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The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration



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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 maki
ng 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

Sara

In article <cm182o$2s5$>,
"Sara" <> wrote:

Sara and the hotmail account.

do you think for a minute you are anything close to creditable garbage
--

<> wrote in message
news:deil-...
> In article <cm182o$2s5$>,
> "Sara" <> wrote:
>
> Sara and the hotmail account.
>
> do you think for a minute you are anything close to creditable garbage

Read what she posted, genuis. It's far more credible and supported than the
'stolen honor' garbage you've been pushing.

Zen Cohen

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:19:05 GMT, "Zen Cohen" <>
wrote:

>
><> wrote in message
>news:deil-...
>> In article <cm182o$2s5$>,
>> "Sara" <> wrote:
>>
>> Sara and the hotmail account.
>>
>> do you think for a minute you are anything close to creditable garbage
>
>Read what she posted, genuis. It's far more credible and supported than the
>'stolen honor' garbage you've been pushing.

Prozac. Get Prozac.
<plonk>


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"If you wind up being less than what you're pretending
to be, there is a major confrontation with value and
self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."
- John Kerry, 1996, after the suicide of
Adm. Mike Boorda, accused of receiving
undeserved decorations

Eric Dreher

"Sara" wrote:
>
> The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration

I'll be so glad once this ****ing election is through just so these
cross-posting political freaks will crawl back under their rocks for a few
years.

T.B.

TB

This is easily countered with Kerry's 20 year senate record which is far
scarier.


--
RnR Lesnar
It's True, It's True- Kurt Angle
Bush/Cheney 2004


"Sara" <> wrote in message
news:cm182o$2s5$...
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=facts
>
> The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
>
>
>
> Email to your friends and relatives ...NOW is the time, please.
>
>
>
> 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
> maki
> ng 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
>
>
>

RnR Lesnar

Double check all her facts. They are right on the money. Nice job, I might
add.


<> wrote in message
news:deil-...
> In article <cm182o$2s5$>,
> "Sara" <> wrote:
>
> Sara and the hotmail account.
>
> do you think for a minute you are anything close to creditable garbage
> --
>

Art

<> wrote in message
news:deil-...
> In article <cm182o$2s5$>,
> "Sara" <> wrote:
>
> Sara and the hotmail account.

YOU are credible!?

As usual, you missed the link, deil:

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=facts

and the linked sources

Sara

"TB" <> wrote in message
news:3wXgd.32173$...
> "Sara" wrote:
> >
> > The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
>
> I'll be so glad once this ****ing election is through just so these
> cross-posting political freaks will crawl back under their rocks for a few
> years.

Stick your head under the sand again..as if we are not bombarded by Bush and
his cronies for 4 years - even though he lost the election...now TALK ABOUT
CROSS POSTING!


>
> T.B.
>
>

Sara

"RnR Lesnar" <> wrote in message
news:cm1gh6$a2$...
> This is easily countered with Kerry's 20 year senate record which is far
> scarier.

OK, try to find 100 lies by Kerry...not that he is perfect.


>
>
> --
> RnR Lesnar
> It's True, It's True- Kurt Angle
> Bush/Cheney 2004
>
>
> "Sara" <> wrote in message
> news:cm182o$2s5$...
> > http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=facts
> >
> > The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
> >
> >
> >
> > Email to your friends and relatives ...NOW is the time, please.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > maki
> > ng 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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