BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MORAL COMPASS IS LOST - Sun Times

[helderheid]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/falsani/cst-nws-fals04.html


Bush administration's moral compass is lost

November 4, 2005

BY CATHLEEN FALSANI RELIGION WRITER




The morning after George W. Bush won his second term in office and many of his Republican colleagues also claimed victory last year, I received an e-mail from one of my dearest friends, Amanda.



It's a note that has haunted me since, a niggling at the back of my mind like an overdue library book or an insult hurled in anger that can't ever be taken back properly.

Amanda is one of the most moral, ethical, intelligent and kind people I know. She also happens to be a Jewish atheist, more or less.

We've known each other since we were teenagers, and the subject of faith -- the peculiarity of my born-again-ness and the absence of her faith in any religious way -- had been a perennial topic of discussion. I respect her deeply and care about what she thinks, particularly about spiritual matters.

"Help!" was the title of Amanda's e-mail. "I'm sad and angry today," she began. "Given your profession and your personal belief system, I am genuinely hoping you have something to say on this: How can people who claim to be voting on religious and moral values vote for a man who . . ."

Then she listed what she believed were President Bush's offenses:

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[Debi]

1. Look under the desk in the oval office...

That's where the dipshit thinks the WMD are :eyes:

[helderheid]

2. I love the last line

Maybe immoral isn't the appropriate word.

Downright evil is a better description.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Kind of hard to lose something you never had, isn't it?

These people were NEVER moral. And anyone in the administration who had morals is gone.

[Skidmore]

6. Thanks. I agree.

[Bob3]

4. He never had a moral compass to lose. Sorry to disappoint you

bunky. You've been taken for a ride.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. Can't lose something if you never had it in the first place. nt

[Solly Mack]

7. He doesn't have a working moral compass -

EMP (ego-maniacal-propensities) shut it down a long time ago

[jackster]

8. to be honest....

the writer does say

"...the Bush administration has lost whatever moral voice it might have had."

[helderheid]

9. more

"...Then she listed what she believed were President Bush's offenses:

*He supports the death penalty. He claims to be humble and ask for God's guidance, yet seemingly refuses to admit his infallibility or take advice from those who might have helped him avoid dragging us into an unjust war.

*He reversed the civilized world's abhorrence of preemptive war. He sold Americans a war based on lies. He willingly started an unnecessary war that has resulted in the deaths of (now more than 2,000) American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

*He, at least tacitly, condones torture. (Guantanamo Bay. Abu Ghraib. And, we learned earlier this week, perhaps a number of secret CIA-run locations in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.) He ignores the human race's responsibility for preserving the Earth and its creatures.

*He is against stem cell research. He accuses dissenters of degrading the U.S. troops but does not push to fully fund Veterans Administration hospitals or health insurance for veterans. And he allowed the automatic assault weapons ban to lapse.

"How are these things reflective of a man with strong 'morals?' " Amanda asked. "How does 'morals' get to be defined as the things the right wants it to be? . . . Why isn't being anti-death penalty a moral issue? Why isn't being anti-war a moral issue? Why isn't being supportive of civil unions so that gay couples can, for example, obtain health insurance for each other and their children a moral issue?

"Please help me understand!" she pleaded.

For a year, I've not been able to bring myself to respond in any substantive way.
..."

[stop the bleeding]

I don't think anyone sane being could understand the moral

justification of War,

Myself believing that Jesus wouldn't be for anything that this admin does so how can all of those people out there be beholden to diametrically opposed positions.

I'll tell ya, either they believe in one or the other but not both, they may think that they are believing in both but they know their lying to themselves.

[indepat]

10. There was never a moral compass to lose: only a RE (PNAC) compass

[fooj]

11. What moral compass? You have to have one to lose one, right?

Peace.

[rocktivity]

12. "BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MORAL COMPASS NEVER EXISTED"

:headbang:
rocknation

[panichol]

13. Hell, if someone gave him one

Cheney would take it away from him.