HOW CAN YOU TELL WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH IS LYING?

DICK CHENEY'S LIPS ARE MOVING AND YOU CAN'T SEE HIS LEFT ARM.

Lip Service

 

9/11 Lies

What Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

DROPPING THE BALL AFTER 9/11

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

AFGHANISTAN

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

ENRON, KEN LAY AND G.W. BUSH

What G.W. Bush Said, BEFORE the Enron Hit the Fan

And Now, The Truth

Other Bushies and Enron

 

PRO-CHOICE BUSH

"Congressional Candidate George W. Bush said he opposes the pro-life amendment favored by Reese (his Republican Primary Congressional Opponent and eventual winner) and favors leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question.: -George W. Bush, to Sylvia Teague, a reporter for the Lubbock Journal Avalanche, 1978

 

WISHY WASHY BUSH AND STEM CELL RESEARCH

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

THE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM - STAR WARS REVISITED
What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

LT. G.W. BUSH

I "served in the Air Force" "I was in the Air Force for over 600 days" -George W. Bush, the Lubbock Journal Avalanche, 1978

The Air Force considers inactive guardsmen not on active duty, and not in the Air Force

 

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada." -The Houston Chronicle, 1990

 

Although Lt. George W. Bush said he "wanted to fight", when it came time to fill out his Texas Air National Guard Application, he checked the “I do not volunteer" for overseas duty check box.

 

In 1972, Lt. George W. Bush lost his flight status for failing to submit to an annual physical. Lt. Bush couldn't take the physical, he explained during the 2000 campaign, because he was in Alabama at the time and his regular doctor was in Texas. However, his regular doctor could not have given the examination because it must be administered only by certified Air Force Flight Surgeons. These surgeons were on staff at the Montgomery Air Force Base where Lt. Bush was living.

 

THE “YOUTHFUL” BUSH

"What I did as a kid? I don't think it's relevant" "Did I behave irresponsible as a kid at time? Sure did. You bet." -Texarkana Gazette, 1994

In 1976, 30 year-old George W. Bush was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine for drinking and driving. Was he a "youth" at the age of 30?

 

BUSH Vs. McCAIN, RNC Primary, South Carolina, 2000

 

BOB JONES UNIVERSITY

Bob Jones University, in South Carolina was led by a man who called the Pope the anti-Christ and described the Catholic faith as a Satanic Cult. Bob Jones University banned interracial dating.  George W. Bush had no problem with all of that. George W. Bush spoke at Bob Jones University during the 2000 primary.

                                   

TAX CUTS AND STUFF

What G.W. Bush Said

And Now, The Truth

 

THE REAL COST OF THE BUDGET PLAN

Bush's budget plan excluded costs for privatizing Social Security, an accelerated missile defense program and a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. The total cost would be close to 2 trillion dollars.

 

HEALTH CARE

"Every low-income, working family in America must have access to basic health coverage." -George W. Bush, Cleveland, OH, April 2000

Today 44 million Americans go without Health Insurance and 83 million have gone without basic coverage at some point during the Bush Presidency.

 

CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS?

During the 2000 campaign, Candidate Bush complained to anyone who would listen that Al Gore was a “fear monger”. What would Candidate Bush of 2000 call the “terror scale” of President Bush today?

 

SOCIAL SECURITY

If President George W. Bush had succeeded in privatizing Social Security in 2001 (something that will probably occur if he is re-elected), where do you think that money would have been invested? The one name that comes to mind is ENRON. Where would the Social Security Administration have to take money from if the government had Social Security money invested in ENRON when they collapsed? It couldn't have come from the very poor... they have no money to give. And we all know it wouldn't have come from George W. Bush's "base" of "haves" and "have-mores". The sound you hear is the knocking on middle-class America's door. Pony up everybody

 

And where would the 1 trillion dollars in transition costs have come from for the Social Security Privatization plan?

 

Eight Nobel laureates and 300 other economists advised that the Bush Tax cuts and proposed spending increases would exhaust the projected surplus of both Social Security and Medicare.

 

The total cost of Bush's Social Security privatization plan is close to 1 trillion dollars. According to candidate Bush, the plan will offer younger workers "a better rate of return so that they'll have a retirement plan in the future." One of President Bush's 2000 campaign ads said "President Bush will keep the promise of Social Security. No changes. No reductions. No Way." In order to privatize Social Security, even if the market stayed up, the cost would still require deep cuts in benefits. And if the market went down, or if an investment went awry (e.g.; if Enron had been one of those companies invested in, around 2001), then the cuts would have to have been much deeper, the deficits higher or billions would have been cut from an untold amount of programs. State aid would have been cut and local taxes to the middle class would have risen.

 

“This (the Bush Social Security Privatization Plan proposed in 2000) frightens some in Washington because they want the federal government controlling the Social Security like it’s some federal program.” – George W. Bush at a campaign rally in Missouri.

 

MILITARY READINESS

According to candidate Bush in his run against then VP Al Gore, “If called upon by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the Army would have to report ‘Not ready for duty, sir.’”. One week later, Richard Armitage, then a key Bush National Security Advisor and now an Under Secretary of State pronounced that these divisions “are ready for duty”.

 

THE EXPANDING SIZE OF THE BUSH GOVERNMENT

Under Clinton-Gore, the number of Federal Employees decreased by 15 percent. Under President Bush’s administration, the number has grown by 3 percent.

 

WHO OUTSPENT WHO IN 2000?

Bush complained that Al Gore outspent him in 2000. In actuality, Bush outspent Gore 121 million dollars to Gore’s 60 million dollars.

 

MEDICARE AND SENIORS

Under the current bill, seniors will have to pay a $35 a month premium, a $250 deductible, and 25% of drug expenses until $2,250. At $2,250, seniors enter what is called the ‘donut hole’ where they will have to pay, out-of-pocket, for the next $2850 in drug expenses, until they reach $5100. After $5100, the senior will qualify for catastrophic coverage. Basically, seniors must pay for the first $4,020 of $5,100 in drug benefits. Then January rolls around and these lucky seniors get to pay all over again.

 

PATIENTS’ BILL OF RIGHTS

Governor Bush proclaimed tat he produced the patients’ bill of rights in Texas. In actuality, he was against the bill and didn’t even bother to sign it when he had the chance. It passed without his signature.

 

JOHN ASHCROFT:

Ashcroft is a divisive figure. When Barbara Walters asked George W. Bush “Did you really expect [Ashcroft] to be as much of a lightning rod?” George Bush responded “Yes.” Barbara Walters then asked “You really did? And you did it anyway, even though you talk about wanting to unite?”

 

THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

President Bush’s faith-based initiative would require taxpayers to finance the social- service activities of religious groups that might also try to convert people to their religion. However, groups that have qualifying social-service programs might and support family planning are excluded from receiving these funds, even if they are not related to the pro-choice part of their organization.

 

NO (MILLIONAIRE’S) CHILD LEFT BEHIND

Relating to the “No Child Left Behind” act, President Bush described a Michigan Elementary school he had visited as “excelling” just three month before it was declared below standard” according to her New York Times. Houston, Texas’ school system was originally hailed as a model example of what school systems should be. In June 2003, a state audit found that the school system had rigged official statistics. Among other things, they didn’t count thousands of drop-outs and 14 schools went from being ranked the “best” to being ranked the “worst”. Roderick Paige, who was in charge of the school system from 1994-2000 and later became George Bush’s Education Secretary, had no comment regarding the scandal.

 

BUSH, CHENEY AND ENERGY

At the end of Bill Clinton’s presidency, there were new rules initiated to improve the environment. They were suspended by the Bush Administration. They included: a new EPA standard to reduce arsenic in drinking water; regulations to minimize raw sewage discharges; a new regulation protecting wetlands; weakened a rule requiring air conditioners to be more energy efficient after stating his plan will “require manufacturers to build more energy-efficient appliances”; and suspended new regulations on mining pollution. He also reneged on a campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the chief culprit of global warming. Even thought the arsenic standard reduction was studied for more than 10 years, and itself was considered a compromise, President Bush said the issue needed to be studied more.

Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force…

And Now, The Truth

Members of the Cheney Energy Task Force Are...

And Now, The Truth

Dick Cheney’s Energy Crisis…

And Now, The Truth

Dick Cheney and Conservation…

And Now, The Truth

Dick Cheney on ANWR (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska)

And Now, The Truth

Dick Cheney and the Sierra Club

And Now, The Truth

 

Bush on Climate Change and Global Warming

Take a “Leadership Role”

·         "My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change." - George W. Bush, June 11, 2001

·         Bush called the Kyoto Pact as "unrealistic" and "not based on science."

·         President G.W. Bush is opposed to Kyoto Protocol, to cut Carbon Dioxide emissions to 1990 standards by 2012 by citing "the incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes, and solutions to, global climate change."

And Now, the Truth

·         The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change), an international panel set up by the U.N. comprised of thousands of scientists, and the World Meteorological Organization stated that the climb in global temperatures was due to "human caused emissions."

·         "There will be no genuine security if the planet is ravaged." - British Prime Minister Tony Blair to George W. Bush regarding global warming.

Bush Needs MORE Proof

·         Bush called for "more studies" including a study from the National Academy of Sciences.

·         "We do not know how much our climate could, or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur, or even how some of our actions could impact it." - George W. Bush, June 11, 2001

·         The Bush administration ignored the IPCC and NAS findings by saying the NAS report "concludes that the Earth is warming. But it in inconclusive on why - whether its man-made causes or whether its natural causes."

And Now, the Truth

·         The NAS study specifically says "Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere, as a result of human activity, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise. Temperatures are, in fact, rising. The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities but we cannot rule out some significant part of these changes are also a reflection of natural variability."

·         This report stated "The committee generally agrees with the assessment of human caused climate change presented in the IPCC ... report."

Bush’s Goal

·         "Our immediate goal is to reduce America's gas emissions relative to the size of our economy." - George W. Bush

And Now, the Truth

Bush’s “Laws” for Polluters

·         Bush's proposals to polluters are "voluntary" not "mandatory.

And Now, the Truth

·         There would be no requirement to the polluters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A Bush’s LIE

·         A climate report was sent to UN, as required by an agreement by George H.W. Bush, in June 2002.

And Now, the Truth

·         "I read the report put out by the bureaucracy." Days later, Ari Fliescher said that Bush had not read the report.

 

A GREAT QUOTE

“Good leaders create a climate of honesty and integrity.” – George W. Bush

"If you want to success in American Politics, change the tone." -George W. Bush

 

FLORIDA, THE BUSH MOB & “W” INTERPRETS THE CONSTITUTION

There was a mob scene in Florida as they recounted the votes. The mob, as it turned out was supplied by the Republican Party and many of them were congressional Aides supplied and flown in by Tom DeLay. Republican congressman John Sweeney of New York ordered the mob to “shut it down”. You’ve got to stop them.” Bush and Cheney later made “joking references” to the scene according to the Wall Street Journal.

 

During his first press conference in Florida regarding the recount, Baker said The votes “have not only been counted, they’ve been counted twice… Nobody’s going to dispute that.” In actuality, the vote count had been stopped twice, by the Bush campaign. 18 of Florida’s 67 counties had not reprocessed the votes.

 

The Conservative Washington Times wrote “The enduring myth of Florida’s first recount is that all 67 counties tallied their ballots by machine, employing a uniform, statewide standard.” “Some counties didn’t bother counting the ballots in any fashion.”

 

Florida law requires a “recount of the votes cast” if the margin is less than one-half of one percent. The initial lead was 0.03 percent and the final margin was 537 votes.

 

Bush said in response to the Supreme Court of Florida’s ruling to actually count the votes, “We believe the (Florida) Justices have used the bench to change Florida’s election laws and usurp the authority of Florida’s elected officials” and then added “The legislature’s job is to write law. It’s the executive branch job to interpret law.” It’s the job of the judiciary to interpret the law. That’s why they call them “judges”.

 

Ari Fleischer said that “Palm Beach (where voters used the ‘butterfly ballot’) is a Pat Buchanan stronghold, and that’s why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes.” Jim McConnell, Buchanan’s Florida coordinator said “That’s nonsense”. Buchanan should have received between 300 and 500 votes. Pat Buchanan himself stated “I do believe a number of those votes cast for me were clearly meant for Al Gore.” The Wall Street Journal, The Palm Beach Post, CNN, and the Associated Press found that the butterfly ballot had cost Al Gore between 6000 and 9000 votes statewide.

 

The error rate of the punch-card ballots was estimated between 0.1 and 1 percent, according to their manufacturers. The only proper way to recount them was to perform a manual recount. The Bush campaign had argued that these ballots were recounted, but they were only recounted by machine, not hand, as the manufacturer recommended. Even Gov. Bush, in 1997, had signed a bill in to require a “manual recount” in close elections “in preference to an electronic recount.”

 

Bush went on TV and stated “Additional manual counts of the votes that have been counted and recounted will make the process less accurate, not more so.”

 

ESTATE TAXES AND FARMS

Bush said his tax package would “eliminate the death tax saving family farms and family-owned businesses. There has never been a farm lost due to estate taxes. The real beneficiaries of the estate tax were those making their money on stocks, of the Bush “core”.

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