Catholics For Bush

I grew up Catholic, attending Catholic schools for twelve years, and I can't for the life of me understand how anyone who has even a scintilla of intelligence can believe that George Bush is of higher moral standing than John Kerry. George Bush's policies -- whether regarding the invasion of a soverign Iraq to the economy to environmental issues -- are about as far from being Christian as any politician this side of Pontius Pilate.

Frankly, I don't believe this website to be anything more than a Republican front site for the group One Issue Zealots Who Refuse To Look At The Big Picture For Bush.

The issue, of course, is abortion. And the anti-abortion zealots (I will not call them pro-life activists for they support not only the death penalty but the murder of thousands of Iraqi civilians under false pretenses) would have you believe that legislation banning abortions will have any significant impact on anything that happens on this earth.

Suppose that abortions were banned. Would they still occur? Absolutely. Would there be any fewer abortions as a result. Likely not. Would any lives really be saved? I think not. Actually, since the abortions would consequently be performed under less than ideal conditions, I'd bet the loss of life of the women involved would increase.

What, then, is the real agenda of those pushing for the criminalization of abortions? It clearly isn't reducing the loss of life. If it were, why do we not see them in the forefront of groups protesting the invasion of a sovereign Iraq? Why do we not see them protesting the thousands upon thousands of innocent lives being extinguished in Iraq? Are they really any less helpless than the sacred unborn? Do they have any real choice in the yay or nay conditions of their lives?

I'd like to know why the lives of the unborn are any more significant than the lives of the civilians (or American or British or whosever soldiers) dying in droves in Iraq. I want to know why the lives of the unborn are any more worth fighting for than the lives lost to the chemical poisoning due to years and years of industrial pollution. I'd really like to know why the lives of the unborn are any more important than the Palestinians and Israelis killing themselves in a land that our moron of a president chose to ignore for almost a year after taking office, right when they were on the brink of settling their dispute. Why are the lives of the unborn any more important than the lives of the poorest poor in this country who suffer under the grinding heel of this greedy corporate society that we either explicitly or implicitly support with the tired, worn-out promise of an "American Dream"? The only fucking people living the "American Dream" are the top one percent of the population, the ones who gain the most as a result of Bush's policies.

Bush doesn't give any more a flying fuck for the sacred gift of life than these poseurs who spew their nonsense in defense of this lousy excuse for a public servant we call President.

Woody Guthrie had a word for these people: Fascists.