Sunday, September 19, 2004

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Britain to cut troop levels in Iraq

Let's Recap the Bush term.

Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "ET'S RECAP
by: wtc23 09/19/04 07:02 pm
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- astronomical deficits
- a million jobs lost
- millions more in poverty
- manufacturing way down
- healthcare costs skyrocketing
- college costs skyrocketing
- no WMDs
- 1000+ dead
- Iraq on brink of civil war
- Administration escalating war, increasing the chaos that breeds Chechen-like terrorists, and accelerating the U.S. and Iraqi body count, all while claiming things are getting better -- just like Vietnam
- Tax payers out $200B for elective war against contained tyrant who GOP used to fund and arm and who had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and had weaker ties to bin Laden than Bush
- VP profiting from war as former company reaps billions
- al Qaeda (the real threat) larger than ever and finding it increasingly easy to recruit
- acts of world-wide terrorism on the rise
- North Korea and Iran responding to the cowboy routine by going nuclear
- A cocaine-snorting, draft-dodging, AWOL, mamma's-boy who can't find a single Guard duty mate who remembers him even showing up for the six months he says he was in Alabama questions the military service of a silver-star-winning two-tours-of-duty-in-'nam, three-times wounded, charged-into-enemy-fire-to-rescue-fellow-soldiers, verified war hero (whose actual fighting brothers and commanding officers ALL remember him as a quick-thinking courageous hero).
- Rove, Cheney, Bush, who are about as far from being mainstream Americans ('soccer dads and soccer moms') as is humanly possible, are yapping about Gays coming to get you so they can keep you distracted from all of the above fa"

Yahoo! News - Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq

Yahoo! News - Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq: "Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq"

The True Lies of George W. Bush -- A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary

The True Lies of George W. Bush -- A BuzzFlash Guest Commentary: "When Democrats accuse George W. Bush of being a liar, Republicans -- and until recently, the media -- have responded that Bush is a man of integrity whom you can trust at his word. It was the evil Bill Clinton who lied. Remember him wagging his finger at us? That bastard!
Well, yes, Bill Clinton did indeed lie to us. He lied to us about a blow-job. It sure is good that we spent nearly $100 million to find out how semen reacts on a cotton blue dress from the Gap. Of course, it turned out that he was telling the truth to us about Whitewater and filegate and travelgate and campaign finance-gate and gate-gate and more. I'm sure we could find better uses for that money today. But, Clinton certainly did lie about that hummer. Imagine that, a man lying about sex. In America no less.
Of course, unlike another president, Clinton's lies didn't kill anyone.
Anyway, I decided to put just a short list together of lies by George W. Bush. These are not banal lies about one's sex life, these are big lies, whoppers and tall tales about his own record, who he is, what he's done and what he stands for.
1. The Iraq War.
We could really start and end with this one, since this lie has killed and wounded thousands of American soldiers and countless Iraqi men women and children. But this one certainly does not stand alone.
Let's break this out into subcategories as well, such as:
a) 'The smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud.' Iraq didn't even have shitake mushrooms.
b) 'Saddam would not let the inspectors in.' Bush has now made this claim twice. It came as quite a surprise to the hundreds of U.N. inspectors that were in Iraq in 2003 and were told by the U.S. to get out or get bombed.
c) Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. All right, I cut th"

Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq

Why Bush is teetering / Despite his lead in the opinion polls, history and demographics suggest the president could wind up a loser in November

Saturday, September 18, 2004

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