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Re: Kerry or Bush and why?

20 Reasons Why Bush Is Bad:

By 'Rock Against Bush' Alblum...

1.) He refused to buy adequate body armor for our troops in Iraq. A study done by a defense consultant reveals that approximately 25% of casualties could have been prevented with better armor.

2.) Responsible for the highest US trade deficit EVER: $43.1 billion dollars.

3.) Bush Jr. gave his campaign contributors and strongest supporters $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. Corporations like Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg, Brown & Root, etc. Numerous scandals have been uncovered regarding these "friendly" contractors who are ripping off US tax-payers by overcharging for their services.

4.) Bush campaign shirts were made in Burma under sweatshop conditions. Interestingly enough, in 2003 Bush Jr. signed legislation banning products from Burma effective September 1st, 2003.

5.) He approved the sale of $20 million dollars worth of shackles, electro-shock technology, and other torture devices to countries that have been CONDEMNED FOR TORTURE.

6.) College tuition has increased 28% during the Bush Jr. administration.

7.) The Bush Jr. administration was told by over 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel Prize winners, that they are "Deliberately and systematically distorting facts- in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research, and nuclear weaponry at home and aborad."

8.) He proposed a budget that would slash 40% of the funding for after-school programs. No child left behnind? THis decrease would cut off about 475,000 children.

9.) Bush Jr. authorized the use of cluster bombs and "Daisy Cutters" (the world's biggest non-nuclear bomb) in populated areas of Iraq. These have contributed to the deaths of OVER 10,000 innocent civilians, more than three times the number of casualties suffered in the tragic 9/11 attacks.
NOTE: No Iraqis were involved in the 9/11 attacks.

10.) Richard Clarke (Chief Anti-Terrorism Advisor) and Paul O'Neilll (US Treasury Secretary) both testified that Bush Jr. was intent on invading Iraq within the first few days of his Presidency. Clarke claims that Bush Jr. ignored his warnings about an imminent al Qaeda attack. On September 12th, Bush Jr. instructed his staff to find a connection between al Qaeda and Iraq, and despite no connection ever being discovered (and against CIA's recomendation), he still chose to invade Iraq.
NOTE: This has been confirmed by the 9/11 Commission.

11.) Although he still claims that fighting terrorism is his main priority, Bush Jr. slashed the FBI's requested counterterrorism budget by two-thirds.

12.) Bush Jr. has made it clear that in his next term he plans to appoint Supremem Court Judges who are against a woman's right to choose, and would effectively outlaw abortion on a NATIONAL level.

13.) Bush Jr. still has yet to attend a soldier's funeral and continues to steer the American public away from knowing about the casualties. He has done even less to acknowledge the over 18,000 troops that have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

14.) His administration illegally produced fake pro-Bush "news" spots for the Department of Health and Human Services. They went as far as to include phony journalists who praise Dubya's controversial Medicare Bill and they added a fake crowd to cheer the whole thing on.

15.) In an effort to give the appearane that Bush Jr. was creating more jobs, his administration tried to reclassify fast food emplyment as manufacturing jobs. These minimum wage jobs are nothing like real manufacturing jobs that provide benefits and pay $15/hour.

16.) His administration proposed the highest penalties in the world for indecent violations on our public airwaves. Up to $500,000 for saying something the FCC (which the public dosn't elect to office) deems offensive.

17.) He is a religious fanatic that belives in the apocalypes and that ONLY Evangelical Christians are eligible for the afterlife. Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and everyone that isn't in the Bush's flock are all doomed to Hell.

18.) The Treasury Department under the Bush Jr. assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as they did to track the financial resources of both Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

19.) Right before Christmas Bush Jr. cut overtime pay for over 644,000 employees who work over 40 ours a week.

20.) Against Colin Powell's advice, Bush Jr. chose not to recognize Afghanistan's statehood, therefor making it's people not protected by International Law and vulnerable to human rights abuses and torture. Up until that decision by Bush Jr., the US Military could boast a proud history of upholding the humane laws of the Geneva Convention.

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