THE BUSH WARS	H.W.'s Gulf War 1990-1991	"W's" Gulf War 2003 and beyond
Cost in Dollars $$$$$	$5 billion	$200 billion and counting
Cost in Lives	269 US deaths	1,028 US deaths as of September 16, 2004
Wounded Americans	458 US injured	7,245 US injured as of September 17, 2004
Reasons for War Stated by a Bush	Invasion of Kuwait	WMD's that didn't exist
Reasons for War - Stated		Mobile bio-chemical labs that didn't exist
Reasons for War - Stated		A Yugoslavian meeting with 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi official that didn't happen
Reasons for War - Stated		Documents that state Iraq wanted Yellowcake Uranium from Niger, since proven false
Reasons for War - Stated		Non-existent ties to Al-Qaeda (no matter what Dick Cheney says)
Reasons for War - Stated		The elimination of a dictator for the liberty of the Iraqi people that don't want us there and are trying to kill our troops
Reasons for War Actual	The Saudis were scared or Sadaam and asked George H.W. Bush  U.S. help	Halliburton, Carlyle Group, etc.
Reasons to Stay in Iraq	many, but we left before the job was complete	To clean up a mess that's worse than when we started
Bad Mistakes by a Bush	Allowing helicopter flights by Sadaam's troops to kill a growing revolution in Iraq aimed at removing the dictator	Disbanding the Iraqi Army
Bad Mistakes by a Bush	Allowing the Saudi's to push the U.S. into a war	Removing all Ba'ath party bureaucrats thus leaving all commissions and public works departments in disarray
Bad Mistakes by a Bush	Allowing Sadaam to remain as Iraqi President and Dictator	Invasion force of 135,000 US, less than half the size Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki recommends and less than half the size General Tommy Franks original plans for
Bad Mistakes by a Bush	Wishy Washy Decisions	Abu Graib prison scandal, with the blame put squarely on the shoulders of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Bad Mistakes by a Bush		Disregarding the Geneva Convention
Bad Mistakes by a Bush		US troops are 90% of all troops in Iraq
Bad Mistakes by a Bush		The loss of good-will after 9/11
Bad Mistakes by a Bush		Leaving only 16,000 troops in Afghanistan, roughly one-third the size of the NYC Police Department
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