George Walker Bush was not legitimately elected to his post. Bush lost the popular vote by at least 544,683 votes, meaning that the majority of America did not want Bush to be president. 91,000 minority voters, half of whom are black, were purged from the Florida vote by Jeb Bush, which means that Floridaís electoral college vote was invalid. These voters are still purged from the election to this day. Bushís biggest lifetime campaign contributor--Kenneth Lay, former C.E.O. of Enron Corporation--presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history. George Walker Bush has a history of crimes. He has at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine and his Texas driving record has been expunged and is unavailable. J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son, alleged that Bush was arrested for possession of cocaine in 1972, but Hatfield was later found dead in his apartment. A 38-year-old Texas woman who accused Bush of rape was found ìsuicided.î
Bush became president with a budget surplus of $127 billion, but his 2001 tax cut combined with a weakening economy and the Sept. 11 attacks to eliminate the surplus and create a $157.8 billion deficit.†The current budget deficit is more than $521 billion, for which one can give partial credit to Bushís tax cuts. Bush promised that his tax cuts would create 306,000 new jobs per month, but only 221,000 have been created per month since his tax cuts took effect. Only 1,000 new jobs were created in December 2003, even though analysts had expected a gain of 130,000. As a result of the cut in capital gains and dividends taxes Bush made in 2003, 88% of American citizens will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes. Bush rejected a 2003 Treasury Department study that projected that the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 percent universal income tax increase would be needed in order to eliminate a projected $44.2 trillion budget deficit due to Bush's tax cuts. Because of Bush's huge tax cuts, we can't afford the cost of hiring 100 new public-school teachers: $3.125 million, the cost of hiring 100 state child-care workers: $2.08 million, the cost of fully immunizing 100 children against preventable diseases: $64,433, 250,000 new fire trucks: $56.2 billion, or afford the funding needs for community-based services in the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in 2002: $2 billion. Each American citizen's share of the national debt is $24,402.84, and the National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.87 billion per day since September 30, 2003. 1.57 million people filed for bankruptcy in 2002, and 43.6 million Americans were without health insurance that year. In the years of the Bush Administration, over 3.1 million Americans have lost their jobs. There has been a 6% increase since 2001 in the number of U.S. families in poverty.
Bush opened 58 million acres of public lands to road building, logging, and drilling. Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken 200 public health and environmental laws. For example, Bush weakens a federal program for cleaning up dirty waters, and he strongly opposes mining law reforms that would improve environmental safeguards against widespread resource degradation. Bush asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins -- the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices. Bushís energy plan provides no scientific analysis of why fossil and nuclear fuel supplies must be expanded, doesn't assess the potential for energy efficiency and renewable energy, doesn't include tax incentives for energy-efficient technologies, contains no proposals that would spur utility energy efficiency programs nationally, is designed to ensure the dominance of fossil fuels, and endangers public lands, including Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain in Alaska, Weatherman Draw (Valley of the Chiefs) in Montana, Weatherman Draw listed as an Endangered Sacred Site by Sacred Land Film Project, Wilderness-quality lands in Utah's Book Cliffs, Jack Morrow Hills of Wyoming's Red Desert (a pristine area proposed as a national park since the 1930s), Little Missouri National Grasslands in North Dakota, Otero Mesa in New Mexico, Vermillion Basin in Colorado, Green River Basin in Wyoming, and Valle Vidal/Carson National Forest in New Mexico.
In order to generate support for the war, Bush demonized Saddam Hussein and referred to atrocities he committed almost two decades ago. The U.S. provided financial aid, military intelligence, and actual military planning to Iraq at a time when the Reagan-Bush Sr. administration was well aware that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iran. The deaths of the Kurds may have been caused by both Iraqi and Iranian weapons, or just Iranian chemical weapons.
None of the alleged hijackers were Iraqis or Afghanis. 15 of the 19 alleged hijackers were Arabs. Eight of the alleged 9/11 hijackers are reportedly alive and the victims of stolen identity. There is no evidence that Iraqís government has ties to radical Muslim terrorists as Bush claimed. Several calls for the invasion of Iraq were made before 9/11 by the Bush Administration and others. For example, the Bush White House held its second National Security Council meeting on February 1, 2001, in which the issue of regime change in Iraq was a central topic. One of the memos discussed during the meeting is titled, ìPlan for post-Saddam Iraq.î According to reports, the memo discussed the need for troops in a post-Saddam occupation, war crimes tribunals, and how to split up Iraq's oil supplies. There is no solid evidence that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. If Bush is really concerned about the threats posed by ìrogue statesî that possess weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. would also be rattling the sabers at several of its own allies, and even itself. India, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Israel, Russia, France, and China all have nuclear capability. North Korea will not hesitate to use their WMDs and Israel recently said they could wipe out any European capital at will. North Korea has 5,000 tons of chemical and biological agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox, and the plague. Iraq is not considered a threat to any of its neighbors, as most of Iraqís neighbors have sophisticated antiaircraft capability, and Israel has the best regional missile defense system in the world, so a hostile aircraft from Iraq would be aborted. There is no evidence that Iraqís Scud missiles and launchers even survived the Gulf War in operable condition. If Iraq is not a threat to its neighbors, it certainly isnít a threat to the U.S. Iraq has not engaged in terrorism against the West since its failed plot to assassinate former President Bush in 1993 in Kuwait. Bush falsely claimed that Iraq has stores of chemical weapons, and falsely claimed that Iraq has biological weapons. There is no evidence that Iraqís government has ties to radical Muslim terrorists as Bush claimed. The alleged meeting between Mohamed Atta and officials in Prague has been proven false. Bush unilaterally attacked Iraq, a sovereign nation, against the will of the United Nations and the global community. In doing so, he rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. The U.S. invasion of Iraq violates Article 2 and Articles 39 through 51 of the United Nations Charter. The U.S. invasion of Iraq violates Resolution 687. It also violates Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution passed by Congress in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. The United Nations removed the U.S. from the human rights commission, and removed the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. Bush refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abides by the Geneva Conventions, and withdrew from the world court of law. Bush had the U.S. suspend $47 million in military aid to 35 countries after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court.
Between 10 and 15 million people worldwide simultaneously took to the streets to protest against the Iraq War. Iraqi opposition groups didnít support the U.S. plans to remove Saddam Hussein. The Kurdish Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq have all expressed opposition to U.S. ambitions in Iraq. Most Iraqis did not welcome U.S. soldiers as liberators. They instead believe that the U.S. is interested in occupying Iraq indefinitely.
Bushís policy of regime change has set a dangerous precedent. The implication will be that it is all right for any country to invade its neighbor and remove its leader, if the leaders of the invading country believe that its neighbor poses a threat to it, even if the world community disagrees and even if the invading country has failed to demonstrate the validity of its claims. The Iraq War is causing mass casualties. 32% of the bombs dropped on Iraq are not precision-guided. A minimum of 8,930 and a maximum of 10,781+ Iraqi casualties have been documented. 30% of these Iraqis were noncombatant unarmed civilians. Unnamed U.S. military officials estimate that 10,000-15,000 Iraqis have been killed -- some reports suggest even considerably higher. Bush may be attacking Iraq because Iraq has 112 billion barrels of proven reserves worth about $3.2424 trillion†at current market prices, the Caspian Sea Oil Reserves are valued at $33 billion, and in late 2000, Saddam Hussein switched from dollars to euros for oil currency. Iran is also considering switching. More than 705 U.S. soldiers have died fighting in Iraq. 59 Britons, five Bulgarians, one Dane, one Estonian, 17 Italians, two Poles, one Salvadoran, 11 Spaniards, two Thai, and four Ukrainians have also perished. Bush promised that Iraq would have democracy, but Paul Bremer, the U.S. Administrator, handpicks the new governing body and holds veto power over anything they decide. Bush and his administration delayed release of information about North Korea restarting its nuclear program until after the Senate approved a war powers resolution on Iraq. Bush says he cares about our troops, but he hasnít attended a single funeral for a U.S. soldier and hasnít allowed the coffins of any U.S. soldiers to be photographed.
Bush lied that careful science demonstrates that depleted uranium is no big risk to the population. Depleted uranium can increase cancer rates by as much as 900%. The Gulf War resulted in the deaths of almost 2 million Iraqis and injured thousands of innocent people. Many are still dying as an aftereffect of that battle from the depleted uranium. Many Iraqi babies are either stillborn or grossly deformed. Nearly 100,000 American soldiers are suffering from the debilitating effects of depleted uranium, a.k.a. ìGulf War Syndrome.î In addition, five thousand British servicemen are suffering from the same condition and 11,000 Gulf War veterans are dead. Uranium was also used extensively in the recent war on Afghanistan. Bush claimed that his Niger-Iraq nuclear statement in his State of the Union Speech was because of a miscommunication, but he and his staff made the same statement multiple times before and after his speech in an attempt to cover up lies with more lies. Before the war, 92% of Iraqís urban areas had access to drinking water, compared to less than 60% today. Before the war, 55% of the Iraqi work force was unemployed, although now 80% of the work force is unemployed. The U.S. has yet to restore electricity in Iraq. Though it is true that Iraq is located on one of the largest oil reserves in the world, the country now needs to import oil because of the dilapidated state of its oil production facilities and ongoing sabotage. The Iraq war costs over $111.808 billion so far, which is enough to provide health insurance to 47.924+ million kids for one year, or provide 2.835+ million students 4-year scholarships at public universities.
Bush, in his State of the Union Speech said, ìTo date we have arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of Al Qaeda.î Actually, most of these key commanders are still at large, and the status of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is still in dispute.
Bush broke his promise to establish the Healthy Communities Innovation Fund to provide $500 million in grants over five years to target specific health risks.
Bush promised to increase funding for first responders, then tried to cut $1 billion of existing grants. Bush later rejected $150 million in state and local grant requests for first responders. In New Jersey, Bush vetoed legislation to increase funding after he spoke about the important security work to be done at shipping ports.
Bush cut funding to 164,000 veterans, and his budget fell $1.5 billion short of the needed amount.
Bush said that he highly valued education in New York, but then cut funding for training programs. After vowing to leave no child behind, Bush proposed to cut No Child Left Behind programs by $90 million overall, leaving these programs more than $7 billion short of what was authorized under the bill.
Bush said, in his State of the Union speech, that the U.S. is working with other governments to secure nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union and to strengthen the global treaties banning the production and shipment of missile technologies and weapons of mass destruction. However, Bush actually cut funding for the program.
In his State of the Union Speech, Bush said, ìWe will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations.î Bushís handling of the economy is creating huge deficits and weakening Social Security, problems that will be passed on to our generation.
Bush deliberately dresses his war rhetoric in language designed to appeal to the Christian Right, the key building block of the conservative arm of the Republican Party. Bush talks about evil and evildoers and repeatedly draws God into an explicit alliance with the Administrationís agenda. Bushís plans open the door to federal regulation of religion. While on the campaign trail, Bush promised that he would ìnot discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.î Then he announced that he would not allow funding of the Nation of Islam, because he says the group ìpreaches hate.î
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