No, wait- your bar is the new opiate of the masses? Where people hang out, not believing in their own abilities, while they wait for someone else to lead them?tisha2 wrote:DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE IMPLICATION HERE???
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#1. speak for yourselfQ_ wrote:Interesting, check out the breaking news about the Osama tape on http://www.cnn.com
He knows more about our country than we do.
#2. and if your second statement above is true regarding what YOU know about this country...if i were you, and i am glad i am not, i'd be embarrassed to say such a thing...
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October 30, 2004
The Osama Litmus Test
By DAVID BROOKS
The nuisance is back!
Remember when John Kerry told Matt Bai of The Times Magazine that he wanted to reduce the terrorists to a nuisance? Kerry vowed to mitigate the problem of terrorism until it became another regrettable and tolerable fact of life, like gambling, organized crime and prostitution.
That was the interview in which he said Sept. 11 "didn't change me much at all." He said it confirmed in him a sense of urgency, "of doing the things we thought we needed to be doing."
Well, the Osama bin Laden we saw last night was not a problem that needs to be mitigated. He was not the leader of a movement that can be reduced to a nuisance.
What we saw last night was revolting. I suspect that more than anything else, he reminded everyone of the moral indignation we all felt on and after Sept. 11.
Here was this monster who killed 3,000 of our fellows showing up on our TV screens, trying to insert himself into our election, trying to lecture us on who is lying and who is telling the truth. Here was this villain traipsing through his own propaganda spiel with copycat Michael Moore rhetoric about George Bush in the schoolroom, and Jeb Bush and the 2000 Florida election.
Here was this deranged killer spreading absurd theories about the American monarchy and threatening to murder more of us unless we do what he says.
One felt all the old emotions. Who does he think he is, and who does he think we are?
One of the crucial issues of this election is, Which candidate fundamentally gets the evil represented by this man? Which of these two guys understands it deep in his gut - not just in his brain or in his policy statements, but who feels it so deep in his soul that it consumes him?
It's quite clear from the polls that most Americans fundamentally think Bush does get this. Last March, Americans preferred Bush over Kerry in fighting terrorism by 60 percent to 33 percent, according to the Gallup Poll. Now, after a furious campaign and months of criticism, that number is unchanged. Bush is untouched on this issue.
Bush's response yesterday to the video was exactly right. He said we would not be intimidated. He tried to take the video out of the realm of crass politics by mentioning Kerry by name and assuring the country that he was sure Kerry agreed with him.
Kerry did say that we are all united in the fight against bin Laden, but he just couldn't help himself. His first instinct was to get political.
On Milwaukee television, he used the video as an occasion to attack the president: "He didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He outsourced the job." Kerry continued with a little riff from his stump speech, "I am absolutely confident I have the ability to make America safer."
Even in this shocking moment, this echo of Sept. 11, Kerry saw his political opportunities and he took 'em. There's such a thing as being so nakedly ambitious that you offend the people you hope to impress.
But politics has shaped Kerry's approach to this whole issue. Back in December 2001, when bin Laden was apparently hiding in Tora Bora, Kerry supported the strategy of using Afghans to hunt him down. He told Larry King that our strategy "is having its impact, and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively, and we should continue to do it that way."
But then the political wind shifted, and Kerry recalculated. Now Kerry calls the strategy he supported "outsourcing." When we rely on allies everywhere else around the world, that's multilateral cooperation, but when Bush does it in Afghanistan, it's "outsourcing." In Iraq, Kerry supports using local troops to chase insurgents, but in Afghanistan he is in post hoc opposition.
This is why Kerry is not cleaning Bush's clock in this election. Many people are not sure that he gets the fundamental moral confrontation. Many people are not sure he feels it, or feels anything. Since he joined the Senate, what cause has he taken a political risk for? Has he devoted himself selflessly and passionately to any movement larger than himself?
We are revealed by what we hate. When it comes to Osama bin Laden, Kerry hasn't revealed whatever it is that lies inside.
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psychic? - nosamtzu wrote:How do you guys know what the other guy is thinking, all the time? Shit, I can't even tell what I'm thinking most of the time, but you guys tell each other what the other guy is thinking.
Are you psychic? Socks? Wrong?
socks? - heavens no, it is tough enough being one of me.
wrong? - no, certainly not completely as would be suggested herein...
i don't know who DVD and i can't say i care to him/her/it.
i know "everything" can't be linked to some uber-conspiracy that DVD read about or imagined.
i know i am going to vote on 2 Nov 04 and then again in 2008, etc, etc, etc..
i know it is time for a smoke of a non-tobacco nature...
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I'm quite concerned about the timing of Osama's big return. It's pretty fishy. The bin Ladens and the Bushes have been friends a long time. Now people are going to feel more scared, and who do they turn to for that- Bush. It so happens he's also the person who puts the fear into them, but I guess that's irrelevant. I actually thought there would be some sort of 'attack' right around election time. This kind of surpriseed me. Oh, that Bush crew, they're tricky.
I was thinking about this last night. Unfortunately I don't think there will be big outcries, rallys, riots, or protests over what's been and what continues to go on. When you slowly chink away at peoples' lives and freedoms, they don't really notice as much as one big swoop. As well, in North Amerca, we do have a lot to lose by shutting down the system, whereas people in countries with less money don't have as much to lose (although somethimes they lose their lives, which obviously is a big thing to lose). And look at other countries where there is government oppression- not usually a lot of protest. It's like being in a dysfunctional relationship- your manipulating partner convinces you that they are the only one who can look after you, makes you scared to live without them, and slowly turns your self-esteem to mush. You don't complain or leave because you're convinced they are right.
I was thinking about this last night. Unfortunately I don't think there will be big outcries, rallys, riots, or protests over what's been and what continues to go on. When you slowly chink away at peoples' lives and freedoms, they don't really notice as much as one big swoop. As well, in North Amerca, we do have a lot to lose by shutting down the system, whereas people in countries with less money don't have as much to lose (although somethimes they lose their lives, which obviously is a big thing to lose). And look at other countries where there is government oppression- not usually a lot of protest. It's like being in a dysfunctional relationship- your manipulating partner convinces you that they are the only one who can look after you, makes you scared to live without them, and slowly turns your self-esteem to mush. You don't complain or leave because you're convinced they are right.
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Without a leader people wander around in a milling mass, getting in each other's way, tripping over each other's feet, and generally being ineffective. With a leader that they agree to follow, they all face the same direction, perform their tasks with relative harmony, and the job is accomplished.CoworkerLurker wrote:No, wait- your bar is the new opiate of the masses? Where people hang out, not believing in their own abilities, while they wait for someone else to lead them?tisha2 wrote:DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE IMPLICATION HERE???
I HEARBY DECLARE MYSELF LEADER! ALRIGHT... WHO'S WITH ME?!
That's what I thought, no one wants to follow me... besides, I don't wanna' be the leader. I'd rather be the heckler off to the side. A leader is needed, but it has to be at the right time.... and now is not the time... but it is the time for something.....
BACK TO THE BAR! WHO'S WITH ME?!
Oh, yeah... NOW you follow me... sheesh!
The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing ~~ Eric Hoffer
Taking Bush at His Word
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 30, 2004
I often criticize statements by President Bush, so today let me praise some of his real wisdom:
• Oct. 11, 2000: "If we're an arrogant nation, [foreigners] will resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us. ... We've got to be humble."
It's a good thing Mr. Bush tried to be humble, or the U.S. would have an approval rating even lower than 5 percent in Jordan, and Osama bin Laden's approval rating in Pakistan would be higher than 65 percent.
• Feb. 27, 2001: "I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. ... We should approach our nation's budget as any prudent family would."
But Mr. Bush, with the help of a weak economy, has transformed the Clinton budget surpluses into huge deficits. Since Mr. Bush took office, the federal debt has increased by $2.1 trillion, or 40 percent.
• Sept. 25, 2000: "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
Hmm. And many of our exports go abroad. Meanwhile, despite the lackluster economy, oil imports are 1.3 million barrels per day higher than in Mr. Clinton's last year in office.
• June 11, 2001: "My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change."
Great! Because America's carbon dioxide emissions, associated with global warming, have risen 1.7 percent since then.
• June 26, 2003: "Notorious human rights abusers, including, among others, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe, have long sought to shield their abuses from the eyes of the world by staging elaborate deceptions and denying access to international human rights monitors."
It takes a big man to admit mistakes, like his administration's practice of hiding certain Arab prisoners from Red Cross and other inspectors.
• Nov. 5, 2003: "In the debate about the rights of the unborn, we are asked to broaden the circle of our moral concern. ... We're asked by our convictions and tradition and compassion to build a culture of life, and make this a more just and welcoming society."
Abortions declined in the U.S. in the Clinton years; the abortion rate dropped by 22 percent in the 1990's. But while data are incomplete, abortions appear to have increased sharply since Mr. Bush took office. Glen H. Stassen, a Christian pro-life theologian, estimates that 52,000 more abortions occurred in 2002 than would have been expected based on the previous trend. Professor Stassen attributes the rise in abortions in part to the troubled economy and concerns among pregnant women that they cannot afford to have babies.
• May 25, 2004: "One of the challenges we face is to make sure the health care system responds to the needs of the citizens."
But five million more Americans don't have health insurance, compared with when Mr. Bush took office.
• Sept. 9, 2003: "We must focus early to make sure every child can read and write and add and subtract."
But Mr. Bush's budget guidelines translate into inflation-adjusted reductions in 2006 alone of more than $900 million for Head Start and childhood education.
• May 24, 2003: "We will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea."
On Mr. Bush's watch, North Korea is generally believed to have gone from two nuclear weapons to about eight.
• 2001: "Not on my watch."
Scrawled note by Mr. Bush on a report to him about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that had occurred under President Clinton.
That's reassuring to the 100,000 or more people in Darfur who have died in a spasm of murder and rape that Mr. Bush acknowledges as genocide.
• Sept. 30, 2004: "The biggest threat facing this country is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network."
But the single most important step to reducing the risk that a nuclear weapon will destroy New York is to secure loose nukes abroad, and Mr. Bush has been lackadaisical about that. Only 135 out of 600 metric tons of Russian nuclear materials have been given comprehensive upgrades, and Mr. Bush initially proposed cutting funds for that program.
• Sept. 2, 1999: "Effective reform requires accountability. ... It is a sad story. High hopes, low achievement. Grand plans, unmet goals. My administration will do things differently."
Oh?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 30, 2004
I often criticize statements by President Bush, so today let me praise some of his real wisdom:
• Oct. 11, 2000: "If we're an arrogant nation, [foreigners] will resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us. ... We've got to be humble."
It's a good thing Mr. Bush tried to be humble, or the U.S. would have an approval rating even lower than 5 percent in Jordan, and Osama bin Laden's approval rating in Pakistan would be higher than 65 percent.
• Feb. 27, 2001: "I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. ... We should approach our nation's budget as any prudent family would."
But Mr. Bush, with the help of a weak economy, has transformed the Clinton budget surpluses into huge deficits. Since Mr. Bush took office, the federal debt has increased by $2.1 trillion, or 40 percent.
• Sept. 25, 2000: "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
Hmm. And many of our exports go abroad. Meanwhile, despite the lackluster economy, oil imports are 1.3 million barrels per day higher than in Mr. Clinton's last year in office.
• June 11, 2001: "My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change."
Great! Because America's carbon dioxide emissions, associated with global warming, have risen 1.7 percent since then.
• June 26, 2003: "Notorious human rights abusers, including, among others, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe, have long sought to shield their abuses from the eyes of the world by staging elaborate deceptions and denying access to international human rights monitors."
It takes a big man to admit mistakes, like his administration's practice of hiding certain Arab prisoners from Red Cross and other inspectors.
• Nov. 5, 2003: "In the debate about the rights of the unborn, we are asked to broaden the circle of our moral concern. ... We're asked by our convictions and tradition and compassion to build a culture of life, and make this a more just and welcoming society."
Abortions declined in the U.S. in the Clinton years; the abortion rate dropped by 22 percent in the 1990's. But while data are incomplete, abortions appear to have increased sharply since Mr. Bush took office. Glen H. Stassen, a Christian pro-life theologian, estimates that 52,000 more abortions occurred in 2002 than would have been expected based on the previous trend. Professor Stassen attributes the rise in abortions in part to the troubled economy and concerns among pregnant women that they cannot afford to have babies.
• May 25, 2004: "One of the challenges we face is to make sure the health care system responds to the needs of the citizens."
But five million more Americans don't have health insurance, compared with when Mr. Bush took office.
• Sept. 9, 2003: "We must focus early to make sure every child can read and write and add and subtract."
But Mr. Bush's budget guidelines translate into inflation-adjusted reductions in 2006 alone of more than $900 million for Head Start and childhood education.
• May 24, 2003: "We will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea."
On Mr. Bush's watch, North Korea is generally believed to have gone from two nuclear weapons to about eight.
• 2001: "Not on my watch."
Scrawled note by Mr. Bush on a report to him about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that had occurred under President Clinton.
That's reassuring to the 100,000 or more people in Darfur who have died in a spasm of murder and rape that Mr. Bush acknowledges as genocide.
• Sept. 30, 2004: "The biggest threat facing this country is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network."
But the single most important step to reducing the risk that a nuclear weapon will destroy New York is to secure loose nukes abroad, and Mr. Bush has been lackadaisical about that. Only 135 out of 600 metric tons of Russian nuclear materials have been given comprehensive upgrades, and Mr. Bush initially proposed cutting funds for that program.
• Sept. 2, 1999: "Effective reform requires accountability. ... It is a sad story. High hopes, low achievement. Grand plans, unmet goals. My administration will do things differently."
Oh?
"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?" -Diogenes
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It's tough when you're the right man at the right time...samtzu wrote:Without a leader people wander around in a milling mass, getting in each other's way, tripping over each other's feet, and generally being ineffective. With a leader that they agree to follow, they all face the same direction, perform their tasks with relative harmony, and the job is accomplished.CoworkerLurker wrote:No, wait- your bar is the new opiate of the masses? Where people hang out, not believing in their own abilities, while they wait for someone else to lead them?tisha2 wrote:DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THE IMPLICATION HERE???
I HEARBY DECLARE MYSELF LEADER! ALRIGHT... WHO'S WITH ME?!
That's what I thought, no one wants to follow me... besides, I don't wanna' be the leader. I'd rather be the heckler off to the side. A leader is needed, but it has to be at the right time.... and now is not the time... but it is the time for something.....
BACK TO THE BAR! WHO'S WITH ME?!
Oh, yeah... NOW you follow me... sheesh!
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So.....ummmm......
Who are ya'll gonna vote for?
The douche or the turd sandwich?
And remember, Puffy say's " Vote or Die Bitch."
Myself.....I'd like to subscribe to the George Carlin philosophy:
"People that vote should not and do not have the right to complain because they voted for the idiots they put in office.
Which gives me the right to complain about those that put those idiots in office."
Something to that effect.
Who are ya'll gonna vote for?
The douche or the turd sandwich?
And remember, Puffy say's " Vote or Die Bitch."
Myself.....I'd like to subscribe to the George Carlin philosophy:
"People that vote should not and do not have the right to complain because they voted for the idiots they put in office.
Which gives me the right to complain about those that put those idiots in office."
Something to that effect.
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Oh shit.Simply Joel wrote:all that... i get no "kudos" for surpassing 100 pages of politics, morning noon and night...
i am feeling very "Rodney"
ps... not voting is passive approval of what the voters choose.
I did'nt realize Joel. My congrats dood.
Hey you truley amaze me to have lasted all this way. Especially with me on board.
This is a really great thread.
Hats off to ya for having big balls and guts to stick it out. It's a tough topic.
( You know others have run away with their tail tucked cause they were to meek for this thread.)
Right on dude. seriously.
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DVD, your arguments don't hold up, there are flimsy like toilet paper... and you get to expouse all the nonsense you believe to be news... no big deal...
just remember, the liberties you enjoy today were bought and paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of American servicemen and women over the past 350+ years... that's right, American Revolution militiamen
just remember, the liberties you enjoy today were bought and paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of American servicemen and women over the past 350+ years... that's right, American Revolution militiamen
Democrats... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, daily!
slap my salmon, baby
slap my salmon, baby
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...Our Leader Speaks Once Again......
I HEARBY DECLARE MYSELF LEADER! ALRIGHT... WHO'S WITH ME?!
http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov
samalderizingly,
the rebbi
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samalderizingly,
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..............Why Are My Panties Wet?...................
Orwellian sheep factory
Hey, isn't that the S&M Gay bar down on Santa Monica Blvd where the sheep wear strap-ons? I think I have jpgs somewhere.............
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Being a military man yourself I'm sure you'll probably get upset with the truth of this fact:Simply Joel wrote: just remember, the liberties you enjoy today were bought and paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of American servicemen and women over the past 350+ years... that's right, American Revolution militiamen
I understand you speak of the militia but militants are made to take orders not give them. Usually where any military takes over is the beginning of failure.
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I'll reiterate in case what I posted did not make any sense to you, because I suspect it does'nt. It was a huge thing for you to decipher:
Militia and military are not the only ones to shed blood, sweat and tears for this country although I bet they would like to believe they are the only ones to do so.
It's great leaders that have truly made it so that everyone can live the way they want to anywhere in this country and they are still at work. They have even made it so that militia can live amongst everyone.
Militias would never do that. They are not designed to think that way......I could take it a step further huh?
Militia and military are not the only ones to shed blood, sweat and tears for this country although I bet they would like to believe they are the only ones to do so.
It's great leaders that have truly made it so that everyone can live the way they want to anywhere in this country and they are still at work. They have even made it so that militia can live amongst everyone.
Militias would never do that. They are not designed to think that way......I could take it a step further huh?
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100 Facts and 1 Opinion
by Judd Legum
IRAQ
1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a
war of choice in Iraq.
Source: American Progress
2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate
body armor or armored Humvees.
Sources: Fox News,
The Boston Globe
3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric
Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required
to secure Iraq.
Source: PBS
4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted
as liberators" in Iraq.
Source: The Washington Post
5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than
1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000
have been injured.
Source: globalsecurity.org
6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a
flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission
Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat
operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about
the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.
Source: Yahoo News
7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of
the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but
most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found
that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no
collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.
Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission
8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that
high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really
suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the
smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top
nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were
"too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing
nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.
Source: New York Times
9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4
billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.
Source: USA Today
10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector,
Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed
illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist
organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of
the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real
risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or
information to terrorist networks."
Sources: New York Times, White House news release
11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic
strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a
WMD program for more than twelve years.
Source: Los Angeles Times
TERRORISM
12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin
Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued
his monthlong vacation.
Source: CNN.com
13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to
capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the
Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they
relied on local warlords.
Source: csmonitor.com
14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites
around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after
9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.
Source: nti.org
15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program
intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of
the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.
Source: armscontrol.org
16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents
to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama
bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.
Source: Associated Press
17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush
Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by
more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.
Source: American Progress
18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary
to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw
material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a
potent new source of financing for terrorists.
Source: Pakistan Tribune
19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George
Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.
Source: Washington Post
20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come
to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush
Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.
Source: sfgate.com
21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer
experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama
bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.
Source: New York Times
22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism
funding by 23 percent.
Source: americanprogress.org
23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush
Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.
Source: commondreams.org
24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million
to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the
commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.
Source: commondreams.org
25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all
cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is
screened.
Source: commondreams.org
NATIONAL SECURITY
26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its
suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.
Source: New York Times
27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
Source: commondreams.org
28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and
plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense
system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.
Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times
29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's
first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on
Foreign Relations study.
Source: nationaldefensemagazine.org
CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION
30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid
contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice
President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred
compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock
options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military
for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served
troops dirty food.
Sources: The Washington Post, The Tapei Times, BBC News
31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of
State Colin Powell.
Source: detnews.com
32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill
containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which
would have benefited major campaign contributors.
taxpayer.net, Washington Post
33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling
Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including
fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for
months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate
information.
Source: MSNBC
34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100
former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries
they oversee.
Source: Source: commondreams.org
35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close
friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.
Source: MSNBC
36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry
and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003,
including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for
First Lady Laura Bush.
Source: Seattle Times
37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative
contracts to several companies in which he is an investor,
including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.
Source: cq.com
38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped
coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score
political points in a campaign advertisement.
Source: The Washington Post
THE ECONOMY
39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the
outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy
in the long run."
Source: CBS News
40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a
$422 billion deficit.
Sources: Fortune, dfw.com
41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made
millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.
Source: epinet.org
42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by
underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.
Source: cbpp.org
43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to
have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.
Source: The Guardian
44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar
border control contract even though the company moved its
operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.
Sources: The New York Times, cantonrep.com
45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my
tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the
tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent
of the benefits.
Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org
46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the
national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30,
the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.
Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt
47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the
Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax
law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing
fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute
corporate tax crimes.
Source: iht.com
48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the
working poor.
Source: theolympian.com
49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social
Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.
Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office
50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the
largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million
families in danger of losing their housing.
Source: San Francisco Examiner
51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage
from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.
Source: Los Angeles Times
EDUCATION
52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act
by $9.4 billion.
Source: nwitimes.com
53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the
maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent.
Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut
the maximum scholarship amount.
Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x
54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige,
called the National Education Association--a union of
teachers--a "terrorist organization."
Sources: CNN.com
HEALTHCARE
55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to
allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of
Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they
repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.
Source: Washington Post, realcities.com
56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created
illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to
promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.
Source: General Accounting Office
57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new
treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal
injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe
restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic
stem-cell research.
Source: CBS News
58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which
requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal
abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.
Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu
59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have
been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer
Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.
Source: American Progress
60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for
Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but
allows the corporations offering the cards to change their
prices once a week.
Source: Washington Post
61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to
negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.
Source: American Progress
62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush
Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables
to include frozen french fries.
Source: commondreams.org
63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations
sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to
sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the
Administration's help, the HMOs won.
Source: ABC News
64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by
patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and
medical devices.
Source: Washington Post
65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that
reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial
subsidies from the government.
Source: Bloomberg News
66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people
have lost their health insurance.
Source: CNN.com
67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of
arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it
conceded it posed a danger to children.
Source: Miami Herald
68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help
seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the
largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.
Source: iht.com
69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco
industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help
curb smoking.
Source: tobaccofreekids.org
70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on
abstinence-only education programs even though there is no
scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in
dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the
transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: salon.com
71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that
suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually
transmitted diseases.
Source: LA Weekly
ENVIRONMENT
72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging
power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths
each year.
Source: cta.policy.net
73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200
million acres of public lands.
Source: calwild.org
74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon
dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global
warming.
Source: Washington Post
75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living
near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew
it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary,
debilitating ailments.
Sierra Club , EPA
76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for
SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of
a new Hummer.
Source: Washington Post
77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in
the government and let them roll back safety regulations,
putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.
Source: New York Times
78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer
atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other
bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to
regulate it.
Source: Washington Post
79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the
Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.
Source: ems.org
80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance
backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the
funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.
Source: bushgreenwatch.org
RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000
foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been
convicted of a terrorist crime.
Source: hrwatch.org
82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International
Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in
US custody.
Source: Wall Street Journal
83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid
prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't
monitor their treatment.
Source: hrwatch.org
84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime,
arrested US citizen José Padilla at an airport in
Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two
years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact
with his friends and family.
Source: news.findlaw.com
85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President
advising him that he can legally authorize torture.
Source: news.findlaw.com
86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went
door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the
2004 political conventions.
Source: New York Times
87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an
independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign
prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review
the conduct of his own department.
Source: humanrightsfirst.org
FLIP FLOPS
88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission
before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one
of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.
Source: americanprogressaction.org
89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he
supported a constitutional amendment banning it.
Sources: CNN.com, White House
90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin
Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that
concerned about him."
Source: americanprogressaction.org
91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.
Sources: White House, americanprogress.org
92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he
admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.
Sources: White House, Washington Post
BIOGRAPHY
93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the
National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a
six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.
Source: boston.com
94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he
failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his
company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported
significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had
dropped from $3 to $1.
Source: The Guardian
95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake
he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.
Source: White House
SECRECY
96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of
a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian
government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14
million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the
highest level of spending in ten years.
Source: openthegovernment.org
98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for
every $1 it spent declassifying documents.
Source: openthegovernment.org
99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied
numerous court orders to conceal from the public who
participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.
Source: Washington Post
100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan
tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of
Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.
Source: Washington Post
OPINION
If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush
Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United
States and the world.
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IRAQ
1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a
war of choice in Iraq.
Source: American Progress
2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate
body armor or armored Humvees.
Sources: Fox News,
The Boston Globe
3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric
Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required
to secure Iraq.
Source: PBS
4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted
as liberators" in Iraq.
Source: The Washington Post
5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than
1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000
have been injured.
Source: globalsecurity.org
6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a
flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission
Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat
operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about
the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.
Source: Yahoo News
7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of
the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but
most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found
that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no
collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.
Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission
8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that
high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really
suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the
smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top
nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were
"too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing
nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.
Source: New York Times
9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4
billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.
Source: USA Today
10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector,
Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed
illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist
organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of
the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real
risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or
information to terrorist networks."
Sources: New York Times, White House news release
11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic
strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a
WMD program for more than twelve years.
Source: Los Angeles Times
TERRORISM
12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin
Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued
his monthlong vacation.
Source: CNN.com
13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to
capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the
Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they
relied on local warlords.
Source: csmonitor.com
14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites
around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after
9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.
Source: nti.org
15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program
intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of
the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.
Source: armscontrol.org
16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents
to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama
bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.
Source: Associated Press
17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush
Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by
more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.
Source: American Progress
18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary
to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw
material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a
potent new source of financing for terrorists.
Source: Pakistan Tribune
19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George
Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.
Source: Washington Post
20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come
to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush
Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.
Source: sfgate.com
21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer
experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama
bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.
Source: New York Times
22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism
funding by 23 percent.
Source: americanprogress.org
23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush
Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.
Source: commondreams.org
24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million
to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the
commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.
Source: commondreams.org
25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all
cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is
screened.
Source: commondreams.org
NATIONAL SECURITY
26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its
suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.
Source: New York Times
27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
Source: commondreams.org
28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and
plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense
system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.
Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times
29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's
first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on
Foreign Relations study.
Source: nationaldefensemagazine.org
CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION
30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid
contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice
President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred
compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock
options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military
for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served
troops dirty food.
Sources: The Washington Post, The Tapei Times, BBC News
31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of
State Colin Powell.
Source: detnews.com
32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill
containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which
would have benefited major campaign contributors.
taxpayer.net, Washington Post
33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling
Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including
fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for
months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate
information.
Source: MSNBC
34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100
former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries
they oversee.
Source: Source: commondreams.org
35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close
friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.
Source: MSNBC
36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry
and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003,
including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for
First Lady Laura Bush.
Source: Seattle Times
37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative
contracts to several companies in which he is an investor,
including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.
Source: cq.com
38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped
coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score
political points in a campaign advertisement.
Source: The Washington Post
THE ECONOMY
39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the
outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy
in the long run."
Source: CBS News
40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a
$422 billion deficit.
Sources: Fortune, dfw.com
41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made
millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.
Source: epinet.org
42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by
underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.
Source: cbpp.org
43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to
have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.
Source: The Guardian
44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar
border control contract even though the company moved its
operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.
Sources: The New York Times, cantonrep.com
45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my
tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the
tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent
of the benefits.
Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org
46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the
national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30,
the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.
Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt
47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the
Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax
law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing
fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute
corporate tax crimes.
Source: iht.com
48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the
working poor.
Source: theolympian.com
49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social
Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.
Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office
50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the
largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million
families in danger of losing their housing.
Source: San Francisco Examiner
51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage
from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.
Source: Los Angeles Times
EDUCATION
52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act
by $9.4 billion.
Source: nwitimes.com
53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the
maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent.
Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut
the maximum scholarship amount.
Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x
54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige,
called the National Education Association--a union of
teachers--a "terrorist organization."
Sources: CNN.com
HEALTHCARE
55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to
allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of
Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they
repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.
Source: Washington Post, realcities.com
56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created
illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to
promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.
Source: General Accounting Office
57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new
treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal
injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe
restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic
stem-cell research.
Source: CBS News
58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which
requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal
abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.
Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu
59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have
been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer
Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.
Source: American Progress
60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for
Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but
allows the corporations offering the cards to change their
prices once a week.
Source: Washington Post
61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to
negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.
Source: American Progress
62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush
Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables
to include frozen french fries.
Source: commondreams.org
63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations
sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to
sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the
Administration's help, the HMOs won.
Source: ABC News
64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by
patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and
medical devices.
Source: Washington Post
65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that
reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial
subsidies from the government.
Source: Bloomberg News
66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people
have lost their health insurance.
Source: CNN.com
67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of
arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it
conceded it posed a danger to children.
Source: Miami Herald
68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help
seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the
largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.
Source: iht.com
69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco
industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help
curb smoking.
Source: tobaccofreekids.org
70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on
abstinence-only education programs even though there is no
scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in
dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the
transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: salon.com
71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that
suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually
transmitted diseases.
Source: LA Weekly
ENVIRONMENT
72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging
power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths
each year.
Source: cta.policy.net
73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200
million acres of public lands.
Source: calwild.org
74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon
dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global
warming.
Source: Washington Post
75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living
near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew
it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary,
debilitating ailments.
Sierra Club , EPA
76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for
SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of
a new Hummer.
Source: Washington Post
77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in
the government and let them roll back safety regulations,
putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.
Source: New York Times
78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer
atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other
bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to
regulate it.
Source: Washington Post
79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the
Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.
Source: ems.org
80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance
backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the
funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.
Source: bushgreenwatch.org
RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000
foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been
convicted of a terrorist crime.
Source: hrwatch.org
82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International
Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in
US custody.
Source: Wall Street Journal
83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid
prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't
monitor their treatment.
Source: hrwatch.org
84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime,
arrested US citizen José Padilla at an airport in
Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two
years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact
with his friends and family.
Source: news.findlaw.com
85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President
advising him that he can legally authorize torture.
Source: news.findlaw.com
86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went
door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the
2004 political conventions.
Source: New York Times
87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an
independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign
prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review
the conduct of his own department.
Source: humanrightsfirst.org
FLIP FLOPS
88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission
before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one
of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.
Source: americanprogressaction.org
89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he
supported a constitutional amendment banning it.
Sources: CNN.com, White House
90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin
Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that
concerned about him."
Source: americanprogressaction.org
91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.
Sources: White House, americanprogress.org
92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he
admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.
Sources: White House, Washington Post
BIOGRAPHY
93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the
National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a
six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.
Source: boston.com
94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he
failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his
company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported
significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had
dropped from $3 to $1.
Source: The Guardian
95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake
he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.
Source: White House
SECRECY
96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of
a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian
government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14
million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the
highest level of spending in ten years.
Source: openthegovernment.org
98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for
every $1 it spent declassifying documents.
Source: openthegovernment.org
99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied
numerous court orders to conceal from the public who
participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.
Source: Washington Post
100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan
tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of
Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.
Source: Washington Post
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If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush
Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United
States and the world.
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I just did a google search to see if I could find this article I was looking for and apparently found that others have done the same thing.
Here is one I thought was pretty interesting (The last one reminds me of Joel) :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1247603/posts
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"If Bush Wins, I'm..."
SF Weekly ^ | October 16, 2004 | John Mecklin
Posted on 10/16/2004 9:29:22 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
What will we do if George W. Bush is re-elected in three weeks? Dog Bites doesn't know, but surely Google must. We searched for the phrase "If Bush wins, I'm ...." From the 450 or so hits that were returned, here's what we learned:
"if Bush wins I'm going to be living with some very unhappy Brazilians."
"If Bush wins I'm gonna get drunk, drive over to the states and drop a great big dump in the middle of the peace bridge."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to attempt to bring down the US government and replace it with a freely-elected democracy."
"if Bush wins, I'm outta here. Canada or NZ, wherever I can go, I'll go."
"if Bush wins I'm not going to be hopelessly defeated."
"if bush wins, i'm definately going to canada."
"If Bush wins (I'm not saying again), I'll chalk it up on my big 'Reasons to Commit Suicide in The Modern World' List."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to South America!"
"If bush wins, I'm jumping the fence to mexico."
"If Bush wins, I'm hoping you'll stand with us in our rebellion against this Bush dictatorship."
"If Bush wins, I'm never going to hear the end of it from my friends."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving back to the UK."
"if bush wins, I'm throwing the biggest fit in the world and then using my lifesavings to move to canada!!!"
"If Bush wins i'm moving to New Zealand, oh wait, i'm already here, suckers."
"if Bush wins, I'm joining up."
"if Bush wins I'm going to leave the country."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to be looking for a new country to call home."
"If Bush wins, I'm gonna be really loud (in my unimportant way)."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving out of the United States cause of Bush."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to the Washington Mall."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving back to Canada ... or maybe to Christine's neighborhood."
"if Bush wins I'm not jumping out a 20 story window."
"if Bush wins, I'm off to New Zealand to live with Rob and Kirsty."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Australia, and I've already got the paperwork started."
"If Bush wins, I'm seriously going back to college outside the US."
"if bush wins, i'm moving to canada..."
"If Bush wins I'm holding everyone who didn't vote for Kerry accountable, especially those who know better."
"if bush wins..i'm gonna be the happiest person alive and i'm going to be so proud to be american...haha GO BUSH!!!!!"
"If Bush wins I'm going to have to summon all the equanimity that Buddhism offers."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada..."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Germany."
"if Bush wins (I'm not voting for either of these a-holes), I r-e-a-l-l-y want Hillary to run for President in 2008, so that she can finally have a stake driven through her political career."
"If Bush wins, I'm pretty certain that we will go after Iran and/or Syria next (Iran more likely)."
"If Bush wins, I'm leaving."
"If Bush wins, I'm gone."
"if Bush wins, I'm burning my passport on the embassy steps and pleaing for asylum, anyone care to join me?"
"If Bush wins, I'm holding Nader and Patti responsible."
"if bush wins, i'm moving out of the country ... preferably to england."
"If Bush wins I'm thinking 2008 will be the battle of the women."
"if Bush wins, I'm terrified at how the liberal minded will react. I hope not violently."
"If Bush wins, I'm gonna start drinking!"
"If Bush wins I'm off to Canada -- don't think I can cope with Dubaya for another 4 years."
"if bush wins i'm not going to leave holland."
"if Bush wins, I'm removing myself from the voter rolls."
"If Bush wins, I'm still crossing my fingers, except this time hoping he doesn't launch a worldwide blitzkrieg or something."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to San Miguel de Allende Mexico."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Switzerland."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada. Eh?"
"If Bush wins I'm moving to North Korea."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to make like a cicada and hide under the bed for four years."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada and requesting political asylum."
"If Bush wins, I'm sure the angels will rejoice -- there will be thousands of lives saved, more God-fearing laws, less liberal influence, etc."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Canada!"
"if Bush wins, I'm willing to stay if the Democrats break the GOP hold on Congress."
"if Bush wins I'm moving out of the country."
"if bush wins, i'm moving to canada or australia!"
"If Bush wins, I'm packing up my stuff and heading to Canada."
"if Bush wins, I'm lighting up just because, well...f--- it."
"If Bush wins, I'm leaving the country. That simple."
"If bush wins, I'm moving to Connecticut cause America will be done for."
"If Bush wins, I'm up $1,000."
"If Bush wins, I'm not going to cause a riot but will handle myself with poise and tactfully smile."
"if bush wins, i'm having a re-count riot party."
"If Bush wins I'm considering moving to another country."
"If Bush wins I'm staying inside my fallout shelter for 4 years."
"If Bush wins I'm hoping (and do feel it is plausible) for a 60/40 split."
"if Bush wins I'm sure Christian institutions will continue to receive a hell of a lot more money than they previously had."
"if Bush wins, I'm staying until 2005."
"If Bush wins, I'm afraid I'll have to become a tad more militant."
"if Bush wins I'm moving out of the country."
"if bush wins I'm moving to canada."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to need to be able to tell myself that I did everything humanly possible to prevent it."
"If Bush wins, I'm happy."
"if bush wins, I'm starting a revolution."
"if Bush wins I'm guessing Dick Cheney will run for Prez and maybe Hilary will run."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Germany."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to grab two or three of my stinky freinds, find the busiest intersection I can find and picket with slogans such as 'Bush = War Hero' and 'George Bush was Elected.'"
"if Bush wins I'm not going to be able to stand it online enduring another 4 years of liberal *****ing about every single little pissant issue or news story."
"If Bush wins, I'm hopeful we'll take the gloves off and finally start kicking some Islamic ass."
"if Bush wins I'm the front-runner in '08."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Cuba."
"If Bush wins I'm blaming it on your state!"
"if Bush wins I'm afraid that America is a lost cause."
"if Bush wins, I'm not going anyplace colder than here!"
"If Bush wins, I'm shooting the redeemer in my sig at the White House as soon as he's reinagurated."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"If Bush wins, I'm hoping for chaos in the states."
"if bush wins, i'm killing EVERYBODY."
"If Bush Wins, I'm Going Underground."
"If Bush wins ... I'm leaving with the Baldwins."
"If Bush wins I'm going to riot."
"If Bush wins, I'm very scared for the US and the world..."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to kill myself."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"if Bush wins, i'm nuking the USA myself. i only thought i'd give you fair warning."
"If Bush wins I'm going to Disneyland." (Tommy Craggs)
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"If Bush Wins, I'm..."
SF Weekly ^ | October 16, 2004 | John Mecklin
Posted on 10/16/2004 9:29:22 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
What will we do if George W. Bush is re-elected in three weeks? Dog Bites doesn't know, but surely Google must. We searched for the phrase "If Bush wins, I'm ...." From the 450 or so hits that were returned, here's what we learned:
"if Bush wins I'm going to be living with some very unhappy Brazilians."
"If Bush wins I'm gonna get drunk, drive over to the states and drop a great big dump in the middle of the peace bridge."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to attempt to bring down the US government and replace it with a freely-elected democracy."
"if Bush wins, I'm outta here. Canada or NZ, wherever I can go, I'll go."
"if Bush wins I'm not going to be hopelessly defeated."
"if bush wins, i'm definately going to canada."
"If Bush wins (I'm not saying again), I'll chalk it up on my big 'Reasons to Commit Suicide in The Modern World' List."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to South America!"
"If bush wins, I'm jumping the fence to mexico."
"If Bush wins, I'm hoping you'll stand with us in our rebellion against this Bush dictatorship."
"If Bush wins, I'm never going to hear the end of it from my friends."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving back to the UK."
"if bush wins, I'm throwing the biggest fit in the world and then using my lifesavings to move to canada!!!"
"If Bush wins i'm moving to New Zealand, oh wait, i'm already here, suckers."
"if Bush wins, I'm joining up."
"if Bush wins I'm going to leave the country."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to be looking for a new country to call home."
"If Bush wins, I'm gonna be really loud (in my unimportant way)."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving out of the United States cause of Bush."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to the Washington Mall."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving back to Canada ... or maybe to Christine's neighborhood."
"if Bush wins I'm not jumping out a 20 story window."
"if Bush wins, I'm off to New Zealand to live with Rob and Kirsty."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Australia, and I've already got the paperwork started."
"If Bush wins, I'm seriously going back to college outside the US."
"if bush wins, i'm moving to canada..."
"If Bush wins I'm holding everyone who didn't vote for Kerry accountable, especially those who know better."
"if bush wins..i'm gonna be the happiest person alive and i'm going to be so proud to be american...haha GO BUSH!!!!!"
"If Bush wins I'm going to have to summon all the equanimity that Buddhism offers."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada..."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Germany."
"if Bush wins (I'm not voting for either of these a-holes), I r-e-a-l-l-y want Hillary to run for President in 2008, so that she can finally have a stake driven through her political career."
"If Bush wins, I'm pretty certain that we will go after Iran and/or Syria next (Iran more likely)."
"If Bush wins, I'm leaving."
"If Bush wins, I'm gone."
"if Bush wins, I'm burning my passport on the embassy steps and pleaing for asylum, anyone care to join me?"
"If Bush wins, I'm holding Nader and Patti responsible."
"if bush wins, i'm moving out of the country ... preferably to england."
"If Bush wins I'm thinking 2008 will be the battle of the women."
"if Bush wins, I'm terrified at how the liberal minded will react. I hope not violently."
"If Bush wins, I'm gonna start drinking!"
"If Bush wins I'm off to Canada -- don't think I can cope with Dubaya for another 4 years."
"if bush wins i'm not going to leave holland."
"if Bush wins, I'm removing myself from the voter rolls."
"If Bush wins, I'm still crossing my fingers, except this time hoping he doesn't launch a worldwide blitzkrieg or something."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to San Miguel de Allende Mexico."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Switzerland."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada. Eh?"
"If Bush wins I'm moving to North Korea."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to make like a cicada and hide under the bed for four years."
"If Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada and requesting political asylum."
"If Bush wins, I'm sure the angels will rejoice -- there will be thousands of lives saved, more God-fearing laws, less liberal influence, etc."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Canada!"
"if Bush wins, I'm willing to stay if the Democrats break the GOP hold on Congress."
"if Bush wins I'm moving out of the country."
"if bush wins, i'm moving to canada or australia!"
"If Bush wins, I'm packing up my stuff and heading to Canada."
"if Bush wins, I'm lighting up just because, well...f--- it."
"If Bush wins, I'm leaving the country. That simple."
"If bush wins, I'm moving to Connecticut cause America will be done for."
"If Bush wins, I'm up $1,000."
"If Bush wins, I'm not going to cause a riot but will handle myself with poise and tactfully smile."
"if bush wins, i'm having a re-count riot party."
"If Bush wins I'm considering moving to another country."
"If Bush wins I'm staying inside my fallout shelter for 4 years."
"If Bush wins I'm hoping (and do feel it is plausible) for a 60/40 split."
"if Bush wins I'm sure Christian institutions will continue to receive a hell of a lot more money than they previously had."
"if Bush wins, I'm staying until 2005."
"If Bush wins, I'm afraid I'll have to become a tad more militant."
"if Bush wins I'm moving out of the country."
"if bush wins I'm moving to canada."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to need to be able to tell myself that I did everything humanly possible to prevent it."
"If Bush wins, I'm happy."
"if bush wins, I'm starting a revolution."
"if Bush wins I'm guessing Dick Cheney will run for Prez and maybe Hilary will run."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Germany."
"if Bush wins, I'm going to grab two or three of my stinky freinds, find the busiest intersection I can find and picket with slogans such as 'Bush = War Hero' and 'George Bush was Elected.'"
"if Bush wins I'm not going to be able to stand it online enduring another 4 years of liberal *****ing about every single little pissant issue or news story."
"If Bush wins, I'm hopeful we'll take the gloves off and finally start kicking some Islamic ass."
"if Bush wins I'm the front-runner in '08."
"If Bush wins I'm moving to Cuba."
"If Bush wins I'm blaming it on your state!"
"if Bush wins I'm afraid that America is a lost cause."
"if Bush wins, I'm not going anyplace colder than here!"
"If Bush wins, I'm shooting the redeemer in my sig at the White House as soon as he's reinagurated."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"If Bush wins, I'm hoping for chaos in the states."
"if bush wins, i'm killing EVERYBODY."
"If Bush Wins, I'm Going Underground."
"If Bush wins ... I'm leaving with the Baldwins."
"If Bush wins I'm going to riot."
"If Bush wins, I'm very scared for the US and the world..."
"If Bush wins, I'm going to kill myself."
"if Bush wins, I'm moving to Canada."
"if Bush wins, i'm nuking the USA myself. i only thought i'd give you fair warning."
"If Bush wins I'm going to Disneyland." (Tommy Craggs)
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KEYWORDS: BUSHHATERS; HATERADE; IFBUSHWINS
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it takes quite an ego to believe everything said, typed or thought is addressed directly to you for your consumption only.DVD Burner wrote:Oh and P.S.
You'd be surprised what I know about sacrificing blood sweat and tears for this country.
Hope you are not assuming anything.
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cites? specific references?DVD Burner wrote:Being a military man yourself I'm sure you'll probably get upset with the truth of this fact:Simply Joel wrote: just remember, the liberties you enjoy today were bought and paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of American servicemen and women over the past 350+ years... that's right, American Revolution militiamen
I understand you speak of the militia but militants are made to take orders not give them. Usually where any military takes over is the beginning of failure.
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DVD Burner wrote:I just did a google search to see if I could find this article I was looking for and apparently found that others have done the same thing.
Here is one I thought was pretty interesting (The last one reminds me of Joel)
"If Bush Wins, I'm..."
If Bush wins, I'm going to keep on, keeping on...
If Kerry wins, I'm going to keep on, keeping on... with less money due to higher taxes, more spending on soical programs and less on defense, less capital for investment... and continuous "i told you so" from the left... IMHO
on a more serious note... if Kerry wins, it isn't because he is John Kerry, it is more because of who he isn't... sad that the choice is being made from a negative perspective.
Democrats... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, daily!
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Ya know it's bad when...............
Republicans dont' want Bush to win
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index. ... 1&pid=1960
and The Bush family dont want to re elect him
http://www.bushrelativesforkerry.com/pages/1/index.htm
And I'll have to get back to your question Joel. I gotta run to work now.
When I get a chance at work I'll get back to ya.
Republicans dont' want Bush to win
http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index. ... 1&pid=1960
and The Bush family dont want to re elect him
http://www.bushrelativesforkerry.com/pages/1/index.htm
And I'll have to get back to your question Joel. I gotta run to work now.
When I get a chance at work I'll get back to ya.
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and....theCryptofishist wrote:How are all those people who want to leave the country going to be able to get visas, etc?
all those folks leaving the country... don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
and... DVD... i don't care whether you respond or not to anything i post here. "persona non grata"
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'cause i wanted to see what kind of numb-nuts answer you would devise to avoid actually answering the question in the first place.DVD Burner wrote:Ah good, cause I'd be just wasting my breath explaining to ya anyway.Simply Joel wrote:
and... DVD... i don't care whether you respond or not to anything i post here. "persona non grata"
Why did you ask anyway?
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