This commentary and analysis: http://www.juancole.com/2005/04/tragic-death-and-other-tragic-deaths-i.html by Juan Cole of Bush's speech yesterday where he mashes Terri Schivo's death into a culture of life cover for the pre Iraq war intelligence failures is really interesting. Most interesting about it is how neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post seem to have commented on how wishy washy Bush is in his response - especially in a war that has left 1000's dead and will leave more 1000's dead over the next 10 years. How does this fit a "culture of life" by any measure? I think Cole nails it when he says that the so called "culture of life" is another way of saying power and hierarchy.