He again insists on ending the Iraq War, or, again, so I surmise from this quote half-heard on the radio this morning:
"Destroying human life to save human life is just not ethical."
I always suspected he didn't read our blog. Maybe he didn't check the RSS feeds he signed up for, or maybe he just read it too quickly, I don't know, it's just, we don't really talk as much as we used to.... But anyway, didn't we handle this life and ethics thing yesterday?
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I'd say destroying human life with no clear indication any life has been thereby saved is even more unethical, but perhaps Bush is actually taking a stand in favour of irresponsible anarchy.
So uh, what's the justification for war?! Seriously. If it's unethical to destroy life to save life, then it's blasphemous, irresponsible and downright insidious to destroy life to save a way of life.
Oi!
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