Pope Rebukes Bush for the continuing slaughter in Iraq

April 9, 2007
Pope Rebukes Bush for the continuing slaughter in Iraq

In an implicit rebuke to Tony Blair and President Bush, the Pope lamented yesterday that "nothing positive" was coming from Iraq.

The country had been "torn apart by continual slaughter", he said, while in Afghanistan there was growing unrest and instability. "How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world," he told the tens of thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square to here his traditional Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World) Easter address. "Peace is sorely needed."