Bush vetoed the stem cell bill because, in his words "every human life is precious." So explain this:

Question

Actually, what he said was that his ideal culture is "one where every human life is treated as precious."
Really?
You mean like the 35000+ civilian lives taken in Iraq?
Why are frozen embryos in a lab "precious human lives", but innocent Iraqis "collateral damage"?

Answer 1

Would you say this is a case of double standard or standard double? Bushisms isms isms

Answer 2

War is a necessary evil. It is required to remove tyrants and stop genocide. People die, but the purpose of this war was for the greater good of the Iraqi people, and the world in general.

Not sure what orifice you're pulling the 35K figure out of, but most of that if probably due to the Sunni and terrorist bombers, not the US forces. And those bombs are not about the US, but about preventing the Iraqis from forming a free and democratic nation.

War, in this case, is the method of saving lives by ending others, with the unintended but unavoidable fact of civilian casualties. At this point in Iraq, our efforts are aimed at stopping the terrorists who are killing 1,000 innocent Iraqis each month.

But embryonic stem cell research begins with the deliberate destruction of a living human life-form. It is not an unfortunate occurrance - it is the very basis of the ESC research, which, by the way, after quite a number of years, has yielded no cures and is not even in any trials for cures, and is yet years away from producing any results.

Bush continues to support adult, placental and blood stem cell research efforts, which have actually yielded medical treatments, for the apparently uninformed.

But the two are not comparable. Not in the way you attempt to use them to bash Bush.

Answer 3

NO, life is sacred from womb to tomb, is what christians say, and I respect Bush's perspective. I'm not sure about the war thing, but I don't judge people by one action. Do you know what stem cell research is? It's pretty much growing human beings in test tubes just to take out their cells, and throw them away. What if that embryo could have grown up to find the cure to cancer? We would never know. And how would you feel if you had been killed like that. And an infants heart beats 24 hours after conception, so we know it's living. But there is good stem cell reaserch too, as bush pointed out. Stem cells taken from living human beings, or from embillicle (spelling wrong) cords is perfectally fine, because it doesn't harm the donor.

Answer 4

And the very same person would be pushing capital punishment to many people. Life is not precious if you are a convict of hard/violent crimes... So if a stem cell who just has life essence (and most likely no soul whichsome people would state otherwise) is more precious than an existing human who lives in povery and hunger?. A convict who is placed to the death who has a soul is not precious. What about those who were placed to the death incorrectly or by mistake (wrongly convicted)?

Answer 5

It's just more of the pattern of Bush flip-flopping. First he says he's a Texan, he was born in Conneticut. Then he says he is against lawyers, he applied to law scholl (they didn't accept him). Then he says he is opposed to stem cell research, but he allows it in limited forms. Then he says he's opposed to the creation of a homeland security department, he creates one. Then he says he's opposed to a panel investigating intelligence prior to 9-11, so he creates one. Then he says he not in favor of taking a few lives to benefit others (stem cell research) then he launches a war to take lives to better others. Looks like the media is the "l" word after all... Lazy. I don't like Rush Limbaugh, but I do agree with his assesment of the media as the "drive by media" Clearly they let all of this go.

Oh, back to your question... Those 35,000 ( a low estimate) dead Iraqis don't vote. The religous right votes, if they have hot button issues. W's father did not excite them so they didn;t turn out to vote for him and he lost to Clinton. Jr didn't let that happen. He (and Karl Rove) have learned how to get out the base voters.

And as far as these cells being living humans with heart beats... They are kept frozen in liquid nitrogen. There is no way they are alive.

Will someone get W an intern to blow him so we can impeach him already?

Answer 6

Bush is what Bush does ... he's the scariest type of person there is ... a reformed alcoholic (presume he IS reformed?), an accomplished liar who has found God, and who is now playing God ... what does he care about human lives? There's no discernable trade in embryos, no big corporation can cream off that one ... now, if you could squeeze oil out of them, that would be another matter ... his buddies in big business would soon tell him what to say ... What he DOES care about is big corporations and the bible thumping bunch of lunatics who are eager to give him or his party votes if he toes the line ...

Answer 7

The People that still like him don't see his hipocracy.

Don't forget, if he is so all fired against the killing of inocents, then why does he not fight against privately funded stem cell research?

He is not a humanitarian in any sense of the word. He is a fascist and will do anything to anybody to get his way. He should be impeached and procecuted for war crimes.

Answer 8

He's an idiot.... Stem cells can be obtained from other sources like umbilical cords. Not just the actual fetus. Plus the cells can be reproduced so it's not like one set of cells for each experiment. They need more stem cells because they have been using old stem cells obtained before like 95' or something. They need different races.

Answer 9

Bush was just throwing a bone to his Bible Nazi base, who, for some reason don't think the lives being wasted in Iraq are important or quite human either.

Answer 10

I hate Bush even more for Vetoing this bill. Probably one of the most important bills to humanity.
I totally agree with you on this, my theory behind his, is all the BIG POWERFUL drug companies they make their money in
maintenance of a disease not the cure, so basically all the big companies pay BUSH to kill the bill therefore we'll never have any cures for the really bad diseases.

Answer 11

Lol...well george is god so he gets to decide which lives are important and which lives arn't. Pretty cool deal huh.

Oh yeah and stem cells arnt little humans. They're f***ing cells. By repuke logic anyone who has scratched a misquito bite more then once is a serial killer.