MITER, OR DUNCE CAP? :

Church leaders speak against 'wicked' war (ruth gledhill and phillip webster, September 05, 2002, Times of London)

The Right Rev Thomas McMahon, one of four Catholic bishops who signed a Pax Christi petition handed to Mr Blair last month, said a strike against Iraq would be "wicked and foolhardy".

Bishop McMahon said: "It would be wicked in the sense that it goes against Article 2 of the UN Charter. No matter how evil Iraq's armaments are, unless and until the Iraqi Government itself launches an attack it is wrong for us to do so."

It's odd, but when I was growing up "wicked" meant something violated God's laws, not the U.N.'s. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 6, 2002 5:09 PM