100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
Let’s start with the 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. The facts merely serve to back this up.
If anyone is looking for a reason (or reasons) to vote for John Kerry, this is as good a place to start as any. Of course, if you need this spelled out for you, I’ll be happy to oblige. Here’s a choice sampling:
2) The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.
Sources: Fox News, The Boston Globe
4) Vice President Cheney said Americans “will, in fact, be greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
Source: The Washington Post
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
19) Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, “we’ll get hit again” by terrorists.
Source: Washington Post
40) The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.
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
49) In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.
Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office
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, realcities.com
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
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
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
Yes, there’s more…if you can stand to read it. The short version is that the 100 facts in it’s totality relays a legacy of incompetence, corruption, venality, and disregard for the Constitution unprecedented in American history. Now George W. Bush wants the opportunity to steal another election?
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER, America! Don’t you think that WE DESERVE BETTER??
