Bush says Rumsfeld is doing a good job. Bush
said Iraq has WMD. Bush said Saddam has links to Al-quida. Bush
said he supports the Geneva Convention. Bush said the war is over.
Joe American
12/21/2004
Iraq had no Weapons
of Mass Destruction, Saddam
did not have links to Al-quida, Bush does not support the Geneva
Convention, the war
is not over, and Rumsfeld is not doing a good job. Bush has
said a lot of things, problem is few if any have been proven true.
We should have known he was not just another politician, when the
man who claimed he would respect and protect the rights of States
and the American people won the 2000
election by using the federal court to bypass the state court
and strip the rights of the voters of Florida and the American people.
If all the votes in Florida had been counted he would have lost.
He may have had other help in that election
but that's another story. He continues to put federal laws above
state laws. During the energy crisis his administration
refused to step in and protect the American public while Enron
and the energy companies took the American people to the cleaners.
He also claimed he was a unifier, however since he has been in office
divisions both at home and aboard have grown farther apart. He has
united people in their distrust and hated of America, however that's
not a good thing. His policy of "If you are not with us your
against us." is not what I would consider unifying, democratic
or American, only arrogant.
He did give us a tax break and a rebate check. It may have helped
the wealthy people and businesses, however it did very little for
the average American. Bush has increase our nation
debt so high that our children will have to pay for it for years
to come, unless he raises taxes or reduces services. Some of you
may remember when you could deduct the interest you paid on your
credit cards and the tax you paid on goods you bought. Reagan gave
us a tax break and shortly after that he overhauled the tax code
and took away the deductions for credit card interest and the tax
you paid on goods you bought. This hurt the poor and middle class,
the people who pay the highest interest rates. You can expect a
reduction in government services to pay for that rebate check and
tax break and once again the poor and the middle class will take
it in the shorts while the wealthy and business get a pass. Bush
has plans to overhaul the Tax
Code so you can also expect a tax increase. A tax increase can
come in many forms; from an increase in Federal taxes on items like
gasoline and cigarettes, to the fees you pay on your bills. Your
State taxes may also increase and service will be reduced because
of reduce State funding. Bush may also try and push more services
to the individual States, causing more drain to already strained
State budgets.
In Bush's quest for war anyone who did not agree with him was
considered the enemy both at home an aboard. The Dixie
chicks opposed the war and they got slammed,
threaten,
radio
stations refused to play their songs, shows got canceled. It
is far more patriotic to be against war then it is to put our troops
in harm way for a lie. The U.N., the French and the Germans once
our friends became the enemy because they refused to back his war.
Because the French refused to help some wanted to change the name
of French fry's and French Toast, now that's petty. His quest for
war with false claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction has cost America
50 years of trust, friendship, goodwill and the lost of good American
solders. In the run up to the war he claimed Iraq had Weapons
of Mass Destruction and Saddam
was a threat to the United States. He said Saddam
was working with Al-quida, implying Saddam had some involvement
with 9/11.
None of which was true. Maybe he should have listened to the UN,
the French and the Germans, if he had a little more patience a diplomatic
solution could have been worked out and our troops would be home
safe protecting America, instead of targets for any one who dislikes
Bush or America. Now he has to go hat in hand back to the UN the
French and the Germans the very people he shunned because they did
not see things his way. The my way or the hi-way approach does work
well when you have to play with others. Bush did make one claim
that was true, he is a war President not a good one but he is a
war President. Any President who is willing to start a war with
made up evidence while fighting a war must like war. Any President
who threatens to drop nuclear bombs is a war president. There was
a time when we would have been sacred to have a President in office
who was button happy, but I guess times have changed. Strong but
wrong does make it right, it makes enemies and cost you friends.
Bush is trying to hoodwink us once again, telling us Rumsfeld
is doing a good job is another slap in the face of the American
people. Rumsfeld the Security of State who does not
sign letters to next of kin, Rumsfeld the architect of a war
gone wrong, bad intelligence, bad prewar planning, bad post war
planning, failure
to protect our troops, abuse
of prisoners of war in Afghanistan,
Cuba
and Iraq.
Failure
to secure postwar weapons has put weapons in hands of terrorist
and puts our troops at even more risk. If Rumsfeld is doing a good
job it's only in the eyes of Bush and some republicans. Can we expect
the truth from Bush, probably not, after all Bush was the man who
put our troops at risk in the first place by starting a war short
on facts and long on lies. Now the man who turned a budget surplus
into the largest Budget
Deficit on record has plans to fix
our Social Security problem, Bush wants to put some of the Social
Security money in the stock market. Somehow I can't get Enron
and stock
market crash out of the back of my head, a lot of people lost
money and I was one them. Lets hope his plan to fix Social Security
goes better than his plan to fix Iraq.
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