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For those of you who think this is Jeb Bush's fault: Do you also blame him for all the other feeding tube removals in florida prior to Terri?

How about all the governors in all the states being blamed for removal of feeding tubes of people who left no living will and had relatives, spouse or parents or otherwise, deciding for them? Are these governors to blame also? Are they murderers as you would paint Jeb Bush?

What makes this case different from the thousands of others that have occured over the years? Is Clinton also responsible for all the feeding tube removal deaths that occured during his presidency? If he is why are you not bashing him for it? Why are you not calling for impeachment of every Govenor in every state? They all have had people who 's feeding tubes were removed without a living will or knowlege of their real wishes. Why are you not raising he** with them also?

I think the ones blaming the gov are simply Bush haters, IMO.

If you think Bush should have used force, did you use force? Did any of you Bush blamers rush the hospice and free Terri? Did any of you who advocate violence risk your job and career and jail time storming the hospice, shooting it out with guards, risking killing a few and risking getting yourself killed? Did I miss reading about that in the paper?

If Bush lacks cajones for not doing anything, what does that make you? Are you not then a coward for failing to act on your pricinples? Or is it only cowardly if a governor fails to act?

Bush could have defied the judiciary through use of the National Guard. Surely no 2/3 of the FL House would have voted to impeach him, as the body is more than 60 percent "Republican," whatever that word means in FL politics. He could have been an "extralegal" hero, instead of a defensive one who will for years try to defend his nonaction. But you may be right, most people are glad that Bush did nothing.

The Governor and the President -- both had equal ability to act under color of law to lawfully order any and all forces at their command to rescue this woman from her hostage takers who did come to murder her -- murder as vile and as public as was Mike Berg beheaded in Iraq.

Mr. Bush's and Mr. Bush's ability to so command was in exact counter-balance to the Judge's making of a illegal order (no matter how many courts reviewed it) to murder an innocent.

If Bush lacks cajones for not doing anything, what does that make you? Are you not then a coward for failing to act on your pricinples? Or is it only cowardly if a governor fails to act?

I have seen some pretty stupid stuff posted on the Terri threads but this one pretty much takes the cake..