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2005-09-09 Fifth Column

Moonbat "expert" sez war on terror saving few lives

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-09 00:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 After all, Osama built clinics and day care centers; why can't we?

/sarcasam

Posted by Mike">Mike 2005-09-09 01:01|| 2005-09-09 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 She must be aspiring to replace Helen Caldicott as the world's screwiest peacenik doctor.

Posted by badanov 2005-09-09 01:30|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-09-09 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Governments make irrational choices, because electors make irrational choices. The reality is that people place a higher value on being safe from some kinds of threats than others. I could use the same argument to not fund climate change initiatives, or to spend the money currently spent on AIDS on developing a bird flu vaccine. In fact, I could raise money and improve public health by taxing the things known to contribute to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.

This is BlameBush(TM) with an academic veneer.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-09 02:01|| 2005-09-09 02:01|| Front Page Top

#4 On September 11, 2001, 3,400 people died because of the four intentional plane crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. But 5,200 other Americans died that same day from common diseases, according to Frank.

Here's the difference, Dr. Frank: 3,400 people didn't just coincidentally "die" in "intentional plane crashes". They were *MURDERED*.

If you cannot tell the moral difference between dying from a disease and being murdered, then you should be spending the rest of your days in a mental institution -- as a patient -- rather than teaching. You're clearly a danger to your students and the patients they will eventually treat.

"The most recent effects of these diversions of funding have been seen in the unfolding tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the surrounding area," Frank wrote in a commentary published in the British Medical Journal.

Note that the coward didn't have the guts to publish her bile in the US, and that she' yet another maggot using the NO dead to push her political agenda.

We know strategies to reduce deaths from tobacco, alcohol, poor diet, unintentional injuries, and other predictable causes.

Anyone notice a common thread in what she wants the government to focus on? They're largely *personal choices*. I can choose to smoke, drink, or eat poorly; I cannot choose when someone will attempt to murder me. Yet she prefers government dictate to us how to live over it trying to prevent our murder by those who have declared their intention to do just that.

Again, this woman is a dangerous lunatic. I'm sick of having her type held up as experts on anything but their own depravity.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-09 08:52|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Unfortunately all of us will pass away from one cause or another. Most of us all ready know that certain behaviors are unhealthy. Excessive amounts of fatty foods, alcohol plus cigarettes will cause health problems that will kill you. As always being stupid is still subject to capital punishment. But no matter how much money you pump into educational programs geared towards health people will still do stupid things.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-09 10:33|| 2005-09-09 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 This is BlameBush(TM) with an academic veneer.

Exactly right - Dems love to complain about spending when it's being done by the military; bonus points for military spending by a Republican. They should just forward this to Howard Zinn and have him 'reissue' it in a few weeks.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-09 10:35|| 2005-09-09 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I demand Dr. Frank change her name.....Dr. Asshat or Idiot would be fine.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-09 11:11|| 2005-09-09 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 The BMJ USED to be a well regarded.

Leftism is a cancer destroying freedom.

Posted by Ulereger Clavigum6227 2005-09-09 12:13|| 2005-09-09 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 "And we know that millions of people will die unless we protect the population against these routine causes of death,"

Everyday terrorists preach "Death to all Infidels"...No Problem. But I have to drive 30 miles to find a bar where I can light up a cigarette.
What's alarming to me is how many people believe this nonsense.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-09-09 12:33|| 2005-09-09 12:33|| Front Page Top

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