Topic: Dubya's resume
PublicAnimalNo9's photo
Thu 09/28/06 03:15 PM
Okay,here it is, at great personal expense, not to mention danger:

Hello. My name is George Bush and I'm running for President. Please
consider my accomplishments as set forth in the following resume.

POLITICAL RECORD (DOMESTIC)


I ran for President in 2000. My campaign was destined to be a miserable
failure until I used a whispering campaign of lies in the South Carolina
Presidential Primary organized by my chief political strategist, Karl
Rove, to destroy genuine war hero and fellow Republican John McCain,
claiming he had fathered an illegitimate negro child was emotionally
unstable due to his torture as a POW in Vietnam and a possible
brainwashed Manchurian Candidate.

In July 2001 I appointed Harvey Pitt to be the chairman of a "kinder,
gentler SEC" to ease regulation of foreign businesses. The results have
been the largest and most miserable failures of corporate accountability
in modern corporate history: Enron, Worldcom, and now Fannie Mae.

I am the first President to unconstitutionally restrict my opponents'
First Amendment rights by allowing my supporters to remain at the venue
while restricting my detractors to "free speech zones," fenced-off areas
up to half mile away from the media, the audience, and especially
myself.

I've communicated less with the American people than any other president
in the history of televised news, holding only one White House press
conference every 3.25 months, compared to my father's 1.6 per month.

To prevent activist judges from rewriting the constitution to serve an
agenda that Congress would never approve, I attempted to rewrite the
constitution to serve an agenda they never came close to approving. My
campaign for the Federal Marriage Amendment was a miserable failure: it
failed to pass either house of congress. In the Senate the cloture call
to end debate yielded only 48 votes, not the 67 required to pass the
Senate, not the 60 votes required for cloture, not even the 50 votes of
a simple majority.

My 2004 budget set the record for the largest deficit in history: either
$477 billion or $521 billion (CBO and OMB numbers, respectively).

The value of the dollar has collapsed 30% during my term.

Nearly every major economic indicator has deteriorated since I took
office in January 2001. Real GDP growth during my term is the lowest of
any presidential term in recent memory. Total non-farm employment has
contracted and the unemployment rate has increased. Bankruptcies are up
sharply, as is our dependence on foreign capital to finance an exploding
current account deficit. All three major stock indexes are lower now
than at the time of my inauguration. The percentage of Americans in
poverty has increased, real median income has declined, and income
inequality has grown.

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE (FOREIGN)

As president I ignored Clinton's warnings about Al Qaeda, mentioning
that organization only once in public statements on national security
between January 20, 2001 and September 10, 2001. In the same time period
I mentioned Saddam Hussein 104 times and missile defense 101 times.

On August 6, 2001 I received a briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to
Attack Inside the United States" which warned that "the FBI indicates
patterns of suspicious activity in the United States consistent with
preparations for hijacking." For one month I dealt with numerous other
issues until the unfolding of the most successful terrorist attack in US
history on September 11, 2001.

With broad international approval I temporarily disrupted the Taliban
government, which has now re-emerged to control much of southern
Afghanistan after I abandoned this campaign for Iraq.

I campaigned strongly for war in Iraq. I claimed that:

Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (none have been found).


Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda (Iraq opposed Al Qaeda and successfully kept
their operatives out of the country before September 2001. The strongest
claim to support a connection came from Czech intelligence services and
is now retracted. The 9/11 commission "did not believe that such a
meeting occurred".)


Iraq would give their weapons of mass destruction to terrorists (A
secular Saddam would never give his "ace card" to religious elements he
opposed throughout his life and could not control)


The war would be "self-financing" through oil sales($200 billion total
has been allocated, and $138 billion has already been spent with more to
follow).


The war would end quickly, with troop deployments down to 30,000 troops
by Autumn 2003 (March 2004 troop deployment: 114,000 US plus 23,000
Coalition troops in Iraq; 26,000 US and Coalition logistical support
troops in Kuwait).


Americans would be greeted as liberators (Public perception of Americans
as liberators dropped from 43% at the time of invasion to 2% after Abu
Ghraib).

By invading I would make it more difficult for terrorists to obtain
Weapons of Mass Destruction (The only WMD 'discovered' in Iraq was
successfully obtained by terrorists and used against Americans. As a
result of the invasion, nuclear equipment and materials in Iraq formerly
monitored by the IAEA has disappeared and may have fallen into the hands
of terrorists or rogue countries. The results have been overwhelmingly
negative for U.S. interests.)

I punished those who spoke unwelcome truth:

I sent Joseph Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate claims
that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium, where Wilson determined
that those claims were based on forged documents. Despite his report I
continued to make public Iraq/Nigeria statements as late as January
2003. When Wilson publicly contradicted me, one of my senior officials
exposed the CIA cover of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, in an article
written by Robert Novak and printed in the New York Times on July 14
2003. No one is sure which senior White House official leaked the order
or who was aware, but the fact that I hired James Sharp in June 2004 to
represent me as a personal criminal defense attorney is significant when
you consider that there is no attorney-client privilege between a
president and a White House counsel that allows the counsel to withhold
information from a Federal grand jury.

I fired Lawrence Lindsey as my economics advisor in early December 2002
for claiming that the Iraq War would cost between $100 and $200 billion.
($138 billion has been spent and $200 billion has been budgeted... so
far)


I fired Jay Garner as US Administrator of Iraq in March 2004 for calling
for immediate elections instead of allowing American companies to
privatize government-owned assets. (American privatization and lack of a
legitimate Iraqi government is one of the major reasons for unrest in
Iraq.)


I made US Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki a lame duck in June
2003, defying precedent and announcing his successor 14 months in
advance of his retirement after he announced that "several hundred
thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq".

I threatened to have Medicare analyst Richard Foster fired if he replied
to Congressional requests and reported that the Medicare Prescription
Drug Bill would cost $551 billion, $156 billion over the White House's
favored estimate of $395 billion.


After the Iraq Health Ministry released figures showing that US and
Coalition forces killed twice as many Iraqis as the Insurgents the
Iraqis are supposedly being protected from, I acted decisively by
ordering the Iraq Health Ministry to not release any more figures.

I rewarded those who spoke welcome lies, paying Ahmed Chalabi and the
Iraqi National Congress $340,000 per month for their false intelligence
gathered about Iraq. Although Chalabi and the INC had been dropped from
the CIA payroll in 1996 for being an unreliable source and also
dismissed by the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) for the same reason,
I continued to use Chalabi and the INC to support claims of WMDs in
Iraq. Even after their information proved false and no weapons were
found I remained so close to Chalabi that he sat with Laura Bush as my
"Special Guest" during my September 2003 State of the Union address. I
continued to pay the INC regularly until May 2004, when allegations
surfaced that Chalabi had passed classified American intelligence to
Iran.

I put tremendous pressure on the CIA to come up with information to
support policies that have already been adopted (as determined by the
Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq). When the CIA and DIA
refused to verify intelligence items I wanted to believe, Donald
Rumsfeld and I created the Office of Special Plans. This independent
department within the Pentagon was designed to bypass the CIA and feed
the discredited and unreliable information I wanted to believe was true
back into the intelligence stream in order to support conclusions that
the CIA and DIA could not. The OSP took much of the discredited
information from Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress.

I opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security for nine
months, before turning around to take credit for its creation.

I opposed the creation of an independent 9/11 panel. After being forced
to accept the commission, I gave it only $12 million in funding to do
its work (compared to $50 million combined for Whitewater and the Monica
Lewinsky investigation) before turning around to take credit for its
creation.

My war against Al Qaeda has been a miserable failure:

The International Institute for Strategic Studies' most conservative
estimate (May 25, 2004) is that the occupation of Iraq has helped Al
Qaeda recruit 18,000 operatives in more than 60 countries.

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University has found
that The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but
instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of
Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terrorists.
On a strategic level as well as an operational level, the war in Iraq is
hurting the war on international terrorism.

By my State Department's own estimates, world terror attacks are now at
their highest level in 20 years, up 36% since 2001.

I have held 660 prisoners in Guantanamo, Cuba for over two years without
trial or formal charge. My prisoners, several of whom were between the
ages of 13 and 16, have never been formally charged. They are kept in
steel cages, subjected to ongoing torture, and denied access to legal
counsel in opposition to Supreme Court rulings (Rasul v. Bush). These
prisoners are "the worst of the worst", "hard core, well trained
terrorists" and their guilt is beyond doubt, which is why I've set 87 of
them free without explanation or apology.

In the past year I claim to have trained 100,000 Iraqi police forces,
but only 8,169 of those have passed the required 8-week training course.
Another 46,176 are listed as "untrained".

My Secretary of Defense is the first in US history to have acknowledged
ordering an intentional violation of the Geneva Conventions, in which
Abu Ghraib prisoners were held "off the books" and hidden from the Red
Cross. When this order was made public I refused to discipline him in
any way, instead complimenting him on his job performance.

After being informed of abuses at Abu Ghraib on January 16 (first
reported on January 13) which included "Threatening male detainees with
rape" and "Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a
broom stick" I made "freedom from torture chambers and rape rooms" a
centerpiece in my speeches until April 29 when the story finally broke
on 60 Minutes II.

My administration is the first since the Civil War to imprison US
Citizens (Jose Padilla) as "enemy combatants" without charges, trial, or
access to legal counsel. In a 5-4 decision (Rumsfeld v. Padilla) the
Supreme Court dodged the opportunity to rule on the legality, ruling
that the case had been improperly filed.

My administration broke new legal ground by using material witness
warrants to give effective life sentences to US citizens without charge,
trial, access to legal counsel, or even plans to prosecute.

My justice department was the first in US history to attempt to enforce
federal regulations while refusing to disclose what those regulations
are.

My legal war against terror has been a miserable failure: I have
detained more than 5,000 people on suspicion of terrorist ties, some of
whom have been held without charge or without access to a lawyer. I have
successfully convicted zero.

no photo
Thu 09/28/06 04:24 PM
that's funny because it is true and i don't think many people remember
that stuff happening and it's scary because some people base their
decisions on that kind of completely useless stuff during an election.
it goes for alot of politicians though and just does not apply to bush.
i mean honestly, what does the one about McCain having an illegitimate
child(whether he is black,chineese or white) have to do with his ability
to help run a country. the same thing goes for gay marriage, i have no
problem if they are included but they should never be the deciding
factor in an election when ther're much more important issues on the
table. before the elections alot of people don't even realize what thes
things are intended for and they just usually stir emotion. we have to
vote with our minds and not our emotions. it's sad to see how many
people will just fall in line like sheep and allow theirselves to be
manipulated.

Ghostrecon's photo
Thu 09/28/06 05:16 PM
Oh please!

How long aree you going to go there?

boy must play I guess.

PublicAnimalNo9's photo
Thu 09/28/06 07:29 PM
that was kinda my point exactly King...most ppl do forget the shit their
elected leaders have pulled off..this isn't just George W
Bush..politicians rely on the voters having short memories,or just being
stupid or apathetic. I'll give you an example from up here...in the next
to last election, one of the candidates had been the country's finance
minister for the previous 10 years... during his campaign this "savior"
claimed to be able to solve the major problems in our universal health
care system, this is the same man, who for the previous ten years, had
tightened the purse strings on it in the 1st place. All while running a
budget surplus.
He was in charge of the finances during the single largest financial
scam ever in the history of the Canadian gov't... and here he was
running for Prime Minister, and to really take the cake, previously he
was the owner of Canada Steamship Lines(Canada's single largest
corporation) and he registered every single ship in the fleet offshore
to avoid the taxes. And guess what...we elected him(well I sure as hell
didn't vote for him lol) He was however, forced to call another election
a short time later as a result of a vote of no confidence from the house
of commons and lost.
The resume was less a shot at Bush(altho he did "accomplish" all of
that) and more of a warning to the people everywhere who are lucky
enough to have free elections...your job isn't over when you walk out of
that voting booth, your job has just started.

Jimi366's photo
Thu 09/28/06 07:47 PM
I used to like George W. Bush. I voted for him twice.
I now see that he couldn't give a shit about the middle-class
or the poor. I see he has no problem with sending jobs
to other countries (outsourcing), companies using illegal
aliens as cheap labor, or the fact that corporate greed is
fucking up our way of life! And the prescription drug thing...
what a crock of shit! Here's the deal- taxpayers (you and I)
pay for research and development of a drug, the DEA
rubber stamps approval on the drugs and won't take them
off the market unless someone (you or I) gets killed or
fucked up by them. AND WE PAY OUT THE ASS FOR THE DRUGS!!!
We finance the research and development, have no security
in knowing whethter they're safe or not, and pay like 100
times what it costs to make the drug. I guess you know by
now that I don't really like Bush anymore. The next person
I vote for President is gonna be somebody I know is gonna
look out for what's good for the country. Bush is spending
all this fucking money in other countries while we got people
here with no place to sleep and no food to eat!