Cardinal Says U.S. Treated Saddam 'Like a Cow'

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Martino said the Vatican hoped the arrest of Saddam "can contribute to promoting peace and the democratization of Iraq."


He added: "But is seems to me to be illusory to hope that this will repair the dramas and the damage of the defeat for humanity that a war always brings about."


The Vatican did not consider the war in Iraq "a just war" because it was not backed by the United Nations and because the Vatican believed more negotiations were necessary to avoid it

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