Bush threatens veto

Bush threatens veto
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Posted by: Remi
05/21/2005, 11:34:51

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President bush said yesterday,

"I'm a strong supporter of adult stem cell research, of course. But I made it very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, is - I'm against that," said Mr. Bush, speaking in the Oval Office during a brief appearance with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "And therefore, if the bill does that, I will veto it."

This comment was in response to a bill that relaxes the absurd restrictions on stem cell research instigated by Bush in an earlier executive order. His knowledge of science is minimal, and his understanding of this type of research is abysmal. His attitude is medieval. This president is a disgrace to our nation.
Some of the interest in this topic was spurred by recent developments in South Korea where improved methods of extracting stem cells from embryos have been discovered.
It would be consistent for Mr. Bush to be opposed to military action "which destroys life in order to save life". Apparently it's perfectly all right to go out and bomb people because you think (mistakenly) that they have dangerous weapons with which they are going to destroy our lives. This can be done with the Texas walk, or swagger, and a big smile. And the lives destroyed in such military actions are the lives of people who have mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and wives and husbands and friends and lovers and whose lives will be destroyed with serious emotional, material, and financial hardship on others left alive. The "lives" destroyed in removing stem cells from embryos speak no language, have no friends or lovers, will not be mourned by parents, have no children. Indeed, although an embryo is alive it has no life in the usual human sense.
I look forward to a new administration. I wonder how much more damage Bush can do in the next three years.

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