What I also noticed is that all believed in the sanctity of life itself especially when it came to Terrie Schiavo and abortion. Yet, how can they be pro-life when many innocent Iraqis are dying including children? How can they be pro-life when many Iraqi mothers are terrified in giving birth due to our use of depleted uranium? Many of their babies are born with hideous birth defects. Even the offspring of our soldiers succumb to these same birth defects due to these munitions. How many Iraqis have succumbed to the same fate as Terrie Schiavo? How many Iraqis are now in a persistent vegetative state due to this war? How many soldiers have come home brain damaged? While not as severe, but one that I can commiserate with since I am an epileptic, Newsday reported on March 29th, that some soldiers with brain injuries can develop epilepsy. There is no dignity as one convulses.
If I were still a Republican, I would urge all of these candidates not to invoke Reagan’s name as they did so many times, but to read the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address to our nation. There are many great lessons from that speech and other past speeches made by this once great president. If the Republican Party kept to his principles and not veered right, I would still be a Republican today. I highly doubt that President Eisenhower would have approved of the militarization of space, but to feed the needs of America’s people.
Author’s note: To contact me, my email address is, xmjmac@optonline.net
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