via the net: Comment on Bush, the Life Giver

Rev. G. SIMON HARAK of War Resisters.org
A Jesuit priest and author of the books "Virtuous Passions" and "Nonviolence for the Third Millennium,"
Harak is anti-militarism coordinator of the War Resisters League.

He said today: "One of the first things we learn is that the more universal your ethical principles are, the more moral force they have. I hear of Bush's flying back to D.C. to sign the Schiavo bill, and I think of him flying back from his first presidential campaign to sign the death warrants of Texas prisoners. I think of Bush signing a bill in Texas to cut off funds for life support for people who want their children to live, but can't afford it. I hear of the government's concern for this individual, tragic case, and I think of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children whom we diseased and starved to death during sanctions, and now the hundred thousand more Iraqis who have died in this invasion and occupation. How universal, how convincing, is the concern?"