--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Fool wrote:
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/opinion/20KRIS.html?ex=1064635200&en=5b524a0834fb4234&ei=5062>
> >
> >Killing Them Softly By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
> >NAIROBI, Kenya
> >
> >In fairness to President Bush, he presumably meant
> well when he cut off
> >funds for some of the world's most vulnerable
> women.
> >
> >The Bush administration announced a few weeks ago
> that it was halting
> >payments to the Reproductive Health for Refugees
> Consortium because, it
> >said, one of the seven charities in the consortium
> was linked to
> >abortions in China. So I decided to do what the
> White House didn't � come
> >out and see these programs we are slashing.
> >
> Did anyone _not_ know that this is what Shrub meant
> when he spoke of 
> being a compassionate conservative?

<snipe mode>
You mean, being oxymoronic?

<serious>
This is the same mentality that placed as head of a
national women's health initiative a man who thinks
that menstrual cramps should be "treated" by praying
to Jesus...except of course that cramps won't kill
you, while AIDS, infection, and ignorance will.

Debbi

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