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It was more than just an answer to prayer.
A US military mission that cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was nothing short of a miracle, said Peru's President Alan Garcia, who attributed the divine intervention to newly beatified pontiff John Paul II.
"His first miracle has been to rid the world of this incarnation of evil, this demon of hatred and criminality," the Peruvian leader said, referring to the Al-Qaeda leader.
The late John Paul II showed uncanny timing, with his miracle falling on the very same day as a Rome ceremony beatifying him.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday bestowed the status of "blessed" on his predecessor in front of a million people, after the Roman Catholic Church determined that John Paul had performed the necessary miracle for beatification.
Garcia said the late pontiff wasted no time in performing the second miracle needed for sainthood, making it possible for American commandos to find and kill their hated Al-Qaeda foe, whom they had hunted for the past decade.
"We hope that with his fall, that entire group that had hoped to spread terrorism throughout the world loses its importance," Garcia said.
The Peruvian leader said Sunday's assault on bin Laden's compound "should please President Barack Obama and vindicate former president George W. Bush," whose relentless pursuit of a global "war on terror" became a central focus of US foreign and military policy during his tenure.
source: Yahoo
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A US military mission that cornered and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was nothing short of a miracle, said Peru's President Alan Garcia, who attributed the divine intervention to newly beatified pontiff John Paul II.
"His first miracle has been to rid the world of this incarnation of evil, this demon of hatred and criminality," the Peruvian leader said, referring to the Al-Qaeda leader.
The late John Paul II showed uncanny timing, with his miracle falling on the very same day as a Rome ceremony beatifying him.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday bestowed the status of "blessed" on his predecessor in front of a million people, after the Roman Catholic Church determined that John Paul had performed the necessary miracle for beatification.
Garcia said the late pontiff wasted no time in performing the second miracle needed for sainthood, making it possible for American commandos to find and kill their hated Al-Qaeda foe, whom they had hunted for the past decade.
"We hope that with his fall, that entire group that had hoped to spread terrorism throughout the world loses its importance," Garcia said.
The Peruvian leader said Sunday's assault on bin Laden's compound "should please President Barack Obama and vindicate former president George W. Bush," whose relentless pursuit of a global "war on terror" became a central focus of US foreign and military policy during his tenure.
source: Yahoo
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Sure, I now reject the beliefs I once had and I have come to disagree with many of his positions, but I see it as the way someone would disagree with their grandfather. Even when I thought he was wrong, I see his position as an honest one and not one born of hypocrisy or hatefulness.
Then again, attributing things that have happened to people who were a bit too dead to have had anything whatsoever to do with them could be kinda fun. So I think I'll say it was Heath Ledger who killed Osama, and that it was Oscar Wilde who gave me this cold and ruined my day, and Gary Coleman who keeps Community from getting nominated for any goddamn television awards.
The Peru tag makes me sad, maybe I'll post more on their presidential election.
Personally, I'd like to hear what the pope would say about that comment!
I also grew up with John Paul II and had a very positive image of him when I was a kid, but in some ways that makes it worse.
He's a bad man. He's not a good man. He's certainly not a saint.
I have a lot of problems with the Catholic Church. I was more than fired up enough about the issue that John Paul orchestrated the child sex abuse coverup, and would have rather let children suffer and be raped than his church get a bad rep for its bad acting.