The World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed "concern and alarm" over U.S. threats to strike Iraq in the name of overthrowing the present Iraqi government, and called on the United States to cease military threats against Baghdad. In a statement released late Monday, September 2, the Geneva-based WCC also urged U.S. allies "to resist pressures to join in pre-emptive military strikes against a sovereign state under the pretext of the 'war on terrorism'." The WCC said the "most effective ways of combating terrorism are to be found in building a more just world order in which the rights and dignity of all human beings are upheld and affirmed".
It's worked like a charm so far, hasn't it? The World Council of Churches Nobody Goes To is a very predictable, very tiresome organization. If it ever approved of anything the U.S. did, its disapproval in one instance could be taken a bit more seriously. |