Bush's New Vision for Amerikkka!

[WoodPeckr]

GOP House Bill Morphs 9/11 Advice

02:00 AM Oct. 05, 2004 PT

As the full Senate and House prepare to vote on competing versions of the 9/11 Commission recommendations this week, most eyes are on how the government's intelligence services will be revamped.

But civil liberties advocates, immigration groups and some 9/11 Commission members are criticizing provisions in the House bill that they say go far beyond the commission's recommendations.

At issue are provisions that would:

• create a de facto national identification card
• allow employers running a background check on an employee to obtain records of arrests and detentions -- not just convictions -- without limitation on republishing the information
• speed up the implementation of the newest airline passenger screening system, Secure Flight, by requiring congressional approval after it is deployed, not before
• require the State Department to study the feasibility of a worldwide database tracking American citizens' and foreigners' "lifetime travel history," including information on what countries Americans traveled to
• require the State Department to intervene with foreign media outlets and foreign governments to influence media coverage
• make it easier for the government to deport immigrants to countries where they might be tortured or to countries to which an immigrant has no relationship
• expand Patriot Act wiretap provisions and the ban on material support to designated terrorist organizations
• make it tougher for illegal immigrants to get a hearing to protest deportation
• prevent states from issuing driver's licenses to undocumented aliens by changing what documents are acceptable at Canadian and Mexican borders.

The link:

http://wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65222,00.html

 

[BiggieE]

The only thing on that list I'm not crazy about is the National ID card...of course I should talk...I have a CDL, so I'm already in all the databases they'll be getting that info from in the first place...

 

[WoodPeckr]

Resume of GWB

GEORGE W. BUSH

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Law Enforcement

I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

Military

I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

College

I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:

- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.

- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.

- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

 

[WoodPeckr]

GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

- I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

- I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

- I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

- I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

- I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.

- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

- I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

- I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.

- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

- I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

- I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.

- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

- I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.

- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.

- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

- I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD.

- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

-All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004!

 

[BiggieE]

Simply because nothing is truly secure....all it takes is one PO'ed government employee who wants to make a quick buck...If they go this route..I hope the database is properly protected...and I hope they screen each card recipiant as well as they did me when I got my Pistol Permit....whew!!...

 

[ocean976124]

Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

Iraq I can see people questioning. But anyone who questions the war in Afghanistan is a moron...

 

[ocean976124]

And BTW, everyone who hits Bush for getting into the National Guard should remember that Clinton avoided the draft via special favors as well...

 

[ocean976124]

Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

Wow, I guess that settles that.

If someone is opposed to toppling a regime that protected a large terrorist network that killed close to 3,000 people then there's not much one can say. The Taliban would still be in charge if they had handed over binLaden...

 

[red]

Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

how can this be true. the UN only came into existence after ww2.

and does the UN review US elections? or cdn elections never heard of that

 

[clipper]

Clinton's Military Deferment

Clinton was a Rhodes scholar IE the best and brightest. HIgh academic performance allows a deferement - no special favours.

Bush's deferement is questioned because he didn't even approach the criteria for an academic deferment.

Many people with his grade level died in Vietnam.

Don't blame Clinton - academic deferment existed long before he came along.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

how can this be true. the UN only came into existence after ww2.

and does the UN review US elections? or cdn elections never heard of that

After the bungled 2000 election there were fears 'voting irregularities' would happen again in the 2002 elections, hence some people called for UN inspectors to oversee these 2002 elections. Dubya refused these UN inspectors from overseeing this 2002 election.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

Iraq I can see people questioning. But anyone who questions the war in Afghanistan is a moron...

What is being questioned in the war in Afghanistan is 'the way that war has been prosecuted and why Bush allowed Osama, what's his name, to escape' after being trapped in Bora Bora. Bush had him surrounded but through 'gross incompetance' let him get away and anyone who doesn't question this fact is a bigger moron!

After all it WAS OSAMA and NOT SADDAM who attacked the US in the first place remember! But Dubya in his 'mad rush' to secure Iraqi Oil Fields & Oil Ministry buildings, pulled the troops out of the Afghan theater too early and sent them into Iraq allowing Osama to escape and rebuild his AQ.

Bush brags about how he has removed 75% of Osama's AQ but fails to see how Osama has fully replaced these lost members with new members thanks to Bush's Iraqi War which has proven to be a 'recruiting boon' for Osama's religious Jihad against the West. In fact by recent attacks ALL over the world it appears AQ is 'live and well' and more dangerous than ever.....thanks to Dubya's myopic vision.

Relative to Dubya'a myopic vision, had to bring back a couple of his past quotes made just 6 months apart to highligh a MAJOR FLIP-FLOP on Bush's part:

Came across this direct quote of Dubya and it SURE LOOKS LIKE A SUPER DUPER FLIP-FLOP TO ME:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
- George W. Bush, 9/13/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- George W. Bush, Brady Briefing Room, 3/13/02

What a message this must send to our troops, country and the rest of the world!!!

 

[red]

Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

After the bungled 2000 election there were fears 'voting irregularities' would happen again in the 2002 elections, hence some people called for UN inspectors to oversee these 2002 elections. Dubya refused these UN inspectors from overseeing this 2002 election.

thanks. the original post was a little misleading.

 

[ocean976124]

Re: Clinton's Military Deferment

Clinton was a Rhodes scholar IE the best and brightest. HIgh academic performance allows a deferement - no special favours.
Don't blame Clinton - academic deferment existed long before he came along.

Not true. In February 16, 1968 the Johnson administration abolished graduate deferments. From that point onward there were numerous attempts by others to keep Clinton from the draft and many claim they did things on Clinton's behalf.
http://www.1stcavmedic.com/bill-clinton-draft.htm

 

[ocean976124]

Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

What is being questioned in the war in Afghanistan is 'the way that war has been prosecuted and why Bush allowed Osama, what's his name, to escape' after being trapped in Bora Bora. Bush had him surrounded but through 'gross incompetance' let him get away and anyone who doesn't question this fact is a bigger moron!

The original post only complained that Bush had "invaded two nations". It said nothing about "the way" the war was fought.

 

[ocean976124]

Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

After the bungled 2000 election there were fears 'voting irregularities' would happen again in the 2002 elections, hence some people called for UN inspectors to oversee these 2002 elections. Dubya refused these UN inspectors from overseeing this 2002 election.

And do you really think if Gore had won and was asked to have UN inspectors for the 2002 elections he would have said, "sure!" Horse-bleep, Gore would have refused them as well...

 

[ocean976124]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

The official reason for bombing Afghanistan was to force the Taliban to hand over bin Laden yet we provided no evidence he was behind the 9/11 attacks. In June of 2002 the director of the FBI testified before the Senate that "investigators believe the idea of the Sept. 11 attacks came from Al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan." Eight months after the bombing of a country was ordered we get a maybe Al Qaeda was responsible.

So where are we now? We haven't gotten bin Laden, the Taliban works for us and we violated international law and killed God knows how many Aghanistan people. Another successful US government operation.

So the video of binLaden actually talking about his involvement in 9/11 didn't convince you?

 

[ocean976124]

I don't believe anything the Bush administration says. Remember the imminent threat from Iraq's WMD? How'd that work out?

Bush stated the threat was not imminent. His claim was that waiting for the threat to become imminent would be too late.
France and Germany opposed the war, but neither country claimed Iraq was clean of WMD...

 

[WoodPeckr]

Re: Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

The original post only complained that Bush had "invaded two nations". It said nothing about "the way" the war was fought.

The original post said, " I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week."

The reasons for this massive waste of a billion dollars/week is a direct result of the gross incompetance in "the way" these wars are being fought.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Re: Re: Re: Re: GWB ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

And do you really think if Gore had won and was asked to have UN inspectors for the 2002 elections he would have said, "sure!" Horse-bleep, Gore would have refused them as well...

I really doubt Gore would have objected to UN inspectors in 2002, why should he. Remember it was the GOP who rigged and stole the 2000 election not the DEMS. Gore had nothing to hide, unlike the GOP who had everything to conceal and hide.