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30 Greatest Accomplishments « Thread Started on May 22, 2004

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30 Greatest Accomplishments « Thread Started on May 22, 2004

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30 Greatest Accomplishments « Thread Started on May 22, 2004, 11:22pm »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Gandalf Grey (gandalfgrey@infectedmail.com)Subject: Bush/Cheney's 30 Greatest Accomplishments This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, alt.current-events.wtc.bush-knew, alt.impeach.bush, alt.politics, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.miscDate: 2003-11-25 13:51:37 PST http://www.syrculturalworkers.com/catal ... ey.htmlThe policies that have shaped US domestic and foreign policy over the past50 years have gradually moved the US toward a more open and inclusivesociety at home, and increasingly recognized the importance ofmultilateralism in addressing world problems. The Bush/Cheney administrationhas moved aggressively to systematically dismantle these broad frameworksand has, in just over 2 years. Here are just 30 of Bush/Cheney's "GreatestAccomplishments" in that time: "Won" 2000 presidential election aided by brother Jeb Bush, Florida'sgovernor, who illegally prevented over 90,000 registered voters-mainly lowincome African Americans and whites-from voting.Reversed dramatic improvements in air and water quality brought by landmarkFederal Clear Water (1977) and Clean Air (1970) Acts.Replaced budget surplus with ocean of red ink. Projected debt: $4 trillionby 2013.Signed tax cut giving average 2003 reduction of $93,500 to millionaireswhile middle class receives a cut of $217 per household. 36% of householdsreceive no tax cut.Used funds earmarked for health care programs for uninsured, like Medicaid,to pay for tax cuts.Proposed changes in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that would deny morethan 80 million workers overtime pay by reclassifying them.Opposed equal opportunities for girls, women and people of color byattempting to rewrite Title IX and end affirmative action.Requested massive cuts in funding for vocational education and after schoolprograms in order to underwrite vouchers for private schools.Implemented No Child Left Behind Act, focusing on high stakes standardizedtesting and downplay ing arts and multicultural education. Used it tojustify defunding struggling schools.Supported cutting $25 billion in veterans' benefits over next 10 years;proposed $172 million in cuts from education programs for soldiers'children; ordered VA to stop publicizing health benefits available toveterans.Presided over faltering economy in which a million+ workers have lost theirjobs since 2001, with unemployment over 6%, highest level since 1995.Reversed years of nuclear caution by being willing to use nuclear weaponsand by pushing plan funding new nuclear weapons.Rejected germ warfare enforcement protocols... Pulled out of Anti-BallisticMissile Treaty...Rejected Biological Weapons Convention... Failed to signLand Mine Ban Treaty... Continued to manufacture and stockpile nuclear,chemical and biological weapons.Exploited grief and fear from 9-11 to enlist Americans' support forwar-making.Subverted Bill of Rights with USA PATRIOT Act, most of which was writtenbefore 9-11.Endorsed secret military tribunals and extrajudicial executions.Encouraged Americans to inform on each other. Proposed Terrorism Informationand Prevention System (TIPS).Killed 3,500 Afghanis, then abandoned country to warlords, famine and chaos.Dropped cluster bombs, designed to maim people, on Afghani civilians.Dropped food packets the same color as unexploded bomblets.Achieved record sales of duct tape and plastic.Lied about chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in order to wage war onIraq.While sending American youth to die in foreign wars, covered up Bush's draftdodger status during Viet Nam war. His rich father got him intoNational Guard where he violated his service pledge by serving at best fouryears of a six-year obligation.Undermined United Nations and International Criminal Court.Waged war on victims of Saddam Hussein and called it "liberation."Occupied Iraq causing almost daily deaths of US soldiers.Reneged on Kyoto Treaty to combat global warming.Under cover of failed "war on drugs" (then, "war on terrorism") sentColombia $2 billion in mostly military aid to protect US oil supplies.Advocated gluttonous consumption as American entitlement and way of life.Claiming to support liberation of women worldwide, pulled plug on familyplanning organizations overseas and caused increasing insecurity, pollution,and death for women in developing countries.Awarded $600 million no-bid contract to repair and operate Iraqi oil fieldsto Halliburton, which still pays ex-ceo Cheney $180,000/year.Proving once again that truth trumps fiction, was nominated for Nobel PeacePrize by right wing Norwegian politician Harald Tom Nesvik, who recognizedUS leader's bold use of war-making to address world problems.----FAIR USE NOTICE: This post contains copyrighted material the use of whichhas not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. I ammaking such material available in an effort to advance understanding ofenvironmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, andsocial justice issues, etc. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of anysuch copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US CopyrightLaw. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just solong as I'm the dictator." - GW Bush 12/18/2000."To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or thatwe are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatrioticand servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."---Theodore Roosevelt"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs ofIraq."-- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz,
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