Clearing up Bush/Republican Lies

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Clearing up Bush/Republican Lies
Mon, 08-30-2004 - 10:09pm
Hello All:

During this weeks convention the Democrats have set up a Truth Brigade a few blocks away from the Republican National Convention whose purpose is to dispel the various lies as they come out of the convention. Reading through this board, I am amazed at the smoke and mirrors campaign being waged here by Republicans to convince this board that we need four more years of BUSH LIES and INADEQUACIES.

Even worse, I came across one post from a CL to a Democrat informing said poster that their views might not be overly welcomed on this board, and included a link to a quote, "More accepting Democratic Audience." Now, is it me, or does not the very premise and name of this board indicate it is a place for OPEN POLITICAL DEBATE? Did I miss some small print somewhere in the title that says, "only if you are a Republican, or an Independent who is going to be voting for Dubba(yes, English is my first language) Bush".


I thought I would clarify some falsehoods I have encountered during my short time here by putting up this post.

1. Bush is the war time President-this man from Texas has built his entire regime around his supposed ability to lead us in this war on terrorism. Let us examine a few tangent realities on how good of a job this swaggering arrogant baffoon from Crawford is really do.

A) Just today on live National Television, President Bush, the man of ultimate

resolve and dedication who was going to take the fight to the terrorist until every

last one of them was gone admitted in clear concise language that he cannot win the

war on terror. WHAT! His entire platform, his stature and resolve all one big lie?

B) This weekend amist the excitement of over a quarter of a million protestors here

in New York, protesting not only Bush's failed policies, but the mere presense of the

Republican Party in our city, many Americans might have missed a very important news

item. President Bush has a spy, a mole in HIS DEFENSE DEPARTMENT. That's right, the

ruff, gruff...I practice my sneer...Donald Dumsfield in all his brilliance has had a

mole right under his nose coercing and coddling team members into seeing Israels

version of the truth, and he DID NOT KNOW.

C) We all are far to familiar with the horrid and despicable photos of American GI's

abusing Iraqi prisoners, and we are aware of the white wash campaign attempted by

Bush and his minion of spinmiesters who wanted us to believe these incidents were

the actions of a small handful of sadistic renegade enlisteds acting on their own.

Yet, the Pentagon's own report last week admitted that the blame goes far up the into

the Chain of Command, including Donald Dumsfield himself. Inadequate training, not

enough troop strength and a host of other wrong doings leave NO DOUBT that the only

right and just thing is for Donald Dumsfield to resign and leave in shame.

D) During the early months of this year a renegade cleric and his band of insurgents

killed hundreds and hundreds of our troops...in fact, our losses in a short eight

week span were higher in number during the entire time we were supposedly at war to

topple the evil rule if Saddam. Yet, I watched in horror this week as a cleric with

VERY CLOSE ties to Iraq came in and forced our president and our troops to accept a

peace accord that grants this renigade cleric a FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON for all of

his crimes and murders. We really had no choice in this matter, as part of the deal

struck when President Bush handed the reins of power over to the Iraqi Interim ruling

party, he include making them the DEFACTO COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF ALL OF OUR TROOPS

IN THEATRE. Meanwhile, said renegade cleric is now free to roam Iraq at will as his

private band of thugs continues to kill off our troops whose hands are tied.

E) Bush last April on the deck of an Aircraft Carrier declared for all the world to

see that the Misson was Accomplished. Meanwhile, since that false and repugnant

photo opt of a declaration was made we have lost over three times as many troops as

we did in the entire Iraq War II and the number is still growing and more than likely

will ZOAR well over 1,000 by the time election day rolls around this November.

2. President Bush proudly proclaims to the world and every undecided voter that will listen that his economic policies and tax cuts are working, and we just NEED TO HANG ON and GIVE THEM TIME. Sure in a perfect world according to George Bush that giving his policies time means until after the November election when he has hood-winked folks with his carpetbagger charm into giving him four more years to ruin our childrens future. Lets look at some real numbers on just how well his Economic Policies are really working for us Middle Class Americans.

A) His latest claim is that our economy is growing at a record rate in the last 12

months, and that job creation is at an all time high as his tax cuts create jobs for

our American work force. So far in 3 plus years under Bush's Economic Plan we have

seen our nation not create a single job, but instead watched George Bush create a

negative job lose reality of 1.2 million jobs. How can a president honestly face the

American voting public and claim his policies are working when we have lost 1.2

million jobs during his administration?

B) The outsourcing of high paying, living wage jobs during the Bush administration

has been rampant because of his embracing of policy that actually pays big business

to relocate and out source our manufacturing base to other lands. The jobs that his

administration has created for the most part are entry level service oriented jobs

that pay just above or at minimum wage, and include no benefits.

C) In the last year alone, 1.5 million Americans moved from the middle-class into

the ranks of those deemed to be living at or below the poverty line. Of this number

800,000 were CHILDREN, and yet Bush claims to be a firm supporter of the American

family.

D) In his continueing drive to make the rich richer, Bush wants us to believe that

the key to lower cost access to health care is to reign in the high costs of mal

practice lawsuits. Tell me, should the farmer who went in for gall bladder surgery

who woke up castrated be denied just compensation? The truth is, that during the

Bush Whitehouse years over FIVE MILLION middle-class, hard working Americans LOST

their access to medical and hospitalization coverage.

E) We as a nation went from a huge surplus when Clinton left office in the year 2001

to a record deficit in less than four years of over a HALF OF A TRILLION DOLLARS.

F) Even more alarming, due to Bush now famous theory that Out Sourcing of America's

manufacturing base is good for our economy, we now as a nation have a RECORD trade

deficit of over SIX TRILLION DOLLARS during the Bush Regime.

There can be no doubt that these kinds of policies on the part of our President amount to a wholesale and vicious genocidal attack on the very foundations of the American middle class as Bush and his rich and elite croonies do their best to reduce America to a two tiered society of the haves and the have nots, the rich and the poor with nowhere in between.

3. When Bush took office under what nicely could be called a dark ominious cloud of suspicion he promised the American people that he was going to be a Uniter, he was going to heal the divide. On September 11th of that year, he was given the opportunity to do just that as the world stood side by side with our nation during our darkest hour. Sadly, Bush blew that chance, and his time in office has done nothing but further deepen the chasm that divides our nation, and alienates our allies around the world.

A) In a bold move to claim moral superiority over those who opposed him and his

base of power (the right wing extreme born again religious zealots bent on forcing

their version of morality on the rest of us), he informed us that God was his and his

teams co-pilot, and if you were not with him, you were in effect going against God.

B) Long before our nation went to war with Iraq President Bush stood before the UN

and delivered a threat...you either do the right thing, or I am going in and doing it

for you...and then we wonder why Germany, France, Russia and others who had become

our allies abandoned us in our time of confrontation with the regime of Saddam? Is

that what President Bush considers diplomacy? Was it wise to totally ignored the

sound advice or our Senior Statesman, Secretary of State General Collin Powell?

C) There is nothing wrong with someone holding near and dear to their heart their

own religious principles. But there is something horribly wrong with a man that is

President of the United States, sworn before God and Country to uphold and respect

the rights and priviledges of ALL CITIZENS to attempt to force his religious ideas

on the nation by suggesting a constitution amendment that would in fact and deed

authorize prejudice and discremination against a whole segment of our American

Society. During our nations 200 year plus history we have learned, grown and moved

forward as we learned tolerance and acceptance, and as that enlightment came about

we changed and altered our views and created the Bill of Rights. Women have been

given the right to vote, blacks were freed from the chains of slavery, and slowly

our prejudices and bigoted attitudes towards other dissappeared and deep wounds had

begun to heal. Yet, this GREAT UNITER, this man of high moral values came before the

American people and suggested we take a HUGE STEP BACKWARDS by amending the

Constitution to deny Gay and Lesbian citizens of our country the equal rights we

supposedly feel should be the inherent birth right of all of our citizens. Surely

Martin Luther King, Robert and John Kennedy, the freedom riders and a host of other

civil rights leaders who effected change through the sheading of thier own blood

would be weeping in the heavens at such a grime announcement made by a man who claims

to speak to God.

D) This great uniter in a move to do nothing more than solidify his popularity with

the lunatic fringe Born Again Christian Right banned federal financing of any and all

new Stem Cell research. Can any of us forget Ronald Reagans widow and her very

public plea directly to President Bush to reconsider this decision, to reconsider

the potential lives that could be saved in finding a cure for such tragic diseases

as Alzimers...yet, her words fell on deaf ears. A man that purports to be pro-life

has no problems in denying millions of Americans the hope for a cure.

4. Bush claims he wants to fix the Social Security System, wants to make it solvent. I think at best he is lying to us, but in a worse case scenerio, he is attempting to decieve us into allowing him and his Republican controlled House and Senate to deny a whole generation of Baby Boomers our hard earned benefits. Harsh words, but one needs to look at some real life realities.

A) In a senate sub-committee testimony on saving the Social Security System it was

stated that the odds on favorite workable solution to solving the woes of the system

was to in some way skip a generation of recipients. Said testimony went on to

suggest the following means to make this happen. Those between 35-55 would be given

back everything they paid into the system...important note here-the matching money

given to the system on our individual behalf would be kept by the administration.

Further, though the federal government had and supposedly invested our contributions

for 20-40 years depending on when each person joined the work force, we would not

recieve any interests on these funds when refunded to us. At that point, we would

then BE ON OUR OWN.

B) This past week out in Montana Federal Reserve Chairman Allen Greenspan in front

of cameras from every major news network announced that Bush's policies and the huge

run-away deficits created by this administration were threatening to put the people

like you and me in a situation where OUR BENEFITS for Social Security were not there

for us when we retired. He stated flat out that the only way to avoid this crisis

was to either drastically cut our benefits, or push back by several years the age at

which we could retire...suggested age being 68 if you wanted/needed to collect your

full benefits in your Golden Years.

C) This one is truly tragic seeing as Bush claims he wants TO FIX THE SYSTEM. We as

recognized law abiding United States Citizens must contribute into the Social

Security System for a total of 40 QUARTERS (Ten Years) to be eligible for benefits.

Yet, if you take the time to study El Presidenta Bush's Repulican Platform position

paper for this upcoming election year, the president approves and recommends that

illegal aliens illegally working in America should be allowed to collect benefits

from the Social Security System after contributing into said American Retirement

System for a period of SIX QUARTERS (One and ONE HALF YEARS). Much in the same way

Vice Cheney rewarded Enron executives for ruining and stealing the retirements of

1,000's of patriotic Americans by allowing them to shape this administrations

Energy Policy, Bush now supports rewarding law breaking illegal aliens by granting

them full rights to tap into our retirement fund after contributing barely twenty

percent as much as we LEGAL CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO CONTRIBUTE to qualify.

For those of you who have read this far, I thank you for taking the time to learn some of the truths about a man who wants to be your next president. If you wish to share or post this message in full to other sites you have my express written permission to do so, and I would encourage you to help in dispelling the falsehoods and given American voters the truth before they make their final choice in this coming Novembers Presidential Elections.

As we get closer into crunch time I hope to be making more such posts in the hopes of painting the true and accurate picture of the man some want to call President...this writer and citizen does not and never well consider George Bush the legally and lawfully elected president of the United STates of America...he was selected, not elected.