“Mosul is completely destroyed.” Thanks, W!!

“History will vindicate us,” gloated Tony and W, watching their war grind on.

Well, that history won’t be written in Mosul any time soon. “Mosul is completely destroyed,” says Syriac-Catholic Archbishop Petros Mouche of Mosul.

At the turn of the century, Mosul had a population approaching two million. It was the second-largest city in Iraq. “We [Christians and Moslems]have always lived together and this never was a problem,” the archbishop tells Aid to the Church in Need.

But then came the Christian Bush and Blair’s war to end evil in the world. Pope Saint John Paul II warned Bush that his invasion would cause “chaos”; Bush ignored him. Catholic neocons turned Church teaching upside down to justify the war – the worst of them straining to imply that, by 2007, Pope Benedict has realized Bush was right and John Paul II was wrong.

Tony Blair,  proven a liar by the Chilcot Report, went on to make untold millions, apparently proud that Brits commonly refer to him as a “whore.” George W. Bush went into hiding, and has never publicly addressed his role in destroying the lives of millions of Christians in the Middle East, endangering there very future of Christianity there.

He has never apologized, although his brother Jeb! now admits publicly that the war was a mistake. (So was Jeb! – a hundred million dollar mistake –  but that’s another story.)

In spite of this treachery, Christian bishops in the Middle East have urged their flocks not to abandon their ancestral home. Slowly Christians are coming back to Mosul, but it is in ruins – they can only visit.

Meanwhile, Bush languishes in Texas, waiting for history to knock on his door.

No wonder he has bodyguards.

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9:28 am on July 22, 2017