Pope fears Bush is antichrist,
journalist contends - Church - journalist Wayne Madsden

WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W
Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his
constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic
leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of
Revelations--the anti-Christ."

Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for
Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these
concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront
the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in
Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice
of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New
Testament.

Before he became pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing in
the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through.
I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of
the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final
confrontation between the church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus
the anti-Gospel."

The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN Security
Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim they
had not seen the pope more animated and determined since he fell ill to
Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the pope did convince the leaders of
Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution.

Madsen contends that "Bush is a dangerous right-wing ideologue who couples
his political fanaticism with a neo-Christian blood cult."