Bush Lies
• "You can't say one thing and do another."-- George W. Bush, 10/31/00
• “If you overspend, it creates a fundamental weakness in the foundation of economic growth. And so I'm working with Congress to make sure they hear the message -- the message of fiscal responsibility.”-- 9/16/02
(Less than 6 months later, Bush proposed a budget that would put the government more than $300 billion into deficit.)
• “Having been here and seeing the care that these troops get is comforting for me and Laura. We are -- should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm's way.”-- Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1/17/03
(That same day the Bush Administration cut off access to its health care system from approximately 164,000 veterans.)
• “We're dealing with first-time responders to make sure they've got what's needed to be able to respond.“--
3/27/02 (Bush said he was proposing $3.5 billion in “new” money for first responders, but he actually tried to rob more than $1 billion from existing grants to local police/fire departments to fund his proposal. In August 2002, Bush rejected another $150 million for grants to state and local first responders.)
• “We're working hard to make sure your job is easier, that the port is safer. The Customs Service is working with overseas ports and shippers to improve its knowledge of container shipments, assessing risk so that we have a better feel of who we ought to look at, what we ought to worry about.”--
6/24/02 (Bush’s 2003 and 2004 budgets provide nothing for port security grants. In August, he vetoed all $39 million for the Container Security Initiative that he specifically touted.)
• “A secure and efficient border is key to our economic security.”--
9/9/02 (Bush promised more INS/Border Patrol staff and facilities, but provided no funding. He vetoed $6.25 million for promised pay upgrades for Border Patrol agents, and his 2004 Budget slashes “Border and Transportation Security” by $284 million.)
• “We've got to do more to protect worker pensions.”--
8/7/02 (The Bush Administration proposed new rules so employers could resume converting traditional pension plans to new ‘cash balance’ plans that can lower benefits of long-serving workers.) “Companies favor these plans because they can slash a worker's pension benefit by 20 to 50 percent in one fell swoop.”-- Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT.)
• “A reformed and strengthened Medicare system, plus a healthy dosage of Medicare spending in the budget, will make us say firmly, we fulfilled our promise to the seniors of America.”--
1/29/03 (Bush’s 2004 budget proposes 85% less than what would be needed to meet his goal, and would leave 67% of the total $400 billion pledge to be spent after 2008.)
• “I want to thank the Boys & Girls Clubs across the country…The Boys & Girls Club have got a grand history of helping children understand the future is bright for them, as well as any other child in America.”--
1/30/03 (Bush’s 2002 budget proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Boys and Girls Club of America.)
• “Clear Skies legislation, when passed by Congress, will significantly reduce smog and mercury emissions, as well as stop acid rain. It will put more money directly into programs to reduce pollution, so as to meet firm national air-quality goals. ...”-- Earth Day speech,
4/22/02 (Actually, the Clear Skies law delays required pollution emission cuts by as much as 10 years, weakens the states' power to address interstate pollution problems, and allows outdated industrial facilities to avoid costly pollution-control upgrades.)
So while the big lies about the war are exposed to the light, the Bush team is quietly working in the shadows-chipping away at programs for veterans, the young, the old, and the poor-funneling every possible dollar into their giant war machine so it will eventually end up in the pockets of friends and family. That is compassionate conservatism at its best.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=600Bush could not possibly answer one unscripted question about ANY issue. Not one. He approaches this job just as he has everything else in his life - slack it off, let Poppy and his friends bail him out. He does not know one thing about economics, foreign policy, the environment, law, or defense. Foreign leaders are watching that debacle and saying to themselves, "The US is on it's way down. This is the most ignorant, incompetent man that Amercia that has ever had as a president".
Bushco Deeds
-Patriot Act I
-Patriot Act II
-Naked aggression toward other countries to include two wars being fought under dubious/false evidence
-Homeland Security structure-Nazi SS organization
-Control of the press
-Control of Congress
-Control of the Judiciary
-Control of the military
-Backing of the major conservative businesses in America
Bushco Screwups
Florida's "Felonious" Voter Rolls:
9/11:
Flight 93:
The Bin Laden Family's 9/12-9/14 Exit Flights:
The WTC Asbestos/Heavy Metal Cover Up:
Uncaught Anthrax Murderer:
The Patriot Act:
Total Information Awareness:
The CAPPS II Terrorist-Helping "No Fly" List:
Poindexter's Assassination "Futures" Market:
Fraud-o-Matic Voting Machines:
Osama's Tora Bora Escape:
US & Iraqi Depleted Uranium Exposure:
Iraqi WMDs:
Cheney's Millions in Halliburton Stock Options:
Poppy Bush's Carlyle Group War Profiteering:
Outing CIA Agent Valerie Plame:
Gutting the Freedom of Information Act:
The 9/11 Attacks
Medicare PharmCorp Plundering:
US's Biggest Export = Jobs
Enron (& other corporate insider) Scams:
Hedge/Mutual Fund Scams: .
Energy Policy Written By Enron, et al:
Record Federal Government Growth:
Homeland Security Pork Barrel:
False Employment Data:
Enemy Combatant Legal Limbo:
Cutting Veterans Benefits:
Destoying Reservists' Moral and Enrollment:
Iraqi Prison Abuses:
"Clear Skies" Pollution Maker:
"Better Watch What You Say" Bully Pulpit Threats:
Reclassification of Most of Reagan's & Bush I's Papers (which had been scheduled
to be released):
Refusal To Release Documents to Congress, Courts or 9/11 Commission:
Pseudo-Scientific Science Panels:
Wildly underestimated Iraq War & Medicare Bill Costs: .
Four Rounds of Surplus then Budget Busting Tax Breaks For Rich People & Corporations:
It was fun to watch the freeps implode before they pulled it...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312247/posts> Top 10 Reasons Republicans and Conservatives Should NOT Support George W. Bush
In The Arena: The Homepage of Republican Patriots ^ | January 1, 2005 | Thinking Republican
Posted on 01/01/2005 5:16:11 PM PST by Thinking Republican
With the election behind us and a new term ahead of us, it's not time to call on this president to return to GENUINE Republican ideals and principles. Republicans have a right to believe that a Republican president will act according to long-standing Republican and Conservative principles. So far, he hasn't done much of that. Those of us who are traditional Republicans and Conservatives should demand that he does by pointing out the more aberrant acts of the Bush Administration that are inconsistent with our principles. Here, then, are the "Top 10 Reasons Republicans and Conservatives Should NOT Support George W. Bush.
10. He abrogated Republican principles that support free, fair trade and conducted protectionist trade policy by imposing tariffs on steel in March, 2002 solely to protect the domestic manufacturing base against foreign imports.
9. He has subrogated long-standing Republican environmental and conservation policies to private corporate interests by adopting proposals such as "Clear Skies", ANWR drilling and other programs. Republicans from Theodore Roosevelt, to Barry Goldwater, to Richard Nixon had always been at the forefront of environmental policy, viewing America's environment and natural resources as a special trust to be preserved for the ages.
8. He has violated Republican principles that have always held that the defense of the United States was the principal reason for a central government by neglecting explicit warnings contained in the President's Daily Brief of August 6, 2001 that stated "Osama bin Laden determined to attack within the United States". He issued no alerts; he did not raise the national defense condition; he did not even alert state or local police authorities of the warning. No president in our history - with the possible exception of FDR - has been so negligent in his sworn duty to protect the United States in the face of explicit prior warnings of a possible imminent attack.
7. He has gravely damaged alliances that have been built and advanced by every Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower by diminishing America's standing within the world community, including America's relationships with some of our closest and most long-standing allies in NATO, ASEAN, and the OAS.
6. He has contravened Republican policy to support a strong national defense by "transforming the military" with his notions of a "lighter, faster, stronger" force and "network-centric" warfare. These concepts, and the fashion in which they are being implemented, diminishes American force readiness and the ability of American forces to wage warfare successfully in a variety of battle spaces and against a multitude of enemies. Force redundancies and force capabilities in multiple specialties that have been built into the American defense palette since at least the beginning of World War II, and that permitted America to project force to a variety of combat environments (e.g., we used an army we built to fight the USSR in Europe to fight Saddam in the desert in the first Gulf War), have been put aside in favor of a force that "treats warfare as a glorified targeting exercise", as one analyst put it. The American ability to achieve political objectives by means of warfare - as opposed to simply waging combat - has been greatly diminished by Pentagon planners that have created a force that can fight only one centrally controlled conventional opponent, and then only if that opponent relies on the type of sophisticated electronic weaponry that only advanced industrialized economies are likely to possess. (We can beat England, Germany, and Japan, individually or together, but a conflict with Nigeria, Iraq, Somalia, al-Quaeda, FARC or Hamas - individually or together - may not be winnable because our weaponry is too sophisticated and our tactics won't work against "lesser" enemies.)
5. He has abandoned the Republican principle fiscal responsibility and support for the Middle Class by burying America in a mountain of debt and tolerating prolonged and exorbitant trade deficits. 40% of his 2001 tax cuts funded tax cuts for the top 2% of taxpayers and added $2 Trillion to the national debt. Trade policy has been ineffective, ill-advised and mostly ad-hoc (a simple fix of an illegal export subsidy in the Internal Revenue Code was viewed, instead, as an opportunity to reward lobbyists and contributors with virtually everything on their corporate tax wish list). Meanwhile, presidential hubris threatens the economy with the prospect of higher interest rates, inflation, and a gravely weakened dollar. These economic conditions endanger the savings and economic well-being of the Middle Class, a vital Republican constituency.
4. He and Dick Cheney have further weakened the Republican notion of a strong national defense by creating a civilian defense establishment that seems more concerned with Israeli political party Likud's interests than with American interests. (Even Bret Scowcroft, Bush 41's NSA, says this president is "mesmerized" by Ariel Sharon and that Sharon has this president "wrapped around his finger".) Richard Perle, the mentor or confidant to many of the civilian leaders in the Pentagon has twice been investigated for espionage on behalf of Israel; and "Scooter" Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith (to name only a few) are all protégés or confidants of Perle. At least one of Feith's Pentagon intelligence subordinates has been investigated for spying for Israel, and UPI reported that former Reagan NSC Intelligence Director (and CIA Counterintelligence/Counterterrorism Chief) Vincent Cannistraro said that Feith himself was dismissed from his position in the Reagan National Security Council because the FBI suspected he was passing classified intelligence to the Israelis.
3. He has undermined traditional Republican support for maintaining the world's preeminent national intelligence service by politicizing intelligence to support a preordained Iraq War policy; by selectively classifying documents so as to prevent political embarrassment; and, by "outing" intelligence operatives for purposes of political retribution. In just four years, the Bush Administration and it's neoconservative operatives in the Pentagon have turned the CIA, the DIA and NSC into, essentially, political adjuncts of the White House Office of Political Affairs. Highly respected military officers, like Anthony Zinni, and undercover intelligence operatives, like Victoria Plame, have been branded "traitors" or had their cover identities revealed, respectively, because they dared challenge the White House in it's rush to war in Iraq. Now, the credibility of American intelligence -- once the best in the world -- is questioned by our traditional allies, and our ability to safeguard vital American interests throughout the world is undermined, because our intelligence services were blatantly misused and abused by the Bush Administration to "sell" the Iraq War.
2. He has violated Republican military doctrine of a generation, as best embodied by the so-called "Powell Doctrine". The Powell Doctrine actually dates back well before the Gulf War and it's principles go back to at least the Reagan Administration when Col. Harry Summers of the Army War College published "On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War" in 1982. In nearly every phase of the Iraq War, the Bush Administration violated virtually all of the precepts of the Powell Doctrine, from failing to use overwhelming force to building a sufficient and sustainable public support for the war, to failing to have a clearly defined mission, to failing to have a clear exit strategy.
1. He has violated traditional Republican and conservative notions of foreign policy - not to mention internationally recognized foreign policy principles dating to the Treaty of Westphalia - by engaging in a radical plan to transform the Middle East into a democratic region by force of arms without a casus belli.
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