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2004-11-032004-11-03

From http://www.cnn.com/

The Morning After

As I watched the election results last night on CNN they kept talking about Ohio and have dismissed Florida as a win for Bush. Ohio will play itself out, but let’s go back to Florida and the question the CNN staff kept asking; If the exit polls were all showing Kerry with a lead, how could we have gotten the polls so wrong? In fact, the exit polls were so consistently for Kerry that even Tucker Carlson was saying it looks like a Kerry win while Robert Novak a Bush insider remained smug and confident. The question they should have been asking is; If the exit polls were all showing Kerry with a lead, why is the Florida official vote count just the opposite? Is there something wrong with the Florida vote count? Is the difference greater in areas that use electronic voting machines with no paper trail? Is the state, run by the president’s brother, doing something to alter the count and make the results contradict the exit polls? Why do we assume the polls are wrong? We should start asking some new questions before we or CNN assume the polls are incorrect.

http://www.counterbias.com/152.html

Will we learn from 2 elections in a row that had voting problems?

http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/281829446390855.php

11:00am Kerry concedes with many unresolved voting issues.

3:00pm Bush gives victory speech with no lump on his back. (see #252 below)

A Sad Day For America

KEEP UP THE FIGHT – PLEASE

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Below is the original page as it appeared before Election Day

The following, “103 Reasons”, was written by Chris Straub, and is very well written.

Any additions, reasons 104 and beyond are mine (Glen Sherman) & updates will be ongoing.

(Some figures may be out dated, but none are improving.)

Use links when available to learn more. (Always adding more) Some links may change and are out of my control.

103 reasons NOT to vote for George W. Bush

(I was going to come up with 100 but was getting carried away.)

1. 794 American soldiers dead in Iraq (and counting).

(UPDATE 2004-09-07 The count hits 1000 and Rumsfeld calls the death toll relatively small.)

http://www.wageslave.org/deathcount/

2. Bush has not attended a single one of their funerals.

(No sites on this – he wasn’t there)

Photo from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001906489_kuwait18m.html

3. In fact, his administration has tried to keep us from seeing any visual documentation of these tragic deaths.

http://www.alternet.org/story/18030

4. Saddam Hussein did not seek uranium from Niger and Bush (or his subordinates) knew it.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33669

5. Valerie Plame’s cover was blown by someone in the administration, putting other CIA agents’ lives at risk.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml

6. One canister of Sarin gas? This is your weapon of mass destruction? This is why we went to war?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33082-2004May17.html

7. Or was it Saddam “gassing his own people” back when we supported him against Iran?

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you’re a conservative radio host.

Then it’s an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

8. Or was it those rape rooms that are now under new management?

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287752.shtml

9. The patriot act’s “sneak and peek” provisions.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2087984/

10. Outsourcing is “ultimately a good thing”

????? http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04041/271362.stm ?????
11. If we continue to rack up deficits at this rate it will be all we can do to make interest payments.

http://democrats.house.gov/issues/fiscal_responsibility/hot_topic.cfm?topic_id=18

12. Bush sat in a classroom for 14 minutes after the first plane hit the Trade Center and read “My Pet Goat”. Couldn’t he have called NORAD or something?

Correction: He sat for 7 minutes after learning that the 2^nd plane hit. (I didn’t write the original.)

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

Photo from http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html

13. “Bring it on!”; Well, they did. Are you happy now?

http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/view.html?ad_id=2472

14. After September 11th we had the support of virtually the entire world. Now they seem to either fear of hate us.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2070777/

15. Invading Iraq was a better terrorist recruiting tool than anything al Qaeda could have come up with.

http://pages.zdnet.com/trimb/id61.html

16. Why did we pay $300,000 monthly to Achmed Chalabi only to be fed wrong information and have him pass secrets to Iran?

http://www.opednews.com/kall052204_bush_suckered_by_Iran.htm

17. There still seems to be no evidence tying Saddam to al Qaeda.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0303-01.htm

18. Whatever happened to Bin-Laden anyway?

(See #129)

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

The United States should get out of the United Nations,

and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

19. Why were Saudi royals and Bin-Laden’s relatives flown out of the country after September 11th while the rest of us were stuck on the ground?

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/flight.htm

20. The Department of Homeland Security was Lieberman’s idea and Bush initially opposed it. (Flip-Flop?)

http://www.house.gov/honda/InCongress/HomelandSecurity_09.02.03.html

21. He also opposed the creation of the 9/11 commission. (flip-flop)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml

22. And, tried to put Kissinger in charge of it over the objections of the victims’ families.

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074678

23. Plus, he couldn’t testify alone.

http://www.yuricareport.com/911/BushTestifiesOnlyWithCheney.html

24. or under oath.
25. Freedom Fries

http://www.yuricareport.com/911/BushTestifiesOnlyWithCheney.html

Photo from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2842493.stm

26. NUCLEAR not NEW-KEW-LER. It was also wrong when Carter said it.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/pron/N0184900.wav

27. Mission to Mars????? Any news on that lately? (flip-flop?)
28. Having family members pull strings to get him into the Texas Air Guard while those with less influence saw actual fighting.

(Update: Many questions have come up about Bush’s service and a gap in that service when he transferred from Texas to Alabama. Records were reported lost or destroyed & months later found. The found records however have not settled any questions and in fact may have raised additional questions.)

http://www.changeforamerica.com/community/node/view/852

(Also see number 194 below)

29. Nitpicking about how severe Kerry¹s injuries were is pretty low. How many Purple Hearts does Bush have?
30. The No Child Left Behind Act is chronically underfunded.

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

Government should relax regulation of Big Business and Big Money

but crack down on individuals who use marijuana to relieve the pain of illness.

31. It also promotes teaching to the test.
32. It also punishes underperforming schools rather than trying to fix them. Don’t they probably need MORE money rather than LESS?

http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0305/cover.html

33. As governor of Texas he allowed the execution of retarded men. Hell, he allowed execution in the first place!

http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/08/09/texas.double.execution.03/

34. The Clear Skies Initiative allows pollution to increase.

http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanair/clear_skies.asp

35. Just what is the status of those people at Guantanamo?

Photo from http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/22/gitmo.trials.ap/

36. Shouldn¹t people at least be ACCUSED of something before they are locked up?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/30/terror/main586001.shtml

37. “You are either with us or against us” is an insultingly simplistic view of the world.

http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-main21.html

38. In his first year of the presidency he took more vacation than any previous president in their first year.

(Just true – nothing to read.)
39. What was the name of that August 6th presidential daily briefing again?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html

40. Remember how the social security surplus was not going to be touched? Now Greenspan is warning us that social security benefits themselves may have to be changed.

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

“Standing Tall for America” means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.

41. He said we should “jawbone” oil producing nations into keeping oil prices low? What does that mean? Where is the jawbone now?

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04235.html

42. Closed-door energy task force meetings with virtually no input from environmental groups, but plenty from Enron.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/27/enron/

43. Those ties to Enron are pretty fishy, aren’t they?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x573127

44. CEO of Diebold, manufacturer of voting machines, says they will “deliver the vote for George W. Bush”

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

45. Gore had more votes, period.

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm

EXTRA:

OXYMORON: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined.

Jumbo Shrimp

Deafening Silence

Pretty Ugly

Boneless Ribs

Legally Drunk

Fox News

Compassionate Conservatism

Just War

46. Gore even had more votes in Florida, but the Supreme Court rushed us into a decision.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/09/president.election/

46a. Gore might have had even more votes in Florida, but the Supreme Court issued an INJUNCTION against COUNTING them.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884144.html

47. Gore would have had even more votes, but voter rolls were purged of “felons”, a great many of whom were simply not felons, had names similar to those of felons, or had been convicted in other states, but were still legal to vote in Florida. (see The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452283914/qid=1091555920/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-8749731-7083323?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

48. Does Bush favor free trade or protective tariffs for the steel industry (Flip-flop?)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/03/13_trade.html

49. The factory in Ohio visited by Bush a little while back has just announced it is closing.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=49047

50. There have been an awful lot of jobs lost, haven’t there.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=jobs+lost

(Pick any of the over 8,000,000 sites that come up on this list.)

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body,

but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

51. The tax cuts have been heavily weighted towards the extremely rich who need them the least.
52. Some of the poorest actually paid more?!?!
53. 60% of American corporations paid NOTHING in taxes????!!!!!

http://www.ctj.org/

54. Taxes have never before been cut during war-time. Anywhere. Ever.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/printjk20030401.shtml

55. After September 11th many Americans were eager to make personal sacrifices to help out. We were told to go shopping. SHOPPING?!?!?!?

http://www.perrspectives.com/articles/art_warpres01.htm

Image from http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.9669222

56. My taxes have actually gone up since local and state taxes have had to increase to make up for lower federal funding.
57. Bush doesn’t read. He likes his memos to be a single page.

(Adding a link here would make the page too long and Bush wouldn’t read it.)
58. He claims his favorite book as a child was the “Very Hungry Caterpillar”, which was published when he was in college. Either way that is scary.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399226907/qid=1091551766/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-8749731-7083323?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

59. He was arrested for DWI after crashing his car into a hedge.
60. He was also arrested for unruly behavior at a football game. Just how unruly do you have to be for that to happen?

http://pearly-abraham.tripod.com/htmls/bush-arrests.html

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

61. He is against affirmative action but apparently has no problem with the affirmative action of LEGACIES which help you get into places like Yale.

http://www.detnews.com/2003/schools/0303/10/a01-104288.htm

62. That’s not a ranch in Crawford. It’s a farm. Ranches have animals.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010825-2.html

63. Almost all of his cabinet appointees have been major figures in the corporate management of huge companies in the fields that they are supposed to oversee. Conflict of interest anyone?

http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=188

64. His war-related decisions are being made almost entirely by people who have never seen combat.

http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=list&category=%20NEWS%3B%20Chickenhawks%3BBureaucratic%20Battalion

65. Ever see that picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam from back in the 80’s?

Photo from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

66. Look at the complete list of countries in the “Coalition of the Willing”. You’ll either laugh or cry.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030320-11.html

(Be sure to look up what each country will contribute, for most – not much.)
67. Also look up Cheney’s explanation of why they did not go after Saddam in the early 90’s. He turned out to be pretty accurate about what might happen.

(Still looking for transcript, but here are some good links)

http://www.wildnesswithin.com/hypocrisy.html

http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i4911reality.htm

68. Rumsfeld: looting is not the same thing as “letting off steam”, especially when the infrastructure of a country is being completely ruined.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-07-21-war-aftermath_x.htm (Search this link for the word “steam”.)

69. $700 million dollars taken from funds for Afghanistan and transferred to Iraq without the approval of congress. (This violates the Constitution.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/politics/20SPEN.html?ex=1091592000&en=eeb14bdc1ee0c6fc&ei=5070

70. The Democrats’ attempts to give unionization rights to the workers in the Department of Homeland Security were called obstructionist and unpatriotic. Is wanting job-security unpatriotic?

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/ns11142002.cfm

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches

while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay.

71. Building a Big-Mac is not manufacturing.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2004/02/20_mpp.html

72. Afghanistan now produces more heroin than they did under the Taliban.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=119-06112004

73. Shouldn’t rebuilding and stabilizing Afghanistan have been accomplished before we started tearing apart Iraq?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1126-10.htm

74. Wasn’t the “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq a year ago? That flight suit stunt was really pathetic.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101031006/

75. The carrier he landed on had to stay out at sea and wait for him. Also it had to be positioned so that you couldn’t see San Diego on the news cameras. In other words, the fly-in stunt was transparent, ill-conceived publicity, totally unnecessary and even more embarrassing than the footage of Dukakis in the tank.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/08/politics/main552894.shtml

Photo from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/909566/posts

76. Bush never did answer those questions about past drug use. Clinton’s answer was a stupid one, but at least he answered.

http://www.progress.org/archive/drc12.htm

77. I am tired of ordinary Americans with differing opinions being called unpatriotic or compared to terrorists. In the last few months teachers unions and pro-choice activists have been compared to terrorists.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-23-paige-remarks_x.htm and

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/hughes.criticism/

78. Bush is unable to come up with any mistake that he has made since the invasion of Iraq. Think about this for a minute. This is his job. Something he does every day. If someone asked you if you had made a mistake on the job couldn’t you pretty quickly come up with something you regret doing that was not so horrible as to get you fired? This means that he either has no clue, is smug as hell, or knows that his mistakes have been SO severe that they cannot be admitted.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html (Search this link for the words “biggest mistake”.)

79. Kerry is being accused of having voted against various provisions, including body armor, for our troops. This was a vote, made ten years ago, against a defense package that Dick Cheney, defense secretary at the time, said that he DID NOT WANT.

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=177 and

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=155 (The links refer mostly to more recent distortions.)

80. The word crusade was not an appropriate word to use publicly in a fight that could be mis-construed as an attack on Islam. Perhaps if he was better-read Bush would know this.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Primetime/iraq_crusade030331.html

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins

unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.

81. When he attempts to be spontaneous, Bush comes across as rambling, confused, and totally inarticulate.

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring01/004183.htm

82. He pauses and umms and ahhs at completely inappropriate times.

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring01/004183.htm

83. The faith-based initiative is a dangerous violation of the separation of church and state.

http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5191&abbr=pr&JServSessionIdr012=h8bvgcttx2.app1b&news_iv_ctrl=1363

84. Bush’s budget predictions inevitably ignore large expenses (i.e. a war) that everyone knows are coming and deliver meaningless predictions.

http://www.homeboundmortgage.com/Mortgage_Info/Mortgage02_13_04/News4.htm and

http://slate.msn.com/id/2094801/

85. The former head of the faith-based initiative referred to the Bush administration as the reign of the “Mayberry Machiavellis” and said that all policy is politically motivated.

http://www.rense.com/general32/shut.htm

EXTRA:

The Bush quiz. (Answers after reason #103.)

1. Where was George W. Bush born?

2. How many times has George W. Bush been arrested?

3. What does the “W” stand for?

4. Where are the Texas gubernatorial records of George W. Bush?

5. After hearing both towers were hit and we were under attack, what did George W. Bush do?

6. When was the Bush’s Crawford Texas “ranch” purchased and the house completed?

86. Paul O’Neill has said that Bush is disconnected during meetings.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36558

87. He has also said that Bush does not ask questions, comparing him unfavorably to Ford in this respect.
88. Bush refused to go along with O”Neills request for “triggers” that would make elements of the tax cuts contingent on the maintenance of several indicators of a healthy economy.

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040126ta_talk_cassidy

89. Why did it take Clark’s apology (2.5 years after the event) for someone to finally offer some sort of apology for not thwarting or at least giving any warning of 9/11?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/02/opinion/meyer/main610106.shtml

90. Why weren’t fighter jets in the air in time for even the FOURTH plane?

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4691.shtml and many more sites!

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.

91. Why are our container ports still not fully secured?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/Primetime/sept11_uranium030910.html

92. Why did Bush oppose making the baggage inspectors federal employees?

http://democrats.senate.gov/~dpc/pubs/107-1-316.html

93. Why can’t records of gun purchases be used to combat terrorism while records of library books checked out can?

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/libraries/topic.aspx?topic=patriot_act

94. What is the use of the color coded terror alerts other than to keep us in perpetual fear?

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29 and

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/89/100345.htm

95. Duct tape and plastic really weren’t very useful.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=14&content=462

Image from http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/DHS/

96. Whatever happened to the Anthrax attack investigation?

http://www.fbi.gov/anthrax/amerithraxlinks.htm

97. Senior citizens should not have to buy medicines from Canada.

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/medicare/ns07202004.cfm

98. A country as rich as ours CAN afford to provide health care for the poor and even the middle class. Ultimately we will pay for it one way or another when those who can’t afford it need emergency care. It is cheaper to prevent health problems than to wait for them to become emergencies. For children not to be covered is simply criminal.

http://southflorida.sun-sentinel.com/careers/vitalsigns/partfolder/xiv02imper.htm

99. The gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow drastically.

http://bernie.house.gov/documents/releases/20031001190615.asp

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies,

then demand their cooperation and money.

100. The possibility of the draft.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/

101. Troops are going to be pulled out of the Korean DMZ to be shifted to Iraq. Isn’t Korea the “axis of evil” member that flat-out TOLD us they had WMD’s?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3720029.stm

102. “Axis of evil” is the kind of rhetoric that is designed to inflame and taunt and is a good way to encourage problems to develop.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html

103. The buck stops NOWHERE.

EXTRA:

The Bush quiz answers.

1. New Haven, Connecticut.

2. Three times that we know of, not all records are available.

3. Walker, the last name of his grandfather who was accused of aiding the Nazis.

4. In his father’s presidential library which violates Texas law and restricts public access.

5. Nothing, he continued reading a book with a class of elementary school children.

6. Purchased in 1999 and completed in 2000 just in time to be a good set for photo ops.

(Ranch: a large farm specializing in a kind of crop or animal)

6a. No crops or animals are raised on this “ranch”.

GLEN’S ADDITIONS

Photo from http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstoriesny_story_239101008.html

104. Anyone who questions the decisions of the president is unpatriotic. Isn’t the right to question the decisions and motives of the government the most American thing we can do, and what makes us different from other countries?

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/news/stories/20030330/opinion/20452.html

105. In an effort to deal with the prisoner abuse scandal Rumsfeld issues a ban on camcorders, cameras and camera-phones in military compounds in Iraq, and will try to expand it throughout the military. Does this fix the problem, or just keep us from finding out about it?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/23/1085250870873.html?oneclick=true

106. The Republican Party hires a Washington telemarketer to raise campaign money, and the telemarketer outsourced the work to a company in India. Do we see a pattern here?

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/270817.shtml

107. Iraq's natural resources (oil) would largely fund reconstruction. This just isn’t happening, not even close.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/apr/03iraq.htm

108. We’re not taking full advantage of the work force in Iraq, who would be happy to participate in rebuilding their country. Using Iraqi workers cuts into the profits of those connected U.S. contractors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/rebuilding_iraq/index.asp and

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/default.aspx

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

HMOs and insurance companies have the interest of the public at heart.

109. Our company provided services for one of those Bush propaganda appearances. You know the type, speaking to the crew on the factory floor. Great event, now all we have to do is get paid. Yes, their account is past due. Maybe we should have named the company Halliburton.

(UPDATE: 30 day terms, they did finally transfer payment on day 70)

110. The E.P.A. was instructed to lie about the air quality in New York after 9/11. Thanks!

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2004-08-18.asp (Update)

111. Going to war is something you HAVE to do, not something you WANT to do. Why does Bush seem to enjoy it?

http://eces.org/articles/000032.php

112. Jessica Lynch, was there a problem with her telling the truth?

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Jessica_Lynch

113. 2000 pages of the Taguba report are suddenly missing!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4124045,00.html

Photo from http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444

114. Ashcroft and Mueller deliver new terror alert while Ridge is left on the sidelines. Isn’t Ridge the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security? Terror Alert or Political Alert?

(Also see “Glen on Terror Alerts” near the bottom of this page)

115. The creation of the “Office of Special Plans”. This intelligence agency doesn’t collect intelligence information and then recommend policy to deal with it, but instead makes policy and then searches for intelligence information to support it, while ignoring any information that does not support their policies.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact

116. We subsidize gas prices in Iraq, while we let the prices rise in the U.S.

http://wyden.senate.gov/media/2003/print/print_10172003_dorgan_wyden_iraq_cost.html

117. August 2002 memo to the White House; torturing al Qaeda terrorists in captivity abroad "may be justified". Is torture ever justified?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23373-2004Jun7.html

118. “Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change”: 26 (and counting) retired American diplomats and military officers angered by Bush administration policies that they contend endanger national security. Among the group are 20 ambassadors, appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, other former State Department officials and military leaders whose careers span three decades. (Imagine, Democrats and Republicans who agree. Bush must go.)

http://www.diplomatsforchange.com/project/project.html

Things you have to believe to be a Republican today.

Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy.

Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

119. Under Reagan ketchup became a vegetable, but now under Bush, frozen french-fries are now classified as a fresh vegetable.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0615-02.htm and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44632-2004Jun15.html

120. June 15, 2000 Bush announces: “Coalition forces, including many brave Afghans, have brought America, Afghanistan and the free world its first victory in the war on terror. Afghanistan is no longer a terrorist factory sending thousands of killers into the world.” Who is he kidding?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/16/MNGH676P2J1.DTL

121. Bush nominates Griffith to federal judgeship and Griffith has been practicing law without a license.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56413-2004Jun20.html

122. “The Project for The New American Century”: The more you learn about this group, who is involved, what they say, etc., the more disturbing the Bush administration becomes.

http://www.newamericancentury.org

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf (Pay close attention to pages 50 & 51)

123. “Fahrenheit911” The film is critical of the Bush administration and every possible step has been taken to block its release. The original company that agreed to finance the film backed out because of Republican pressure, Disney refuses to release the film because they fear Jeb Bush will destroy the tax advantages they enjoy in Florida, “Move America Forward” organization (a Republican PR group) tries to influence theatres not to show the film, theatre owners report receiving threats to be carried out if they show the film, Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) challenges the use of the films similar name, Bain Capitol (started by MA republican governor Mitt Romney), the Carlyle group (who’s list of directors, disinfopedia.org says reads like the invite list to George H.W. Bush’s inaugural ball) and Spectrum Equity Investors (no news on them yet) suddenly purchase Lowes Cineplex Entertainment (the largest theatre chain) in an effort to control what is shown (Update: