Iraqi girl treated at Gemelli wants to thank Pope for his antiwar stance

[ProudToBeLiberal]

Iraqi girl treated at Gemelli wants to thank Pope for his antiwar stance

By AIDAN LEWIS

ROME (AP) - An Iraqi girl wounded by a bomb during the war and being treated at the same hospital as Pope John Paul asked Sunday to see the pontiff to thank him for his antiwar stance, her grandfather said.

The four-year-old girl, identified only as Diar, was brought to Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic hospital Saturday from her hometown of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, said her grandfather, Hassan Shnawah, who accompanied her. She was wounded by a bomb in January 2004 and cannot walk.

"We are trying to make her walk again," Shnawah told reporters. Italian officials decided to bring her to Rome for treatment; Italy's 3,000 troops are based in Nasiriyah.

Shnawah said the girl, who is Muslim and did not know who the Pope was, saw footage of John Paul on TV Sunday morning and expressed a desire to meet him.

more at...http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/02/27/944368-ap.html

[Cocoa]

1. that girl better get prepared to get smeared

the RW smear machine is gearing up as we speak. Must destroy!

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Does the Pope care more about war or gay marriage?

Anybody have a sense?

[Zynx]

4. My guess is that he cares more about war.

He saw war in Poland and my guess is that that experience makes war more important to him.

[high density]

3. Sorry little girl, but abortion and stopping the gays are more important

issues to the Catholic church, at least here in the pro-war US of A.

[happynewyear]

5. forget it!

[Barrett808]

6. "No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party..."

"...and lived to tell about it." -- Sideshow Bob

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F02.html

[jpgray]

7. Yeah, but I hear tell she supports gay marriage

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[QC]

8. Yes, let's not the give the Pope any credit for outspokenly opposing

this war. It would interfere with the little 24/7 hatefest that this forum has become.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I hope he meets her...

It'd be a well-delivered slap in the face to Dumbyass.