The top ten reasons not to vote for BUSH. (mudslinging)

[Tsiangkun]

Democracy (which we never had, but we like to call our republic like nation state a democracy) is dying in the united states.

We have armed police on the corners. To keep us safe ? To constantly show the force of the brother bigger than the man ? Whatever the reason, it brings back childhood memories of facists regimes seen on TV, the fear people living in regions where the military is visible everyday face, and how it could never happen here. It happened in the last four years.


We have "free speech zones" now. Regulation and freedom are not the same thing, more of opposites really. Free speech zones are a nice way of getting mug shots of people who are not on board with the government keeping tabs on them. I had to sign a paper saying I waive my right to free thought and free speach to keep my job. I didn't have to sign such a thing four years ago.

They have put cameras and microphones on some of the buildings on my street. You would think that in a "free" country someone could walk to the store without having the trip documented by the government. It is not possible on my block, which happens to be in a country that is spreading it's "freedom" around the world. Perhaps we should beef up the reserves of freedom at home before we go exporting it.

Any person on American soil can be held indefinately and without explanation. The legal system designed to protect the citizens of this country is now an illusion. We no longer have the right to

• know for what crimes we are being charged
  a trial by jury of peers
  talk to a lawyer
  not be tortured

We are told to be in constant fear of an enemy that we will never defeat, and will perpetually be at war with. Sometimes the name of the enemy changes, but it's the same war. People accept the change without question. Bush is seen as strong on terror, and able to make america safer because he doesn't flip flop. Bush picks a goal and gets to it. UNfortunately the opposite has been true. While I may be one of the few people who didn't support the Afghanistan war, it was at least against a terrorist group that had connections with the Saudi hijackers. Bush didn't finish this war. He didn't get Osama Bin Laden after announcing that his capture was the number one priority of the government. He didn't remove the taliban from the ruling power of the country. He didn't liberate Afghani women as he pretended too. Instead, he got distracted by a "ruthless dictator" who was an "imminent threat" and could bring the "mushroom cloud" to American soil. This was of course all lies, and was Bush being distracted. Bush changed course in the middle of making America safer to persue a personal vendetta against a country that was no threat to the USA. This is not steadfast leadership in a time of peril. This is the government changing the enemy in the middle of the war, and the people not even noticing we are fighting a different power.

There may be two less terrorist regimes at the olympic games, but there is a new rogue superpower that brings more terrorist together than any propaganda the terrorist have ever made up. Afghanistan and Iraq were not a threat to global stability, but they are now. America wasn't a threat to global stability, but we are now. It has not been a good for years for freedom in the world. To continue to let the drunk drive after crashing the economy, the constitution, and the reputation of America would be a tragedy for the globe.

The Average American highschool graduate can't find America on the map, but they can be drafted in a woefully ignorant state to defend that country. I don't have much hope for the future.

[Tsiangkun]

A terrorist organization could publish the date, time, location, and method of a terrorist attack on the front page of every major newspaper around the globe. Unless somebody tells Bush, he would never know, and he is proud of the fact. Even after being told, he wouldn't bother to read the news himself, and he is proud of this.


Just another reason not to vote for Bush.

[Tsiangkun]

Because evenCBS can tell the resident is full of shit and a flip flopper who is way over his head.

[max]

out of curiosity, is it true that when Bush was running for president he still did not own a passport?

[C-Fan]

When asked if he had committed any mistakes during his Presidency, he said that if he had, he couldn`t remember them.

I would never put my faith in somebody with that sort of pride, that sense of infallibility.

[Tsiangkun]

I would never put my faith in somebody with that sort of pride, that sense of infallibility.

Devil's advocate here . . .

Bush isn't acting on his own when he makes decisions. God speaks directly to him, and God has been directing the actions of [t]his war. God doesn't make mistakes. I can understand not wanting to admit to any failures, when everything you do is the direct request of God. To admit failure means his God was wrong, or he is not doing the work of his God.

[MegaFighter_X]

I would never put my faith in somebody with that sort of pride, that sense of infallibility.

Devil's advocate here . . .

Bush isn't acting on his own when he makes decisions. God speaks directly to him, and God has been directing the actions of [t]his war. God doesn't make mistakes. I can understand not wanting to admit to any failures, when everything you do is the direct request of God. To admit failure means his God was wrong, or he is not doing the work of his God.

I forgot he thought he was Jesus! There's a perfect reason not to vote for him. He thinks he has a direct phoneline to the Big Man Upstairs. I suppose you could say he is drawing church and state closer together... Much closer...

[MegaFighter_X]

sorry for the double post, but if you want some (more or less) funny political "cartoons" of Bush, clickeh!!!

[Tsiangkun]

Pick your favorite 10.

Published on Thursday, September 9, 2004 by the Toronto Star
The Surreal World of Bush
by Haroon Siddiqui


Politicians don't always deliver what they promise. But George W. Bush is in a league all his own. He says one thing, does another and often manages the exact opposite of what he intends.

While politicians play up what suits them and downplay what doesn't, he is unique in shutting out reality altogether. He won't see what he doesn't want to see, even if others do.

Also, while politicians learn on the job and go from the stupid to the sensible, he seems to travel in the opposite direction.

He said post-9/11 that he was going to isolate terrorists but ended up isolating America.

He attacked Afghanistan to crush Al Qaeda but spawned its branches or, worse, copycat outfits all over the world.

He invaded Iraq to capture non-existent weapons of mass destruction, while his other two axis of evil nations, North Korea and Iran, were the ones developing nuclear weapons.

He talked tough on Iran but it was North Korea that got busy and made two nuclear bombs.

He saw his war on Iraq as a warning to other states not to develop lethal weapons but finds his credibility so eroded he can't convince others about the seriousness of Iran's nuclear intentions.

He went into Iraq to squash a non-existent terror connection and ended up sprouting widespread terrorism.

He ended Saddam Hussein's reign of terror, only to replace it with that of thousands of terrorists.

He liberated Iraqis but killed nearly 20,000 of them.

He promised them the rule of law but created the rule of looters, rapists and hostage-takers.

He pledged democracy but postponed elections to impose a CIA agent as prime minister.

He promised Iraqis freedom but muzzled the independent Al-Jazeera and gave $48 million to a Florida firm to modernize Saddam's propaganda machine so it can serve as the propaganda arm of the American occupation.

He hailed the axing of the death penalty in Iraq as one of the first acts of the American occupiers last year, but has consented to its reinstatement by the new U.S.-appointed satrapy in Baghdad.

He planned to replace the secular Baathists with secular democrats but strengthened the clerics — both among the Shiites and the minority Sunnis.

He needed the help of moderates among them but undermined the country's most influential moderate, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and elevated the militant Moktada Al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army has now shifted its insurgency from Najaf to the Shiite Baghdad slum of Sadr City.

Bush aimed for secular models of local governance but handed over self-rule in the Sunni cities of Falluja, Ramdi, Samarra and Baquba to fundamentalists who will likely never give it up without a bloodbath.

He routed the Taliban from Kabul but consented to Taliban-like rule by warlords in parts of Afghanistan and mullahs in parts of Iraq, especially in Falluja, where they are punishing suspected criminals with lashes in public squares.

He sought military control of the Shiite holy cities of Najaf, Kufa and Karbala but withdrew American troops, twice.

He wanted power consolidated in the hands of the American ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, and pliant prime minister Iyad Allawi, but discovered that while they have all the military gadgetry at their command, the political power has shifted to the mosque.

He wanted a pro-American and pro-Israeli Iraq but has created a virulently anti-American and anti-Israeli nation whose hostility seems set for a generation or two.

He claimed credit for the presence of the Iraqi soccer team at the Olympics, only to have the players publicly berate him as a slaughterer of innocents in Iraq, and see Greek anti-American protesters force the cancellation of Colin Powell's presence at the closing ceremony in Athens.

He continues to portray the American occupation of Iraq as an instrument of development, even as only 3 per cent of the $18 billion allocated by Congress for infrastructure has been committed so far and some basic services remain in worse shape than during Saddam's era.

He advocates democracy for Arabs but ignores its most basic principles in dealing with terror suspects at home, while violating the Geneva Conventions in dealing with prisoners in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He says the American economy is strong despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary: fewer jobs than when he took over, 4.3 million more people in poverty (for a total of 36 million), 5 million more people without health insurance (total 45 million), and a record number of people facing the prospect of going bankrupt.

He says he honours the service of John Kerry in Vietnam but has his entourage tear at the man's honourable record.

In short, we are dealing with a president who seems to be operating beyond the realm of rationality.

Haroon Siddiqui is the Star's editorial page editor emeritus.

Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.

[Tsiangkun]

Reason ++$n is :

Published on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 by the Toronto Star
The Staggering Legacy of Tax Cuts
Editorial from the Guardian/UK


If George Bush was running for re-election on the basis of his stewardship of the US economy alone, he would already be packing his bags.

To be blunt, the economy's performance has been dismal by recent standards. Some of that grimness has not been Bush's fault — he took office in the backwash of a calamitous financial bubble, the effects of which made the economic impact of 9/11 look like a hiccup.

But little that the Bush team has done since has been effective or sensible in policy terms. The debate inside the White House appears to have been limited in the extreme, provoking Bush's original choice as treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, to describe the president as "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people." The administration's measures have been less "it's the economy, stupid," and more "the stupid economy."

Even if we excuse Bush the after-shocks of the dotcom meltdown and the disruption of 9/11, his record remains poor.

His default mode of economic stimulus has been tax cuts for the wealthy, which Republican apologists shrilly declared to be engines of job creation. That has proved to be incorrect.

Only a few months ago — February, in fact — the White House was predicting job growth of more than 300,000 a month.

The reality has been less than half that, or 1.7 million fewer jobs than the administration forecast just seven months ago. That means the labour market is standing still, with job creation barely keeping pace with U.S. population growth.

So, if no job growth, the legacy of the Bush tax cuts has instead been a ballooning deficit thanks to the tax cuts. The projections are staggering. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts a $2,000 billion deficit between now and 2009, including a $400 billion shortfall this year.

Given that Bush came into office with a budget surplus, the figures are extraordinary: America's economy has been mortgaged for its wealthiest citizens.*

Bush addressed little of this during the Republican convention, instead mentioning vague and nebulous plans to encourage "ownership." As the Los Angeles Times observed, his speech "would have been more convincing if he had not actually been president for the last four years." *

His opponent, John Kerry, has not been much more forthcoming, but is at least concerned about the dangers of the deficit.

Many of Kerry's economic advisers cut their teeth in the Clinton administration, and offer the prospect of competence and wisdom — something sorely missed in Bush's White House.

This is an editorial from the Guardian, based in London.

Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.

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*Emphasis MINE

[Tsiangkun]

• President Bush’s chief of staff ordered a review that lead to 6,000 documents being pulled from government Web sites.
  
  
  The Department of Defense banned photos of military caskets being returned to the United States.
  
  
  Vice President Dick Cheney kept his energy task force records secret “to hide the influence of Kenneth Lay, Enron and other energy moguls.”
  
  
  The CIA asks a new question during its standard employer polygraph exam: “Do you have friends in the media?”
  
  
  “There have been more than 1,200 presumably terrorist-related arrests,” Moyers said, “and 750 people deported, and no one outside the government knows their names or how many court docket entries have been erased or never entered.”
  
  
  Secret federal court hearings have been held without any public record of when or where, or who was tried.
  
  
  When the American Civil Liberties Union challenged provisions of the Patriot Act, it was prohibited from telling anyone about it.
  
  
  The Washington Post reported that in recent years, judicial committees acting in secret stripped information nearly 600 times from reports intended to alert the public to conflicts of interest involving federal judges

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[Tsiangkun]

Reason number 1

Former CIA Agent says Bush to Blame for S-11 attacks.
Story

Some higlights.

"Picture the Vietnam Memorial in Washington; it's a big 'V' shape. Now picture it with just one side of the 'V'. It might have been that way if some people had told the truth,"

"To say that no one could prevent 9/11 was a bold-faced lie. It basically let the president and everyone responsible off the hook."

"There might be a real or staged terrorist attack in order to postpone the elections," McGovern said. "This might seem outlandish; I hope it is."

"I have initials for why I think we went to war in Iraq," McGovern said. "O.I.L. O-I-L, O is for oil, I is for Israel and L is for logistics

"No one has a corner on the truth. That most people get their 'news' from Fox News is extremely troubling."

[lightningbolt]

Sorry, my frined sent me these and I just ha dto post them.

[lightningbolt]

Sorry for the douable post but I forgot 2:

[Frenzal]

If Bush is re-elected the religious right will party like it's 1984!

[Tsiangkun]

Because his hometown newspaper won't even support him
The Story

Bush's Hometown Paper Endorses Kerry

editorial

Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would:

Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits.
Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans' benefits and military pay.
Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent.
Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure.
Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids.
Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and
Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay.

These were elements of a hidden agenda that surfaced only after he took office.

The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda.

Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry, based not only on the things that Bush has delivered, but also on the vision of a return to normality that Kerry says our country needs.

[sandman420]

because he is a terrorist

[Tsiangkun]

Former US Diplomats Say President Bush Has Made America More Vulnerable To Terrorists

"The plain fact is that George W. Bush and his team have succeeded in making our country and our people less safe, and more vulnerable to new terrorist attacks, by an unnecessary war against a threat that did not exist."

“We have lost the hard-won respect and admiration that America enjoyed … Some of these losses are irrecoverable and others will take decades to repair, a process we must begin immediately by electing a new administration.”

“The American people must surely not reelect someone presenting himself as a strong and resolute war leader who is responsible for such a sorry record of judgment and performance.”

"Leadership in the wrong directions is not the leadership we need or want. We can have no trust in such leadership for the next four years. It is definitely time for a change."

[skoxn]

i haven´t read all from page 1 to 7, but i would like to to add this argument, not to vote Mr. Bush nor any other from the radical republicans!!!


Americans, if you like to keep your nice, conquered country, do not elect him.

this link http://www.users.qwest.net/~bazerko/GODvsBUSH.gif will convince you

[Tsiangkun]

Because of the answer to this question
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0439/fiore.php
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