1. bin Laden
2. Al Queda
3. Al QaQaa
4. Abu Ghraib
5. the elective war on Iraq
6. failure to promote peace in the Middle East
7. untrustworthy
8. the great divider
9. Cheney
10. Ashcroft
11. Rumsfeld
12. Halliburton
13. false hope
14. misrepresentation
15. federal interference in state's issues
16. religious hypocrisy (pro life/pro death penalty)
17. The Texecutioner
18. Bush's resume
19. flaking out of the National Guard
20. questionable ethics
21. doublethink
22. tax cuts for the wealthy
23. school tests rather than school improvements
24. restrictions on women's rights
25. lower court appointments
26. the Supreme Court
27. loyalty oaths
28. picking on the NAACP
29. stop loss policy
30. the looting of Iraq's historical items
31. dependence on oil
32. incompetant reconstruction in Iraq
33. lack of adequate response in the Sudan
34. support of the Columbia River dredging project
35. lack of integrity
36. stubbornness
37. breaking down the separation of church and state
38. homeland insecurity
39. failure to adequate supply our troops with food, weapons, armor, etc
40. putting his own plans ahead of the country's needs
41. the huge deficit
42. the squandering of our budget surplus
43. first president with net job loss in ?? years
44. neo-conservatism controlling our country
45. damaged relationships with allies
46. squandering of world good will following 9-11
47. stonewalling attempts to investigate 9-11
48. personal smears againsts citizens who speak out against Bush
49. the inability to take responsibility for any failures
50. the length of the list of Bush adminstration failures
51. millions of children without health insurance
52. global gag rule
53. new overtime rules
54. Yucca mountain
55. moral cowardice
56. failure to take lead on alternative energy
    
57. conducting a war and making our children pay for it
58. Carl Rove
59. illegal use of Olympics in campaign ad
60. war contracts with mercenaries
61. smearing a decorated Vietnam veteran
62. Zell Miller
63. failing the "CEO test" (scroll down to Sept 3)
64. failing to find WMD in Iraq
65. failure of intelligence (or purposely misleading?) about WMD in Iraq
66. further destabilizing the Middle East
67. 1000+ dead American soldiers in Iraq
68. using fear to motivate voters
69. Enron/ Ken Lay
70. voter suppression by Republicans
71. world distrust of the US
72. overblown Iraq/al Queda connection
73. throwing away of Democratic voter registration cards in Oregon
74. "win at any cost" tactics
75. faith vs. logic and reality
76. increased risk of terrorism due to Bush's foreign policy
77. rampant use of half truths and false impressions to build support
78. limiting safety regulations
79. form letters for families of dead soldiers
80. "Mission Accomplished" b.s.
81. Federal Marriage Amendement
82. promoting creationsim over evolution
83. ignoring science about global warning
84. promotion of logging in roadless areas
85. overextending our military forces
86. Bush family ties with Saudi oil
87. Bush family ties with Rev. Moon
88. damage to our democracy
89. gag rule on EPA employees
90. secret meetings with energy company executives
91. shortchanging small businesses
92. governance for the corporations rather than for the people
93. 100,000 dead Iraqis because of our war
94. unsecured weapons in Iraq
95. no doubt
96. America as world's bully
97. suppression of democratic dissent
98. solution for everything: privatization
99. record opium crop in Afghanistan
100. not democratically elected in 2000

¶ 9:30 PM 0 comments

"as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war."

¶ 10:57 AM 0 comments

• deeply troubling...Bush's relationship with reason
• disdain for facts
• incuriosity
• ideology...is the source of his inflexibility
• infallibility of the right-wing Republican ideology
• love of power for its own sake
• deovted to the achievement of a narrow agenda
• economic royalists
• immunity to doubt
• selfish and greedy collection of economic and political proposals
• phony moral authority
• misleading many Americans
• government of by and for the people, is bad
• Laws and regulations are therefore bad
• Ken Lay, in charge of vetting any appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• went on to bilk the electric rate-payers of California
• without the inconvenience of federal regulators
• the already unbearable burden placed on the wealthy and powerful
• treaties and international agreements are bad
• Rumsfeld...has still not been held accountable
• the most shameful and humiliating violation of American principles in recent memory
• this ideology promotes the making of policy in secret
• based on information that is not available to the public
• insulated from any meaningful participation by Congress.
• routinely barring Democrats from serving on important conference committees
• never admit a mistake
• rely on special interests for information
• trusts what they tell him over any contrary view that emerges from public debate
• outsourced the truth
• contempt for the rule of reason
• hubristic and genuinely dangerous illusion that reality is itself a commodity
• dysfunctional
• a large number of false impressions about the choices before us
• catastrophic for our country
• all of his arguments turned out to be based on falsehoods
• chose to ignore and indeed often to suppress, studies, reports and facts
• an extremely serious error in judgment that constitutes a reckless disregard for the safety of the American people
• This is not negligence, this is deception

¶ 12:30 AM 1 comments

War in Iraq has increased the risk of terrorism against the West, at least for the short term, the International Institute for Strategic Studies has said in its annual report on the world's militaries.

The IISS has added a section on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network to "The Military Balance," its authoritative yearly defence handbook, which lists the size and capabilities of the world's armed forces.

"Overall, the risk of terrorism to Westerners and Western assets in Arab countries appeared to increase after the Iraq war began in March 2003," it concluded.

"With the military invasion and occupation of Iraq, the United States demonstrated its desire to change the political status quo in the Arab world to advance American strategic and political interests," it said in Tuesday's report.

"Accordingly, the Iraq invasion was always likely in the short term to enhance Jihadist recruitment and intensify al Qaeda's motivation to encourage and assist terrorist operations."

The report also says that although we have been able to stop the flow of some money to Al Qaeda, they are able to hit some targets (such as Madrid) with smaller amounts of funds.

Here's a link to the Editor's Forward for the report, which specifically mentions the US and issues regarding Iraq, such as interoperability problems between allies, readiness for asymetrical warfare, and the "manpower intensive" nature of the post-war environment.

Hmmm... wonder what the White House spin on this one will be? Or maybe they'll just ignore it. Who needs thoughfully researched reports when God is on our side?

¶ 11:21 AM 0 comments

The report, Homeland Unsecured: The Bush Administration’s Hostility to Regulation and Ties to Industry Leave America Vulnerable, details how the Bush administration has failed to harden our defenses against terrorism and secure the most vulnerable, high-impact targets. The report is based on an analysis of five key areas – chemical plants, nuclear plants, hazardous material transport, ports and water systems. The report is available at www.HomelandUnsecured.org.

¶ 10:30 AM 0 comments

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

¶ 10:42 AM 0 comments

In an interview in his residence here, Archbishop Chaput said a vote for a candidate like Mr. Kerry who supports abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research would be a sin that must be confessed before receiving Communion.

"If you vote this way, are you cooperating in evil?" he asked. "And if you know you are cooperating in evil, should you go to confession? The answer is yes."

Wow. So, it's ok to vote for Bush who declared war on a country that wasn't attacking us, which has so resulted in the deaths of over 1100 American soldiers and 13000 Iraqi civilians, but voting for Kerry, who believes that the rights of an unborn child shouldn't trump the rights of a mother, is a sin?

Voting for Bush, who has taken money from the poor and given it to the rich via our tax system is just fine, but voting for Kerry, who wants to be able to use embryonic stem cells to save millions of lives is a sin?

It's not sinful to vote for George W Bush aka "The Texecutioner" who supports corporate welfare but not people on welfare???

Wow. I left the Catholic church years ago because I thought the teachings were overly concerned with regulating sex and not concerned enough about stopping violence. I guess not much has changed. I just hope that there are a lot of good Catholics out there who can see through this Bush**it and realize where the true evil lies.

¶ 10:08 AM 2 comments