Global Eye - Body Double - By Chris Floyd

[CHIMO]

Far from the hurly-burly in Florida, where the Bush brothers and their shameless minions have sought to milk maximum "political capital" from the ravaged body of a brain-dead woman, the true moral values of these gilded hypocrites were on stark display last week in a quiet corner of the Bushes' adopted homeland: Texas.

This week, U.S. President George W. Bush melodramatically cut short one of his innumerable vacations and flew back to Washington to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo when a Florida court granted her husband's request to cut off her life support after she had spent 15 years in a vegetative state. But days before, even as the president was supporting his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and congressional Republicans in "defending the culture of life" in the Schiavo case, doctors in Houston were pulling the breathing tube from the throat of an ailing infant. The boy suffocated within seconds, legally killed -- against the wishes of his anguished mother -- in accordance with a draconian law signed as a "cost-saving" measure by the state's former governor: George W. Bush.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do to serve this end. He'll wage war on false pretenses, he'll pervert the democratic process, he'll spit on the Constitution -- and he'll exploit the private suffering of families facing hideous dilemmas of life and death. There is no honor, no morality, no values in his "culture."

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/25/120.html

[glitch]

1. I love this guy. I love his mind, I love the way he writes, I love his

annotations. I wish he were printed in the NYT. I know, not bland enough. Sigh. Thanks for posting.

[susu369]

2. Totally agree

:kick:

[FlyByNight]

3. Mr. Floyd certainly knows how...

to cut through the bullshit with eloquence and passion. Again, he's right on the mark.

Bush's hypocrisy is simply breathtaking. The man's actions are completely divorced from his mumbled words.

:grr:

[chlamor]

4. One of the best journalists on Earth-Chris Floyd

"Bush doesn't care if Schiavo lives or dies. Her body -- like the bodies of the 100,000 Iraqis he has killed, like the bodies of the American soldiers being chewed up every day in his Babylonian conquest, like the bodies of the poor and working people whom he is methodically and remorselessly cutting off from medical care, financial protection against catastrophic illness, and legal redress against corporate predators -- is just a means to an end, the only end Bush cares about: increasing the power and wealth of his own rapacious circle of privileged elites."