POPE, PRINCE, AND MORE

This has been an interesting weekend with the funeral of the Pope and the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
The funeral of the Pope was a beautiful piece of pomp and circumstance and it gave people around the world who admired this good man to bid him off to his eternal resting place. I hope that it will also be known for the fact that it allowed many leaders around the world to meet and to perhaps form relationships that will make the world a better place in the future. I realize I may be asking too much of these people for having just been together for such a short time, but maybe watching this funeral gave these leaders a look a mortality and how their lives may be judged when they are gone.
It would be extremely nice if leaders around the world would emulate the Pope in just a few ways, which would include caring for the poor and downtrodden, his penchant for peace, but not quite to the extent of allowing killers to roam free.
The other pretty big deal was the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, which while not quite the spectacle of the Pope's funeral, was nonetheless a big deal for Great Britain and perhaps the world. The Prince may still be King and therefore as a future head of the Church of England he as a divorced man may change its' future as well. From what everyone says this woman is a good person and will be a positive influence on royalty and society. It should be remembered that the Church of England was started when King Henry the XIII decided he did not like the church denying him divorces and murders of his wives, so he merely took over the church leadership and did whatever he wanted. So for Prince Charles to merely be a divorcee and not a murderer should please the people and the church. He deserves to be happy, and if this woman makes him happy so be it. Good luck to the Prince.
There has been other news as the second anniversary of the toppling of Bagdad and the end of Saddam Hussein's rule was becoming a reality. The cleric Al-Sadr has his followers out protesting the continued presence of United States troops. This is the loser who signed truces after his failed uprisings in Najaf and Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. For the life of me I cannot see why this punk cleric is still alive. The minute he signed the truce he should have suffered a quiet fatal heart attack as should anyone who is still inciting violence in Iraq against the government or our troops. I am a believer in the fact that we should not leave people alive who would have us killed if they get the opportunity and anyone who does not agree with this assesment is either a fool or a corpse.
People, pay attention! I will go over this again. There are people in this world who are planning to or already killing our people in this world and they will not stop doing these evil acts until we stop them or they die of natural causes. We need to make sure the natural causes happen on a quicker time table than it has been taking them so far. Assassination may seem wrong, but it can be quiet, quick, and limit the number of innocents who would be killed in bigger numbers if we had to use violence on a larger scale to accomplish the same goal, that is the death of the bad guys. Anyone who does not know who the bad guys are have not been paying attention to this column, nor do they view any news shows, for anyone who disagrees with the United States IS a bad guy-enough said, have a nice day!
Daniel Carvel Kepler