US invasion of Iraq is on same moral plane as Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
From a moral, religious, and ethical standpoint, American troops are cast in the same role as the German troops that invaded Poland, or the Japanese troops that invaded China. Our armies are the armies of aggression, not liberation. Our armies are the armies of an evil empire in quest of conquering and controlling other nations' natural resources. There is only one fate reserved for such armies: defeat and the scorn of future generations!
Whatever one may think of the individual warrior, collectively they are part of the war machine of an aggressive country and they will obey orders no matter how criminal those orders are. The pages of our own nation's history are filled with events in which troops were used to put down strikes, peaceful marches, etc. Liberty has been paid in blood, but it has been the blood of the workers and civilian activists that was shed on our soil to gain our freedoms. The military, with the exception of WWII, has never stood for freedom or democracy either in this country or elsewhere. That's a point that seems missed by the militarists and military worshipers in both major parties!
The late Pope John Paul II sent Cardinal Pio Laghi as his personal emissary to George Bush. The Pope's message was short and blunt: go into Iraq and you will go without G-d!
The US invasion of Iraq is on the same moral plane as Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The world demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nothing less would do! The world is now demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all US and British troops from Iraq. Nothing less will do!
To read more about the late Pope's extraordinary warning to Bush, go to this link:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=15&num=1883&printer=1
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http://www.cjd.org/paper/jp2war.html