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To: FaultLine who wrote (137811)	6/24/2004 2:40:12 PM
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Ronald Reagan's son slams Bush over Iraq, stem cell research NEW YORK (AFP) - Ron Reagan, a son of late US president Ronald Reagan (news), has lashed out at the Bush administration's foreign policy, calling the war in Iraq (news - web sites) a "terrible mistake" that his father would never have made. In an interview on Wednesday night with CNN's Larry King, Reagan also said he was disturbed that President George W. Bush (news - web sites) allowed policy to be affected by his religious convictions. "I think we lied our way into the war," said Reagan, adding that the US public was deceived over the issue of weapons of destruction and supposed links between Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). "(It was) a terrible mistake. Terrible foreign policy error," he said. Reagan, 44, who was an outspoken critic of his own father's conservative policies, argued that Ronald Reagan would have dealt differently with the terrorist threat after September 11, 2001. "I don't think he would have gone into Iraq. I think he would have been much more interested in going after Osama bin Laden," he said, adding that come November's election he would vote for any candidate capable of ousting Bush. Commenting on Bush's religious beliefs, Reagan said he was disturbed by the president's apparent conviction that his actions carried a spiritual seal of approval. "There was that answer he gave to the question about, did you talk to your father about going into Iraq? 'No, I talked to a higher father', you know, the almighty," Reagan said. "When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the almighty, God, I get a little worried, frankly," he said. "The other guys do that a lot. Osama bin Laden's always talking about Allah." Reagan's comments are likely to reinvigorate the debate over the extent to which the outpouring of emotion and nostalgia that followed Ronald Reagan's death earlier this month, might help or hinder Bush's chances in November's election. Bush has claimed Ronald Reagan as his ideological role model, but some observers, including some Republicans, fear he could suffer from being viewed him as a pale imitation of the late president. Ron Reagan also slammed the Bush administration's policy of restricting federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, which could lead to cures for numerous diseases such as the Alzheimers that blighted his father's final years. "It is so profoundly anti-intellectual and inhumane," Reagan said. "These are just cells. And we're talking about the potential to save real, living human beings." news.yahoo.com