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Terry Schiavgo died today. Here is a piece from bushlies.com

Bush Appointees Help Murder Terri Schiavo
GOP Cannot Be Trusted on Life

Boulder, CO -- In response to the refusal by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals to grant a rehearing in the Terri Schiavo case, America First Party National Chairman Dan Charles issued the following statement:
"Conservatives and Pro-Life activists have long been trapped in the Republican Party by the fiction that the GOP is Pro-Life. Billions of dollars and hundreds of millions of votes have gone to the Democrat and Republican Parties and their various front groups based solely on that fiction. That fiction was laid bare for the world to see by today's 10-2 decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals not to even hear the appeal by Terri Schiavo's parents. Those who voted GOP on the promise of Pro-Life judges must wake up to the fact that they were snookered.
"Republicans control the 11th Circuit, with GOP Presidents appointing 7 of the 12 judges. Six of those Republican appointees -- the one Reagan appointee and all five appointed by the current President or his father -- voted so as to continue the cruel and inhumane murder by starvation of Terri Schiavo. Four of the five Democrat appointments voted the same way.
"The two judges who voted to give Terri Schiavo a chance to live are Judge Tjoflat, a Ford appointee, and Judge Wilson, a Clinton appointee.
"Among the many GOP appointees voting with the culture of death is Judge William Pryor, appointed by the current President Bush right after he finished prosecuting former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. Judge Pryor argued for Justice Moore's removal from office for the heinous act of putting up a monument that said in part, 'Thou Shall Not Kill.'
"...Maybe President Bush should declare Terri Schiavo an 'enemy combatant' under authority of the PATRIOT Act, which would allow him to take her into custody and hold her for years, without court redress....The good people of this nation who care about life need to understand the half-hearted 'Pro-Life' gestures by the GOP for what they are: snow jobs to keep the Pro-Life constituency in line. When it comes to stopping the killing, the GOP can't get the real job done because the GOP is not Pro-Life."
I doubt that a majority of anti-abortion advocates see it this way. Most will probably grant the Bush, DeLay, Frist and the GOP credit for trying in the Schiavo case. But these fringe-right guys are correct in one regard. It is noteworthy that six out of the seven GOP-appointed judges on the 11th circuit court (and every one of the Reagan, Bush I and Bush II appointees) all voted against the Bush-DeLay position. The Schiavo case is a reminder that the nation is supposed to have an independent judiciary.

Bush has criticized the judges for failing to intereve, yet the circuit is conservative.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/schi-m21.shtml

I guess they would hav been wafflers had they voted any other way.