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Bush's Success Story

1. Successfully looted the U.S. Treasury of nearly $3 trillion to provide payoffs to the 1% of Americans who are already wealthy, effectively saddling 99% of us, and future generations, with new debt of $125,000 to $250,000 per person.

2. Successfully labeled the looting of the U.S. Treasury as tax cuts for lower and middle-income groups. These groups actually received anywhere from zero to a few hundred dollars of relief (many actually paid higher taxes), while the average millionaire received payoffs averaging over $90,000

3. Successfully told all other nations you are either with us or against us, thus reducing the art of American diplomacy to the language and tactics of schoolyard bullies.

4. Successfully aided and abetted the recall of Governor Gray Davis for the purpose of delivering California in 2004 presidential election.

5. Successfully elevated the sophistication of political rhetoric by calling environmentalists “green, green, lima beans.”

6. Successfully transfigured the huge federal budget surplus created by Democrats into an endless sea of Republican red ink (deficits).

7. Successfully cut federal funding for the delivery of vital state and local services to disadvantaged and needy people, deviously labeling the cuts as necessary to reduce the Republican-created deficit.

8. Successfully ignored intelligence reports warning that a 9/11-type attack was imminent, and refuses to cooperate with legally constituted commissions that are investigating what really happened on and before 9/11.

9. Successfully avoided responding to the inquiries of the families of the 9/11 victims, calling their unanswered questions unimportant and unnecessary.

10. Successfully leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent (a felony) to the press, and has refused to cooperate in the continuing criminal investigation of White House personnel to find the leaker.

11. Successfully expanded weapons spending (including vast new funding for the research and development of new nuclear weapons) beyond anything needed for real national security for the sole purpose on enriching family and friends.

12. Successfully ignored the needs of 45 million Americans, mostly women and children, who cannot afford health insurance.

13. Successfully staged a chauffeured landing on an aircraft carrier to announce victory in Iraq falsely portraying Bush II as a hero when no such victory had obtained.

14. Successfully promised to find Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but failed to deliver on the promises.

15. Successfully drafted a Roadmap for Peace in the Middle East, but has instead pursued war, war, and more war.

16. Successfully told hundreds of lies to the American people, more than all other American presidents combined. See NOW website for a comprehensive list of these lies.

17. Successfully aided and abetted the consolidation of the mass media so that a few billionaires now control what is euphemistically called America’s free press.

18. Successfully created heightened global instability and insecurity by withdrawing America from important longstanding treaty obligations.

19. Successfully encouraged anti-democratic campaign fund-raising and special interest lobbying practices that are really nothing but outright bribery.

20. Successfully waged a continuing war on women by aggressively trying to restrict a woman’s right to choose.

21. Successfully waged a continuing war on the environment and the American people by dismantling sections of landmark environmental legislation including the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and instituting the USA Patriot Act.

22. Successfully waged a continuing war on working Americans by promoting the export of their jobs overseas and hindering the rights of workers to form unions and receive overtime pay.

23. Successfully waged a continuing war on the elderly and on future generations of Americans with efforts to cripple Medicare and Social Security, and failed to do anything protect employee pension plans from unscrupulous employers.

24. Successfully waged a continuing war against the bedrock American principles that separate church from state by attempting to transform our public schools into houses of worship and funding faith-based organizations with taxpayer dollars.

25. Successfully curtailed the development of cures for major diseases by overly restricting stem cell research.

26. Successfully aided and abetted the expansion of the anti-democratic powers of giant multinational corporations, and failed to prosecute gross corporate criminality.

27. Successfully destroyed America’s credibility in the United Nations and throughout the world by opting to pursue elective wars, thereby creating conditions favorable for the intensification of terrorism, and removing America from the world’s family of nations.

28. Successfully introduced an inept economic program that failed to create a single American job, lowered wage rates, and lost 3 million American jobs.

29. Successfully implemented schemes (phony tax cuts and excessive weapons spending) that served as means to transfer large chunks of our national wealth from working people to the 1% who are already wealthy.

30. Successfully transformed America into the target of choice for global terrorism and ridicule from abroad.

31. Successfully created a Department of Homeland Security to protect Americans from terrorist attacks, but did not provide the funds necessary to do the job.

32. Successfully invaded Iraq without any exit strategy, a catastrophic planning blunder that is now costing hundreds of American lives, thousands of American casualties, thousands of Iraqi lives, and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars.

33. Successfully handed global terrorism victories by failing to destroy al Qaeda and the Taliban, and by curtailing the civil rights of every American. Al Qaeda is regrouping and stronger than ever. The Taliban are increasingly active in Afghanistan and positioning themselves to topple the American installed government.

34. Successfully promised to expand benefits for veterans and others in need but failed to authorize the necessary funding.

35. Successfully created an energy plan that entirely fails to address America’s strategic need to become energy independent, but does provide substantial tax relief to Republican-run companies.

36. Successfully promised to leave no child behind (educationally speaking), but instead thwarted all efforts to level America’s educational playing field.

37. Successfully destroyed the infrastructure of Iraq and then committed hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to rebuilding it; meanwhile, the rebuilding of America’s crumbling infrastructure is all but ignored.

38. Successfully created numerous opportunities for Republican-run companies to profit from America’s pre-emptive war policy. An example is Halliburton (Cheney’s old company), which charges the U.S. Army in Iraq nearly $2.00 a gallon for gas that they could purchase from Iraqis for five to ten cents a gallon.

39. Successfully but unnecessarily put our troops in harms way in Iraq, and ordered them to pursue the unmerciful murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children.

40. Successfully announced a series of false terrorist threats that unnecessarily spread fear and loathing throughout America for the sole purpose of promoting Bush’s elective wars and fooling the Americans into thinking their government was hard at work protecting them.

41. Successfully transformed the executive branch of government into an operation more secretive than the CIA and far more threatening than organized crime or any terrorist organization ever could be.

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