President Harry S. Truman had a plaque on his desk that read "The Buck Stops Here". Obviously, in a move to reduce the size of government, President George W. Bush threw that plaque out.

Importing cheap prescription drugs into the US will cost US jobs -President George W. Bush

WHAT!

What about the other industries? Hasn't the import of other goods into the US lost US jobs?

OR?

Is it just because the drug industry is the biggest single contributor to the Republican party that prescription drugs have become  the exception?

Hey Jenna Bush. What do you think of your father's chances for re-election?

So, we have a Republican President and a Republican Majority in both houses of Congress. When 
President Bush says that the congress is "dragging its heals", what congress is he talking about?

Paul Wolfowitz...The Happy Howitzer

...the problem in Iraq is "a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad, and they publish rumors. And rumors are plentiful. -Paul Wolfowitz to the House Armed Services Committee

Good thing we got pictures... isn't it

"(David Bloom's) death was possibly caused by the hours he spent reporting cramped in an Army vehicle -- just another way war kills"

- Frederik Balfour in Business Week, April 7, 2003

Click Here for Enron, Bush, Cheney and the Anonymity of the Cheney Energy Task Force... Can Anyone Say Ken Lay?

The Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court yesterday to give Vice President Cheney another chance to shield the internal workings of the 2001 energy policy task force he headed, all but ensuring that none of its alleged contacts with industry lobbyists will be aired before the November elections. -Washington Post, June 25, 2004

July 8, 2004 - Kenny-Boy: INDICTED

Things the Bush Administration wants you to believe:

It's the CIA's fault

It's the Clinton Administration's fault

That Richard Clarke (former anti-terrorism czar)... he's crazy

That Paul O'Neill (former Treasury Secretary)... he's crazy

That Jack Spadaro (former head of  MSHA - the National Mine Health and Safety Academy)... he's crazy

That Joseph C. Wilson (former Ambassador and special assistant to the President)... he's crazy... Oh, by the way, his wife's a CIA operative

Things the Bush Administration has actually said (or "W" vs. "W")

“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people…would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,”

-Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor

"outsourcing is... a good thing"

-Dr. N. Gregory Mankiw, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors

There was nothing in there  to say there was an imminent attack. (George W. Bush, April 12, 2004  regarding he President's Daily Briefing dated August 6, 2003 on the attacks of 9/11) 
Yet there was an imminent attack on 9/11

Either the Bush Administration really believed Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat, or they were lying. To hear them tell it, they NEVER said he was an imminent threat. Or did they... 

Saddam was an "imminent threat" (spokesman Scott McClellan, Feb. 10, 2003)

Saddam "threatens the United States of America" (Vice President Dick Cheney, Jan. 30, 2003)

"Saddam Hussein is a threat to America" (President Bush, Nov. 3, 2002)

But there was no attack by Iraq and Saddam Hussein on U.S. soil or property

Cheney vs. Rumsfeld... Who's Right?

VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators ...over 60 percent of the people polled said they want the U.S. to stay for at least another year. - MEET THE PRESS, Sunday, March 16, 2003

SEC. RUMSFELD:  ...you're going to have good days and bad days, as we've said from the outset.

 -Rumsfeld, Myers Pentagon Briefing, April 7, 2004

Either way, I think it is safe to say that the Bush Administration was obsessed with the elimination of Saddam Hussein, which isn't necessarily a bad thing to be obsessed with. But it would have been nice to finish with Afghanistan first.

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