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Monday, May 07, 2007

How Many Bush Administration "-gates" Can You Count?

Let's give it a shot then shall we?


Lying about being a compassionate conservative, being against national building, being a uniter not a divider, and everything else Bush said on the campaign trail
Stealing the election
Kyoto
Stem Cell Research
Waiting 7 minutes on 9/11
Throwing out the Clinton Administrations Intelligence on Bin Laden and al qaida
The Patriot Act
Tax cuts for the rich
Record defecit
Domestic political/activist organizations spied on with Homeland Security funding
Ahmed Chalabi
General Shinseki
Lying about how much it would cost
Lying about WMDs
Lying about links to al qaida
Lying about Jessica Lynch
Lying about Pat Tillman
Botching the capture of Bin Laden at Torah Bora
Botching the capture of Bin Laden the rest of the time
Haditha, Hamdaniya, and probably several other places
Halliburton
No bid Contracts
The missing 9 billion
Blackwater!
Invading Iraq
Losing Iraq
Losing Iraq to Iran
Losing Afghanistan
Losing our credibility to the world
Losing our moral authority to our enemies
LEGALIZING TORTURE
Guntanamo
Abu Graib
Secret CIA prisons
The Canadian guy we tortured in Syria
Rendition in general
WTF is going on in Waziristan?
AQ Khan
Dubai Ports World Inc.
Jeff Gannon (remember that fucker? They guy they planted in the press core?)
Stop Loss
Extending the tours to 15 months
Deploying the National Guard to foreign wars
No body armor
Not passing Jim Webb's expanded GI Bill
Walter Reed
Fudging PTSD psych evaluations to maintain troop levels
Not properly funding severe head injury care
Broken VA System
Breaking the military
Exploiting the military
Jack Abrahmoff
Tom Delay
Harriet Myers
Terri Schaivo
Outing Valerie Plame
Lying about outing Valerie Plame
Acquitting Scooter Libby
Warrantless wiretaps
"The jury is still out on evolution."
Katrina
Billions embezzled from Katrina cleanup funds
July 2008: New Orleans still basically the same as it was 1 month after Katrina
National Security Letters
Trying to legislate unlimited Executive power for wartime.
Allow de-regulation to crash the economy
$150 a barrel oil
Bush hanging out with the likes of Ted Haggard, every week.
155 Administration officials are graduates of Pat Robertson's unaccredited "law" school
Alberto Gonzales lies about federal prosecutors
Alberto Gonzales lies about everything in the conceivable universe
George Tenet knew it was bullshit
Scott McClellan new it was bullshit
A hell of a lot of people knew it was bullshit and didn't say shit
They all didn't say shit because their careers would have been assisinated
Everything Dick Cheney has ever spoken
Everything Karl Rove has ever done
...
there's more I'm forgetting.