Member since: December 17, 2010
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It's that ever so curious double standard that conservatives (males in particular) love to protect the yet to be born life (a fetus that can't live on its own until it's born), but seem to care much less about the lives of existing people or mothers who have to deal with the children they bear. If life is that precious then there should at least be a discussion about the death penalty and alternative ways to punish a murderer. Not a word about triggering the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and thousands of definitely innocent women and children in Iraq (let's just agree that our war in Afghanistan was justified somehow).
It's touching to hear George W Bush mourn the loss of a little brother, but forgetting the sanctity of life when it comes to the big numbers of deaths his decisions caused.
Progressives make decisions, just like conservatives, based on their value systems. I think it very unAmerican that only conservatives' values should have merit. And maybe America's enemies (Al Qaeda, Taliban and Osama Bin Laden) have been whooping with laughter at how easily the USA created new recruits for their terrorist causes through war and torture.
Maybe that is the real damage done to America, that conservative administrations played right into the hands of terrorists who want to harm the US.
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