I just got chastised by my favorite Notre Dame professor for “conviently” forgetting that the pope condemned the war in Iraq—on a canned piece on ABC, he snidely noted “conservatives” selective memories re: PJPII, because we dig his sex talk (abortion, etc.) but ignore his war scolds. I’ve of course been hearing this all day, that the pope adamantly disagreed with President Bush over Iraq, that he believed it to be an unjust war. Not so, though. We’ve been through this before in The Corner. I refer you to a Peter Robinson-driven thread from December. The pope never condemned the war in Iraq. He said peace is a good thing. He said war should be a last resort. As any reasonable person would expect him to. He did not say, President Bush, you’re wrong. (More Corner on this point here and here.)