------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 27, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
CHICAGO PRIEST TO GIs: “LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS”
Fr. Robert Bossie of the Eighth Day Center for Justice called on U.S. soldiers, "especially those of the Roman Catholic faith," to "lay down your arms" and to refuse to participate in an assault on Iraq. He was speaking at a March 18 news conference with other representatives of Chicago's anti-war movement.
Bossie said, "When I served in the U.S. military, maintaining and servicing nuclear weapons, no priest ever counseled me about the morality of what I was doing," When asked by a journalist if his opinion would change if Iraq used chemical weapons against U.S. troops, he said it would not. "In that case, Iraq would be using the weapons as a defense against invasion."
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