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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (659041)	11/9/2004 10:22:56 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The contents of your post are almost entirely irrelevant to the issue that began this discussion, to wit, the specific motives of a particular man, George W. Bush, concerning why he stands against the re-importation of drugs from Canada. You and other leftists have stated categorically that Bush holds his position because he cares more for corporate profits than for the health of the common man. You’ve said this without any proof, unjustly impugning the integrity of the President. When your lack of evidence was pointed out to you, you then launched into a tirade against Bush’s position on federal drug volume discounts, attempting to exploit his position on this issue in much the same way as you’ve attempted to exploit his position on Canadian drugs, this, also with not a single shred of evidence. Speculation is not evidence, however attractive it may appear to you. When I pointed out to you that the two issues are different and should be treated separately, you disparaged this logical approach, and now claim the issues are “inseparable” because they appear in the same bill. Dear sir, wholly separate issues routinely appear in the same congressional bill, and that they do so does not automatically make them “inseparable.” Your view consists of quite a lot of speculative hogwash. If you wish to assault Bush justly, you need evidence. As I have stated in several earlier posts, I don’t deny that Bush’s view is possibly influenced by money. But I also understand this is ultimately meaningless speculation and that because it is speculation it is nothing upon which any thinking man should rely to assault anyone’s integrity. What you are doing here is relying upon angry assumption to assault the President, intentionally overlooking the facts. The facts clearly show that the FDA, the top agency responsible for food and drug safety in America, has publicly stated that the Canadian drugs are not proven safe. As long as this declaration exists as fact, and as long as Bush relies upon it to form policy, you cannot categorically assault Bush as you are childishly attempting to do. You must first assault the justification supporting the FDA’s claims. This has nothing to do with my having faith in the FDA. Indeed, I have faith in no government agency. All are suspect. The issue here concerns simple reason, what in an earlier day was known as “horse sense.” Bush has an entire federal agency behind him. On the other hand you have nothing but speculation. As long as Bush has the FDA under-girding his argument, your only logical choice is to assault the science beneath the FDA. You have not yet done that and so your view is unworthy of serious consideration. That you would suggest that Bush should trust Canadian drugs because the Canadians trust them and because there are no “dead Canadians” from fake drugs quite misses the point and is patently absurd. The FDA is here concerned with international commerce and drug transfer, not with Canada’s intranational commerce and transfer. Once drugs begin moving from Canada and are marked for the United States, opportunities for fraud increase significantly. The FDA must be fully engaged, and within the current system it is not. Should Bush accept your view and ignore the FDA’s warning (a most preposterous thing you are asking him to do), and should Americans, as a result of international drug transfers begin to die from Canadian drugs, you would be amongst the loudest protesters against his “incompetence.” Bush simply cannot please you whatever he does because you simply hate the President. So it is prudent of him to act wisely, incurring your criticisms while carefully considering the views of the American, not Canadian, authorities.