From today’s press briefing:
Q: Tony, not to bring up last week’s news, but the issue of whether embryonic stem cell research is murder came up yesterday on “Meet The Press.” You said, I believe, last week that some people regard this as murder and the President is among them.MR. SNOW: Yes, well, I –
Q: Does he believe this is murder?
MR. SNOW: I overstepped my brief there, and so I created a little trouble for Josh Bolten in the interview. And I feel bad about it. I think there’s concern. The President has said that he believes that this is the destruction of human life.
Then Mr. Snow blabs for a bit, and delivers the kicker:
But the President certainly does not oppose the promise of pluripotency. The President certainly does not oppose stem cell research. But he does find—he does have objections with spending federal money on something that is morally objectionable to many Americans. I will go ahead and apologize for having overstated—I guess, overstated the President’s position.
So, if, according to our genius president, an embryo constitutes “human life”:
It’s NOT OK to allow the use embryos for research beneficial to humans. But, it IS OK to allow the US Military to maime, wound, torture and kill thousands of innocent Iraqis? What about that is not the destruction of human life? Already living and breathing human life, rather than embryos that could potentially (but not definitely) become a human life. We spend billions and billions on the war and American soldiers are dying! What’s not “morally objectionable” about that?
How many Americans find the FEDERAL MONEY he is spending on this failure of a war morally objectionable? I would assume there are far more people who morally object to the war than who morally object to stem cell research. But that doesn’t matter, not in Bush’s democracy.