Attack of the Clowns

This just in from the AP:

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Friday said he would veto legislation that would loosen restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and expressed deep concern about human cloning research in South Korea.”

I’m very concerned about cloning,” the president said. “I worry about a world in which cloning becomes accepted.”

Now I’m not saying that I am in favor of cloning. To be quite honest, I am not going to pretend I have sufficient grasp of the scientific or moral issues involved to make an educated decision to clone or not to clone.

But the last thing I’m worried about is a world in which cloning becomes accepted and we have a bunch of Jango Fetts running around on a rampage. (Wait, on second thought, that might solve the Army’s recruitment problem! )

And quite frankly, this kind of crap should not rank too high on the President’s agenda either. If he wants to be concerned about human life, how about starting with our soldiers dying in Iraq.

And since that was an admittedly cheap shot (and about as damned intellectually lazy as one can get), here’s a more legitimate criticism: what about the hundreds of murdered women and children in our ally in the Global War on Terror, Uzbekistan.

Or perhpas those Afghans a couple of our sick fuck soldierstortured to death at Bagram?

And while we’re on the subject of South Korea, if the President wants to express his concern, he might want to begin with the Bank of Korea and its irresponsible behavior in the Forex markets during the past two days.

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