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Monday, November 14, 2005

Bush denies U.S torture and terrorism

Amid world wide scrutiny and world wide disbelief President Bush stated last week “We do not torture”.

Never mind all those torture pictures taken from Abu Ghraib.

Never mind all those torture stories, pictures and video camera tapes of those innocent detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

Never mind that scandalous 2002 Justice Department memo written by the Bush administration that sought to justify torture.

Never mind reports of U.S officials sending detainees to other countries were legislation and law could be bought for a pack of cigarettes and a beer. Oh and never mind Dick Cheney lobbying to exempt the CIA from rules prohibiting torture internationally.

** Surprised to hear that? If you are you have not been keeping up with the times and I encourage you to read further.

After a disastrous five day swing through Latin America which provoked civilians to riot against G.W Bush; certain unavoidable and very controversial questions crept up during the interviews. Reporters addressed secret CIA prisons and detention camps that resembled Nazi detention camps of WWII established by the Bush administration.

However, G.W Bush reminded us in case it had slipped our minds, “We are at war and certain measures have to be taken” – G.W Bush. “However, we do not torture”. “We do not torture,” said the president. And that’s that right? I mean, if you can’t believe the Bush administration, who can you believe? No torture, end of story.

But think about this … What does is say to you that the claim even has to be made? What does it say to you that our President has to go out and deny video, pictures, and detainee accusations and evidence of torture?

We’ve been at war before; viciously brutal wars, each one closer to having civilization on the line, yet somehow we manage to win and be the good guy. That is not to say all out soldiers were always 100% good, incapable of committing atrocities. Also it is not fair to say our officials were always 100% good, untouched by dirty deeds such as scandalous video tapes that show (U.S Army officials would command soldiers to put children mothers and other civilians into schools or churches and either grenade the building or torch the building).

Finally it is not to say our cause was always good, free from slavery, imperialism or appropriateness. But we the ignorant, blind Americans were the good guys.

We the nation of moral authority, of moral high ground, the only nation that has given itself the right to call other nations or groups of people terrorist, imperialist, and lectured other nations on human rights. And you know what those foreigners believed us. They made the impossible journey to our shores because there is freedom here, yes, a better life here and also because we stood for something special that their dictators could not offer.

In the name of fighting the bad guys, we have terrorized and murdered millions of innocents and in the name of defending Americas honor and values we have betrayed them (partly due to our leaders, but mostly due to ignorant Americans who allowed these murderers to lead our country). We have imprisoned Muslims in American and refused to say why they are imprisoned, we’ve refused to say why we had them or even to provide attorneys. We have passed laws making it easier for Big Brother to go through our emails, phones, bank accounts, social security people with information can disappear without a trace, and lives can be ruined to save our beloved president.

WAKE UP BUSH HAS equated disagreement, questioning, research and democracy with treason and terrorism!!!

And yes we have tortured. We ignore these things mainly because of fear; fear of another 9/11 and never wanting to see that ever happen again. I suggest we open our eyes and not fear terrorism, in turn we should fear the nation we are becoming.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

100 facts about Bush and 1 opinion

1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.

Source: American Progress http://www.Americanprogress.org/


2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.

Sources: Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/02933,101061,00.html The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/12/18/troops_seen_vulnerable_in_humvees


3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.

Source: PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/fallows.html


4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.

Source: The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44801-2003Mar28?language=printer


5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.

Source: globalsecurity.org http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm


6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.

Source: Yahoo News http://story.newsyahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=8&u=/nm/20040926/pl_nm/campaign_bush_mission_dc


7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.

Source: MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3403519/, 9-11 Commission
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch2.htm


8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.

Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03tube.html


9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

Source: USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-09-15-sens-iraq_x.htm


10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or information to terrorist networks."

Sources: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/politics/07intel.html, White House news release http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041006-9.html


11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a WMD program for more than twelve years.

Source: Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-weapons7oct07,1,4800576.story?coll=la-headlines-world


TERRORISM

12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.

Source: CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/


13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they relied on local warlords.

Source: csmonitor.com http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html


14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after 9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.

Source: nti.org http://www.nti.org/e_research/analysis_cnwmupdate_052404.pdf


15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.

Source: armscontrol.org http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_03/NunnLugarFunding.asp


16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.

Source: Associated Press http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff=/news/archive/2004/04/29/national1842EDT0787.DTL


17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.

Source: American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=106593


18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a potent new source of financing for terrorists.

Source: Pakistan Tribune http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=68404


19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2917-2004Sep7.html


20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.

Source: sfgate.com http://wwwsfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/11/MNGO68N6P91.DTL


21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.

Source: New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB081FFE35540C768DDDA00894DC404482


22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism funding by 23 percent.

Source: americanprogress.org http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/%7bE9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03%7d/CUTTINGCOUNTERTERROR.PDF


23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.

Source: commondreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0903-04.htm


28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.

Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silo16aug16,1,6650148.story Times


29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study.

Source: nationaldefensemagazine.org http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=1160


CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION

30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.

Sources: The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A56429-2003Aug27¬Found=true, The Tapei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/14/2003079545, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3425043.stm


31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Source: detnews.com http://www.detnews.com/2004/books/0404/23/books-132067.htm


32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which would have benefited major campaign contributors.

taxpayer.net http://wwwtaxpayer.net/TCS/PressReleases/2003/04-11energybill.htm, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5053-2003Nov21?language=printer


33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.

Source: MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4992558


34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100 former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

Source: Source: commondreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0523-02.htm


35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.

Source: MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4830129/


36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003, including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for First Lady Laura Bush.

Source: Seattle Times http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001997123_bushgifts05.html


37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative contracts to several companies in which he is an investor, including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.

Source: cq.com http://www.cq.com/corp/show.do?page=crawford/20040923_homeland


38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score political points in a campaign advertisement.

Source: The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39789-2004Apr24¬Found=true


THE ECONOMY

39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy in the long run."

Source: CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/opinion/main600351.shtml


40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.

Sources: Fortune http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,593431,00.html, dfw.com http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/9758966.htm


41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.

Source: epinet.org http://www.epinet.org/newsroom/embargoed/bp-flsa-e.pdf


42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.

Source: cbpp.org http://www.cbpp.org/5-12-04sfp.htm


43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.

Source: The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0


44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.

Sources: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/02/technology/02secure.html, cantonrep.com http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=13&ID=165841&r=0


45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent of the benefits.

Sources: cbpp.org http://www.cbpp.org/4-23-04tax.pdf, vote-smart.org http://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=3225


46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.

Sources: www.georgewbush.com http://web.archive.org/web/20001109012700/www.georgewbush.com/issues/index.html, Bureau of the Public Debt http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm


47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.

Source: iht.com http://www.iht.com/articles/514400.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-riskshift10oct10,1,317719


EDUCATION

52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion.

Source: nwitimes.com http://nwitimes.com/articles/2004/02/08/opinion/forum/3c791f12b6bed63e86256e3000221963.txt


53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent. Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut the maximum scholarship amount

Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/pellgrantsummary.html


54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the National Education Association--a union of teachers--a "terrorist organization."

Sources: CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/23/paige.terrorist.nea


HEALTHCARE

55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12758-2004Sep10.html, realcities.com http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/8164060.htm


56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.

Source: General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov/decisions/appro/302710.pdf


57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.

Source: CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/08/eveningnews/main628171.shtml


58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.

Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu http://www.healthsciences.columbia.edu/dept/sph/cgsh/IWGSSPWorkingPaper1English.pdf


59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.

Source: American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/site/lookup.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=84766


60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but allows the corporations offering the cards to change their prices once a week.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A54971-2004Apr29¬Found=true


61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.

Source: American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24890


62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.

Source: commondreams.org http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0615-02.htm


63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the Administration's help, the HMOs won.

Source: ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040622_165.html


64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50163-2004Apr4?language=printer


65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial subsidies from the government.

Source: Bloomberg News http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=afbDpPGzrT9w&refer=us


66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.

Source: CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/26/census.poverty.ap


67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.

Source: Miami Herald http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7179884.htm


68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.

Source: iht.com http://www.iht.com/articles/537385.htm


69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help curb smoking.

Source: tobaccofreekids.org http://tobaccofreekids.org/Script/DisplayPressRelease.php3?Display=633


70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on abstinence-only education programs even though there is no scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.

Source: salon.com http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/24/abstinence/print.html


71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

Source: LA Weekly http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/31/news-ireland.php


ENVIRONMENT

72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths each year.

Source: cta.policy.net http://cta.policy.net/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=24900&PROACTIVE_ID=cecfcfccc6cfc6c9c6c5cecfcfcfc5cececdcac8c8c6cecbcdc5cf


73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.

Source: calwild.org http://www.calwild.org/press/nowild_nytimes050403.php


74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global warming.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46212-2003Dec31?language=printer


75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary, debilitating ailments.

Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org/groundzero/, EPA http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2003/WTC_report_20030821.pdf


76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of a new Hummer.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1861-2003Sep25?language=printer


77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in the government and let them roll back safety regulations, putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.

Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/09/politics/09coal.html?hp


78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to regulate it.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3733-2004Aug15.html


79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.

Source: ems.org http://www.ems.org/bush_budget/FY05_analysis.pdf


80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.

Source: bushgreenwatch.org http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000026.php


RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES

81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.

Source: hrwatch.org http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041004&s=cole


82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in US custody.

Source: Wall Street Journal SB108384106459803859%2C00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us,http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108384106459803859,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us


83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.

Source: hrwatch.org http://www.hrwatch.org/english/docs/2004/09/10/usint9338.htm


84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime, arrested US citizen José Padilla at an airport in Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact with his friends and family.

Source: news.findlaw.com http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/padilla/padrums121803opn.pdf


85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President advising him that he can legally authorize torture.

Source: news.findlaw.com http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/torture/30603wgrpt.html


86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the 2004 political conventions.

Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/16/politics/campaign/16fbi.html?hp


87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review the conduct of his own department.

Source: humanrightsfirst.org http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/PDF/detainees/Military_Leaders_Letter_President_Bush_FINAL.pdf


FLIP FLOPS

88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.

Source: americanprogressaction.org http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263


89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he supported a constitutional amendment banning it.

Sources: CNN.com 92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.

Sources: White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020925-1.html, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25571-2003Sep17?language=printer


BIOGRAPHY

93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.

Source: boston.com http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/09/08/bush_fell_short_on_duty_at_guard/


94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1.

Source: The Guardian http://www.guardian.couk/bush/story/0,7369,752706,00.html


95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.

Source: White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html


SECRECY

96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/9591690.htm?1c


97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14 million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the highest level of spending in ten years.

Source: openthegovernment.org http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/secrecy_reportcard.pdf


98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for every $1 it spent declassifying documents.

Source: openthegovernment.org http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/secrecy_reportcard.pdf


99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.

Source: Washington Post http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/15/scotus.cheney/


100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.

Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9708-2003Nov6?language=printer


OPINION

If the past informs the future, four more years of the Bush Administration will be a tragic period in the history of the United States and the world.

Monday, November 07, 2005

When Jesus was on the cross you were on his mind

When Jesus was on the cross..... You were on his mind!

How amazing is that ? This poor, innocent, suffering, holy person ... Brutally beaten unjustly because he told the truth and wanted everyone to be happy and love each other. People spat on him, humiliated and tortured him, denied him and yet when we nailed his tired, broken, fragile body up on the cross ... We were the first thing on his mind, and then he forgave us ... WOW

Tired! Weary! Exhausted! Depleted! Burdened! Is that you? There are times when the limits of our mortality overwhelm our intentions, commitments, and abilities.We quest for significance, we chase so many things. But there is only one true quest for significance that leads to rest: we must surrender all of those burdens to Jesus and trust him to supply our significance. Why is it so hard for us to come to Jesus? ...

Instead we rely on worldy solutions like alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and other outlets ... trust in Jesus to let him begin right now !! Ask yourself where are YOU in your lives? Why is it so hard to put down our burdens and come to him?

Lord God Almighty, you are marvelous beyond description and majestic beyond comprehension. But since you came to my world in Jesus, I come to him to find you. Please help me know you as I come to Jesus for rest. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Why you should dislike Bush

Some pundits wonder why so many people have visceral dislike for George W. Bush.

First but not foremost, Bush’s detractors despise him viscerally, as a man. Where working-class populists see him as a smug, effeminate frat boy who wouldn’t recognize a hard day’s work if it kicked him in his self-satisfied ass, intellectuals see a simian-faced idiot unqualified to mow his own lawn, much less lead the free world.

Another group, of Americans are more patronizing than spiteful. They feel sorry for the dude; he looks so pathetic, so out of his depth, out there under the klieg lights, squinting, searching for nouns and verbs, looking like he’s been snatched from his bed and beamed in, and is still half asleep, not sure where he is. Each speech looks as if Bush had been beamed from his bed fast asleep. And he’s willfully ignorant. On Fox News, Bush admits that he doesn’t even read the newspaper: “I glance at the headlines just to kind of flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who read the news themselves.” All these takes on Bush boil down to the same thing: The guy who holds the launch codes isn’t smart enough to know that’s he’s stupid. And that’s scary.

Bush bashers hate Bush for his personal hypocrisy–the draft-dodger who went AWOL during Vietnam yet sent other young men to die in Afghanistan and Iraq, the philandering cocaine addict who dares to call gays immoral–as well as for his attacks on peace and prosperity. But even that doesn’t explain why we hate him so much.

Bush is guilty of a single irredeemable act so heinous and anti-American that Nixon’s corruption and Reagan’s intellectual inferiority pale by comparison. No matter what he does, Democrats and Republicans who love their country more than their party will never forgive him for it.

Bush stole the presidency.

The United States enjoyed two centuries of uninterrupted democracy before George W. Bush came along. The Brits burned the White House, civil war slaughtered millions and depressions brought economic chaos, yet presidential elections always took place on schedule and the winners always took office. Bush ended all that, suing to stop a ballot count that subsequent newspaper recounts proved he had lost. He had his GOP-run Supreme Court, a federal institution, rule on the disputed election, a matter that under our system of laws falls to the states. Bush’s recount guru, James Baker, went on national TV to threaten to use force to install him as president if Gore didn’t step aside: “If we keep being put in the position of having to respond to recount after recount after recount of the same ballots, then we just can’t sit on our hands, and we will be forced to do what might be in our best personal interest–but not–it would not be in the best interest of our wonderful country.”

Welcome to the Klu Klux Klan

Welcome to the Ku Klux Klan!

Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!



October, 1998 rally in Jasper, TX:

"We hate Jews. We hate niggers….I'm a Yankee and I have never heard the word thank you in the nigger vocabulary…we don't like you niggers….tell me one thing your race has accomplished."

KKK rally, county Courthouse, Erie, PA, November 22, 1998:

"You black bastards are destroying your own race; we have a nice rope for you treasonous people."
"….Kick the Jews out."

Question: Am I missing something ? Because this does not sound like any Christian teaching I've ever read, It also does not sound like a message of Love, or am I crazy?

Leaders in our government who are in the KKK

Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and one of the thirteen managers in the impeachment trial.

Senate Majority Leader, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi.

Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend describing those light skinned Americans who have not had the pleasure of hanging a non white human being. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side.

Bull Connor riding through the streets perched a top of an armored tank, yelling through a bullhorn, "Break up this demonstration now! I'll demonstrate your Black asses all the way to the jailhouse! You Niggers get on home now and get off my streets before I make you sorry you ever came here!"

It makes me sick that a rather large percentage of our leaders are racist Klan members. I also dislike the fact that people are still using the word RACE to describe cultural attributes. They ask naively what RACE are you? Uh, let me think, I’m with the HUMAN RACE you moron ! RACE has nothing to do with Color or more properly Melatonin (which is the chemical that gives us color) If we were diffrent RACES a white person and a black person would not be able to reproduce etc ...Does anyone else have something to add to this ?