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Some would say that President Bush is a lame duck, others such as U.S. News and World Report are now saying he’s a dead duck, and not only dead, but the deadest duck since Richard Nixon.
What will be said of President Bush when all is said and done? What accomplishments will he be credited for? As far as I can see, the best thing he did was the lobby shaped, problem riddled buy out to the health care industry called Medicare D, A.K.A. the prescription drugs program. This program is so full of holes seniors came to it with very little enthusiasm and have spoken of it since with the same fervor. A third of it’s budget went to the Insurance companies and other health care providers so they would come on board, that’s $4 Billion! $4 Billion just so they would cooperate, perhaps the largest payoff in history!
He also made it harder for middle class families to file for bankruptcy, and easier for corporations to collect from those same middle class families with the 2001 Bankruptcy act. We all know how hard it’s been for the credit …
Some wars are about doing the world a favor by removing a great evil regime from power, some wars are about aggressive expansion and conquest, while others still are ill thought out ventures stubbornly clung to by a nation, too convinced of its own glory to accept defeat. So what is the Iraq War about? Well, unfortunately, it breaks the lines of traditional ideology. It’s proponents feel it was doing the world a favor, while it’s opponents feel it was aggressive expansion. Many see it as becoming rapidly or already is an ill thought out venture we are mired in.
In actuality, this was a war about the old corporate dollar. The finesse of companies like Halliburton in avoiding the inevitable talk of war crimes is absolutely disturbing. Halliburton has moved it’s offices to Dubai, out of the United States, to flee the possibilities of being prosecuted for their horrible crimes in this war. Halliburton then shed there military company KBR, so it can be said that it is a former Haliburton company, when the talk of fraud, poor oversight, negligence and ‘missing …
While Americans are all snuggled up to their viewing screens, watching cats flush toilets on YouTube or the latest quasi-celebrity learn how to do the Samba on the ol Idiot Box, American Troops on the front of our great war have engaged in a massive operation to retake the Iraqi Countryside, and bring glory and heroism to the war’s architects.
So far this week, which began with the quiet announcement of a major operation in Central Iraq’s Sunni territories, has claimed 30 American soldiers, 14 in the last 48 hours alone and an unknown number of Iraqi civilians caught in the crossfire. This latest attempt to prove to the world that Bush and Cheney were correct to senselessly and recklessly invade a third world nation has come at a major price, paid in full with American and Iraqi blood.
Just a reminder to those escaping the realities of the world that every day your money is financing the death and destruction of good people, all for a cause that has changed so many times the White House doesn’t even know what for anymore.
May we soon bring an end to this awful tragedy….
This is too good for words. Vice President and potential war criminal Dick “the devil” Cheney is now claiming his office will not comply with a Presidential order requiring him to disclose the number of classified documents they generate because the Vice President’s office is not “within the executive branch". He is now claiming the Vice Presidency is part of the Legislative Branch, even though the office of the Vice Presidency is mentioned in the part of the Constitution that creates the Executive Branch.
Hell, maybe Congress can censure the bastard!
This is a dangerous argument as one, it undermines the executive orders of the President, and two, it undermines Congress’ right of oversight, while carving out an institution not mentioned in the Constitution, one that answers to no one.
What are you hiding Mr. Cheney? Is it information that will incriminate you for starting an aggressive war responsible for death in the hundereds of thousands? Is it information that proves you were in leagues with your former company and big oil, profiting from selling defective equipment to our soldiers at gouge-level prices? Or is …
In the spirit of the previous article, I threw together a quick Dick Cheney pic, nothing too shaby. I wanted to get that notorious smerk of his instead of the evil Dick pose (the man is capable of 3 expresions: cocky-smerky prick, slightly less cocky-smerky prick or what his allies call his charm and down right evil Dick), however I could not find the right angle so I went for the obvious.
As a hardworking, loyal, tax paying citizen, I die a little every day knowing that not only is my nation trampling over a foreign land with thoughts of imperial conquest, war economy and oil extraction, but the fact that I’m paying for it, like it or not, makes it all the worse. That soon to be trillion dollar war took money that could have been spent on improving our schools, creating mass transit, job training for our nation’s future economic hopes, improving our parks, building monuments and extending an economic hand to those who could use it. Instead we have blown our wad on the systematic destruction of a 3rd world country, killed 300,000-600,000 innocent people and set respect for America back 50 years.
What really grabs me by the jewels is the fact that not only do WE hard working citizens have to pay for it, the Oil companies, who stood to benefit the most, had Iraq worked, don’t feel they should pay into the American system. Thanks to Republicans, who blocked a measure Democrats hoped to pass that would force Oil companies to pay for green initiatives, today they can rest …
This is a classic example of reality in this country. On the one hand you have a bunch of right-wing ideologues righteously claiming the U.S. people should support our troops, and those same elitist people funnel billions of dollars to their own inner circle of arms manufacturers, contractors and private security forces while our own soldiers can’t even get their own mail! While Bush once said: “We should and must provide the best care for anybody who is willing to put their life in harm’s way,” he has proven that even in the light of the Walter Reed scandals, they haven’t even been able to turn around the mail system in our nation’s most prominent military hospital.
That’s right, a recent backlog of 4,500 pieces of mail was found at Walter Reed. That’s the same Walter Reed that proved incapable of taking care of our nation’s bravest, subjecting them to deplorable conditions and now, proving that they can’t even deliver the mail to the wounded, the very people Mr. Bush used and continues to use to sell his bloody war to the American public. These poor souls are facing …
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