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  US envoy says pope considered Iraq war 'defeat for humanity'
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Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Apr 04, 2005 12:51pm
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News DateMonday, April 4, 2005 06:50:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionLOS ANGELES (AFP) - The former US envoy to the Vatican, Jim Nicholson, recalled Pope John Paul II's vocal opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq on the grounds that war represented a "defeat for humanity."

"There was a clear disagreement," Nicholson said of the rift between the Vatican and the White House over the use of military force to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The pope, who died Saturday, "was a man of peace, and he always hoped for the peace option," Nicholson said in an interview with the Denver Post.

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