‘Neo-Conned!’: Catholic Military Expert Exposes the Unjust Agenda in the Middle East, by Maike Hickson

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In an interview with LifeSiteNews’ Maike Hickson, John Sharpe, editor of the two-volume series Neoconned!, takes a deep dive into the Iraq war to expose the unjust nature of the United States’ invasion.

(LifeSiteNews) — John Sharpe, editor and publisher of IHS Press, gave LifeSiteNews an interview about his 2005 two volume series called Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq and Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and the Rape of Iraq (with an Introduction by Scott Ritter). These two volumes were released in opposition to the 2003 Iraq War and its aftermath. At the time, John and my late husband, Robert Hickson, worked closely on these books, with my husband contributing an essay to each of the volumes, discussing the project, and helping to find other contributors for the books. With both Robert and John being Catholics and having a military background, they had a lot of common ground. John himself is a retired navy commander.

At the time, this topic was not a welcomed one. In 2003, I remember how Robert left his teaching position at the Special Operations University in Tampa, Florida, because he could not have that war on his conscience. He tried, in high-level meetings and conferences, to convince the U.S. military that this incursion into Iraq would constitute an unjust war, that there were no justified causes for such a war, nor were there even clear aims for the war. But, as many of our readers surely remember, such a time was not one welcome to differing opinions. …