In life, the war party attacked the Pope, now they pretend to mourn him

[Cocoa]

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5441

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The War Party was not at all pleased with the Pope's vocal dissent. As "warblogger" Glenn Reynolds, a professor of law at the University of Tennessee, indelicately put it,

"Before the child of Iraqi freedom was born, the Vatican was ready to kill it."

A sickening and deliberately offensive metaphor, but one that truly displayed the emotional depth of the hatred directed at the Holy Father, emanating – like a bad odor – from certain quarters.

In this Pope, however, the War Party faced a formidable foe. While they could always ridicule, smear, and otherwise demonize their more secular enemies, such a strategy would be far more problematic with a man like John Paul. In a somewhat lame attempt at humor, Globalvision's Ian William pretended to complain:

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[Inland]

1. Make note: Don't ever die.

Suddenly the MSM and the Bushies are twisting you and showing up at your funeral.

And don't ever have a prolonged illness, or Tom Delay shows up.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. My poor husband grew up in a fundy home.

Believe me. They hate Catholics. Even Catholic fundies aren't well loved by the Protestant fundies. The Southern Baptists (the hard care ones) don't even understand they're Protestants. They think their church was there first- before the Catholics. These people aren't big readers of history.

My horrible brother-in-law was a Southern Baptit music minister. He called the Catholic church an idolers and an empty pegan church. He was so thrilled when my husband converted to Catholicism (on his own, 10 years before he met me) and then married me in a Catholic church.

Needless to say his borther and that family weren't in our wedding.