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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Hmmmm...
How about the Catholic Church? The Pope has been outspoken against the war, but there still are Chaplains, etc. with the troops.
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1. The catholic church's pope is expressing his belief. This is the belief of a figurehead and not all Catholics/priests/other units in the church. Similarly, to say Spain is pro-war would be twisting things a bit.
2. The primary function of the church is not to organize anti-war protests. In fact, its anti-war sentiments are hard to quantify...just what does the church do to be anti-war? How does this compare with other groups? etc.
3. Those chaplains were in the military before the war started. What does this say about them? With or without the war, they are there. Regardless of their audience being soldiers, they will be there. They are not simply serving the military but a much broader group. Thus I see no expressed support for the troops.
-Rudey
--I'm open to you going into this in more detail though.