Bush won't kill embryos

I would like to know when President Bush became God. He is so pleased that, for the first time in his six years in office, he vetoed a bill. The bill was for federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. According to Bush, these embryos are children whom he will not kill -- not with money from the federal government. Yes, this is the same man who doesn't mind sending billions of taxpayers' money to fund the war in Iraq -- a war we shouldn't be in. We can't kill embryos, but we can help kill the people of Iraq. And by sending our armed forces to Iraq, we are also killing our own men and women. But I guess this is OK with him, because these people are not embryos. These are embryos, I'm sorry to say, that will never be used and eventually will be put out with the trash. Stem-cell research could help with so many diseases -- cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, strokes and heart diseases, just to name a few. I wonder if the president has ever watched a loved one with a cancerous brain tumor suffer day after day, month after month, until finally, after nothing more can be done, they die. I have. Has Bush watched a loved one be cut down in the prime of their life because of Parkinson's disease and a stroke? I have. Perhaps one day, a loved one of the president's will be struck down and then maybe he'll feel bad about his veto of the stem-cell bill. But I doubt it. I can't wait until January of 2009, when Bush will no longer be our president. Maybe the next president will help people by signing into law the embryonic stem-cell research bill. I sure hope so. June Shinn, Bellmawr - Published in the Courier Post - July 28, 2006