Here is a very well-written essay by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow on why Bush doesn't give a damn about people dying. Here is an excerpt:
"...this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the WMDs he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man. He does not mourn."
Full text after the fold (with a poll!).
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