(via Think Progress)
Conservatives are trying to connect themselves to the legacy of Pope John Paul II, but there is one problem their past quotes.
Sean Hannity on the Pope and this anti-Iraq war position. Here's Sean Hannity, from January 2003.
COLMES: ...And before you respond, let me just put up what the pope says.
"No to war," says Pope John Paul II. "during his annual address to scores of diplomatic emissaries to the Vatican... `War is not always inevitable,' he said. `It is always a defeat for humanity.'"
Are these a bunch of wild-eyed liberal loonies?
HANNITY: Yes.
Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity prove themselves again as hypocrites. Who will be the next conservative to make a fool out of themselves?
The Pope on foreign policy and values of
President Bush.
In a Papal lecture far stronger and more stinging than the White House had expected, the Pope told Mr Bush during a meeting at the Vatican that without a commitment to "shared human values" the War on Terror was unwinnable.
Pope John Paul II on the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
"In the past few weeks other deplorable events have come to light which have troubled the civic and religious conscience of all, and made more difficult a serene and resolute commitment to shared human values: in the absence of such a commitment neither war nor terrorism will ever be overcome."
Pope John Paul II was not a person of American Left or Right. It will be unwise for pundits, politicians and the rest to claim otherwise.