"The hope aroused by this day is that an age of peace and harmony will begin, that there will be no more wars, not event preventative wars". From Iraq, a country that has never been so bonded to the US before, here are the first comments of the local Catholic bishops on the epoch-making election of Barack Obama, the first Afro-American man to be elected president. "It’s hard to tell now if Obama will be better than others that came before him states to SIR mgr. Jean Sleiman, bishop of Baghdad of the Latin . Of course, the USA have a long-term strategy here in Iraq, which, as such, is bound to the reason of State, and not simply to the affairs of individual peole. ‘Wait and see’". "We ask Barack Obama to rule his country with love as every ruler should do he is echoed by the patriarchal vicar of Baghdad, the Chaldean Shlemon Warduni . As the leader of a superpower, he must rule his people with justice, without forgetting the rest of the world. It is urgent to work for unity and harmony in the world, to pull down any division and put an end to any suffering. May he do good to man". (continued)
