abortion is murder, but killing 152 men and women (whom you have the power to save) isn't????? stirring up a nation to civil war so that tens of THOUSANDS of people are killed isn't murder????????
Not all life counts to Bush
January 30, 2006
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — "You believe, as I do, that every life has value," President Bush told people at the annual anti-abortion March for Life in Washington. "You and I are working, along with others, to build what I call a culture of life."Give me a break. When a guy presides over 152 executions and an aggressive war, he loses his chance to identify himself with a culture of life. Mr. Bush may oppose abortion and so place a value on some specific life. The rest of his career doesn't show much value for life in general. He shouldn't bend too far taking a bow for opposition to abortion, either. While the marchers brave Washington's January weather — rain this year — he phones in his performance from someplace warm and dry.This time, he missed the march because he had urgent business in Kansas. He needed to give a speech defending eavesdropping, without warrants, on other Americans' phone calls. But give him abortion. He did, after all, nominate Judge Sam Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court.The rest of the record is pretty brutal. During Operation Candor about Iraq when his polls were down last month, he gave the first estimate of his administration on the number of Iraqi civilians we had to kill for their freedom. He said he had heard the figure of "30,000, more or less." He didn't even say he was sorry, and his handlers stressed that he got the figure from private sources because the U.S. government doesn't bother to keep track.There's the famous story of how he mimicked, for a friendly journalist, Karla Faye Tucker pleading for her life before he let her go to the death chamber. Ms. Tucker's late conversion didn't move him, although it moved both Pope John Paul II and Pat Robertson to plead for her. It's lucky that Texas never arrested St. Paul.........
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Man, you are rockin' on posts today. Re: Carla Faye, I recall the story of Bush actually mocking her/miming what he thought were her requests to live before he signed the death warrants. The part of Rory Shock's memoirs called "Any Last Words" I gotta say was partly inspired by Bush's stint as the black hooded guy in Texas killing those who were guilty along with those who might be innocent ... the latter particularly if they were poor, brown of skin, what he would probably consider "white trash" or generally "them."
rory, reading this article was the first time i heard of bushwhacked mocking carla faye. it is repulsive to me
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