It Is Time To Take Our Country Back! (And if we are ever going to, we better start with Bush.)

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It Is Time To Take Our Country Back! ( And if we are ever going to, we better

start with Bush.) Pass this on.

 

Below, are two flyers that have been distributed in over 2,300 American cities ,

21 foreign

countries, and 67 American Universities.

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http://www.geocities.com/we_have_the_power_now/

 

We Have the Power Now

 

Bush & Co. have hijacked our country, citizens,

and international and domestic policies.

 

IT IS TIME TO TAKE

OUR COUNTRY BACK!

 

 

 

THIS IS A NON-PARTISAN EFFORT TO

 

SHARE FACTS OF OUR CURRENT

 

ADMINISTRATION WITH THE PUBLIC.

 

WE ENDORSE NO SPECIFIC CANDIDATE

 

JUST ASK YOUR SELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

 

1. IS THIS ADMINISTRATION WORKING IN THE BEST INTEREST

OF YOUR FAMILY?

 

2. IS THIS ADMINISTRATION WORKING IN THE BEST INTEREST

OF YOUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE?

 

3. IS THIS ADMINISTRATION WORKING IN THE BEST INTEREST

OF AMERICAN WORKERS?

 

 

G.W. BUSH HAS SET RECORDS IN IN 3 1/2 YEARS AS

PRESDIENT

 

Spent the largest surplus in the history of the US.

 

Shattered records for biggest loss of value in the

history of the stock market during any presidency.

 

Over 3.3 millions Americans lost their jobs.

 

Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work

Americans than any president in US History.

 

Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a

12-month period.

 

Presided over the biggest energy crisis in US

history.

 

Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US

history.

 

Dissolved or abandoned more international treaties

than any president in US history.

 

First president in US history to have all 50 states

of the union simultaneously reach insolvency.

 

First president in US history to order a unilateral

and unprovoked attack and military operation of a

sovereign nation.

 

Created the largest government bureaucracy in the

history of the United States.

 

Set the all time record for biggest annual budget

spending increases, more than any other president in

US history.

 

First president in US history to have the United

Nations remove the US from the human rights

commission.

 

First president in US history to refuse United

Nations election inspectors during US election.

 

Spent more money on polls and focus groups in the

first two years of presidency than any other president

in US history.

 

Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for

Americans than any other president in US history.

 

Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud

of any market in any country in the history of the

world.

 

In less than a year made the US the most resented

country in the world-the worst diplomatic failure in

US and World history.

 

100 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BUSH IN 2004

 

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1. Failing to build a real international coalition

prior to the Iraq invasion, forcing the US to shoulder

the full cost and consequences of the war.

2. Approving the demobilization of the Iraq Army in

May 2003; bypassing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and

reversing an earlier position, the President left

hundreds of thousands of armed Iraqis disgruntled and

unemployed, contributing significantly to the massive

security problems American troops have faced during

occupation.

3. Not equipping troops in Iraq with adequate body

armor or armored humvees.

4. Ignoring the advice General Eric Shinseki regarding

the need for more troops in Iraq; now Bush is

belatedly adding troops, having allowed the security

situation to deteriorate in exactly the way Shinseki

said it would if there were not enough troops.

5. Ignoring plans drawn up by the Army War College and

other war planning agencies which predicted most of

the worst security and infrastructure problems America

faced in the early days of the Iraqi occupation.

6. Making a case for war, which ignored intelligence

that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in

Iraq.

7. Deriding “nation-building” in the 2000 debates,

then engaging American troops in one of the most

explicit instances of nation building in American

history.

8. Predicting along with others in his administration

that US troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq.

9. Predicting Iraq would pay for it’s own

reconstruction.

10. Wildly underestimating the cost of the war.

11. Trusting Ahmed Chalabi, who has dismissed faulty

intelligence he provided the President as necessary

for getting the American’s to topple Saddam.

12. Disbanding the Sunni Baathist managers responsible

for Iraq’s water, electricity, sewer system and all

the other critical parts of that country’s

infrastructure.

13. Failing to give UN weapons inspectors enough time

to certify if weapons existed in Iraq.

14. Including discredited intelligence concerning

Nigerian Yellow Cake in his 2003 State of the Union.

15. Announcing “major combat operations in Iraq have

ended” on May 1, 2003-more US soldiers have died in

combat since that announcement than before it.

16. Awarding a multi-billion dollar contract to

Halliburton in Iraq, which then repeatedly overcharged

the government and served our troops dirty food.

17. Refusing to cede any control of post-invasion Iraq

to the International community.

18. Failing to convince NATO allies why invading Iraq

was important.

19. Having no real plan for the occupation of Iraq.

20. Limiting bidding on Iraq construction projects to

coalition partners, unnecessarily alienating important

allies.

21. Diverting $700 million into Iraq invasion planning

without informing Congress.

22. Shutting down an Iraqi newspaper for inciting

violence, which led to street fighting in Fallujah,

inciting more violence than anything the newspaper

wrote.

23. Telling Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans

to invade Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin

Powell.

24. Allowing several members of the bin Laden family

to leave the country just days after 9/11, without

being questioned by the FBI.

25. Focusing on missile defense at the expense of

counter terrorism prior to 9/11.

26. Thinking al Qaeda could not attack without state

sponsors, and ignoring evidence of a growing threat

not associated with Iraq or North Korea.

27. Threatening to veto the Homeland Security

Department.

28. Opposing the creation of the 9/11 Commission.

29. Denying documents to the 9/11 Commission, then

only relenting after a threatened subpoena.

30. Failing to pay attention to an 8/6/01 PDB named

“bin Laden Determined to Attack US.

31. Repeatedly ignoring warnings of terrorists

planning to use aircraft before 9/11.

32. Appointing Kissinger to head the 9/11

Commission-even though he had a conflict of interest.

33. Asking for, then backtracking, to keep testimony

to 9/11 Commission limited to one hour.

34. Not allowing C. Rice to testify, then relenting

after public pressure.

35. Cutting counter terrorism funds by 2/3 AFTER 9/11.

36. Lying about a link between Saddam Hussein and al

Qaeda.

37. Failing to secure the nation’s nuclear weapons

labs.

38. Not working with a sense of urgency about

terrorism or al Qaeda prior to 9/11.

39. Reducing resources and troop levels before it was

secure.

40. Not providing security outside of Kabul, leaving

nearly 80% of the population unprotected from warlords

and militias.

41. Committing inadequate resources for the

reconstruction of Afghanistan.

42. Counting too heavily on locally trained troops to

fill the void, once US forces were relocated to Iraq.

43. Not committing ground troops to the capture of bin

Laden when he was cornered in Nov 2001.

44. Allowing opium production to increase after the

ouster of the Taliban.

45. Opposing an independent inquiry into the

intelligence failures regarding WMD.

46. Saying “We found the weapons of mass destruction.

We have found biological laboratories,” when nothing

has been found.

47. Trusting intelligence gathered by Dick Cheney’s

and Donald Rumsfeld’s “Office of Special Plans.”

48. Spending $6.5 BILLION on nuclear weapons-50% more

than during the cold war-but cheating our troops out

of body armor.

49. Ignoring the Middle East Peace Process, which has

deteriorated with no strategy.

50. Siding with China against a democratic referendum

by Taiwan-an oppressed people.

51. Undermining the war on Terrorism by preemptively

invading Iraq.

52. Failing to develop a specific plan for dealing

with North Korea who do have WMD.

53. Abandoning the US traditional role as a fair

moderator in the Middle East Peace Process.

54. Signing a report endorsing outsourcing with

thousands of American workers having their jobs

shipped overseas.

55. Instituting steel tariffs, deemed illegal by the

World Trade Organization.

56. Promoting economic policies that failed to create

new jobs.

57. Promoting economic policies that failed to help

small businesses.

58. Pledging a”Jobs and Growth” package that has

fallen 1,615,000 job short of his promise.

59. Running up a foreign deficit of record-breaking

proportions that it threatens the financial stability

of the global economy.

60. Issuing inaccurate budget forecasts with proposals

to reduce the deficit, excluding the cost of the war

in Iraq, Afghanistan and the funding of Homeland

Security.

61. Claiming his 2003 tax cut would give 23 million

small business owners an average savings of

$2,000-knowing that 79% of business owners would

receive less than that.

62. Passing tax cuts for the wealthy while falsely

claiming people in the 10% bracket would benefit the

most.

63. Passing successive tax cuts largely responsible

for turning a surplus of $5 trillion into a projected

deficit of $4.3 TRILLION

64. Moving to strip millions of overtime pay.

65. Not enforcing corporate tax laws.

66. Backing down from a plan to make CEOs more

accountable.

67. Not lobbying oil cartels to increase oil

production.

68. Passing tax cuts for the top 1% income earners in

the country.

69. Moving to allow greater media consolidation.

70. Nominating a supporter of outsourcing to be the

new Manufacturing Czar.

71. Ignoring calls to extend unemployment benefits

with long-term unemployment reaching 20-year highs.

72. Threatening to veto pension legislation.

73. Under-funding “No Child Left Behind.”

74. Breaking his campaign pledge to increase size of

Pell Grants.

75. Signing off on FY 2005 budget proposing the

smallest increase in education in nine years.

76. Under-funding the Title 1 Program, for

disadvantaged children by $7.2 billion

77. Freezing Teacher Quality Grants, cutting training

to 30,000 teachers and leaving 92,000 less teachers

trained than promised in his 2000 pledge to the

nation.

78. Freezing funding for English language training.

79. Freezing funding for after school

programs-eliminating 50,000 children from programs.

80. Dishonesty to Americans regarding the cost of

Medicare-saying it would cost $400 billion, although

it’s real cost will be $500 billion over a 10-year

period.

81. Silencing Medicare analyst when his study showed

the cost to be too high.

82. Allowing a “friend” who stands to make billions

from prescription drugs write the draft of the new

Medicare bill.

83. Allowing loopholes to persist in the Mad-Cow

regulations.

84. Under funding healthcare for troops and veterans.

85. Relaxing food-labeling restrictions on health

claims.

86. Falsely claiming the restrictions on stem cell

research would not hamper medical progress.

87. Reducing action against improper drug advertising

by 80%.

88. Abandoning the Kyoto Treaty, without offering an

alternative for reducing greenhouse effect.

89. Counting on a voluntary program to reduce

emissions of harmful gasses-so far only a tiny

fraction of American companies have signed up.

90. Gutting clean air standards for aging power

plants.

91. Weakening energy efficiency standards.

92. Relaxing dumping standards for mountaintop mining,

and opening the Florida everglades and Oregon’s

Siskiyou National Forest to mining.

93. Lifting protection for more than 200 million acres

of public land.

94. Limiting public challenges to logging projects and

increased logging in protected areas, including

Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

95. Weakening environmental standards for snowmobiles

and other off-road vehicles.

96. Opposing legislation that would require greater

fuel efficiency for passenger cars.

97. Reducing inspections, penalties for violations,

and prosecution of environmental crimes.

98. Misleading the public about Mad Cow disease, and

weakening the effectiveness of the USDA testing

program.

99. Withdrawing public information on chemical plant

dangers, previously used to hold facilities

accountable for safety improvements.

100. CUTTING GRANTS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN

FY 2005, FORCING STATES TO MAKE MASSIVE CUTS IN JOB

TRAINING, EDUCATION, HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT

 

 

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