NASHVILLE — Leaders of the United Methodist Church, of which President George W. Bush is a member, have released a joint statement saying they repent of their “complicity” in the “unjust and immoral” invasion and occupation of Iraq, according to a report by FoxNews.com. “In the face of the United States administration’s rush toward military action based on misleading information, too many of us were silent,” the statement, signed by 95 bishops and released Nov. 10, said. The author of the document, retired Bishop Kenneth Carder, told Fox News the leaders were careful not to place the blame for the war on anyone specific such as Bush. “We would have made the statement regardless of who the president was,” he said. “It was not meant to be either partisan or to single out any one person. It was the recognition that we are all part of the decision and we are all part of a democratic society. We all bear responsibility.”
The statement, which was circulated during a biannual meeting of the Council of Bishops and gained the signatures of more than half the total group, includes a pledge to pray daily for the end of the war, its American and Iraqi victims and American leaders to find “truth, humility and policies of peace through justice,” Fox News reported.
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