Letter: Bush preaches ethics, adds to human misery

Friday, June 29, 2007 | 7:21 a.m.

President Bush has questioned the ethics and morality of funding embryonic stem cell research. His comments and his veto prompt me to question his ethics and his morals as our president.

What's ethical about deliberately starting a war and then boasting you're a "war president"? What's ethical about violently overthrowing a sovereign government not because you had to, but because you wanted to? What's ethical about lying to your fellow Americans, not about a trivial affair with an intern, but about why you're taking them to war? What's ethical about ignoring the Constitution, our system of checks and balances , and picking and choosing which laws you'll obey and which ones you won't?

What's moral about letting Americans and Iraqis continue to die because you're too stubborn to back down, cut your losses and admit you've made a mistake? What's moral about forcing democracy at the point of a gun? What's moral about honoring the fallen by allowing more to fall pursuing the same failed policy?

What's moral about slamming the door on the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans who needed your help to fund the research that could potentially relieve their suffering, cure their diseases and save their lives?

What's moral about funding wars that guarantee death but refusing to fund research that may hold the key to a better life? What's moral about refusing to allow legally obtained, donated embryos to benefit mankind and provide the afflicted with the hope of someday being well again ?

This veto has taken away hope.

And that's neither ethical, moral nor forgivable.

Joyce Segal, Las Vegas