IRAQ
* Chalabi was dictator appointee for Iraq; convicted embezzler; provided
false WMD evidence; funded INC with $335,000/month; accused of supplying
intel to Iran.
* CEO of Nour USA, got $327 Million contract to outfit Iraqi army, a close personal
friend of Chalabi
* War costs $4.7 Billion a month
* Negroponte as ambassador to Iraq is putting the wolf in charge of the sheep.
On Kissinger's team during Vietnam; supported human rights abuses and death
squads in Honduras during Iran/Contra; no experience in middle east.
* $25 Billion in supplemental funding for Iraq has no congressional oversight;
body armorstill inadequate; armored humvees still inadequate; violates constitution
mandate of congressional funding oversight
* Red Cross says 70-90% of Iraqis "arrested by mistake"
* Tried to reduce $225/month combat pay to $150
* Fired Lindsey for estimating war would cost $110-$200 Billion; costs will
be much more
* 70% unemployment in Iraq still
* WH council Gonzales wrote January 2002 memo on how to avoid the Geneva Convention
by terms like "detainees", "enemy combatants", jails off US soil; Secretary
of State Powell warned it would "reverse over a century of US policy and practice"
* Bush campaigns against using the military for "nation building"; Iraq is the
worst example
* Justice Department subpoenas phone records of Air Force 1 searching for Karl
Rove's call to Robert Novak revealing CIA agent because husband found
out Niger uranium lie
Economy
* Gas prices highest average in history
* $3.5 million in campaign contributions from oil/gas lobby
* 170,000 barrels/day purchased for strategic oil reserve props up prices
* Approved 33 oil refiner takeovers worth $19.5 Billion
* Lack of federal funding for federal mandates has cost states $175 Billion
this year
* 2001-2003 corporate profits up 87%; wages up 4.5%
* 1.5 million jobs lost; 7 million less than 5.5 million Bush estimated he'd
create
* Most bankruptcies under any president
* 80% of households (making less than $73,000/yr) get less than 10% of tax cuts
HealthCare
* Fake Medicare commercials in 33 markets ruled by GAO as illegal "covert propaganda"
* Medicare vote open for 3 hours in middle of the night while members were bribed
and threatened to support it.
* Threatened to fire actuary if he revealed true cost was $156 Billion higher
than administration said
* Proposed tort reform on malpractice lawsuits would only save .4-.5% of healthcare
costs
* 5 Medicare card companies raised more than $500,000 for Bush's campaign
* 4 changes to organic food law allows antibiotics and pesticide us on organic
farms
* Bush has appointed over 100 lobbyists as regulators of the industries they
represent
* Opposed healthcare for National Guard and reserves as too expensive
Education
* "No Child Left Behind" underfunded by $9.4 Billion
* NCLB program only served 18% of students maximum; 7% in most studied School
systems