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110-REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BUSH

by Open-Publishing - Friday 24 September 2004
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110-REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BUSH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION IN NOVEMBER:
1.) Squeezing the middle-class.

2.) Tax-cuts favoring the wealthy.

3.) Dishonest about the deficit. 
 
4.) The PNAC
 
5.) Skull & Bones

6.) AWOL. Bush deserted his unit during Vietnam and was reportedly AWOL for over a year from this assigned unit in The Texas Air National Guard, or as it’s referred to by other military outfits, "The Champagne Division."
 
7.) "The Patriot Act"
 
 
8.) Flip-flopper
 
9.) Stole the 2000 election.

10.) He is trying his best to re-rig the up and coming Nov. election
 
11.) First president in US History to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. Elections).
 
12.) Bush has set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest a leader (10 million people), shattering the record for protests against any other person in the history of mankind.
 
 13.) His grandfather, Prescott Bush, did trade with the Nazis.

14.) The first president in US History to enter office with a criminal record.
 
15.) Arrested for DUI.

16.) Reportedly arrested for cocaine use in 1972.
 
17.) Has refused to answer the question of whether or not he’s ever used illegal drugs.
 
18.) His running mate/Vice President has dubious ties with the infamous Halliburton.
 
19.) Responsible for a $521 billion budget deficit - less than 4 years after inheriting a $200 billion surplus.
 
20.) All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
 
21.) Unemployment crisis. Bush is responsible for an unemployment rate of 6%, there are now 9 million people out of work in America, 3.3 million more than when he took office.
 
22.) Refuses to abide by our Founding Father’s mandates stating there must remain a divide between Church and State.

23.) He still suggests that Homosexuals are "sinners" and is pushing legislation that would forbid gay partnerships and deny fundamental civil rights on a national and local level.
 
24.) He’s intent to stifle any advancement in the potential benefits of stem cell research due to his personal religious convictions. 
 
25.) Bush is endorsed by fundamentalist Pat Robertson who claims that God told him Bush will win reelection and that "It doesn’t make a difference what Bush does because God is blessing him." Bush keeps some great company, but keep in mind Robertson was also the nitwit that blamed the 9/11 attacks on gays and suggested that we "nuke" the US State Department.
 
26.) Our country’s current Social Security crisis.
 
27.) Our country’s current HCI crisis. Under Bush, there are now 43 million Americans with no health insurance.
 
28.) Our country’s current debt crisis. The national debt under Bush has increased so drastically that the average American’s estimated share of national debt will be an astronomical $24,000 compared to the $500 when he first took office.
 
29.) He slashed funding to the Violence Against Women Act.
 
30.) He cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
 
31.) He tried to conceal poverty numbers.
 
32.) Misled about our country’s current Medicare crisis.
 
33.) Misled about the status of our country’s current economic crisis.

34.) Lied about the enhancement of the economy by including the type of jobs, (such as fast-food jobs with minimum wage salaries, etc.) that don’t include benefits and pay enough to support a family. 

35.) He cut funding for 375,000 low income college students and reduced Pell grant amounts to such a severe degree that it effectively caused 84,000 students to no longer be eligible for Pell grants. Pell amounts have been overall reduced for 1.5 million students...it’s safe to say that the Bush daughters aren’t eligible for financial aid, so this won’t affect the opulent lives of anyone Bush may know.
 
36.) The "mysterious leak" of a CIA agent’s identity/name ensuing her husband expressing criticism of Bush’s desires to wage war on Iraq.

37.) Lied about having any affiliation with "The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" and their smear ads.

38.) Misled about the cost of war.
 
39.) Bush planned a "regime change" in Iraq before becoming president.
 
40.) Reported to have secretly discussed attacking Iraq 9 days after 9/11.
 
41.) His father, Bush Sr., has connections with The Carlyle Group [as a shareholder and former advisor], currently war-profiteering in Iraq.
 
42.) His family’s oil companies were funded by Bin Laden’s family and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama bin Laden.

43.) His family has a very friendly relationship with the Saudi royal family, a group of tyrannical rulers just as brutal towards their people as Saddam was towards his. Mighty hypocritical of George, no? 
 
44.) Lied about the Bin Laden/Saudi flight after 9/11.
 911 was a bush neocon junta operation
 
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45.) He appointed partisans and cronies in Iraq.
 
46.) He has invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of one billion dollars a week.
 
47.) He appointed Charles Pickering, a notorious segregationist from Mississippi, as a federal judge and suspiciously did so on Martin Luther King Day.
 
48.) Initially made repeated attempts to stonewall any commission investigating 9/11.
 
49.) He lied to Americans about why our nation was attacked on 9/11.
 
50.) Lied about ever receiving any type of intelligence-warnings before 9/11 that would indicate hijackers would use civilian aircraft as bombs to accomplish their attack.
 
51.) Ignored sick 9/11 firefighters and cops.
 
52.) Has vacationed during the coarse of his term more than any president in American history,
including a 28-day vacation prior to 9/11.
 
53.) Condoleezza Rice and her incessant lying for Bush.
 
54.) Enforced police-state type tactics.
 
55.) He waged a war based on "faulty intelligence"/outright lies.

56.) Misled about transfer of power in Iraq.
 
57.) Exploits the "war on terror" for political gain.
 
58.) Praised Bremer’s record of incompetence.
 
59.) Despite a 13% unemployment rate among those aged 16 - 24, Bush proposed to eliminate youth opportunity grants, a program that provides job training to the nation’s youth. A $225 million program in 2002 is now being done away with so Bush can have more money for Iraq.
 
60.) Bush has spent over $100 billion on Iraq, leaving states to face the largest budget crisis in decades and forced to cut off public services; now with the federal deficit at a new high, Bush wants to award more tax breaks to the wealthy.
 
61.) Declared himself a "war president."
 
62.) He appointed a man ahead of the CIA who has acknowledged he’s not cut out for the job.
 
63.) Attacked two countries that had NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do with 9/11. All media outlets have reported that the hijackers were of Saudi Arabian decent, NOT Afghani or Iraqi.
 
64.) Congress sought after millions of dollars to shift from missile defense to counter-terrorism programs prior to 9/11, but Bush threatened to veto any such measure. 
 
65.) Misled on race relations.
 
66.) Misled on Tort reform.
 
67.) Misled on Homeland Security efforts.
 
68.) Refused to give Clinton’s records to the 9/11 panel.
 
69.) Members of his administration attempted to backpedal and lie about perpetuating the myths of their "faulty intelligence."
 
70.) The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
 
71.) Rumsfeld misled about prison abuse.
 
72.) Cut children’s health while rewarding HMOs.

73.) Backed big donors over 50 million consumers.
 
74.) He has yet to hold anyone in his administration responsible for the lack of and/or "faulty intelligence" concerning 9/11, Iraq or Abu Ghraib.
 
75.) Crass "humor."
 
76.) His running mate’s (Vice President Dick Cheney) hypocrisy.
 
77.) He blocked full funds for the fight against terrorism.
 
78.) After sending troops off to die in an unjust and unprovoked war, he still has yet to attend any soldiers’ funerals.
 
79.) Failure to capture Osama bin Laden "dead or alive."
80.) Didn’t take terrorism seriously before 9/11, and even dismissed a report Condoleezza Rice stated was titled: "bin Laden determined to strike in US."
 
81.) Ostracized the US from the rest of the world; burned bridges with old allies and globally metastasized the stereotype of Americans being arrogant know-it-alls.
 
82.) His refusal to fire - or even reprimand - Lt. General Jerry "Our God Is Bigger Than Their God" Boykin. Perhaps it’s because Boykin said of the president, "George Bush was not elected by a majority of voters in the United States. He was appointed by God. He’s in the White House because God put him there."
 
83.) Supports outsourcing.
 
84.) He’s defiant of the UN.
 
85.) John Ashcroft
 
86.) His running mate, Vice President Dick Cheney, has refused to release information about closed-door meetings of his energy task force, which crafted the administration’s energy policy.
 
87.) He condones careless policies and programs towards the environment. 1. He has made repeated attempts to legalize oil drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge. 2. Under new Bush legislation (The Clear Skies Initiative), power plants are allowed to emit triple the amount of highly-toxic mercury into the environment. 3. Bush failed to protect 3 million acres of the Tongass National Forest from logging. The Tongass has the highest concentration of bald eagles on earth and has already lost 700 square miles to logging with 33 more logging permits pending. No event in the sanctity of our endangered national bird can compete with Bush campaign contributions provided by the forest industry. 4. He pulled out of the Kyoto Agreement on Global Warming, which had been agreed upon by 178 other countries.
 
88.) Hides documents regarding his environmental policies.

89.) Plans to weaken clean air laws.

90.) Diverting environmental fundsinto fossil fuels.
 
91.) Ignored his own promises on wetlands.
 
92.) He misled on global warming.
 
93.) Declined to fully fund the AIDS initiative after promising to do so. The final cuts that resulted were over $2 billion.
 
94.) He misled on tax-code complexity
 
95.) He is currently trying to alter economic stats again to make his policies look beneficial.
 
96.) Lied about being buddy-buddy with [Enron’s swindler] Ken Lay, of whom, as it turns out, he often affectionately referred to as "Kenny Boy." Bush has gone to great lengths to prevent investigations of his friends at Enron and Halliburton. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip offs in history.
 
97.) He wasted federal resources on a PR trip to Baghdad where he staged a Thanksgiving meal at 6:AM with troops that were screened based on their political affiliation. And the Turkey? It was a prop.
 
98.) He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed when his speeches/press conferences are unscripted.
 
99.) Bush has set the record for the fewest amount of press conferences by a president since the invention of television.
 
100.) His similarities to Hitler are uncanny.

101.) Over 1,000 needless deaths of US military personnel and [to date, mid-2004] no less than 10,000 needless deaths of Iraqi civilians.

102.) On September 11th, immedately after being informed the country was under attack, George Bush simply sat there and continued to read a story about goats to a group of children for 7 minutes.

103.) The troops Bush sent to fight in a wrongful war predicated on "faulty intelligence"/outright lies are on suicide watch due to many of them having taken their own lives.

104.) Bush took "intelligence" [that turned out to be faulty] from a known criminal, Ahmad Chalabi, in order to help initiate
his unjust, needless war in Iraq.
 
 
 
105.) Many members of George Bush’s administration, including his own father, have been very hypocritical and shaky with regard to their opinions of Saddam. Over the years, they have repeatedly turned a blind eye to Saddam’s brutal Bathist Regime when it benefited their political policies.

106.) Bush took "intelligence" [that turned out to be faulty] from a known criminal, Ahmad Chalabi, in order to help initiate his unjust, needless war in Iraq.
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107.) During a public meeting ensuing 9/11, Bush was caught in a blatant lie when he claimed that he had seen the first plane hit the World Trade Center live on TV. That would have been impossible considering there was no footage of that retrieved and shown happening until the following day.

108.) Rumsfeld misled on Iraqi security forces.
 
109.) Rather then hone-in on individuals who might pose a legitimate threat to U.S. security, Homeland Security (with Bush’s approval) has resorted to outright baseless discrimination towards the nationally renown entertainer and peace-activist (Cat Stevens), banning him from reentering the United States because of his religion.

110.) "The Patriot Act II"

Forum posts

  • ...Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind with your e-mail friends. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreigners worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job.

    This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years.Not a single government program was there to help me. How can Bush call himself "compassionate?" Far worse, I lost two of my sons in Bush’s evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and for what? . My pain of losing my sons is indescribable.

    While it is trivial next to the loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply have nothing left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people like me? I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I’m not in a position where I can begin a new career. I was reduced to the point where I had to live in whatever facility I could come across , all because of President Bush.

    And when the folks finally came to me there, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No, in fact I was arrested. Mr. Bush, I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a compassionate man! I dare you to look me in the face and tell me you are a Christian! If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democrat Party.

    If Al Gore had been elected in 2000 I would still have a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons. I urge you, please, please vote for John Kerry.

    Regards,

    Saddam Hussein

  • Had to have a war because his daddy could not finish saddam, the iraq’s where going to change the currency to euro’s vs the dollar which would have caused others to change to the euro and make the dollar weaker.

  • It’s a hard fact of life, but assuming that each and every one of the 104 reasons were the absolute truth, the only alternative is to vote for Kerry. That would be a total disaster.

    With all his faults, Bush is still a better choice for President than Kerry.

    Kerry asks for a chance to show the world what he can do. He had 20 years as a Senator, and did absolutely nothing.

    Come November, he’ll have the chance to go back to sleep.

    Mike Farrell
    Cagayan de Oro
    Philippines

    • And what makes you an expert? Are you a religious fanatic that thinks God has appointed Bush to the presidency in this country, and told him to go to war in Iraq? The same God who is now allowing Bush to lose the war and make a fool out of himself?

      Saddam Hussien was our puppet until he got out of line by announcing that he was no longer going to trade Iraqi oil in dollars. He planned to double cross his CIA handlers and start trading oil in euros. This would have sent the US economy into a tail spin. Bushco had to act quick and with the Urging of "God" he had to cluster bomb market places and neighborhoods where those nasty little brown children were scrounging out an exsistance after we had blockaided their country from receiving food and medicine for 12 YEARS. It is estimated by the world community that as many as 1 million Iraqi children died during this time because God is so cruel he likes to see little children starve and blown to bits by cluster bombs which are illegal in the rest of the worlds militaries. But you know God he has no restraint when it comes to the military industrial complex and their need to make billions of dollars. It would have been so anti climactic if Saddam had simply been captured and tried in criminal court..... no we can’t have any thing that unspectacular we need to annihalate the little children old men and of course those nasty women.

    • Stay in the Phillipines.

      With the chaos in that country’s current and past generation of flawed leadership, including tyrants, theives, murderers, cronyism, etc. you certainly have no basis for comparison with which to guide our choices here. By now, you’ve become seriously jaded and you wouldn’t know good government if it fell on you.

      Keep your flawed opinions to yourself. If you had taken any time to examine Kerry’s 20 years in the Senate, rather than repeating, as many of you do, tired, baseless lies between each other, you’d know that your statement is unfounded.

      By the same standard, the current Resident should never have been nominated either as Texas Governor or Presidential nominee in 2000. Funny how we use different standards at different times and expect to be taken seriously. You can’t be serious.

      You’re in for a surprise in November if you think we’re going to put up with this.