More Distortions by W the President

So I'm watching the stem cell debate with interest, since I know several people who are affected by disease who may benefit from this type of research.
I hear Bush telling an audience that he does not believe in wasting life in the interest of saving it.

Why then have we sent thousands of people to die in Iraq?

I thought the whole thing was designed as a way to "protect" Americans from an attack that was imminent and would be devastating.

Does anyone remember the mushroom cloud warning that Condi and Dick were passing off as a justification for the invasion?
Or the unsubstantiated accounts of yellow cake uranium that Iraq was trying to acquire from Nigeria? A CIA agent was outed by the White House over that little "distortion" of the truth, no uproar about how that compromised National security... Yet it is a liberal media. Right...

They told us that in order to save lives we would have to sacrifice a few brave soldiers. They were protecting us all back at home from the imminent threat that Saddam posed to us.

Note to you Conservative haters out there, this topic is not about what Saddam did while in power. It is about what Bush says, and then does. As in Bush saying in the debate with Al Gore, "I don't think we should get involved in Nation building" and then taking us to war, er not exactly war, that is why the Geneva Conventions do not apply. Right?
Don't forget that the CIA put Saddam into power as their go to guy.
That is the reason that Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand and gave him all the chemical weapons. He was our best buddy. So this is not about how evil Saddam was. Granted he was a butcher and had little regard for human or civil rights. Still he was our tool in the Middle East.

So how can you reconcile sending people to die under the guise of "protecting the homeland" but refuse to allow medical waste to be turned into a means to cure devastating diseases?

Please explain...