God bless Philip M. Hannan, the 89-year-old retired Catholic archbishop of New Orleans. He was a paratroopers’ chaplain during World War II, and drew on his experience in speaking prophetically to his bishop colleagues this week in Washington. He stood up to the dovish bunch, and defended the war on Iraq. Speaking of his fellow bishops, Hannan, who once stood with fellow American soldiers in liberated Auschwitz, told the Times-Picayune: “They’re not realistic because (they’ve) never seen what is the result of absolute disregard of human rights. They’ve never seen it; they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”