From NewsMax:

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

Another priest was found murdered in northern Iraq on Thursday, sparking U.S. lawmakers, human rights advocates, and the Vatican to demand that the Bush administration take more vigorous measures to protect Iraq’s beleaguered Christian community.

It has also provoked outrage among some of President Bush’s staunchest supporters.

“The murder of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho is on the hands of President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,” William J. Murray, the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, told Newsmax.

“Their refusal to assist the persecuted Christians in Iraq has emboldened Islamists to pillage, rape, and murder them. Had the Bush administration been proactive, the archbishop’s life could have been sparred,” Murray said.

“The administration will not even allow Christians in Iraq to form a police force while giving Islamist extremists such as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr the right to maintain small armies,” Murray added. “The blame here belongs to George W. Bush.”

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