BiggestBoxingFanEver
09-21-2004, 12:37 PM
I posted this on the old forum and the next day we went to the new forum and it got deleted. So, here it is again, in case you missed it.
1)Bush bamboozled the American Public – Iraq on his agenda before his inauguration (deliberate misleading America according to terrorsim advisor, Director of the CIA, Secretary of the US treasury) [see #1 details below] - too much smoke not to have a fire
2)Has caused the death of 1000 US soldiers-a must see link http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
3)His war is costing America 130 Billion and counting - http://www.costofwar.com/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6016743
4)Has taken more vacation than any other president
"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A62524-2004Apr8¬Found=true
5)He took us from a surplus to the biggest budget deficit in history and is not expected to get better
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/relatedarticles/7414.php
6)Although, Bush would like you to think otherwise terrorism isn’t his priority (see point C below) and has budgeted less for homeland security than last year. http://www.federalbudget.com/
7)Lower and Middle Class are worse off then they were four years ago (see Detail #2)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35175-2004Aug26.html
8)The Economy has gone to hell http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5759392/
9)Campaign contributions for Bush a good investment……if your rich http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/186625_incomegap17.html
A)Cross the board cut giving rich as much a $90k extra in pocket
B)Plus Dividend tax Cut
C)Plus Capital Gains tax cut
D)(also see # details below)
10)Bush is mixing church and state
A)Taking money out of the department of education budget to give to Faith-based organizations http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/reg-changes.html - click on education
B)New guidelines gut HIV prevention — and endanger young people’s lives http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/31/news-ireland.php
Details
1)
A) Iraq on Bush's agenda before his inauguration
Clarke: Bush insisted on connecting 9-11 with Saddam
On September 12th 2001, I left the video conferencing center and there, wandering alone around the situation room, was the president. He looked like he wanted something to do. He grabbed a few of us and closed the door to the conference room. "Look," he told us, "I know you have a lot to do and all, but I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way." I was once again taken aback, incredulous, and it showed. "But, Mr. President, Al Qaeda did this." "I know, I know, but - see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred-"
"Absolutely, we will look-again." I was trying to be more respectful, more responsive. "But you know, we have looked several times for state sponsorship of Al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq. Iran plays a little, as does Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, Yemen."
"Look into Iraq, Saddam," the president said testily and left us.
[Source: Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke, chapter 1 Mar 23, 2004]
B) [The CIA] worked on a new Top Secret intelligence order for regime change in Iraq that Bush signed on Feb. 16, 2002. It directed the CIA to support the US military in overthrowing Hussein and granted authority to support opposition groups and conduct sabotage operations inside Iraq. The cost was set at $200 million a year for two years. After some disputes in Congress, the budget was cut to $189 million for the first year.
In March 2002, [CIA director George] Tenet met secretly with two Kurdish leaders who would be critical to covert action inside Iraq. Tenet had one message: The US was serious, the military and the CIA were coming. Bush meant what he said. It was a new era. Hussein was going down.
Source: Plan of Attack, by Bob Woodward, adapted in Washington Post Apr 19, 2004
C)
Bush admin knew Iraq not a threat, & had no time for terror
[Anti-terror czar Dick Clarke said], "I am unaware of any Iraqi-sponsored terrorism directed at the US since 1993, and I think FBI and CIA concur in that judgment?" CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin replied, "Yes, that is right. We have no evidence of any active Iraqi terrorist threat against the US."
The truth was that the a full agenda and a backlog of Bush priority issues: the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the Kyoto agreement, and Iraq. [b]There was no time for terrorism."
[Source: Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke, p.231-234 Mar 23, 2004 ]
D)
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction-President Bush's main justification for going to war. In a new book chronicling his rocky two-year tenure and in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes", O'Neill said removing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a top priority at Bush's very first National Security Council meeting-within days of the inauguration and eight months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Actual plans, to O'Neill's astonishment, were already being discussed to take over Iraq & occupy it-complete with disposition of oil fields, peacekeeping forces, and war crimes tribunals-carrying forward an unspoken doctrine of preemptive war.
O'Neill told CBS the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later and that he was given internal memos, including one outlining a "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq."
"In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," O'Neill told Time magazine in a separate interview. "There were allegations and assertions by people... To me there is a difference between real evidence and everything else." Source: [X-ref O'Neill] Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News Jan 11, 2004
Source: The Price of Loyalty, by Ron Suskind, p. 129 Jan 13, 2004
E) Bush’s Excuse – War based on A CIA Report
Person A: Opps, no weapon of mass destruction, my mistake. Pretty big mistake.
Person B: Well, it was based on a CIA intelligence report!
Person A: When in College, I used several different source documents before writing a paper to assure it was authentic. Good thing too, I almost wrote about unicorns being real but then I couldn't find any other sources. Anyway, you would think our leader would be darn sure of something like that before sending American soldiers to die and along with tax funds.
2)
A) When President Bush took office, gas prices were averaging $1.47 per gallon. Today, the nationwide average is $1.85. At one point hitting a 23 year high.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28215-2004May14.html
B) Bush’s budget has made it harder to go to college. Despite the rising costs facing prospective and current college students, President Bush’s budget would freeze the maximum Pell Grant for the third straight year. In 2001, the maximum Pell Grant paid 42% of the average cost of attending a public college. That’s now down to just 34%. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fedrel/budget2.htm
C)Since President Bush took office, family health care premiums have risen by more than $3,500. The average cost for a family plan is now nearly $10,000.
3)
A)Over the Next Decade, More Than 50 Percent of Tax Cuts Will Go to the Very Richest Taxpayers. Taxpayers in the top 1 percent of income, whose annually earn more than $1 million, got tax cuts greater than $30,000 in 2003. By the end of the decade, more than half of the Bush Administration's tax reductions will go to the top 1 percent. [Citizens for Tax Justice, 1/8/03]
B)Bottom 60 Percent of Taxpayers Will Receive Only $350 in Tax Cuts Over Next 4 Years, Top 1 Percent Gets $96,634. The bottom 60 percent of taxpayers will receive, on average, a total of $350 over the next four years, or less than $100 per year. The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans will receive, on average, a total of $96,634 in tax cuts over the next four years. [Citizens for Tax Justice, 6/13/03]
C)Small Businesses Not Helped By Bush Plan. Bush claims that his tax plan helps small businesses. But the Treasury Department's broad definition of "small-businessman" includes both Bush and Vice President Cheney. And according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 52 percent of small business owners get $500 or less from the Bush tax plan. [Washington Post, 2/24/04; Center for Budget for Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/21/03]
1)Bush bamboozled the American Public – Iraq on his agenda before his inauguration (deliberate misleading America according to terrorsim advisor, Director of the CIA, Secretary of the US treasury) [see #1 details below] - too much smoke not to have a fire
2)Has caused the death of 1000 US soldiers-a must see link http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
3)His war is costing America 130 Billion and counting - http://www.costofwar.com/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6016743
4)Has taken more vacation than any other president
"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A62524-2004Apr8¬Found=true
5)He took us from a surplus to the biggest budget deficit in history and is not expected to get better
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/relatedarticles/7414.php
6)Although, Bush would like you to think otherwise terrorism isn’t his priority (see point C below) and has budgeted less for homeland security than last year. http://www.federalbudget.com/
7)Lower and Middle Class are worse off then they were four years ago (see Detail #2)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35175-2004Aug26.html
8)The Economy has gone to hell http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5759392/
9)Campaign contributions for Bush a good investment……if your rich http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/186625_incomegap17.html
A)Cross the board cut giving rich as much a $90k extra in pocket
B)Plus Dividend tax Cut
C)Plus Capital Gains tax cut
D)(also see # details below)
10)Bush is mixing church and state
A)Taking money out of the department of education budget to give to Faith-based organizations http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/reg-changes.html - click on education
B)New guidelines gut HIV prevention — and endanger young people’s lives http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/31/news-ireland.php
Details
1)
A) Iraq on Bush's agenda before his inauguration
Clarke: Bush insisted on connecting 9-11 with Saddam
On September 12th 2001, I left the video conferencing center and there, wandering alone around the situation room, was the president. He looked like he wanted something to do. He grabbed a few of us and closed the door to the conference room. "Look," he told us, "I know you have a lot to do and all, but I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way." I was once again taken aback, incredulous, and it showed. "But, Mr. President, Al Qaeda did this." "I know, I know, but - see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred-"
"Absolutely, we will look-again." I was trying to be more respectful, more responsive. "But you know, we have looked several times for state sponsorship of Al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq. Iran plays a little, as does Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, Yemen."
"Look into Iraq, Saddam," the president said testily and left us.
[Source: Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke, chapter 1 Mar 23, 2004]
B) [The CIA] worked on a new Top Secret intelligence order for regime change in Iraq that Bush signed on Feb. 16, 2002. It directed the CIA to support the US military in overthrowing Hussein and granted authority to support opposition groups and conduct sabotage operations inside Iraq. The cost was set at $200 million a year for two years. After some disputes in Congress, the budget was cut to $189 million for the first year.
In March 2002, [CIA director George] Tenet met secretly with two Kurdish leaders who would be critical to covert action inside Iraq. Tenet had one message: The US was serious, the military and the CIA were coming. Bush meant what he said. It was a new era. Hussein was going down.
Source: Plan of Attack, by Bob Woodward, adapted in Washington Post Apr 19, 2004
C)
Bush admin knew Iraq not a threat, & had no time for terror
[Anti-terror czar Dick Clarke said], "I am unaware of any Iraqi-sponsored terrorism directed at the US since 1993, and I think FBI and CIA concur in that judgment?" CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin replied, "Yes, that is right. We have no evidence of any active Iraqi terrorist threat against the US."
The truth was that the a full agenda and a backlog of Bush priority issues: the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, the Kyoto agreement, and Iraq. [b]There was no time for terrorism."
[Source: Against All Enemies, by Richard Clarke, p.231-234 Mar 23, 2004 ]
D)
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction-President Bush's main justification for going to war. In a new book chronicling his rocky two-year tenure and in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes", O'Neill said removing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a top priority at Bush's very first National Security Council meeting-within days of the inauguration and eight months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Actual plans, to O'Neill's astonishment, were already being discussed to take over Iraq & occupy it-complete with disposition of oil fields, peacekeeping forces, and war crimes tribunals-carrying forward an unspoken doctrine of preemptive war.
O'Neill told CBS the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later and that he was given internal memos, including one outlining a "Plan for post-Saddam Iraq."
"In the 23 months I was there, I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction," O'Neill told Time magazine in a separate interview. "There were allegations and assertions by people... To me there is a difference between real evidence and everything else." Source: [X-ref O'Neill] Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News Jan 11, 2004
Source: The Price of Loyalty, by Ron Suskind, p. 129 Jan 13, 2004
E) Bush’s Excuse – War based on A CIA Report
Person A: Opps, no weapon of mass destruction, my mistake. Pretty big mistake.
Person B: Well, it was based on a CIA intelligence report!
Person A: When in College, I used several different source documents before writing a paper to assure it was authentic. Good thing too, I almost wrote about unicorns being real but then I couldn't find any other sources. Anyway, you would think our leader would be darn sure of something like that before sending American soldiers to die and along with tax funds.
2)
A) When President Bush took office, gas prices were averaging $1.47 per gallon. Today, the nationwide average is $1.85. At one point hitting a 23 year high.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28215-2004May14.html
B) Bush’s budget has made it harder to go to college. Despite the rising costs facing prospective and current college students, President Bush’s budget would freeze the maximum Pell Grant for the third straight year. In 2001, the maximum Pell Grant paid 42% of the average cost of attending a public college. That’s now down to just 34%. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fedrel/budget2.htm
C)Since President Bush took office, family health care premiums have risen by more than $3,500. The average cost for a family plan is now nearly $10,000.
3)
A)Over the Next Decade, More Than 50 Percent of Tax Cuts Will Go to the Very Richest Taxpayers. Taxpayers in the top 1 percent of income, whose annually earn more than $1 million, got tax cuts greater than $30,000 in 2003. By the end of the decade, more than half of the Bush Administration's tax reductions will go to the top 1 percent. [Citizens for Tax Justice, 1/8/03]
B)Bottom 60 Percent of Taxpayers Will Receive Only $350 in Tax Cuts Over Next 4 Years, Top 1 Percent Gets $96,634. The bottom 60 percent of taxpayers will receive, on average, a total of $350 over the next four years, or less than $100 per year. The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans will receive, on average, a total of $96,634 in tax cuts over the next four years. [Citizens for Tax Justice, 6/13/03]
C)Small Businesses Not Helped By Bush Plan. Bush claims that his tax plan helps small businesses. But the Treasury Department's broad definition of "small-businessman" includes both Bush and Vice President Cheney. And according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 52 percent of small business owners get $500 or less from the Bush tax plan. [Washington Post, 2/24/04; Center for Budget for Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/21/03]