Mr. Bush

Normally I do not participate in political debate as I do not really like confrontation and I do not feel that everyone has to believe the same way I do. However, I found myself in a conversation with a colleague (it sounds really old to say that!) today at school about President Bush. We started talking about Al Gore's movie and how people don't take education (or educator's) seriously. And then someone brought up Bush's off the cuff comment to Tony Blair about Syria that was caught on CNN by accident.

Now, I do not believe that it is a secret that I do not like our President, however, I do respect the office and the duties that go along with the office. Last week, our Commander and Chief vetoed a bill that given the go ahead could cure several diseases and push medical research into a place where the doctors determine more of our fate than ever before.

I do not pretend to know all of the facts about stem cell research or being President of the United States. My beef is that Mr. Bush stood up and said that he vetoed the bill because life is precious, the sanctity of life is precoius and we need to protect that. The very next question asked by a reporter was "How many civilian lives have been taken since we went into Iraq?" Bush's response was give or take 30,000. Give or take coming from a man who is in charge of protecting the sanctity of life and in this case the lives of eggs that don't already know their families, their mothers, fathers, children or anything of the world they are to enter given the chance to develop.

I don't know about you but I can't imagine any family who has lost a loved one in the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Isreal, Lebanon or any other military engagement being ok with their loved one being the margin of error in the President's view.