FORTY LIES IN 40 DAYS: #33 Buerkle Says All Life is Precious

Buerkle said. “I don’t think as a society we can pick and choose what life is valuable and what is not. All life is precious without exception.” [The Post-Standard, 8/23/12]

But she hasn't uttered word one about war...the massively expensive war in Afghanistan, the longest war in which the US has ever been involved; the massively expensive war on drugs both at home and abroad; the cruel war against providing all people in our great nation with health care insurance. She has been in a powerful position for almost 2 years, one of 538 Members of Congress, and what she might have said could have been so important to the national discussion of priorities. 

Buerkle says life is precious in utero. After birth she stops caring. 

Selective conscience is no conscience at all.

Cost of War in 25th Congressional District Since 2001

Ann Marie Buerkle could, right this minute, become a leader!

She could become an anti-wars activist.

The cost to the 25th Congressional District of the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 is over $3.8 billion, with no end in sight. I don't think we even have a bank that can handle that kind of money.

Blueskygirl cannot, for the life of her, understand why anyone would still think (if they ever did, which she didn't) that these wars make any sense at all. We have become masters at making enemies. We have lost our ability to make friends.

The nation that we love is no more. The love and respect that we once enjoyed has been squandered in our madness.

Ann Marie Buerkle: care to step up to the plate?