A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

The other day, Bush read one of his pandering anti-choice, anti-stem cell research scripts glorifying the "culture of life."

How hypocritical for a man who has come to exemplify the culture of death.

From his record-setting pace for executions in Texas to 9/11 to Iraq to Katrina to the worst mass shooting in American history at Virginia Tech, Bush is a man who embraces the culture of death.

That’s not to mention two additional examples, among far too many, of the Bush obsession with choosing public policies that are firmly rooted in his perverse joy in having the power to cause people to die.

Firstly, on stem cell research, in claiming to "save" dead embryos, he is condemning people to death who might otherwise live through the cures that stem cell research might provide. Secondly, he has no interest in prolonging the lives of poor people, who grow from embryos into America’s economically dispossessed. Bush’s policies are all based on the survival of the fittest, not a reverence for life.

And they are based on a death machine in Iraq for which he is bullying Congress into additional funding, because he and Cheney don’t want to be humiliated with a "loss." More significantly, Bush and Cheney are like junkies who can’t give up the gravy train of hundreds of billions of dollars that go into the war profiteering machine for GOP donors.

If Bush and Cheney -- with hundreds of billions of dollars and the world’s purported strongest military -- can’t outwit a bunch of poorly armed "terrorists," then what are they doing still sitting in the White House? The Iraq War has now lasted longer than World War II. All it has produced is war profits of so many digits we get dizzy and hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqi deaths.

The reality is that Bush loves to have the power over death too much.

This also applies to the shooting at Virginia Tech on April 16th. What did Bush have to say in response to the largest mass shooting in American history?

A White House spokesman said Bush was horrified and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia. "The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said, according to the Associated Press.

The NRA and gun industry have been unstinting supporters of Bush. They are radical ideologues and profiteers off an industry of death.

We don’t need dead "snowflake" embryos exploited for political opportunity by Bush.

We need an American leader who embraces life over the profits and political cynicism of an illegitimate president who boasts about the sanctity of life, but is a promoter of governmental policies that cause so much unnecessary death.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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