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Dear Mary Ann, I speak for myself and I think that I can speak for Ray when I say that our recent posts did not at all pertain to the disaster in New Orleans nor the actions taken/or not taken by government officials; either the mayor or the president. I was referring to Ray's earlier post in which she said that she would like to have attended the event in Arizona at which President Bush addressed a group on Medicare issues...at least, I think that was his topic...I have deleted the post from Ray so cannot remember the particulars. I believe there were plans for a protest group to have been there that day and that Ray would like to have been a part of it. I believe the protest pertained to the Iraq war and had nothing to do with hurricane Katrina and the devastation in Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere. When I voice my criticism of President Bush on this forum, it is in regard to his policy on stem cell research and his unwillingness to fund embryonic stem cell research. It also carries over to his policy on the war in Iraq because I think that he is disingenuous when he professes his belief that he must protect stem cells in a petri dish while, at the same time, sending men (nearly 2,000 now) to be killed each day in Iraq. He has no aversion to the death penalty here in America nor the killing of thousands of civilians: men, women, children, babies and aged during our invasion of Iraq. My criticism of President Bush will focus on these issues here in the forum...Outside this forum, I will make my judgement, along with the rest of the world, on his performance in the hurricane disaster. Dee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn