a new framework for preventing world-wide war. I hope you will at least acknowledge that there are consequences to abandoning that framework. If you are familiar with Church teaching, you will find exhortation after pleading to strenthen the framework of international law which keeps individual nations in check. You will also find it plainly stated over and over that the whole world is one human family. The only place you will find your unilateralist "with us or die," "we'll do what we want" fanaticism is in Republican literature. These rhetorical excesses are made necessary by the plain fact that Iraq was not anything close to an immediate threat, so our war was not self-defense.

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"Christians must learn to make their act of faith in Christ by discerning His voice in the cry for help that rises from this world of poverty."
-- Pope John Paul II
Novo Millennio Ineunte, no. 50

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