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OT Accomplishments of the Bush Regime
GEORGE W. BUSH IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE
Face it, the yo yo president of the U.S.A. knows NOTHING. He is a
DUNCE. He does what he is TOLD to do, says what he is TOLD to say, pose
the way he is to TOLD to pose. He is a FOOL. --Hunter S. Thompson, the
Greatest American Writer, on George W. Bush
I would now like to address this. Wow, what a retard that guy is. I
can not believe someone this fucking stupid can get elected president of
the most powerful nation on the globe. The difference between John
Adams/John Q. Adams and George Bush Sr./George Bush Jr. demonstrates
just how much this country has deteriorated since its inception. Plus,
the Bush II administration is basically the Nixon administration.
Remember when the citizens of the USA were so furious that they kicked
that psychotic out of office? Well, Cheney and Rumsfeld were the golden
haired boys of the Nixon regime, and they are right back in the White
House with upgraded offices. Bush II is a prep school cheerleader
masquerading as a cowboy (with half the intellect those two activities
suggest). I tried to warn the world about this asswipe prior to the
election, but the far left was too busy being hypnotized by Ralph Nader
to pay heed to the real danger of a second Bush presidency. Somehow
this douchebag was made president despite losing the election, and so
far his rule has been even worse than I imagined. I have never seen
anyone more willing to sell himself to business interests. He is a
bigger whore than any skank on Division St. and Anna Nicole Smith
combined. But I would not make these claims without backing them up.
If his approval ratings are really so high, it just proves that the vast
populace of American morons are too busy buying shit and listening to
Kelly Clarkson records to pay attention. Bush winning a second term,
means America's experiment in democracy has failed. Please forward the
following list to any people you know who think Bush is their personal
savior to prove otherwise. Here is a partial list of his war crimes
thus far (warning--it is one long motherfucker):
June 25, 2005
Kenneth Tomlinson, the chairman of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, monitors shows for liberal content and chased Bill
Moyers' NOW off the air.
Halliburton received a $72 million bonus for work done in Iraq.
June 24, 2005
The United States' popularity is lagging behind communist China around
the world, even among longtime allies in Europe. Only Indonesia and
Poland viewed the U.S. more positively than China.
June 23, 2005
In a speech, Karl Rove (Turd Blossom) said: "Liberals saw the savagery
of the 911 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy
and understanding to our attackers."
June 21, 2005
Three women from Denver were kicked out of a Bush social security rally
by a White House representitive. They had not caused a disturbance.
They were kicked out for having a No Blood for Oil bumper sticker.
Similar situations happened in Fargo, Tuscon, and New Hampshire.
June 20, 2005
Cheney claims the insurgency in Iraq is "in its last throes." In 2003,
the pentagon estimated there were 5,000 insurgents. Their estimate
today is 25,000. Top military officials contradict Cheney before
Congress.
June 16, 2005
The autopsy of Terry Schiavo showed that her brain was half the size of
a normal brain and there was zero hope for recovery.
June 14, 2005
According to State Department documents, Bush's decision not to sign the
Kyoto treaty was due to pressure from Exxon/Mobile.
Bush claims 200 terrorists have been convicted as a result of the
Patriot Act. The actual number is 39.
Bush's approval rating is 42%. Only Nixon had a rating below 40%.
June 12, 2005
According to the Downing Street memo (7/23/02): "A post-war occupation
of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise.
As already made clear, the U.S. military plans are virtually silent on
this point."
June 10, 2005
Bush called FDR a socialist for inventing social security. In 1978,
Bush wanted to privatize social security saying it would be bankrupt by
1988.
June 8, 2005
Bush's expert on global warming, Phillip Cooney, is a former petroleum
industy lobbyist. He was forced to resign as Chief of Staff of the
Council of Environmental Quality after it was revealed he edited
government climate reports in ways that cast doubt on the link between
greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Cooney has no scientific
training.
June 5, 2005
In 2002, John Bolton orchestrated the firing of diplomat Jose Bustani
because he was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad. A
UN tribunal has judged this act unlawful. Bustani says at one point he
received a menacing phone call from Bolton.
May 26, 2005
Amnesty International called the prison at Guantanamo Bay the "gulag of
our times." They also said: "When the most powerful country in the
world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a
license to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity."
May 25, 2005
Bush names Timothy Flanigan, a senior lawyer for Tyco International, to
be deputy attorney general. Tyco's nominal headquarters is in Bermuda
as a tax shelter.
May 22, 2005
The federal government has spent $167 million on abstinence only
education for groups such as the Silver Ring Thing. As a condition of
funding, they must teach that condoms do not work.
May 21, 2005
Bush vowed to veto legislation intended to ease restrictions he imposed
on stem cell research in 2001.
May 8, 2005
A classified memo (the Downing Street memo) was leaked during the recent
British election. The memo is from a July 23, 2002 meeting between US
and UK officials (including Richard Dearlove, head of MI-6). It states
that "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified
by the conjunction of terrorism and wmd. But the intelligence and facts
were being fixed around policy...There was little discussion in
Washington of the aftermath after military action."
May 6, 2005
The Bush administration took sweeping action to open 60 million acres,
about one third of national forest land, to new road construction which
could lead to logging, mining, and other commercial use of these
previously protected areas.
May 5, 2005
$100 million in Iraqi reconstruction cash, which was supposed to be
handed out by U.S. workers in shrink wrapped bricks of hundred dollar
bills, can not be accounted for.
May 1, 2005
According to 60 Minutes, there was massive use of torture at Guantanamo
Bay.
The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than
tripled last year. The State Department lhas decided not to make them
public in its annual report on terrorism. Terrorist attacks in Iraq
increased nine times over last year's total.
April 27, 2005
"I appreciate the leadership of Congressman Tom De Lay in working on
important issues that matter to the country."--GWB
April 22, 2005
The cost for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan is over
$300 billion. Early on, the Bush administration claimed the war in Iraq
would pay for itself with oil revenues.
April 13, 2005
In the nomination hearing of John Bolton for UN ambassador, Carl Ford, a
Republican and former assistant secretary of state for intelligence,
called Bolton "a serial abuser" and "a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down
sort of guy." In a 1994 speech, Bolton said the UN did not exist and
that the UN would lose nothing by lopping 10 stories off its 38-story
headquarters.
According to German intelligence, Osama bin Laden eluded capture at Tora
Bora by bribing Afghan militias delegated the task of capturing him.
April 3, 2005
Bush has nominated Cheney's son-in-law, Philip J. Perry a prominent
lawyer who represents companies in the homeland security field, to be
the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. missile defense program cost $370 million more than planned and
its performance remains uncertain and unverified.
March 31, 2005
Malnutrition among the youngest Iraqis has doubled since the U.S.
invasion.
Next year, the administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for
buying a hybrid vehicle.
March 21, 2005
Bush signs emergency legislation aimed at prolonging the life of severly
brain damaged Terry Schiavo.
March 20, 2005
Buch nominates Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. Wolfowitz has
said that the entire cost for the war in Iraq would be paid for with
Iraqi oil money.
Halliburton charged the Petagon $27.5 million to ship $85,000 worth of
fuel from Kuwait to Iraq.
March 18, 2005
Bush nominates William Myers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court. Myers was a
long-time lobbyist for the mining and cattle industries. Virtually
every environmental organization opposes his nomination, along with
civil rights, labor, and Indian groups.
March 16, 2005
Bush's plans for space exploration are forcing wrenching changes at
NASA, putting thousands of jobs at risk and threatening the closing of
facilities.
March 13, 2005
The Bushes were flown to the first W. inauguration by Ken Lay on an
Enron plane.
March 6, 2005
According to the State Department, Afghanistan is on the verge of
becoming a narcotics state and its heroin production poses a threat to
world stability.
Bush's uncle, Bucky Bush, is on the board of Engineered Support, a
defense contractor that profits from the war in Iraq. He has exercised
stock options worth $500,000. The stock has gone up %1,000 in the past
five years.
February 22, 2005
At a bill signing, Bush beckoned to a Hispanic man in the front row and
said, "I welcome our new attorney general." But the man in the front
row was not Alberto Gonzales, it was Hector Barreto of the Small
Business Administration.
February 18, 2005
On April 20, 2004. Bush hosted a meeting at his Crawford ranch for what
he called "wildlife conservation organizations." These organizations
were gun and hunting lobbyists including the NRA, the Safari Club, Ducks
Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, and the U.S. Sportsman's Alliance.
February 10, 2005
A fake reporter was uncovered who asked loaded questions during news
conferences at the White House. Jeff Gannon who writes for the web stie
GOPUSA was revealed to be James Guckert who owns the web site domain
names hotmilitarystuds.com and militaryescorts.com and offered his
services as a gay escort. Gannon/Guckert's stories appeared on a site
founded by Texas Republican Robert Eberle. In a press conference with
Bush, Gannon/Guckert asked if he could work with Democrats "who have
divorced themselves from reality."
The projected cost of Bush's Medicare program sky rockets from $400
billion to $724 billion.
$700 million will be cut from EPA clean water projects. Spending on the
federal Land and Water Conservation fund will amount to $132 million
instead of the $900 million Bush promised during his campaign.
February 6, 2005
Bush molded a $2.5 trillion spending plan as a response to a string of
record deficits. It includes the following cuts: a $600 million grant
program for police would shrink to $60 million, grants to firefighters
would be reduced from $715 million to $500 million, the EPA's $8.1
billion would drop by $450 million, the Bureau of Indian Affairs would
lose $100 million mostly in funding for schools, a $2.2 billion program
that provides low-income people with aid for heating expenses would be
cut to $2 billion. The cost of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
run $5 billion per month.
January 31, 2005
Bush states that his plan to privatize Social Security would benefit
blacks because they tend to have shorter lives.
January 27, 2005
The Bush administration embarked on a renewed effort to replace large
sections of the Clean Air Act with industry-friendly Clear Skies
policies.
January 26, 2005
Bush asks for an additional $80 billion in war spending pushing the
budget deficit to a record $427 billion.
The Bush administration is again caught paying a journalist to support
their agenda. This time Maggie Gallagher was given $21,500 to promote
marriage.
January 24, 2005
Bush phones a Pro-Life rally outside the White House to voice his
support for their cause.
January 23, 2005
WASHINGTON POST: "Why do you think Osama bin Laden has not been
caught?"
BUSH: "Because he's hiding."
January 22, 2005
The government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres
of Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades.
January 20, 2005
The Bush administration has proposed subsidizing construction of new
nuclear power plants.
January 14, 2005
Bush admits saying "bring 'em on" was a mistake. "Those words had an
unintended consequence."
According to the National Intelligence Council, Iraq has replaced
Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of
terrorists.
January 12, 2005
The search for WMD in Iraq officially ends in failure.
January 8, 2005
The Education Department acknowledged that it paid $240,000 in taxpayer
money to Armstrong Williams, a syndicated newspaper columnist and
television commentator, to promote the No Child Left Behind Act.
January 7, 2005
More Ohio voting irregularities reported including: 25 electronic voting
machines in Mahoning County gave Kerry votes to Bush, in Cuyahoga County
10,000 voters were erroneously purged from voting rolls, in Franklin
County 27 out of 30 wards with the most machines per voter voted for
Bush while 6 of 7 wards with the fewest machines per voter voted for
Kerry.
January 6, 2005
Attorney General nominee, Alberto Gonzales has called the Geneva
Convention "obsolete and quaint." He is considered instrumental in
establishing the interogation policy that led to prisoner abuse at Abu
Ghraib.
December 29, 2004
A new Pell Grant formula will knock 90,000 students off the eligibility
rolls and slash grants to 1.3 million others.
December 28, 2004
Corporations have given huge sums of money to Bush's inaugral gala
including Philip Morris, Chevron Texaco, Exxon Mobile, Occidental
Petroleum, and Richard Kinder, former Enron president.
December 26, 2004
Bush's nickname for Karl Rove is TURD BLOSSOM. Rove made millions of
dollars in the junk mail business.
December 23, 2004
Managers of the nation's 155 national forests will have more discretion
to approve logging and other commercial projects without environmental
reviews.
December 20, 2004
The Pentagon admits that Donald Rumsfeld did not sign condolence letters
to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq. According to soldier-
turned-writer David Hackworth, Rumsfeld "has relinquished this sacred
duty to a signature device rather than signing the sad documents
himself."
On November 3, 2004, visits to the Canadian immigration web site jumped
from 50,000 hits a day to 180,000.
December 17, 2004
20/20 reports that Tom Ridge held a Homeland Security summit at the
largest spa in Hawaii.
Bush's pick to replace Ridge, Bernie Kerrik, has to withdraw his name
because of a series of scandals including misuse of 911 funds and mob
connections.
December 15, 2004
Bush gives Medals of Freedom to Paul Bremer, Tommy Franks, and George
Tenet all architects of the failed Iraq policy.
December 13, 2004
A series of voting irregularities are detected in Ohio including a
"computer glitch" in suburban Columbus that gave Bush 3,893 votes in a
precinct where 638 votes were cast. Walden O'Dell, the chief executive
of Diebold Inc. a voting machine manufacturer, wrote in an August 2003
invitation to a Bush fundraising event that he was "committed to helping
Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."
December 9, 2004
Clark Irvin, the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland
Security, was fired after criticizing the agency.
December 1, 2004
The U.S. death toll in November equals the record high for the Iraq War.
November 27, 2004
A report by Inspector General Staurt Bowen said Halliburton "did not
effectively manage government property" and auditors could not locate
hundred of items worth millions of dollars.
November 22, 2004
The poppy crop in Afghanistan reaches an historic high.
According to the TRAC study at Syracuse University, federal enforcement
of civil rights laws has dropped sharply since 1999.
November 21, 2004
Malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the
invasion.
November 20, 2004
The U.S. has decided to sell $1 billion in weapons to Pakistan.
November 13, 2004
Cheney goes to the hospital with a cold. He also received a flu shot
when supplies were limited.
November 12, 2004
CIA terrorism expert Michael Scheuer resigns because "there has not been
adequate national debate over the nature of the threat posed by Osama
bin Laden." He also said "there is not a lot of military pressure on
bin Laden."
November 7, 2004
After the election, the headline in The Daily Mirror of London read: How
can 59, 054, 087 people be so Dumb?
October 30, 2004
More Russian "loose nukes" were destroyed in the two years before
September 11, 2001 than the two years after.
General Richard Myers said there is "no way to militarily win the war in
Iraq."
October 29, 2004
The Lancet report estimates that 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since
the invasion.
Cheney calls the war in Iraq "a remarkable success story."
The FBI has expanded its criminal investigation of Halliburton.
The IRS is investigating the NAACP after their chairman made anti-Bush
statements.
October 25, 2004
380 tons of military grade explosives are missing in Iraq.
The top civillian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers,
Bunnatine Greenhouse, charges that the Army granted large contracts to
Halliburton without following rules designed to ensure competition and
fair prices.
October 19, 2004
Hassan Rowhani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council,
endorses Bush.
October 15, 2004
There is home video of a drunken George W. Bush at the 1992 wedding of
Jamie Weiss. Bush claims he stopped drinking in 1986.
October 10, 2004
During Bush's six years as Texas governor more people were executed than
the entire country executed between 1981 and 1990.
October 6, 2004
Paul Bremer admits that not enough troops were used in the invasion of
Iraq.
When Dick Cheney was in Congress, he voted against the Martin Luther
King holiday and against a referendum trying to get Nelson Mandella
released from prison.
Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, said there is no
evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He
also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such
weapons had dimmed, not grown, over the years.
October 5, 2004
Rumsfeld says he has not seen any "good, hard evidence" that links Iraq
to al Queda.
October 4, 2004
It was revealed that there was a dispute in 2002 between the CIA and the
Energy Department over whether Iraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes
were related to nuclear weapons. In September of 2002, Condoleeza Rice
siad the tubes "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs."
Details have emerged showing the U.S. government and a representative of
Bush's election campaign were heavily involved in drafting Iraqi
president Allawi's speech to Congress.
Col. Anthony Christino said the interogations in Guantanamo Bay have not
prevented a single terrorist attack. He said Bush and Rumsfeld have
wildly exagerrated their intelligence value.
October 2, 2004
Bush refuses to declassify a National Intelligence Estimate issued in
August painting a troubling picture of the situation in Iraq.
October 1, 2004
John Eisenhower, the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, endorses Kerry saying:
"Recent developments indicate that the current Republican Party
leadership has confused confident leadership with hubris and
arrogance."
September 29. 2004
Three dozen doctors, including six former presidents of the Academy of
Pediatrics, signed a statement criticizing Bush's neglect of children's
health care.
September 25, 2004
Larry Salathe, a senior economist at the Department of Agriculture, has
come under fire for suggesting that the Bush administration could
maximize votes in dairy states by keeping milk prices high.
September 24, 2004
In nine different speeches, Bush uses the wrong name, Abu Nidal, to
identify the killer of Leon Klinghoffer.
September 22, 2004
One of Ralph Nader's biggest financial supporters is Nijad Fares, the
son of Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares. In 2000, Fares gave
$200,000 to the Bush Inaugral fund. Another big Nader contributor is
Richard Egan, Bush's former ambassador to Ireland.
A Pentagon analyst concluded that the Iraqi informer codenamed "Curve
Ball" was unreliable and an alcoholic. Yet, Curve Ball was the main
source of information for Powell's UN speech.
September 18, 2004
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage alleged that insurgents have
stepped up their deadly assaults in Iraq because they want to "influence
the election against President Bush."
September 14, 2004
Bush does nothing to renew the assault weapons ban.
September 2004 has been the deadliest month in world terror since
September 2001.
September 10, 2004
For every year of the Bush presidency, health insurance premiums have
risen by double digits.
A 527 group attacking Kerry (MoveOnForAmerica.org), was created by
Stephen Marks a former press secretary for Jeb Bush.
September 9, 2004
Cheney denies saying there will be a terrorist attack if Kerry is
elected even though the day before he said: "if we make the wrong choice
in November, we will be hit and hit hard by an attack that will be
devastating to the United States."
The Government Accountability Office said the Bush administration
illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare
law. It also said the head of Medicare, Thomas Scully, should repay his
salary to the government for his role in the deceit. Scully said he
would not.
September 8, 2004
During a campaign speech in Iowa, Cheney tells the audience that if
Kerry is elected there will be a devastating terrorist attack in the
U.S.
The federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion this year.
September 7, 2004
During a campaign speech, Bush said: "OBGYNs aren't able to practice
their love with women."
September 4, 2004
Two men who appear in the Swift Boat Veterans ads (Paul Galanti and
Kenneth Cordier) are Bush political appointees serving on a panel
advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.
September 2, 2004
A University of Illinois student, Devon Largio, has done a thesis
delineating 27 separate rationales advanced by the administration for
the war in Iraq.
John Ashcroft has asked the Government Printing Office to instruct
libraries to remove five publications dealing with federal law.
After Cheney's speech at the convention, members of his family joined
him on stage except for his lesbian daughter, Mary.
Someone from Douglas Feith's office is accused of passing classified
information to the Israelis via the lobby group American Israel Public
Affairs Committee.
August 31, 2004
When asked if we can win the war on terror during an interview with Matt
Lauer, Bush responds: "I don' t think you can win it."
Powell cancels an appearance at the Olympic closing ceremony because of
protests.
The trade deficit has risen all three years of the Bush presidency.
August 28, 2004
Bush admits that he made a miscalculation of what the conditions would
be in Iraq.
August 27, 2004
For the third straight year the number of both the poor and the
uninsured has risen.
August 24, 2004
Two members of the Bush campaign (Benjamin Ginsberg and Kenneth Cordier)
have been connected to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Any coordination
between the two groups is a violation of law. Bush has said there is no
connection.
August 22, 2004
Chicago Tribune editor and Vietnam vet William Rood supports Kerry's
version of the events that lead to his Silver Star. Rood was also a
swift boat commander with Kerry and personally witnessed the battle and
published documents to support his claims. The group attacking Kerry's
war record, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is financed by Bob Perry, a
Texas republican with personal ties to Bush and Karl Rove.
The Iraqi Olympic soccer team has come out against Bush using them in
his campaign ads. One player told Sports Illustrated: "How will he
(Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so many men and women. He has
committed so many crimes."
Christian rockers Third Day and Michael W. Smith will perform at the
Republican convention.
August 19, 2004
Bush holds question and answer rallies where the audience is screened
ahead of time and bused in.
August 13, 2004
According to a CBO report, the top 1% wealthiest Americans received 1/3
of the Bush tax cuts.
August 12, 2004
Cheney says Kerry lacks "deeply held convictions about right and
wrong."
August 10, 2004
Former Bush ally and member of the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing
Council Ahmed Chalabi is wanted for counterfeiting Iraqi money.
August 7, 2004
The Bush administration plans to spend millions of dollars upgrading the
Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. They have also budgeted
millions of dollars to design bunker buster nuclear bombs.
August 6, 2004
Bruce Springsteen organizes a series of concerts in battleground states
calling for Bush to be removed from office.
In a speech, Bush said: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and
so are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and
our people, and neither do we."
The opium output in Afghanistan has reached its highest levels ever.
August 4, 2004
Halliburton agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle allegations that it
misled investors about the size of its profits for more than a year when
Cheney ran the company.
August 3, 2004
General Tommy Franks attributes the stresses on U.S. forces in Iraq due
to the failure to get the support of more allies. He also said troop
strength was not large enough and that war planners did not foresee the
insurgency. In his book "American Soldier," Franks referred to Douglas
Feith, udersecretary of defense for policy, as "a theorist whose ideas
were often impractical."
August 1, 2004
Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of Afghanistan because it is too
dangerous. They have been in Afghanistan for 25 years including during
the war with the Soviets.
Iraqi prime minister Allawi has placed restrictions on the media making
criticism of the prime minister illegal. He has reinstituted the
Information Ministry that was abolished by the Americans.
Halliburton has lost $18.6 million in government property in Iraq
including trucks, computers, and office furniture.
A rally for Cheney in New Mexico made tickets only available to people
who were willing to sign a statement saying they supported Bush.
July 31, 2004
Bush changed the Clean Water Act legalizing mountain top mining in West
Virginia, a major source of pollution.
July 22, 2004
At least 13 relatives of Osama bin Laden, with their body guards and
associates, were allowed to fly out of the United States eight days
after the September 11 attack.
July 21, 2004
Another Bush judicial nominee, William Myers, is rejected. This time it
is because of his terrible environmental record. Myers was a lobbyist
for the mining industry.
July 20, 2004
According to General Jack Keene, the war planners were "seduced" by
Iraqi exiles with regard to the outcome after the war. As a result, the
Pentagon did not do enough post-war planning and did not see the
insurgency coming.
July 17, 2004
The Bush administration wants to take the gray wolf off the endangered
species list. "This proposal puts the brakes on wolf recovery just as
the species was starting to rebound."--Barry Braden, managing director
of the Wolf Conversation Center.
July 16, 2004
Child poverty has risen for the first time in a decade.
July 13, 2004
The Bush administration announced planes to revoke Clinton's "roadless
rule" that protected millions of acres of national forests by banning
roads that would be used by logging and mining operations. Phil Clapp,
president of the National Environmental Trust, called it the Bush
presidency's "biggest single give away to the timber industry."
July 10, 2004
For the fourth straight year Bush has declined an invitation to address
the NAACP convention. He is the first sitting president since Hoover
not to address the group.
The Senate Intelligence Commitee report says that bad information was
used to justify the war with Iraq. Yet, Bush still defends his
decision.
July 7, 2004
Bush nominates J. Leon Holmes to the federal bench in Arkansas. Holmes
has said such things as "rape victims become pregnant as often as it
snows in Miami" and "in marriage, the woman is to place herself in the
authority of the man."
July 4, 2004
In 2001 and 2002, Halliburton paid Cheney $367,000 in deferred
compensation.
While Cheney was CEO of Halliburton the company sold Iraq $73 million in
oil equipment and did $24 million in oil field work.
June 30, 2004
The cost of the war in Iraq is $4 billion per month for the U.S.
June 24, 2004
Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar is so connected to the Bush family that
he is referred to as Bandar Bush.
Wolfowitz had to apologize to reporters for saying "...part of our
problem is a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they
sit in Baghdad and they publish rumors."
Cheney tells Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" after Leahy
questions him about Halliburton's policies.
June 23, 2004
Wolfowitz admits before Congress that the Pentagon underestimated the
tenacity of the insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell.
June 22, 2004
48 Nobel Prize winners denounce Bush.
June 21, 2004
Bush nominates Thomas Griffith to the federal appeals court even though
Griffith has been practicing law in Utah without a state license for the
past four years.
Halliburton executive A. Jack Stanley was accused by the company of
financial wrong doing. Stanley was promoted by Dick Cheney.
Halliburton was accused of overcharging the government including such
practices as charging $100 for cleaning a 15 pound bag of laundry and
abandoning $85,000 trucks when they get a flat tire. They have
mismanaged $8 billion of Iraq contracts.
Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, under the direction of the CIA, ran a
terror campaign inside Iraq that included car bombs that killed
civillians in the early 90's.
June 20, 2004
The Coalition Provisional Authority is filled with Republican insiders
rather than Middle East or nation building experts including: Michael
Karem, James Haveman, Thomas Foley, Michael Fleischer (Ari Fleischer's
brother), Stuart Bowen, and John Agresto.
June 17, 2004
An Iraqi general (Abed Hamed Mowhoush) was tortured to death while in
U.S. custody.
June 16, 2004
The 911 commission report states that there was no connection between al
Queda and Iraq.
June 15, 2004
The White House said it would not relax restrictions on stem cell
research.
June 14, 2004
26 retired diplomats and military officers are urging America to vote
Bush out of office. Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change
released a statement saying: "We agree that we have lost confidence in
the ability of the Bush administration to advocate for American
interests or to provide the kind of leadership we think is essential."
June 11, 2004
The State Department admits that it was incorrect in reporting that
terrorism declined worldwide last year, a finding used to boost Bush's
chief foreign policy claim of success in countering terrorism.
June 9, 2004
Ashcroft will not release a 2002 policy memo on the degree of pain and
suffering permitted during enemy interrogations.
June 6, 2004
While eulogizing Ronald Reagan, Bush mispronounces tyranny.
June 4, 2004
Bush hires a defense lawyer, Jim Sharp, to advise him with regard to the
CIA leak case.
June 2, 2004
Chalabi is officially accused of supplying intelligence to Iran.
According to the N.Y. Times, the vast majority of prisoners at Abu
Ghraib possessed no intelligence information.
June 1, 2004
Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any
predecessor.
May 28, 2004
Ashcroft claims that al Queda has announced it is 90% ready to attack
the U.S. This claim came from a discredited internet site.
May 24, 2004
In a nationally televised speech, Bush is unable to pronounce Abu
Ghraib.
May 23, 2004
The GAO determined that the Department of Health and Human Services
violated federal law when it used federal funds to produce overt
propaganda.
The Agriculture Department allowed Canadian Beef into the country
despite a ban due to mad cow disease.
According to a new public opinion poll conducted by the U.S. authority,
only 7% of Iraqis view America as liberators.
May 22, 2004
The Bush administration has turned on their favorite Iraqi, Ahmad
Chalabi, raiding his home and office in Baghdad. They also cut off the
$340,000 per month they were paying him. Chalabi has been convicted of
bank fraud in Jordan and is suspected of selling intelligence to Iran.
Chalabi sat behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union Address.
May 19, 2004
In front of a Senate commitee, Wolfowitz admits the Iraq strategy was
flawed.
May 17, 2004
The Bush Justice Dpartment is prosecuting Greenpeace activists under the
obscure "sailor mongering" law.
The Bush administration had an opportunity to bomb terrotist Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi (the guy who cut of the head of Nick Berg) at his training
camp in Northern Iraq before the war. But they did not do it because
they thought it would weaken their argument for invasion.
May 16, 2004
Internal EPA documents show that a proposed progaram to monitor air
pollution at livestock farms was largely conceived and heavily
influenced by lobbyists for the livestock industry.
Bush defends his policy of not reading the paper saying he likes to have
a "clean slate."
May 13, 2004
More prisoner abuse photos were shown to Congress that are even more
horrible than the first batch. Dick Durbin (D-ILL) said: "It felt like
I was looking into one of the rings of hell and it's a ring of our own
creation." Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-COL) said: "I don't know how the
hell these people got into our Army."
The group Human Rights Watch alleges more abuse of prisoners in
Afghanistan.
May 11, 2004
According to the Washington Times, U.S. marines have committed war
crimes in Falujah.
Tax payer money was used for Iraqi exiles to lobby for an American
invasion of Iraq.
Prisons in Texas were under a federal consent decree during Bush's term
as governor because of prisoner abuse.
Lane McCotter, the man in charge of the reopening of Abu Ghraib prison,
was forced to resign as director of the Utah Department of Corrections
in 1997 because of a prisoner abuse scandal. He then ran a private
prison firm that was under investigation by the Justice Department.
May 10, 2004
In March 2003, Bush warned Iraq that if American POW's were abused the
people responsible would be treated as war criminals.
May 6, 2004
The Bush administration rejects the sale of over the counter, morning
after birth control pills even though the FDA recommends it.
Rumsfeld said what happened at Abu Ghraib prison was not torture. It
was just abuse.
Bush asks Congress for $25 billion in funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Previously, the administration said it would not ask for more money
during this year.
May 1, 2004
April was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq with 136 soldiers
killed. One year ago today, Bush proclaimed the end to major combat.
April 30, 2004
Video of mistreated Iraqi prisoners is released across the globe. This
is the same prison where Hussein had tortured Iraqis.
The Sinclair group refuses to air a "Nightline" show devoted to reading
the names of the hundreds of U.S. service members killed in Iraq.
Sinclair is a major contributor to the Bush campaign.
April 29, 2004
Bush appears before the 911 commission, but he was not under oath and
there was no transcript or recording of his testimony.
In February 2001, ambassador Paul Bremer (now head man in Iraq) gave a
speech stating that the Bush administration was paying no attention to
terrorism and that it will take a major event for them to wake up to the
threat.
Bush believes that only Christians go to heaven.
Neither Rumsfeld nor Powell were consulted about their opinions about
the invasion of Iraq prior to the final decision.
Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, is the Bush
campaign manager in the Sotheast.
Through the Compassion Capital Fund, the government has given out $100
million to religious organizations (all of them Christian).
April 28, 2004
Cheney received five deferments from the military draft. In 1989,
Cheney said "I had other priorities in the 60's other than military
service."
April 27, 2004
Bush does not want there to be a transcript of his testimony before the
911 commission.
Bush advisor Karen Hughes supported her pro-life views by saying "since
September 11th, a lot of Americans value life more."
April 25, 2004
The number of people living below the official poverty line grew by more
than 3.5 million from 2000 to 2002.
April 22, 2004
"George W. Bush is the greatest threat to the global environment."--RFK,
Jr.
April 20, 2004
The CEO of a company that makes electronic voting machines is the head
of Bush's campaign in Ohio.
April 19, 2004
In February 2003, Wolfowitz said Iraq would be easier to occupy than
Afghanistan because it did not have ethnic divisions.
The IEEA said nuclear sites in Iraq are unguarded and equipment and
material has been moved out of the country.
April 18, 2004
Cheney addressed the annual convention of the NRA.
Bush supported legislative efforts in the Senate to block liability
suits against gun manufacturers.
According to Bob Woodward, Bush has made a deal with the Saudi
ambassador to lower oil prices right before the election.
Bush has expressed that he has a higher calling from God to free people
throughout the world.
April 15, 2004
Bush is the first U.S. president to support Jewish settlements in the
West Bank.
April 14, 2004
Former interim FBI chief Thomas Pickard testified that Ashcroft did not
want to hear about terrorism when Pickard tried to brief him in the
summer of 2001.
Dale Watson, the former head of counterterrorism at the FBI, said "that
he almost fell out of his chair " when he saw that the May 10, 2001
Justice Department memo made no mention of terrorism.
April 13, 2004
In a memo from May 10, 2001, Ashcroft listed seven "strategic goals" for
the Justice Department. Terrorism was not listed nor was it among the
multiple "priority objectives" he mentioned.
Cheney still possesses Halliburton stock options.
Bush is the first president since Hoover not to create one net job.
In the Coalition of the Willing, the group providing the third largest
number of troops in Iraq after the U.S and the U.K. is private security
officers.
Bush is the only president to have a tax cut during a war.
April 12, 2004
When Paul Bremer was asked who the United States would turn over power
to in Iraq, his response was "that's a good question."
April 11, 2004
The August 6, 2001 PDB titled BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN U.S. was
released contradicting Condoleezza Rice's testimony that it contained
only historical information about Al Quada and "did not warn of attacks
inside the United States." The PDB stated "FBI information indicates a
pattern of suspicious activity in this country consistent with
preperations for hijacking or other types of attacks."
The White House Communications Director called Bush the Communicator in
Chief based on Bush's long speeches explaining world events.
U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been given a pamphlet by In Touch Ministries
asking them to pray for Bush.
According to military strategists you need 20 soldiers per 1,000
citizens to stabalize a post-war environment. In Iraq, there are 6
soldiers per 1,000.
April 8, 2004
David Potorti, a spokesman for a group of Sept. 11 victims' families,
said that the White House has shown a pattern of unwillingness to work
with the 911 investigation.
April 7, 2004
Bush will not testify in public in front of the 911 commission and
insists on appearing with Dick Cheney.
Bush's top advisor on Islam, Grover Nordquist, has ties to terrorist
organizations including Hamas. In a 2000 debate with Al Gore, Bush
denounced racial profiling of Arabs and the use of secret evidence
against Muslims.
April 6, 2004
Bush stopped the investigation into the Massey mining disaster in
Kentucky and fired the whistle blower.
Secretary of State Powell admits that the claim he made to the U.N.
about Iraqi mobile weapons labs came from fawlty information (an
unreliable Iraqi source with the code name Curveball).
March 26, 2004
At the Correspondents Association dinner, Bush made jokes about the
inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
March 25, 2004
Richard Clarke testified that bin Laden was not a priority for the Bush
administration (something confirmed by Bush himself in the Bob Woodward
book), and that he was so concerned that he sent a memo to Conoleezza
Rice on September 4, 2001 stating "imagine a day after a terrorist
attack, with hundreds of Americans dead at home and abroad, and ask
yourself what you could have done earlier."
In his testimony, CIA director George Tenet said two veteran officers
"were so worried about an impending disaster that they considered
resigning and going public with their concerns" in July of 2001.
March 23, 2004
Condoleezza Rice refuses to testify in public before the 911 commission.
March 20, 2004
In his book, Against All Enemies, Bush counter terrorism expert Richard
Clarke says that Rumsfeld wanted to bomb Iraq the day after 911.
March 18, 2004
The Pentagon plans to withhold $300 million in payments to Halliburton
because of possible overcharging for meals served to troops in Iraq and
Kuwait.
The prime minister of Poland said he was misled about the reasons to go
to war in Iraq.
March 17, 2004
The Bush administration produced fake news stories supporting the
Medicare bill with actors playing the roles or reporters.
The non-partisan Pew Research Center conducted a survey on foreign views
of the United States which found the U.S. image has never polled lower.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ordered a formal
investigation that the Bush administration withheld information about
the cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill from members of
Congress. Medicare's top financial analyst, Richard Foster, says that
Medicare Administrator Thomas Scully threatened to fire him if he shared
actual cost estimates with lawmakers.
March 11, 2004
Bush political appointee, John Thomas Burch, registered the Internet
domain names veteransforjohnkerry.org and veteransforjohnkerry.com.
Burch was involved in a smear campaign against John McCain in the 2000
primary.
March 6, 2004
A transcript subpoenaed in the CIA leak investigation reveals the White
House press operation began trying to discredit former Ambassador Joseph
Wilson IV days before a columnist blew the cover of his CIA officer
wife.
March 5, 2004
Democratic officials, a firefighters union and relatives of September 11
victims assailed President Bush for using video images from the site of
the collapsed World Trade Center towers in the first round of his re-
election campaign's television ads.
Long-term joblessness is the worst it has been for more than twenty
years.
March 4, 2004
Ethicists from across the nation launched a broadside at the President's
Coucil on Bioethics, charging the panel's membership has titlted sharply
to the right and "lacks credibility as a forum."
March 2, 2004
Secretary of Education Rod Paige calls the national teacher's union a
terrorist organization.
February 25, 2004
Bush calls for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
February 24, 2004
The Pentagon has opened a criminal investigation of fraud against
Halliburton.
February 19, 2004
Bush distanced himself from the annual economic report's claim that the
economy would add 2.6 million jobs this year. Treasury Secretary John
Snow and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans refused to publicly endorse the
job estimate.
February 15, 2004
The Bush administration wants to make it easier for cities to release
partially treated sewage, a policy shift that could boost levels of
disease-causing pathogens in Lake Michigan and other waterways.
February 12, 2004
Alan Greenspan says that if the huge national deficit is not dealt with
soon, there will be dire economic consequences.
Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went on a hunting trip
together last month even though the Supreme Court is hearing a case
regarding Cheney's energy task force.
February 11. 2004
Bush releases his National Guard records. From May to October of 1972
and December of 1972, there is no record of service. There is another
gap from February to March of 1973. It has been acknowledged that
Bush's father used connections so that Bush could bypass the waiting
list to get into the Texas National Guard.
February 6, 2004
CIA director George Tenet states that the CIA never said Iraq was an
imminent threat. Yet:
On August 26, 2002, Cheney said: "Simply stated there is NO DOUBT that
Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is NO DOUBT
he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and
against us."
On October 7, 2002, Bush said: "The danger is already significant and it
only grows worse with time. If we KNOW Saddam Hussein has dangerous
weapons today--and we do--does it make any sense for the world to wait
to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more
dangerous weapons?"
On February 5, 2003, Powell said: "The gravity of this moment is matched
by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons pose to the world. Let
me now turn to those deadly weapons programs and describe why they are
REAL and present dangers to the region and to the world."
On March 11, 2003, Rumsfeld said: "He claims to have no chemical or
biological weapons, yet we KNOW he continues to hide biological and
chemical weapons."
February 4, 2004
Bush has to appoint a commision to find out why he was so wrong about
Iraq's weapons.
February 3, 2004
Halliburton is being investigated by the government for overcharging by
$16 million meals provided for troops abroad.
January 29, 2004
The Bush administration sold Congress the Medicare bill saying the cost
would be $400 billion but the actual cost will be $540 billion.
January 28, 2004
The commision investigating the 911 attack would like an extension to
their May 27 deadline. Bush is against it because the report would come
out too close ot the election.
January 25, 2004
During Cheney's control of Halliburton, the company started doing
business with the Iranian government.
January 24, 2004
2.3 million jobs have been lost during the Bush presidency.
David Kay, the CIA's chief weapons hunter, is convinced that the feared
stockpiles never existed.
January 22, 2004
"The Bush administration has been one of the most fiscally irresponsible
presidencies in many, many years."--Stephen Moore, economist
January 18, 2004
The White House wants Congress to allocate $1 billion for groups that
create programs aimed at fostering good marriages.
January 17, 2004
Bush bypassed Congress and appointed racist Judge Charles Pickering to a
federal appeals court.
January 15, 2004
Bush is booed when he visits Martin Luther King's grave site.
January 13, 2004
The Army War College published a report calling the war in Iraq
unnecessary.
January 11, 2004
The Bush plan to invade Iraq was initiated during his first week in
office (long before Sept. 11).
During discussion of the second round of tax cuts, Bush said "haven't we
already given a tax cut to the rich."
January 10, 2004
While at Harken Energy Corp., Bush was in business with Salem bin Laden
the brother of Osama.
Bush Sr. works for the Carlyle group; a company that manages the assets
of the Saudi Binladen Corporation and profits from the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
January 9, 2004
Former treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill described Bush cabinet meetings
as a blind man in a room full of deaf people.
Despite creating record deficits, Bush announces plans to send people to
Mars and build a lunar space station.
December 31, 2003
Former Marine General Anthony Zinni says "the American people were
conned into the war in Iraq."
December 29, 2003
A Houston firm was given mobile phone service rights in Libya.
December 24, 2003
The Bush administration opens up 300,000 acres of Alaska's Tongass
National Forrest to logging.
December 21, 2003
When aked about the inability to find WMDs in Iraq, Bush responds
"What's the difference?"
December 17, 2003
Bush said he could support a constitutional amendment to ban gay
marriage.
December 16, 2003
The Sierra Club is suing Dick Cheney because he refuses to disclose
information about the workings of his energy task force.
The Bush administration proposed giving power plants up to 15 years to
install new technology aimed solely at reducing mercury pollution.
December 10, 2003
According to the Pentagon, Halliburton overcharged the U.S. by $61
million for gas for Iraq.
December 7, 2003
The turkeys provided to the troops in Iraq for Thanksgiving were
supplied by Halliburton.
According to 60 Minutes, the U.S. millitary has given key police posts
to Saddam loyalists.
December 4, 2003
Bush signs a bill allowing more timber to be cut with less environmental
scrutiny.
November 30, 2003
Neal Bush, a key figure in the Savings & Loan Scandal, admitted during
divorce procedures to sex romps with Asian prostitutes.
November 23, 2003
Bush tries to block POW's from the first Gulf War from collecting money
from Iraq awarded to them in a law suit.
November 19, 2003
The Senate rejects Bush agriculture nominee Thomas Dorr. In 1999, Dorr
said the economic success of three Iowa counties was due to their lack
of ethnic diversity. He also falsified paperwork to avoid limits on
subsidies for his own farm.
November 6, 2003
The Bush administration has dropped enforcement actions against dozens
of coal fired power plants that were under investigation for violating
the Clean Air Act and allegedly spewing thousands of tons of illegal
pollution into the air.
November 1, 2003
Bush claimed the aircraft carrier banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
was the idea of the sailors and not the White House.
Rumsfeld claimed that when he called Iraq a slog he didn't mean it as a
bad thing.
All the companies given Iraq contracts have political contacts or are
major contributors to the Republican party with Halliburton leading the
way with a $2.33 billion contract.
October 27, 2003
The White House refuses to turn over classified intelligence documents
requested by the federal 911 probe.
October 24, 2003
Bush nominates ultra right wing judge, Janice Brown, to the federal
appeals court.
October 1, 2003
A White House representative said in April that the Iraq reconstruction
would cost 1.7 billion dollars. The cost is now 87 billion and
climbing.
In March, Paul Wolfowitz said Iraqi oil would pay for the
reconstruction.
Bush admits that he does not read newspapers, and that he gets his news
for Condoleeza Rice.
September 30, 2003
Bush's campaign manager in 2000, Joe Albaugh, has set up a consulting
firm, New Bridge Strategies, to advise companies that want to do
business in Iraq.
September 28, 2003
The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the Bush
administration relied on dated, and perhaps inaccurate, intelligence
when it argued that Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and
its ties to Al Queda were justification for military action.
The Bush tax package allows for a deduction for the purchase of a
Hummer.
The White House leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent when her
husband (Joseph Wilson) criticized the administration.
September 27, 2003
Bush is unable to get foreign support for rebuilding Iraq.
September 21, 2003
The Chief of Staff of the White House was the chief lobbyist for the
auto industry.
Bush had to contradict Cheney's remarks about a direct link between
Sadam Hussein and 9/11.
September 10, 2003
Bush asks for 87 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. Bush had said the
entire war could be paid off with oil revenues.
September 6, 2003
Karl Rove is being investigated by the EPA for misconduct.
September 5, 2003
Jobs were lost for the seventh consecutive month.
September 4, 2003
The Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a report on the Iraq invasion calling
it RUSHED and FLAWED.
September 2, 2003
1.7 million more people moved into poverty last year.
September 1, 2003
The Inspector General of the EPA said the White House used pressure to
downplay toxins in the air in New York after 911.
Requests for emergency food assistance rose 19% last year.
Bush drops his dog in front of a little girls' softball team.
August 26, 2003
The number of soldiers killed in Iraq since Bush declared an end to
major combat operations on May 1 has exceeded the number killed before
Bush decided that combat was over.
August 24, 2003
Bush denied having said that combat operations had ended in Iraq even
though that is exactly what he said in May.
August 14, 2003
Despite mounting US casualties and the increasingly complex occupation
in Iraq, the Bush administration is balking at granting the UN a greater
security role.
More than 50 people were killed in Afghanistan in a series of attacks by
a revived Taliban.
August 9, 2003
Pentagon hard liners pressing for regime change in Iran have held secret
meetings with a weapons dealer who was a major figure in the Iran Contra
scandal.
August 8, 2003
Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had 30,000 warheads capable of
delivering chemical agents. Weapons inspectors found 16. None have
been found since. Bush was off by 29,984 (fuzzy numbers).
Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had mobile weapons labs. Two trucks
were found after the war that officials claimed were weapons labs. No
evidence of biological or chemical agents was found in the truck
trailers.
Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had a GROWING FLEET of of drone
aircraft that could be used to unleash chemical weapons against the
United States. No drones have been found much less a growing fleet.
Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had missiles that could travel 620
miles or more. U.S. forces have found NO missiles with that extended
range.
Greg Thielmann, former member of the State Department intelligence unit:
I believe the Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture to
the American people of the military threat posed by Iraq.
August 2, 2003
Bush cut $34 million in funding for the UN Population Fund.
August 1, 2003
Iran contra figure John Poindexter resigned in response to the Pentagon
plan for futures trading in the terrorism market.
July 31, 2003
Bush opposes gay marriages.
Iraq and the U.S. agree to a $1.6 billion plan to rehabilitate the Iraqi
oil industry. The deal was made with Brown & Root, a subsidiary of
Halliburton.
Despite two wars and a terrorist attack, Bush has had just 9 news
conferences in 2 1/2 years in office.
Bush begins one of his annual month long vacations.
July 23, 2003
Bush federal appeals court nominee William Pryor has called abortion
murder, supported school prayer, and criticized the Supreme Court for
excluding religion from public life.
Senator Dick Durbin accused the White House of trying to remove him from
the Intelligence Committee and waging a campaign of intimidation against
critics of Bush policies in Iraq.
July 16, 2003
The White House projects record back to back deficits of one trillion
dollars combined.
July 6, 2003
Joseph Wilson, whose 23 year career included senior positions in Africa
and Iraq, said false allegations that Iraq was trying to buy uranium
oxide from Niger were used by Bush as evidence to support his assertion
that Iraq had rebuilt its nuclear program.
July 4, 2003
Unemployment is at a nine year high.
July 3, 2003
Bush had this to say about attacks on US soldiers in Iraq: There are
some who feel that, you know, the conditions are such that they can
atack us there. My answer is, bring em on.
Bush names Randall Tobias, a former Eli Lilly executive, to head a $15
billion AIDS program.
June 13, 2003
Bush will not allow displaced inhabitants of Diego Garcia to return to
the island to visit the graves of their relatives.
June 12, 2003
The National Head Start Association filed a lawsuit against the Bush
administration arguing that it used scare tactics to stifle criticism of
Bush's proposed overhaul of the $6.8 billion early education program.
June 11, 2003
False information about Iraq buying uranium from Niger was in the State
of the Union Address.
June 10, 2003
The Bush administration said it will propose a rule change that will
allow road building in national forrests.
June 8, 2003
The Bush administration leaks to the press untrue stories about the
French issuing passports to escaping Iraqi officials.
June 7, 2003
A Pentagon intelligence report completed in September 2002 stated that
there was "no reliable information" that Iraq possessed chemical
weapons.
June 6, 2003
Janet Rehnquist resigns as inspector general of the Department of Health
and Human Services after charges of incompetence by the GAO and
Congress. Her appointment was a favor to her father, Chief Justice
William Rehnquist, for handing the election to Bush.
June 2, 2003
New Bush administration policy calls for the Bureau of Land Management
to stop assessing its land holdings for possible wilderness
classification.
May 31, 2003
Bush's tax plan has a child care credit that does not apply to families
making under $26, 000. This will affect approximately 12 million of the
poorest children in the country.
May 22, 2003
According to ABC, the top 5 per cent richest people in the country will
get 50 per cent of Bush's tax cut.
May 21, 2003
Dick Cheney still receives a salary from Halliburton. While Cheney was
CEO of Halliburton, their government contracts increased by 91 per cent.
May 16, 2003
Bush's tax plan eliminates taxes on stock dividends.
May 15, 2003
Bush walks away from campaign promise to renew the federal ban on
assault weapons.
May 11, 2003
Barrels of enriched uranium have been looted from Iraq's seven nuclear
facilities and can be used to make a radiological dispersal device.
May 10, 2003
Bush seeks to lift a ten year ban on researching nuclear weapons and
begin testing that ended eleven years ago.
May 6, 2003
Bush delivers a campaign speech from the deck of the USS Abraham
Lincoln. He arrives in a fighter jet wearing a military uniform
(despite hiding during the Viet Nam war in the Texas National Guard and
spending a year AWOL). This same stunt was pulled by Vladimir Putin
although the Russian president actually flew the plane. He claim an end
to major combat and victory for the U.S.
April 22, 2003
Newt Gingrich is an advisor to Donald Rumsfeld.
Bush proposes giving $600 million in vouchers that would allow religious
programs to get federal money for the first time.
The policy of regime change in Iraq was spelled out by the Project for a
New American Century written in September of 2000 by, among others,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. It declares that to accomplish
their goals there will need to be a new Pearl Harbor.
April 13, 2003
A subsidiary of Halliburton was given the contract to build cells at
Camp X-Ray.
Bush's budget has zero dollars for Afghan aid.
March 26, 2003
Bush issues an executive order that will delay the release of millions
of historical documents for more than three years (after the next
presidential election).
March 25, 2003
Bush asks Congress for $75 billion to fund the war in Iraq while also
requesting massive tax cuts. Consumer confidence is at a ten year low.
March 19, 2003
The U.S. invades Iraq without U.N. support further alienating the rest
of the world and compromising international law. Bush ran on a platform
opposed to nation building.
March 2003
Three key Iran-Contra figures have been given diplomatic posts: John
Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, and Oscar Reich.
March 2003
Halliburton has been given the contract to deal with burning oil fields
in Iraq. The terms of the contract were not disclosed.
March 8, 2003
Bush's new tax cuts, military spending, Medicare reform, and other
programs could produce deficits of $1.82 trillion over the next ten
years.
February 12, 2003
10 Nobel Prize winning economists attack Bush's tax plan. Alan
Greenspan also comes out against it.
February 2, 2003
"Environmental protections have been challenged before, but never have
they faced a threat as far-reaching, insidious and destructive as the
one proposed by the Bush administration." -- Gregory Welstone, Natural
Resources Defense Council
"This is the first time we have listed administration policy as a threat
to the parks." -- Ron Tipton, National Parks Conservatory Association
Bush's policies have opened the way for local governments to build roads
across publicly owned wildlands, removed EPA protection from isolated
wetlands, and allowed coal fired plants to expand without pollution-
control devices.
January 30, 2003
Bush's 2003 budget will show a record deficit of over $300 billion.
January 28, 2003
The White House delivers a sneak preview of the State of the Union
Address to a select group of Republican lobbyists and executives
including American Cause, a conservative group founded by Pat Buchanan
January 25, 2003
Rumsfeld refers to France and Germany as old Europe further alienating
the U.S. from its allies. He also says those drafted into the army are
worthless.
January 23, 2003
The Bush administration is planning to allow religious groups for the
first time to use federal housing money to build centers where worship
is held.
January 22, 2003
Bush's treasury secretary nominee, John Snow, was arrested in the 80's
for DUI and being a deadbeat dad.
January 18, 2003
The Bush administration files briefs in the University of Michigan case
stating that race should not be a factor in college entrance.
January 16, 2003
Bush comes out against affirmitive action with respect to the University
of Michigan case. Bush supports admitting students based solely on
merit even though he was not admitted to Yale based solely on merit.
January 9, 2003
Bush renominates Judge Charles Pickering.
January 6, 2003
Bush proposes eliminating taxes on corporate dividends a measure that
could cost the government $300 billion and mainly benefit the wealthy.
December 26, 2002
Researchers are complaining that the Bush administration is using
political and idiological screening tests to ensure that its scientific
consultants recommend no policies that are inconsistent with the White
House agenda.
December 13, 2002
Circumventing Congress, Bush uses his executive powers to make it easier
for religious groups to obtain federal funds.
December 8, 2002,
Bush names alleged war criminal Henry Kissinger had of 9/11 commision.
He will resign less than a week later due to opposition from victims'
families.
December 5, 2002
Bush is reinstating a controversial bonus program under which high-
ranking political appointees would be eligible for annual awards of
$10,000 or more--a practice banned in 1994 amid concerns for abuse.
December 3, 2002
John Dilulio, former head of Bush's effort to aid religious charities,
said Karl Rove had assumed unprecedented power at the White House.
"It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."
November 30, 2002
Bush slashed pay raises for most civillian federal workers were to
receive starting in January.
November 28, 2002
Iran-Contra figure John Poindexter serves as Head of the Defense
Department's Personal Information Program.
The Bush administration announced a relaxation in federal logging
guidelines allowing for swifter development in national forrests.
November 27, 2002
The director of communications for the prime minister of Canada calls
Bush a moron.
Bush signs a bill for a federal bail-out of the insurance industry in
the event of a catastrophic act of terrorism that essentially turns the
federal government into an insurer of last resort.
November 22, 2002
The Bush administration eased clean air rules to allow utilities,
refineries, and manufacturers to avoid having to install new anti-
pollution equipment.
November 13, 2002
The Bush administration unveiled its plan allowing snowmobiles in
Yellowstone to complaints from environmental groups.
October 30, 2002
Consumer confidence is at a nine year low.
October 29, 2002
The crime rate rises for the first time since 1991.
October 19. 2002
"Mr. Bush is as partisan a president as America has ever had."--The
Economist
October 15, 2002
Bush does not support balistic fingerprints for guns.
October 8, 2002
In a speech on Iraq, Bush consistently mispronounces nuclear.
October 7, 2002
Bush threatens to veto the entire defense authorization bill if pension
benefits for disabled military retiries are not eliminated.
September 30, 2002
In February 2001, Cheney claimed "the days of permanent campaigning are
over." Bush has made 60 campaign trips since January and raised $120
million compared to Clinton's $35 million his first year in office.
September 26, 2002
Bush says the Senate is more interested in special interests in
Washington and not interested in the security of the American people.
September 20, 2002
12 previous terrorist plots to fly planes into buildings are revealed.
After 911, Condoleezza Rice said it was unimaginable that terrorists
would fly planes into buildings.
September 19, 2002
Judicial nominee Michael McConnell is a staunch critic of Roe v. Wade.
The Bush administration has abandoned an international effort to
strengthen the Biological Weapon Convention against germ warfare.
September 17, 2002
Bush screws up the fool me twice shame on me cliche.
September 13, 2002
FCC Chairman, Michael Powell, supports loosening restrictions that could
lead to greater concentration in media ownership.
September 11, 2002
Bush opposed to drought relief package passed by Senate.
September 5, 2002
While CEO of Halliburton, Cheney did $24 million worth of buniness with
Iraq.
September 4, 2002
Bush has spent 42 per cent of his term at leisure destinations.
Bush does not attend UN World Summit in Johannesburg.
September 2, 2002
Bush spends Labor Day with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners a union feuding with the AFL-CIO.
September 1, 2002
Bush did not make himself available to take a call from Nelson Mandella
regarding Iraq.
August 21, 2002
Bush proposes to open up national forests to loggers as a way of fire
prevention.
August 20, 2002
160 Bush supporters have stayed overnight in the White House; a policy
they criticized the Clinton administration for doing.
August 10, 2002
Bush allows doctors and hospitals to give insurance companies patient
medical records without the consent of the patient.
August 6, 2002
Bush signs the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
August 2002
Bush gives reports impassioned speech on how all the countries of the
world must fight terrorism. He then returns to his golf game telling
reporters: Now take a look at this drive.
August 5, 2002
Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, was made to pay 2 million
dollars to settle charges that they inflated prices on military
contracts. They were still given a 10 year contract by the army.
July 26, 2002
Halliburton (the former employer of Dick Cheney) is given a 9.7 million
dollar government contract.
July 24, 2002
Bush plans on vacationing in Crawford Texas from August 6 to September
2. Bush nominates staunch anti abortion judge, Priscilla Owen, to the
5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
July 23, 2002
Bush pulls funding from a UN program that provides family planning and
reproductive health care throughout the world.
July 22, 2002
For the second time, after Bush talks about the economy, the stock
market plunges.
July 18, 2002
Thomas White, Secretary of the Army, was a former Enron executive who
dumped stock prior to the Enron collapse.
July 17, 2002
The Bush administration says it needs five more years to study global
warming. Cheney dumped Halliburton stock two months before unexpected
bad financial news.
July 13, 2002
A federal judge accused the Bush administration of making purposefully
misleading arguments in defending the Cheney energy task force against
two lawsuits.
July 12, 2002
The White House conceded that the federal budget deficit will grow much
faster this year than expected and will remain in the red until at least
2005.
July 11, 2002
Bush calls an end to the type of business dealings he was involved with
at Harken energy when he received two low interest loans to buy stock
from the oil company where he served as a board member in the 1980s. He
then benefited from the relaxation by the company of the terms of the
loans.
Halliburton is sued by Judicial Watch for exaggerating revenues.
July 9, 2002
Bush changed his response a third time while explaining shady stock
maneuvers at Harken Energy.
July 4, 2002
Bush is being investigated for his stock dealings while at Harken
Energy.
July 3, 2002
Bush promotes a bill to give federal money to religious charities.
June 28, 2002
Bush administration supports Supreme Court ruling on school vouchers.
June 12, 2002
Bush admits he did not read EPA report on global warming.
June 8, 2002
Bush signs executive order that could make air traffic control
privatized.
June 2, 2002
When Cheney was CEO of Halliburton he was part of a videotape praising
the accounting practices of Arthur Anderson.
June 1, 2002
In August of 2001, Ashcroft was given an FBI report detailing the threat
of Al Queda. Yet, Ashcroft rejected a proposed $58 million increase to
finance counter terrorism.
May 8, 2002
Reversing long held government policy, the Bush administration told the
Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment protects an individuals right to
possess firearms that is not tied to the maintenance of militias.
May 5, 2002
The Bush administration renounced any involvement in a treaty creating
an international criminal tribunal. This repudiation is certain to add
friction between the US and Europe.
April 17, 2002
Mistakes in Bush speeches are removed in the official White House
transcripts.
Bush fails to condemn coup in Venezuela questioning US commitment to
democracy in South America.
April 1, 2002
Violence in the Middle East as Israel attacks the compound of Arafat.
Bush is on vacation in Crawford.
March 28, 2002
Bush uses welfare reform to promote marriage between low income couples.
March 22, 2002
The Bush administration proposed changing some of the federal rules
protecting the confidentiality of medical records.
March 18, 2002
Tom Ridge refuses to testify before Congress about domestic security
spending. Lawmakers complain that the administration has done a poor
job of briefing them about the war effort, potential terrorist attacks,
and the money needed to protect the nation.
March 8 2002
It was revealed that when she was 17 Laura Bush killed someone in a car
accident.
March 7, 2002
Assistant Secretary of the Army, Mike Parker, was fired for criticizing
spending cuts Bush sought for the Army Corps of Engineers. Secretary of
the Army, Thomas White, is a former Enron executive who still has
financial interests in the company.
Bush tried to get the attention of blind musician Stevie Wonder by
waving at him.
The Bush tax cuts, defense increases and other spending could post a
deficit of $121 billion in 2003 and $51 billion in 2004.
March 6, 2002
The Bush administration is moving to allow states to place welfare
recipients in jobs that pay less then the minimum wage. This is a
reversal of federal policy.
Former Bush company, Spectrum 7, had business dealings with Enron in the
late 1980s. Previously, Bush said he met Ken Lay (Kenny Boy) after he
was elected governor in 1994. 2 oil wells Bush owns are part of Enron.
When Bush ran for governor, he asked Lay to be the chairman of his fund
raising efforts.
March 5, 2002
Bush hosts Christian rock concert at the White House.
March 3, 2002
Admiral John Poindexter, notorious for the Iran Contra affair, is given
a Defense Department position.
March 1, 2002
The chief of enforcement with the EPA resigns in protest saying that he
was tired of fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the
rules we are trying to enforce. Eric Shaeffer said Bush has cut 200
positions from the EPA enforcement staff and was undermining efforts to
curb air pollution by 9 major power companies that are responsible for
25 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions in the country.
February 18, 2002
The Bush Axis of Evil speech undermines South Korean policy with North
Korea. South Koreans demonstrate during Bush visit.
February 13, 2002
Bush appoints Mississippi federal judge Charles Pickering to the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals. Pickering wrote an article in law school
explaining how to strengthen a state statute against interracial
marriage, he voted as a state senator to fund the notoriously
segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and he intervened to reduce the
sentence of a KKK member.
February 5, 2002
Bush budget proposal is a return to deficit spending.
February 2, 2002
Ashcroft requested that the naked breasts of two statues be covered at
his press conferences because they make him feel uncomfortable. The
cost of the drapes is eight thousand dollars.
February 1, 2002
The Bush administration said that states may classify a fetus as an
unborn child eligible for government paid health care.
January 20, 2002
Bush declares it National Sanctity of Human Life Day.
January 10, 2002
Bush referred to the people of Pakistan as Packies a term that is
considered an ethnic slur.
January 12, 2002
Bush cut money for worker health and safety programs at the Department
of Labor; and he has used his presidential powers to block strikes at
United, Northwest and Delta airlines.
Bush appoints Otto Reich the chief US diplomat for Latin America. Reich
was involved in the Iran Contra controversy.
Bush, citing national security concerns, has abruptly ended union
representation at several Justice Department agencies.
January 10, 2002
Senior Bush advisor, Karl Rove, who owned $100,000 worth of Enron,
discussed national energy policy with Ken Lay. Kenny Boy was one of 214
Bush Pioneers; supporters who raised at least $100,000 during the
campaign.
January 9, 2002
Enron representatives had meetings with Cheney to shape energy policy.
December 27, 2001
Bush is trying to appoint Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice
who gave Bush the election, solicitor general.
December 26, 2001
Bush goes on vacation in Crawford while India and Pakistan are on the
verge of war.
November 8, 2001
Bush tax rebate stimulus package offers huge rebates to large
corporations including Texas utilities.
November 2, 2001
Off shore oil drilling begins in Alaska.
November 1, 2001
Bush issues Executive Order 13233 that effectively undermines the
Presidential Records Act of 1978. This is obviously a move designed to
keep the shading dealings of his father away from public scrutiny.
October 14, 2001
According to Janes magazine, Russia presented the UN with a detailed
report on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and his network, but the
government did not act upon this information.
October 7, 2001
According to 60 Minutes, Bush did not support global treaty against
biological weapons.
September 14, 2001
Bush uses the word Crusade in describing the anti terrorist campaign.
September 10, 2001
Ashcroft turns down FBI director Thomas Pickford's request for $58
million dollar to improve the agencies capacity to detect foreign terror
threats.
September 2, 2001
U.S. to O.K. China improving its nuclear defense, including resuming
underground testing in an effort to appease them about Bush nuclear
defense initiative.
August 29, 2001
NPR reports the growth of the economy is at a stand still. Bush is
still on vacation in Crawford.
Bush still at Camp Crawford. He is going to have his Chief of Staff cut
trails with him. There will be a terrorist attack in less than two
weeks.
August 27, 2001
MSNBC reports Bush will have to take 9 billion out of Social Security
trust fund to pay for tax cuts.
August 23, 2001
Unemployment at nine year high.
August 15, 2001
The children of Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Rehnquist have been
given government appointments.
August 6, 2001
Bush has spent a record amount of time at a vacation spot. 42 percent
of the time.
August 4, 2001
ABC reports US softened anti tobacco restrictions. Karl Rove worked for
Phillip Morris.
Cheney refuses to release papers on how energy plan was formulated.
ABC reports plan to reduce Medicaid benefits for low income families.
August 2, 2001
Cheney wanted tax payers to pick up the bill for $186,000 in electricity
charges.
August 1, 2001
USA report on what Bush staffers plan to do with tax rebate. Karl Rove
intends to buy something for his dog. Budget Director Mitch Daniels is
giving his rebate to his daughter. Donald Rumsfeld is going to pay his
accountant to figure out his finances under the new tax code.
Princeton economist Paul Krugman's book Fuzzy Math shows how Bush tax
rebate is based on unrealistic budget projections from the Congressional
Budget Office assuming no growth in federal programs.
August 2001
Bush comes up with lame compromise for stem cell research whereby only
existing stem cell lines can be used.
August 2001
Bush begins month long vacation in Crawford, Texas while the evil doers
plot.
July 31, 2001
Katherine Harris is being investigated for billing excessive travel
expenses.
June 29, 2001
Bush wants to increase funding of abstinence education from 30 million
in 2002 to 135 million in the future.
Ashcroft pushes legislation that records of gun purchases be destroyed
after 24 hours to protect legitimate gun owners.
June 22, 2001
Bush says he will veto Senate medical bill that guarantees patient
access to specialty and emergency care.
Rumsfeld says "I do not know" numerous times about key military issues
in front of Senate panel.
May 31, 2001
Bush tells media not to report misdeeds by daughters.
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Undersecretary for Agriculture Tom Dorr said in 1999 that 3 counties in
Iowa thrive economically because of their lack of ethnic diversity.
May 30, 2001
Jenna Bush arrested again for underage possession of alcohol.
California governor Gray Davis will fight in federal court to get caps
on energy prices that Bush is fighting.
May 20, 2001
NY Times states that reports claiming Clinton staffers vandalized White
House were untrue.
May 14, 2001
Ashcroft has daily Bible study at work (RAMP meetings: Read, Argue,
Memorize, Pray).
May 8, 2001
Bush appoints ambassadors with no political experience but close
personal ties.
May 2, 2001
Unemployment hits highest level since 1998.
Bush commits to missile shield even if it means scrapping ABM treaty.
May 1, 2001
Cheney calls for more oil drilling.
April 28, 2001
Bush administration upholding strictly a law barring federal financial
aid to college students convicted of any drug charge, even a ticket. On
same day, Jenna Bush is arrested for underage drinking. Also, Bush is a
former alcoholic and cocaine abuser.
April 25, 2001
Bush nixes following through with Clinton proposal to reintroduce
grizzlies in Montana.
Bush speaks in public about plans to defend Taiwan against China despite
US policy that Taiwan is part of China, and that his statement goes
against Congressional policy.
Bush states that he does not like being in the White House which is why
he says he goes to Camp David and his Texas ranch.
April 22, 2001
Bush has been using California energy crisis to bolster his plan to
drill for oil in Alaska. Today is Earth Day!
When Bush heard that the Chinese had captured a US spy plane, he wanted
to know if they had Bibles or how they could get hold of them.
April 19, 2001
George W. and his father are honorary lifetime members of the Safari
Club (a club dedicated to killing endangered species such as lions and
elephants).
April 14, 2001
Bush overturns Clinton efficiency standards for central air
conditioning.
April 13, 2001
FCC new rule on indecency over the airwaves goes into effect. No more
belabored talk of sexual or excretory activities or organs among other
restrictions.
April 12, 2001
Bush proposes relaxing strictest measures to protect endangered species.
April 10, 2001
FCC instituting new decency guidelines for TV and radio. The son of
Colin Powell is head of the FCC.
April 5, 2001
Bush wants to get rid of salmonella testing for school lunches.
April 1, 2001
Now that Bush has been in office for two months, an important pillar of
his presidency is becoming clear: For all his talk of moderation and
centrism, Bush will govern as an unabashed conservative.
Bush refuses to adopt Kyoto Protocol saying it would cause significant
harm to the American economy. He states that the economic health of the
country is more important than the environmental health.
February 15, 2001
The Hart-Rudman report warns that "mass-casualty terrorism against the
U.S. homeland was of serious and growing concern" and urges the creation
of A National Homeland Security Agency. Bush rejects the idea.
The Bush administration fails to implement Richard Clarke's plan to go
after al Qaeda.
July 30, 2000
On ABC's This Week, Cheney says: "I had a firm policy that we
(Halliburton) wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even--even arrangements that
we're supposedly legal...We've not done any business in Iraq since the
sanctions were imposed." Actually, Halliburton sold $30 million worth
of water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil equipment and
pipeline equipment to Saddam Hussein's regime. This possibly illegal
manuever is not being investigated by the Justice Department.
MISC. Bush Nonsense
Bush removes abortion funding in US territories.
In Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican convention, he claims: "If
called on by the commander in chief today, two entire divisions of th
Army would have to report: Not ready for duty,sir." At a hearing for
the Senate Arms Service Commitee, Bush foreign policy advisor, Richard
Armitage, admits this is not true. The weakness of the Clinton military
would be further discredited by decisive victories in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Bush reverses campaign promise to reduce carbon monoxide emissions.
Bush was arrested for a DUI that he never revealed until it was
uncovered by reporters. Cheney has been arrested twice for DUI.
Government funding provided for religious organizations.
Condoleeza Rice has an oil tanker named after her.
The wife of Clarence Thomas was on the Bush transition team. Thomas
cast the deciding vote in the Supreme Court decision about the vote
count in Florida.
Bush kicked off his South Carolina primary campaign at Bob Jones
University. Bob Jones University has an official policy against
interracial dating.
Bush is asked what his favorite song is. He replies "Wake Up Little
Susie" by Buddy Holly. "Wake Up Little Susie" is by the Everly
Brothers.
Bush refuses to answer questions about his reported cocaine use.
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