In 2003, prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the Vatican sent a career diplomat to Washington to attempt to convince George W. Bush not to attack that country. Cardinal Pio Laghi "...was trying to prevent what he said was a morally and legally unjustified US led invasion". Laghi also delivered a letter from Pope John Paul II urging Bush to "do everything to avert war". He said he might start the war but not know how to end it. The Cardinal died this week.
(Source: "Catholic diplomat who sought peace dies at 86" by Nicole Winfield of the AP. Obituary appeared in the Virginian Pilot on January 12, 2009).
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