I think George just wanted confirmation from the Pope that He (George) was doing God's work--when He's not on one of His Vacations.
"Yeah, but where was the pope [or fill in the blanks] when it came time to condemn Saddam?"
I'm so sick of hearing that question, and I predict that InstaPundit will ask it, although I refuse to click over to his site to make sure he does.
ok, well maybe the Pope could have said, at least the US military is not like the UN forces the rest of the world seems to want to take over in Iraq, who shot into a crowd of protesters in the Congo and killed two people this week. Wonder why we haven't seen that over and over and over on tv this week?