Clancey Was Right...

The Soviets did try to off Pope John Paul II.

Leaders of the former Soviet Union were behind the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981, an Italian parliamentary investigative commission said in a report.

A final draft of the report, which is due to be presented to parliament later this month, was made available to Reuters on Thursday by the commission president, Senator Paolo Guzzanti.

"This commission believes, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the leadership of the Soviet Union took the initiative to eliminate Pope John Paul," the report said.

Rather fitting that this comes out today. Makes the crap all of the MSM will be shoveling down our throats with the "Grobasm" of Gorby's birthday today (He turns 75.) in perspective.

Yes, I'm aware that Gorbachev wasn't the U.S.S.R's leader in 1981, (Brezhnev was.) but I was raised to have little love for Communists. A fact reiterated by being part of that Generation of Catholics called "Generation JP2."

If you want a good 'fiction' on the JPII assassination attempt, by all means, check out Tom Clancey's Red Rabbit.