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on fireNow Playing: Shriekback-Faded Flowers
Topic: Raise the Fist
DISSENT!
Election day...
man, election day. I will spend this time covering some facts
about the Bush Administration today.
Although I am not trying to persuade anyone in either direction,
I think if I shared with you what I know, I would
be passing along more than just unimportant vocabulary words that
you may never use or remember after this
day, but these facts will stay with you. This is not
opinion based. My opinion is in red.
In 2001, the Bush administration
announced the proposed sale of 5.9 million acres in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
(which by any common sense definition means off the coast of
Florida) for oil and gas exploration and develop-
ment. This original proposal would have allowed drilling within
30 miles of the Florida Coast. This section of the
Gulf is called Area 181. Under intense pressure from Senator Bob
Graham and others in Florida, the original Bush
proposal was scaled back to 1.47 million acres. Nonetheless, this
sale went forward -- on George W. Bush's watch.
256 blocks were up for sale and 95 leases were sold. That's environmental concern?!?!
In May 2003, President Bush
landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a
banner proclaiming "Mission
Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat
operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any
regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.
Uh,
insert joke here.
Vice President Cheney told
voters that unless they elect George Bush in November,
"we'll get hit again" by terrorists.
And who
has our missing weapons now? Bush or no Bush, we will get hit
again anyway.
The Bush Administration awarded
a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company
that still pays Vice
President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred
compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton
stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the
military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcon-
tractors and served troops dirty food. WTF!?! Send our
troops off to die and give them substandard food that wouldn't
even be dropped over Afghanistan!?!?
In violation of international
law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so
the organization couldn't
monitor their treatment. Why do Georgie got so much to hide?
If you are
sitting there shaking your head in disbelief, I suggest you check
the facts. If you are shaking your head in
disgust, remember, that's not all, there is so much more, enough
to keep this blog alive and kicking for the next year.
But I do not feel I should devote my time or energy to bashing
[the administration]. The facts speak for themselves &
I am not trying to advocate anyone. My opinion is we should get
Bush the fuck out of office. Let him go on about living
his right-wing Christian lifestyle in the public eye. He is a
cancer. He is a liar. He is starting a Holocaust.
The
Words for Today
? dissent, v. - The refusal to conform to the authority or
doctrine of an established
church; nonconformity.
? warmonger, n. -One who advocates or attempts to stir up war and
advocates such
actions.
? mouthpiece. n. - One, such as a spokesperson, through which views
are expressed,
by one whose view in not represented.
? puppet dictator, n. - One who is appointed absolute power yet controlled
by other
parties, specifically, one who is controlled to control.
? terrorist, adj. - Someone who employs terrorism (especially as a
political weapon);
"terrorist activity"; "terrorist state"n
: a radical who employs terror as a political weapon;
usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often
uses religion as a cover for
terrorist activities.
Open your eyes.
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