Face it, the yo yo president of the U.S.A. knows NOTHING.  He is a DUNCE.  He does what he is TOLD to do, says what he is TOLD to say, pose the way he is to TOLD to pose.  He is a FOOL.  --Hunter S. Thompson, the Greatest American Writer Ever, on George W. Bush

BUSH IS NOW JUST A TERRIBLE MEMORY.  BUT I WILL LEAVE UP THE LIST LEST WE FORGET.  PLUS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TRY AND REWRITE HISTORY.  BUT HERE IT IS IN ALL ITS HORRIBLE GLORY:

If you are a regular viewer of Geniuses, you are probably aware of two things about me: 1) I would like to fuck the brains out of WGN newswoman Jackie Bange, 2) I hate our current president.  I would now like to address the latter of these two obsessions.  Wow, what a retard that guy is.  I can not believe someone this fucking stupid can get elected president of the most powerful nation on the globe.  The difference between John Adams/John Q. Adams and George Bush Sr./George Bush Jr. demonstrates just how much this country has deteriorated since its inception.  Plus, the Bush II administration is basically the Nixon administration.  Remember when the citizens of the USA were so furious that they kicked that psychotic out of office?  Well, Cheney and Rumsfeld were the golden haired boys of the Nixon regime, and they are right back in the White House with upgraded offices.  Bush II is a prep school cheerleader masquerading as a cowboy (with half the intellect those two activities suggest).  I tried to warn the world about this asswipe prior to the first election, but the far left was too busy being hypnotized by Ralph Nader to pay heed to the real danger of a second Bush in the White House.  Somehow this douchebag was made president despite losing the election, and so far his rule has been even worse than I imagined. As Kurt Vonnegut said (another dude who was good with a pen): "The only difference between Bush and Hitler is that Hitler got elected." I have never seen anyone more willing to sell himself to business interests.  He is a bigger whore than any skank on Division St. and Anna Nicole Smith combined.  Bush winning a second term, means America's experiment in democracy has failed.  As Dr. Thompson said on the eve of the 2004 election: "We are sick today and we will be sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November."  Please forward the following list to any people you know who think Bush is their personal savior to prove otherwise.  Here is a partial list of his war crimes thus far (warning--it is one long motherfucker):

February 12, 2009
17 former Bush cabinet members are now lobbyists including: John Ashcroft (started his own firm), Spencer Abraham (Occidental Petroleum), Tom Ridge (Lucent Technologies), Tommy Thompson (Centene Corporation).

January 22, 2009
Russell Tice, a former NSA analyst, revealed that the NSA's warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists and vacuumed in all domestic communications of Americans, including faxes, phone calls, and network traffic.

January 14, 2009
Susan Crawford, convening authority of the military commisions at Guantanamo Bay. stated that the treatment of Mohammad al-Qahtani was torture.  This could jeopardize his conviction.

January 13, 2009
Former DOJ official Bradley Schlozman descriminated against job applicants and made false statements to Congress according to a Justice Department report.

January 12, 2009
Joseph Band a lawyer assigned to the ethics team at the US Marshalls Service (who moonlighted as a statistician for FOX sports) used deputy marshalls to transport him and sportscasters in motorcades from airports, hotels and stadiums.

January 7, 2009
The 2008 U.S. economy lost the most jobs since World War 2.

The State Department flew Blackwater guard, Andrew Monnen, out of Iraq after he killed a body guard for the vice president in 2006.

On December 5, 2008, Bush said "Israel and Palestine have laid a new foundation of trust for the future."  Israel has just invaded the Gaza Strip.

January 6, 2009
Bush made a series of last minute appointments giving 45 aides and supporters jobs on councils and boards with terms lasting three to six years.  Among those appointed were Michael Mukasey, Elliott ABrams, Michael Chertoff, Joshua Bolton, Sanford Gottesman, and Fred Fielding.

Bush told conservative columnist Fred Barnes that his biggest domestic policy achievement was his failed push to privatize Social Security.  Besides the policy not passing, the stock market just plunged at record levels.

Bush tried to push forward a U.S. Forest Service agreement that would make it easier for the nation's largest private landowncer, Plum Creek Timber, to convert mountain forests into housing subdivisions.

January 5, 2009
Interior Department Secretary Dirk Kempthorne spent $236,000 in tax payer money to remodel the bathroom in his office.

December 30, 2008
When Bush entered office, 82% of those surveyed said the economy was good.  As he leaves office, 93% said the economy was poor.

December 25, 2008
For the first time in history, a president rescinds a pardon.  Bush pardoned Isaac Toussie the sone of Robert Toussie a Republican campaign contributor.  Isaac Toussie had pleaded guilty for lying to HUD and mail fraud, admitting that he had falsified the finances of prospective home buyers seeking HUD mortgages.  When Bush figured out what Toussie was convicted of, he took away the pardon.

December 19, 2008
According to a Pew Research survey, the three most common words used to describe Bush are incompetent (56%), idiot (27%), and ignorant (14%).  11% said Bush would be remembered as an outstanding or above average president.

A new rule from the EPA allows  companies that create hazardous chemical wastes in industrial processes to burn themas fuel instead of paying highly regulated incineration firms to destroy them.

December 17, 2008
In an interview with Martha Radditz, Bush replied "so what" when she brought up that Al-Queda was not in Iraq before the U.S. invasion.

The Obama family was denied a request to move into Blair House earlier than normal.

December 15, 2008
"Is there more work to be done?  You bet.  I never said the Taliban was eliminated.  I said they were removed from power."  On september 27, 2004 Bush said: "As a result of the United States military, the Taliban no longer is in existence."

Cheney admitted that he was directly involved in approving severe interogation methods used by the CIA.

Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoe at Bush during a press conference.  There were rallies across Iraq in support of al-Zaidi.

December 13, 2008
An unpublished U.S. government report says U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq were a $100 billion failure.

December 11, 2008
Just 18% of the public say they will miss Bush when he leaves office.

December 9, 2008
The White House sent out a two page memo to high ranking officials to guide them in discussing the highlights of the Bush presidency.  The talking points called Speech Toppers suggest: kept America safe after 911, lifted the economy after the 2001 through tax cuts, and maintained "the honor and dignity of his office."

December 2, 2008
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed.  It ignored warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an AP review of regulatory documents.  "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," Paris Welch wrote to US regulators in January 2006.  Bowing to aggressive lobbying, along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were O.K., regulators delayed action for nearly a year.

December 1, 2008
On April 22, 2008 Bush said there was no recession.  The recession started in December of 2007.

Elaine Johnson who lost a child in Iraq recounted a meeting with Bush in which he gave her a presidential coin and told her and five other families: "Don't go sell it on Ebay."

November 26, 2008
The White House sent out invitations for a Hanukkah reception that features the image of a Christmas tree.

November 25, 2008
Bush has granted numerous pardons to Texas S & L executives who swindled consumers in the 80's: John G. Smith, Kenneth Foner, David McCall Jr. , Mark Hale, William Hoyle McCright Jr.

November 19, 2008
Bush is putting in place rules that will eliminate the input of federal wildlife scientists in some endangered species cases.

November 18, 2008
The Interior Department  is poised to issue a final rule that will make it easier for mining companies to dump their waste near rivers.

November 10, 2008
76% of those questioned in a CNN/ORC survey disapprove of Bush.  No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70%.  Bush is more unpopular than Nixon was when he resigned from office.

November 8. 2008
The unemployment rate his 6.5% a fourteen year high.

October 22, 2008
There will be a $46,790 portrait of Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon as the result of a no bid contract.

October 19, 2008
Bush issued a signing statement on a military funding bill keeping Congress from limiting U.S. control of Iraq's oil.  Bush has issued more signing statements than all other presidents combined.

October 15, 2008
Bush signs the PRO-IP Act. It limits the capacity for artists to recut, reframe and recycle.  It strengthens the concept of secondary infringement that will result in "companies being less willing to create innovative new products for fear of running afoul of this issue."

October 10, 2008
Washington Mutual is the largest bank failure in history.

In his book, Shadow Factory, Jim Bamford reports that the NSA eavesdropped on citizens' calls from overseas including phone sex of military and aid workers.

October 3, 2008
It has been the 9th consecutive month of job losses.

The pentagon is spending $300 million on propaganda for Iraqis.

October 1, 2008
The median national home price declined by a record 9.5 % in August.

September 24, 2008
The EPA is saying it is not necessary to remove perchlorate from the nation's water.  Perchlorate is rocket fuel that was dumped by the military and missile makers.

September 18, 2008
The White House is threatening a bill that would give former Gulf War POW's the right to sue Iraq for damages and receive those claims from frozen Iraqi funds.  "On Christmas Eve of last year, President Bush unexpectedly vetoed the massive $3.5 billion defense authorization bill.  He specifically cited the provision intended to help the POWs receive their award."

September 15, 2008
In his book, Angler, Barton Gellman reports that Cheney had a special meeting with Dick Armey where he lied saying Iraq had nuclear suitcases.

September 11, 2008
Seven years.  No Bin Laden.  It has been the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

September 10, 2008
The Partnership for a Secure America released its WMD Terror Report Card giving the administration an overall C rating saying the U.S. is "still dangerously vulnerable" to attack.

An Interior Department investigation found a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" by workers at the agency that issues offshore drilling leases and collects royalties.  The Mineral Management Services' royalty collection office in Denver had sex, used drugs and accepted gifts from enery company representatives.

September 7, 2008
Poland confirms that the CIA ran secret jails in that country in a Soviet era compound.

September 4, 2008
McCain does not mention Bush by name during his convention speech.  Bush does not attend the convention addressing the delegates by video.  Cheney is not there at all.

The unemployment rate is at 6.1%.  The highest level since September 2003.

August 21, 2008
Condoleeza Rice said missile defense interceptors need to be in Poland to protect it from Iran and North Korea.  Those countries don't have missiles that can reach Poland.

August 5, 2008
In his book THE WAY OF THE WORLD, Ron Suskind claims Bush knew Iraq had no WMD in January of 2003.  The head of Iraqi intelligence, Tahir Jalil Habbush, was given $5 million to keep quiet about the lack of WMD and to write a letter saying Mohammad Atta had trained in Iraq.  CIA officers John Maguire and Rob Richer are on the record confirming the fake letter.

August 4, 2008
The White House pressured the FBI to link the anthrax letters of 2001 to Al Qaida.  In an appearance on Letterman, John McCain claimed there was a link to Iraq.

Bush and his father called the Rush Limbaugh radio show on its 20th anniversary.  Bush Sr. referred to Fox News CEO Roger Ailes as "our man."  He did not know he was on the air.

July 29, 2008
The next president will be faced with the largest deficit in U.S. history, $482 billion.

The DOJ Inspector General released its report on the hirings by Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson.  "In sum, the evidence showed that Sampson, Williams, and Goodling violated federal law and Department policy..." AG Mukasy will not pursue the matter saying "not every violation of the law is a crime."

July 18, 2008
On January 26, 2000, Bush said: "...the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price ...if the president is doing his job, the president will earn capital in the Middle East, and the president should have good standing with those nations."

Nearly one wolf per day has been killed since the Bush administration stripped them of their endangered species protection in March.

July 16, 2008
Bush asserted executive privilege to prevent the Department of Justice from having to comply with a House panel subpoena for Cheney's FBI interviews regarding the Plame case.

The inflation rate hits a 17 year high.  The misery index is at 10.5 the first time it has hit double digits since 1993.

July 14, 2008
GOP fundraiser Stephen Payne offers foreign dictators meetings with Cheney or Rice in exchange for $250,000 donations to the Bush library.  Payne serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

July 13, 2008
Bush lifts the executive order banning offshore drilling.  The executive order was put in place by George H.W. Bush.

July 10, 2008
Before leaving the G8 summit in Japan, Bush told his fellow leaders "goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."  One official told the Daily Telegraph of London, "Everyone was very surprised that he was making a joke about America's record on pollution."  The U.S. produces about a quarter of the world's greenhouse gasses.

July 9, 2008
Bush signed a bill that grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in terrorism cases.

July 8, 2008
Cheney's office cut six pages of testimony from a Center for Disease Control report on the public health consequences of climate change.  According to Jason Burnett, former senior advisor at the EPA, Cheney's office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC's original draft testimony removed.

July 5, 2008
June was the deadliest month in Afghanistan since 2002.

Bush in a speech at Monticello called the U.S.A. "a nation of more than three HUNDRED people."

July 2, 2008
Military trainers who went to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 were given an interrogation course that came from a 1957 Air Force study on Chinese torture techniques that yielded false confessions.

There are over 900 whistle blower fraud cases that are not being investigated by the Department of Justice.  Many of the cases involve Iraq and Afghanistan, healthcare payouts, and privitization of government functions--al of which offer new opportunities to swindle tax payers.

July 1, 2008
A 22-year CIA veteran was fired after refusing to falsify Iran intelligence.

June was the worst month for the stock market since the Great Depression.

At least 12 service members in Iraq have been killed because of faulty wiring by KBR.

June 30, 2008
The Army releases its study on the Iraq War, On Point II.  Gen. Bob Scales calls the 700 page report "a chronicle of failure."

June 27, 2008
OSHA inspections of poultry plants are at a fifteen year low.

June 25, 2008
In April of 2007 the Supreme Court ordered the EPA to study whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health.  No study was forthcoming.  In April 2008, eighteen states sued the EPA in the Supreme Court to enforce the ruling.  The EPA sent their findings by email to the White House, but Bush refuses to open the email.  EPA associate deputy Jason Burnett resigned saying no more constructive work was possible with this administration on the Supreme Court's global warming order.

June 24, 2008
The families of those killed in the U.S.S. Cole attack have tried to meet with Bush, but he refuses.  "I was just flat told that he wouldn't meet with us," said John P. Cladfelter whose son Kenneth was killed.

The Justice Department's inspector general issued a report that top officials used political and idealogical considerations in staffing its honors and summer interns programs.  The report found that the practice "constituted misconduct and also violated the department's policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political and idealogical affiliations."

June 19, 2008
According to the GAO, after six years and $16.5 billion, the U.S. "lacked detailed plans and cost estimates for completing and sutaining" the forces in Afghanistan.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP have been given no-bid contracts to service Iraq's oil fields.  In 2001, Cheney met with members of the oil industry where maps of Iraq's oil fields were reviewed.

June 18, 2008
Bush asks Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling.

June 5, 2008
Bush's approval rating has reached a record low of 25%.  83% of people think "the country is on the worng track."

The Senate intelligence committee came out with a report saying that Bush and top policymakers exaggerated Iraq's links to terrorism and ignored doubts from intelligence agencies.

June 2, 2008
Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez's book, "Wiser in Battle," claims that bush "led America into a strategic blunder of epic proportions."  It also recounts Bush launching into what he called a "confused" pep talk:  "There is a series of moments and this is one of them.  Our will is being tested, but we are resolute.  We have a better way.  Stay stron!  Stay the course!  Kill them!  Be confident!  Prevail!  We are going to wipe them out!  We are not blinking!"

May 29, 2008
In former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's book WHAT HAPPENED, he repeatedly condemns the Bush administraion.  His criticisms include: Bush relied on "propaganda" to sell the war/he admits that some of his assertions from the briefing room podium were "badly misguided"/he suggests Turd Blossom and Libby held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case when they were being investigated by federal prosecuters/he says Rove, Libby and possibly Cheney "had at best misled" him about their role in the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity/he says that after Hurricane Katrina the White House "spent most of the first week in a state of denial"/he says the perception of Katrina was made worse by "the failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rushing to war with inadequate planning and preperation for its aftermath"/he says Bush and his advisers "confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and sustain public support during a time of war"/the way Bush managed the Iraq issue "almost guaranteed the use of force would become the only feasible option"/"In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage."

May 22, 2008
Consumers and farmers will soon be on their own when it comes to finding out which pesticides are being sprayed on crops.  The USDA plans to do away with publishing its national survey tracking pesticide use, despite opposition from prominent scientists, the nation's largest farming organizations, and environmental groups.

May 19, 2008
Bush opposes a plan by Congress for a military pay raise of 3.9%.  He wants it to be 3.4%.

May 14, 2008
Bush used a speech to the Israeli parliament to compare his political oppenents to Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler.  He also mentioned an American Senator who said: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided."  That senator was a Republican, William Borah of Idaho.

May 13, 2008
Bush threatens to veto an expansion of the G.I. Bill of Rights.

Bush told Yahoo News that he stopped playing golf out of respect for the families of soldiers killed in Iraq.  He said his decision came on August 19, 2003 after a bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad.  There is videotape of him playing golf three times after that date including on October 13, 2003.

May 8, 2008
Federal Election Commission chairman David Mason was removed because he has challenged John McCain's campaign funding.

May 7, 2008
Bush threatens to veto the Democrat's housing rescue package aimed at preventing foreclosures.

May 6, 2008
The FBI raided the office of Scott Bloch, Bush's Special Counsel.  Bloch was charged to see whether Turd Blossom used government resources to help Republicans in 2006.  Among the charges against him: that he failed to investigate complaints against Condolezza Rice that she used government funds to campaign for Bush, the Office of Personnel Management is investigating if Bloch improperly punished employees who disagreed with his policies, he dismissed whistleblower cases with examination, in 2006 Bloch erased all the files on his office computer.

May 1, 208
It is the five year anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech.  3,924 U.S. military members have died in that time.  There are more U.S. troops in Iraq now than on May 1, 2003.

April 22, 2008
Bush opposes the Energy Price Gouging Act designed to bring down fuel prices.

April 21, 2008
Military analysts used as experts by TV news organizations were being paid by the Pentagon to deliver administration talking points.  These individuals were called "message force multipliers" by the Department of Defense and included General Paul Vallely, Bob Bevelacqua, Robert L/ Maginnis, General Montgomery Meigs, Col. Ken Allard, and others.

Dr. Ira Katz, the VA's head of Mental Health, tried to cover-up the number of suicide attempts by veterans.  The VA told CBS that there were 790 attempts.  The actual number is over 12,000.

April 18, 2008
The GAO issued a report saying the Bush administration has failed to develop a plan to eliminate al-Qaida and its sanctuary in Pakistan.

April 17, 2008
A report released by the National Defense University calls the war in Iraq "a major debacle."  It was written by Joseph Collins a former senior Pentagon official.

Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, issued a news release titled "Gabriel Criticizes Bush's Neanderthal Speech" in response to Bush's plans to cut greenhouse emissions.

April 13, 2008
On ABC's "This Week," National Security advisor Stephen Hadley confused Tibet with Nepal eight times.  He then did the same thing on "Fox News Sunday."

April 12, 2008
ABC news reported that in 2002 top administration officials including Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Ashcroft held meetings in the White House to approve the specifics of torturing detainees.

April 4, 2008
The State Department renews Blackwater's contract for Iraq.  Blackwater is being investigated by the FBI for an incident where they killed 17 Iraqis.

March 31, 2008
HUD director Alphonso Jackson steps down.  He is under investigation for conflict of interest allegations regarding a $127 million development project in New Orleans.  He is also accused of with holding contracts for political reasons.  He is another Bush pal from Texas.

March 24, 2008
4,000 American soldiers have died in Iraq.  97% were killed AFTER the declaration of mission accomplished.

March 19, 2008
It is the five year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.  In an interview with ABC, Cheney was asked about 2/3rds of the American people being against the war.  His answer was "So?"  Cheney spent the day fishing on the Sultan of Oman's yacht.

March 16, 2008
Bush issues an executive order that strips the Intelligence Oversight Board of much of its power.  "It's quite clear that the Bush administration officials who were around in the 1970's are settling old scores now."--Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU

Bush has requested $250 million for the GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership) program to develop the technology and facilities for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in emerging nations.  The proposal would overturn a 29 year ban in the U.S. on reprocessing nuclear fuel to extract plutonium.  The ban was a gesture of the U.S.'s commitment to reduce nuclear weapons proliferation.

600,000 Iraqi documents were examined by the Pentagon.  In their report, the Pentagon said there is no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden.

March 14, 2008
In a video conference with military officials in Afghanistan, Bush said: "I must say, I'm a little envious.  If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.  It must be exciting for you...in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger."

March 12, 2008
John Ashcroft testifies before Congress about a no-bid 18 month contract worth $28 million to $52 million he received from the Justice Department that calls for him to monitor a settlement between India and a medical supply company.

March 10, 2008
According to Douglas Feith, on December 12, 2002 Bush told the National Security Council that war with Iraq was inevitable.  This was weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR supplied the military in Iraq with unmonitored and unsafe water according to a Pentagon report.  Soldiers experienced skin abcesses, cellutitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using smelly KBR water at five U.S. military sites.

March 8, 2008
Bush vetoes legislation that would have prevented the CIA from using torture.  The intelligence authorization bill would have required the CIA to follow the Army Field Manual rules on interrogations.  Bush has famously said that the U.S. does NOT use torture.  In February, the CIA admitted to using waterboarding.

March 1, 2008
Bush breaks Reagan's record for most vacation days by a president.  He has had 879 vacation days so far.  Has has been on vacation 30% of his time in office.

February 29, 2008
During a news conference, Bush was caught off guard when a reporter mentioned that analysts are predicting four dollar a gallon gas prices.  In October of 2000, Bush criticized the Clinton administration for not having an energy policy that would keep gas prices low.  Gas prices have more than tripled since Bush took office.

According to Mike McConnell, the Afghanistan government is in control of 30% of the country.  The Taliban is in control of 10%.

February 28, 2008
Bush claims the economy is not heading toward recession.

February 24, 2008
The cost of living had its biggest jump in seventeen years.

February 18, 2008
According to court documents, Prince Bandar threatened Britain that, if they continued their investigation into bribes that were paid in an arms deal, Saudi Arabia would make it easier for terrorist attacks.  Bandar is so closely tied to the Bush family that he is sometimes called Bandar Bush.

February 8, 2008
A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis.

February 4, 2008
Bush made the navy exempt from compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act.  U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper over ruled him.

February 1, 2008
Bush threatens to veto a 30 extension of the FISA eavesdropping law unless it retroactively protects phone companies from law suits.

January 25, 2008
In 2006, there were 47 percent fewer federal food inspections than in 2003.

January 23, 2008
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that Bush and top officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq.  The study was posted on the web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalsim.  The study counted 935 false statements in a two year period.

January 20, 2008
Opium production in Iraq is skyrocketing.

Bush tells the prime minister of Israel that he does not believe the NIE on Iran's weapons development.

January 18, 2008
Gaps in the White House email archives coincide with dates in late 2003 and early 2004 when the administration was dealing with the CIA leak investigation and a possible congressional probe into Iraq intelligence failures.

January 16, 2008 
The Canadian government issues a memo to its officials listing the United States on a list of countries that use torture.

January 14, 2008
In a poll, 75% of those who responded thought the country was in the wrong direction.

Bush travels to Israel for the FIRST time in his presidency.

The Bush administration approves a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

December 15, 2007
The White House told U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy that they were not obligated to preserve CIA interrogation tapes and urged him not to look into the tapes destruction.  In June 2005, Kennedy ordered the administration to safeguard "all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees."

December 13, 2007
Bush vetoes SCHIP again.

December 10, 2007
The White House instructs Dana Perino not to address questions regarding the CIA destroying torture videotapes.  On a related note, Perino tells NPR that she did not know what the Cuban missile crisis was when it came up in a press briefing.

2007 was the deadliest year in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban.

December 9, 2007
According to the BBC, a $5.2 billion fund tor train Iraqi security forces can not be accounted for.  There was a paper trail for only 12%of the money.

With British forces pulling out of Southern Iraq, Islamic law in the style of Iran is taking hold there.

Cheney said that by 2009 Iraq would be a functioning democracy.

December 3. 2007
After resigning in disgrace from the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz is hired back by the Bush Administration to the International Security Advisory Board.  Wolfowitz was an architect of the Iraq invasion and told Congress that Iraqi oil revenues would finance the war.

November 20, 2007
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames Bush and Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of Valerie Plame.

November 13, 2007
The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is 1.5 trillion dollars which is double the official White House projection.  That translates as $20,000 per American family.

Bush vetoed a major spending bill that would have funded education, health care and job training.

November 7, 2007
Half of Americans say they strongly disapprove of Bush's job performance according to the USA Today/Gallup Poll.  Bush's strongly disapprove figure is the HIGHEST Gallup has ever measured for a presidential performance.

In 2004, Daniel Levin, the acting assistant attorney general, underwent waterboarding in order to better understand the technique.  He concluded that it was illegal torture and believed the Bush Administration failed to offer clear guidelines for its use.  He was forced out of the Justice Department when Gonzales became Attorney General.

November 2, 2007
Bush uses his veto on a water bill that would help restore Katrina damage, the Everglades, and the Great Lakes.

In a speech before the World Affairs Council, Cheney said Hugo Chavez was the president of PERU.

October 24, 2007
FEMA held a press conference about the California wild fires.  The "press" was made up of FEMA employees posing as reporters.

October 17, 2007
Bush's approval rating is at 24%.

October 14, 2007
Four million Iraqis have fled their country.  It is the greatest displacement of people in the history of the Middle East.

The new U.S. embassy in Iraq is comprised of 21 buildings taking up 104 acres.  It will be bigger than Vatican City and cost $1.2 BILLION per year to operate. 

October 12, 2007
Ricardo Sanchez joins the list of former generals condemning the handling of the war in Iraq.  He blamed the administration for a "catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and denounced the current "surge" as "desperate."  He also called Iraq a "nightmare without end."

October 11, 2007
Secret memos were revealed by the New York Times showing that Gonzales approved the legal authority to torture detainees.  Bush has on numerous occasioins stated defiantly that the U.S. does not use torture.

Bush speaks out against a congressional resolution recognizing the killings of Armernians by Turkey in 1915 as genocide.

October 7, 2007
Cheney addresses the Council for National Policy at a secret meeting in Utah.  The group was formed by Tim LaHaya author of the "Left Behind" series.

October 4, 2007
Bush vetoes the SCHIP bill that would have expanded enrollment of insured children from 6.6 million to 10 million.

October 3, 2007
A former Bush administration lawyer, Jack Goldsmith, said that parts of the eavesdropping program are illegal.  He said "the extreme secrecy--not getting feedback from experts, not showing it to experts--led to a lot of mistakes."

September 27, 2007
In a speech about education, Bush says "childrens do learn."  Originally, on the official on-line transcript the mistake was fixed.

September 20, 2007
Erik Prince, the head of Blackwater, is a major Bush supporter.  Blackwater is making millions off Iraq thanks to a no bid contract.  There are 180,000 mercenaries in Iraq.  Of his time spent as an intern in the George H.W. Bush Whitehouse, Prince said "I saw a lot of things I didn't agree with--homosexual groups being invited in, the budget agreement, the Clean Air Act, those kinds of bills."  Blackwater is accused of numerous incidents where innocent Iraqi citizens have been killed.

September 14, 2007
Ray Hunt signed a contract for petroleum exploration in Northern Iraq.  Hunt is a long time Bush supporter, on the board of Halliburton, a huge donor to the Bush library at SMU, and serves on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board giving him access to data on Iraq collected by U.S. spy agencies.  His deal with the Kurds undermines efforts for national oil revenue sharing.

September 13, 2007
In a speech, Bush says there are 36 nations allied with the U.S. in Iraq.  There are actually 25.

September 11, 2007
Six years later, still no Osama.

September 7, 2007
In AUSTRALIA, Bush thanks the AUSTRIAN troops for their service in Iraq.

September 6, 2007
The pentagon has changed its definition of sectarian violence in Iraq so that large bombings are no longer included.  Hence, sectarian violence in Iraq went down 75% in the month of August.

September 4, 2007
According to the GAO, the Iraqi government has met 3 out of 18 benchmarks.

September 2, 2007
The cost of the war in Iraq is $330 billion.

August 27, 2007
Gonzales resigns as Attorney General.  Bush calls him "a man of integrity, decency, and principle" and "talented and honorable."

August 18, 2007
Mining deaths had been on an 80 year decline until now.  Richard Stickler is Bush's mine safety chief.  He was a recess appointment because he would not be able to get Senate confirmation.  His appointment was against the wishes of the United Mine Workers and the AFL-CIO.  

August 6, 2007
According to the GAO, the military "cannot fully account for about 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 pistols. 135,000 items of body armor and 115,000 helmets reported issued to Iraqi forces."

August 4, 2007
Bush meets with reporters at the White House.  All the journalists are right-wing nut jobs: Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Neal Boortz, Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Scott Hennon, Lars Larson and Janet Parshab.

August 1, 2007
Cheney tells Larry King that he supports the Edelman letter.  The Edelman letter was a letter from Defense Department undersecretary Eric Edelman to Hillary Clinton saying she was aiding enemy propaganda by requesting a briefing on plans to withdraw from Iraq.  The letter has been denounced by SOD Gates.

The White House invoked executive privilege again this time to keep Turd Blossom from testifying about the firings of U.S. attorneys.  Scott Jennings, Turd Blossom's deputy, also invoked executive privilege while testifying and would not say what his job in the White House is.

July 24, 2007
81 U.S. municipalities have passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of George Bush.

July 13, 2007
Bush again asserts executive priviledge this time to withhold documents regarding the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident.

July 12, 2007
Harriet Miers does not show up to testify before Congress on Bush's orders.

July 9, 2007
Bush exercises executive priviledge to try to keep Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor from testifying before Congress.

54% of Americans polled want Dick Cheney impeached.  45% want Bush impeached. 

July 2, 2007
Bush commutes Scooter Libby's 30 month jail sentence for obstruction of justice.  Libby will have to serve no jail time.  Bush called his sentence "harsh" even though it was handed down by a judge Bush appointed and upheld by an appeals court.

June 27, 2007
Cheney refuses to file annual reports with the National Archives claiming his office is not part of the executive branch.  He has exempted his office from Executive Order 12958 (amended by Executive Order 13292) requiring executive branch officials to submit reports to the Information Security Oversight Office.
 

A letter signed by fifty high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program was presented to Bush during their White House visit.  The letter said in part "We do not want America to represent torture.  We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention..."

June 21, 2007
According to Newsweek, Bush's approval rating is at 26%.  He is approaching Nixon's low of 23%.

June 20, 2007
Bush uses his third veto on a bill that would fund stem cell research.

June 19, 2007
At least 88 members of the Bush Administration (including and especially Turd Blossom) did RNC work (using RNC email accounts) on government property.  This is a violation of the Hatch Act.  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating.  Thousands of these RNC emails are claimed to be lost which is a violation of the Presidential Records Act.

June 11, 2007
The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals overturns yet another Bush policy with regard to holding terror suspects without trial in the process saying Bush's methods have "disastrous consequences for the Constitution and the country."

The Senate votes on a NO CONFIDENCE resolution for Fredo.  53 senators are in favor of no confidence 38 are against.

June 3, 2007
The Global Peace Index rated Iraq as the least peaceful nation on the planet.

May 31, 2007
According to the FBI, violent crime has risen for the second straight year.

Fort Lewis will stop having individual funeral ceremonies for fallen soldiers because too many of them are being killed and it is taxing their system.

May 18, 2007
Paul Wolfowicz resigns from the World Bank due to unethical bahavior.

May 17, 2007
James Comey testifies before Congress saying that when he was acting Attorney General he refused to sign off on the warrantless wire tapping program.  So, Gonzo and Andy Card went to John Ashcroft who was recovering in the hospital to get him to sign off on it.  He also refused.  Bush would not comment on whether Gonzo and Card were following his orders.

May 15, 2007
The number two man at the Justice Department, Paul McNulty, resigns.  On April 19, Gonzo said that McNulty had very little to do with the firings of federal prosecutors.  The day after he resigned, Gonzo said McNulty was the main person involved in the firings.

Congress set a deadline for the Justice Department to hand over all e-mails from or to Karl Rove regarding the U.S. attorney firings.  The deadline passes with the e-mails not turned over.

Lanny Davis quits the president's Council on Civil Liberties due to lack of independence form the White House.

May 12. 2007
According to the GAO, the Iraqi government loses 5 to 10 million dollars A DAY in smuggled oil.  That is eight billion dollars a year that could be used to rebuild the country.

May 7, 2007
According to Newsweek, Bush's approval rating is 28%.

May 1, 2007
Bush vetoes the war spending bill because it has deadlines for withdrawl.

It is the four year anniversary of the Mission Accomplished speech.  3,212 Americans have died in Iraq since the declaration of the end of major combat operations.

April 25, 2007
22% of those surveyed said the country is headed in the right direction.

April 23, 2007
After Gonzales' pathetic testimony before Congress, Bush claims he has more confidence in his Attorney General.

April 19, 2007
Fredo Gonzales testifies before the Senate.  He uses the phrase "I don't recall" seventy-four times.

Five generals have turned down the newly created position of "war czar."  In response, the administration changes the name of the job to "execution manager."

April 16, 2007
Wolfowitz is under fire for getting his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a job at the State Department with an inflated salary.  She makes more than Condi.

According to the Red Cross, half the doctors in Iraq have fled the country.

Cheney says he has not spoken to Scooter Libby since his trial.

The White House has lost 5 million e-mails including those regarding Turd Blossom's involvement in the firing of federal prosecutors.

April 11, 2007
The Bush administration won a Muzzle Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.  The award goes to those "it considers the most egregious First Amendment violators."

April 9, 2007
On the four year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, thousands of Iraqis deomonstrated AGAINST the American occupation.

The Bush administration has hired 150 graduates of Pat Robertson's Regent University.

April 6, 2007
The Inspector General of the Pentagon's 911 report is made public.  It says that Iraq was NOT a state sponsor of terror.  It also says that the intelligence community was unanimous in its thinking on this topic.  This coincides with the findings of the 911 Commision.  Cheney is still claiming there was a link between Iraq and Al Queda.

April 5, 2007
Bush appoints Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium.  Fox contributed $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans.  Bush appointed him while Congress was on recess so he would not have to go through the approval process.

Two of the brigades in Bush's Iraq surge have NO desert training.

April 2, 2007
Bush does not throw out the first pitch at any major leagues openers.  It is speculated that he is afraid of being booed.

April 1, 2007
Bush's 2004 cheif campaign strategiest, Matthew Dowd, tells the N.Y. Times that his faith in Bush was misplaced.  He wote an op-ed article titled "Kerry was Right" that was never submitted.

March 29, 2007
Kyle Sampson testifies before Congress and contradicts Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales' statements that he had nothing to do with the firings of eight federal prosecutors.  Fredo changes his story saying he does not "recall" having anything to do with it.

March 27, 2007
The U.S. attorney in Arkansas, Bud Cummins, was one of the fired federal prosecutors.  He was replaced by Turd Blossom henchman, J. Timothy Griffin.  Griffin worked on Bush's 2000 campaign and had a sign behind his desk saying "on my command...unleash hell on Al."

March 25, 2007
"The U.S. government was unprepared for the extensive nation building required after it invaded Iraq, and each juncture when it could have adjusted its efforts, it failed even to understand the probelems it faced.  In the days after the invasion, the Defense Department had no strategy for restoring either government institutions of infrastructure.  And in the years since, other agencies joined the effort without an overall plan and without an overall structure in place to organize and execute a plan of such magnitude.  Lines of authority remained unclear in the reconstruction effort with a demand for speed and a shortage of government personel much of the oversight was turned over to the contractors doing the work.  There was little coordination among the various agencies.  The result was a series of missed oportunities to address the unravling situation.  Many layers of management made it difficult to determine who had ultimate authority over money, people and projects."  -- Stewart W. Bowen, Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction

The EPA Inspector General's office is facing staff reductions after budget reductions.  They have issued numerous reports critical of the administration's enforcement of environmental issues.

March 23, 2007
According to Sharon Eubanks, a twenty year veteran of the Justice Department and the lead lawyer for the largest civil suit in U.S history against the tobacco industry, the White House interfered with her case ordering a cutback in the amount of damages and dictating her closing arguments.  She also said she never discussed the case with Alberto Gonzales despite its size and importance. 

March 20, 2007
The White House tries to make a deal with Congress in regard to the U.S. attorney scandal whereby Turd Blossom and Harriet Miers would NOT testify in public, there would be NO transcript, and they would NOT be under oath.

According to emails, Turd Blossom wanted the 20% of the U.S. attorneys he did not consider "loyal Bushies" to be fired including Chicago/Scooter Libby prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

March 19, 2007
It is the four year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.  According to the original war plan, at this time there should have been 5,000 troops in Iraq.  There are over 170,000 presently in Iraq.

"The Prescription Drug Bill is the most fiscally irresponsible program in forty years."--David Walker, Head of the GAO

Marcdh 18, 2007
Inflation in Iraq is 50% per year, people in Baghdad  get electriciy for 6 hours per day, nine thousand Iraqis per month flee the country.

March 14, 2007
Gonzales' Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, is forced to resign over the U.S. attorney scandal.  Sampson rated all 93 U.S. attorneys according to how loyal they were to Bush.  During the Bush administration, Democrats have been investigated more than Republicans at a 7:1 ratio.

After receiveing billions of dollars from the U.S. government, Cheney's old company Halliburton is moving its headquarters to Dubai to avoid U.S. taxes.

March 12, 2007
It was reported that Turd Blossom ordered the firing of eight federal prosecutors including Carol Lam who investigated convicted former congressman Duke Cunningham.

March 6, 2007
Scooter Libby is found guilty.  He is the highest ranking official to be convicted since Iran/Contra.

March 2, 2007
Bush's approval rating is at 29%.

Despite the Walter Reed scandal, Bush's current budget calls for cuts to the V.A.

February 25, 2007
The Bush administration is funding Iranian separatist groups who use terror techniques against the Iranian government.  This is the same approach that failed in Afghanistan during the 80's. 

February 22, 2007
According to the Inspector General for the Justice Department, the White House has over inflated the number of terrorist cases it has prosecuted by including drug cases and reported terror related incidents that are proven to be false.

February 21, 2007
England, Denmark and Lithuania have all announced a pull out of troops in Iraq while the U.S. is planning a troop surge.

February 18, 2007
Bush's budget reduces funding for the Center for Disease Control by half a billion dollars.

February 12, 2007
According to testimony in the Scooter Libby case, then CIA director George Tenet said the allegation that Iraq was trying to purchase nuclear weapons from Africa should be taken out of the State of the Union address.  He was overruled by the White House.

February 9, 2007
According to a report from the Pentagon's Inspector General, Douglas Feith used inappropriate analysis to claim an Iraq/Al queda connection prior to the invasion.

February 1, 2007
On January 10, Bush told the American people that 21,500 new troops would be sent to Iraq.  According to the Congressional Budget Office, the actual number will be between 35,000 and 48,000.

January 30, 2007
Former State Department official Lawrence Wilkerson claimed that Iran made an offer in 2003 to help stabilize Iraq and stop aid to Hezbollah that Cheney rejected.

January 28, 2007
General William Odom, the former head of the NSA, said the main beneficiaries of the war in Iraq are "Iran and Al Queda."  He called the invasion the "greatest strategic disaster in our history."

January 26, 2007
In his State of the Union address, Bush praised the creator of "Baby Einstein."  "Baby Einstein" has been denounced by the American Academy of Pediatrics as unhealthy.

January 25, 2007
U.S. popularity is at an all-time low.  Only 29%of the people in 35 countries surveyed (including the U.S.) said America has a positive influence in the world.

The first person to write the false story that Clinton staffers trashed the White House before leaving was TONY SNOW for the Washington Times.

January 23, 2007
Bush's approval rating is at 28%.

January 21, 2007
Bush fired the federal prosecutor that broke the Duke Cunningham case.

NASA's Earth Science Program has been cut 30% making it more difficult to predict long term weather conditions.

January 17, 2007
Bush has cut funding to the National Cancer Institute the past two years.

January 9, 2007
Tony Snow made the claim that the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign was the idea of and put up by crew members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.  This spin was proven false years ago when the receipt for the sign was found showing it was ordered by the White House.

January 7, 2007
In the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal, the White House visitor logs are no longer subject to public disclosure.  They were under the control of the Secret Service, but the White House has made them part of the presidential records and no longer available under the freedom of information act.

January 1, 2007
December was the deadliest month for American troops in Iraq in 2006.

December 28, 2006
After his death, Gerald Ford allowed an interview with Bob Woodward to be released that was critical of the Iraq War.

December 18, 2006
A Pentagon report said the violence in Iraq is at an all-time high.

December 15, 2006
At Rumsfeld's farewell ceremony, Cheney said: "I believe the record speaks for itself.  Don Rumsfeld is the finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had."  Why did Bush fire the greatest S.O.D. ever during a war?

December 9, 2006
In his radio address, Bush spoke about the parts of the Iraqi Study Group report that mirrored his policies but ignored the sections that criticize his handling of the war.  He said (one would assume with a straight face):  "The Iraqi Study Group agrees with my vision."

December 8, 2006
Only %27 of Americans approve of Bush's handling of the war in Iraq.

Afghanistan opium production is at an all-time high.  %61 more land is now being used to grow opium over this same time last year.

The Baker/Hamilton report was critical of the way the violence in Iraq was being recorded.  For instance, one day last year when the official total of attacks was listed at 91 the actual number was over 1,000.

December 6, 2006
The Baker/Hamilton report is highly critical of the handling of Iraq calling the situation "grave" and the objectives "unrealistic."  The day before, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told the Senate the U.S. is not winning in Iraq.

December 5, 2006
FEMA has lost one billion dollars in Katrina fraud.

December 4, 2006
Kofi Annan told the BBC that the average Iraqi's life is worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein.

December 1, 2006
National Intelligence Director John Negroponte told C-Span that Iraq is far more dangerous than Vietnam during similar conflicts.

November 27, 2006
A federal judge struck down Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists saying his executive order was unconstitutionally vague.

Bush rejects suggestions that Iraq has fallen into civil war.

November 19, 2006
When asked if we were winning the war in Iraq, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace responded "you have to define winning."

November 6, 2006
Neo-con Kenneth Adelman, a strong supporter for the invasion of Iraq, told Vanity Fair:  "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent.  They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era.  Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly dysfunctional."

November 3, 2006
Last March, Bush signed off on a web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war.  The documents constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.  After this was revealed in the New York Times. the site was pulled down.

November 1, 2006
In an interview with wire reporters, Bush describes Rumsfeld's job performance as "fantastic."

October 23, 2006
According to "60 Minutes," $800 million in tax payers' money was stolen from the Iraqi Defense Ministry.

The poverty level in Iraq has gone up 35% since the invasion, and unemployment in Iraq is at 60%.

October 17, 2006
Bush signs the Military Commisions Act which allows the president to put anyone in prison without charges.  It also loosens the definition of torture.  The A.C.L.U. calls it "one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history."

October 9, 2006
Bush added a signing statement to a law passed by Congress on emergency management qualifications.  The law states the director of FEMA "must have a demonstrated ability and knowledge of emergency management with no less than five years of executive leadership."  The signing statement allows Bush to ignore the qualifications.  Bush's signing statement challenged three dozen laws in the Homeland Security Bill.

Rumsfeld was on the board of directors for a company called ABB which sold nuclear reactors to North Korea.  North Korea has just tested its first nuclear weapon.

October 3, 2006
According to Bob Woodward's STATE OF DENIAL, the CIA director briefed Condi Rice on the dangers of terrorism prior to 911.  Rice claims this did not happen.  This is another Rice lie.  She was briefed on July 10, 2001.

The war in Iraq costs the U.S. $2 billion per week.

September 28, 2006
$75 million has been spent on a police academy in Iraq.  It was built so incompetently that it has to be torn down.

This month has seen the highest number of suicide bombings in Iraq.

September 26, 2006
Condi Rice claims that the Clinton Administration did not present the Bush administration with a comprehensive plan to fight terrorism.  This is contradicted by the 911 report.

September 24, 2006
According to the National Intelligence Estimate, the Iraq war has contributed to an increased threat of terrorism.

September 21, 2006
The U.N. says Iraqi civilian deaths in July and August was 6,599 a new high for the conflict.  The U.N. also said torture in Iraq now is worse than under Saddam Hussein.

September 17, 2006
Abu Ghraib has been turned over to Iraqi authorities.  Conditions have become even worse.

According to Brig. General Mark Shide, Rumsfeld would not allow the Pentagon to come up with post-war plans for Iraq.

According to the Government Accountability Office, elections in Iraq have sharpened ethnic divides resulting in more sectarian violence.

September 14, 2006
Colin Powell denounces Bush's attempts to ignore the Geneva Convention saying "the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terror."

September 11, 2006
It is the five year anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.  Osama bin Laden has still not been brought to justice.  Pakistan just signed a truce with the Taliban in the region bin Laden is believed to be hiding in.

September 8, 2006
The Senate Intellligence Commitee issues a report stating there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda.

August 24, 2006
In the first year of Bush's Medicare plan, the pharmaceutical industry has made $7 billion in excess profits.

August 21, 2006
110 Iraqis per day are being killed.  That is the highest rate since the invasion.  40% of the professional class has fled Iraq.  Unemployment in Iraq is between 25 - 40%.  Before the war, there were 34,000 doctors.  12,000 have left, 200 have been killed, and 250 have been kidnapped.

August 18, 2006
Bush refuses to endorse the Republican candidate for senate in Connecticut because he does not think he can win.

August 17, 2006
Federal judge Anna Taylor finds Bush's wiretap program unconstitutional.

There were more insurgent bombings in July than any month since the invasion of Iraq.  It has been over a year since Cheney said the insurgents were in their "last throes."

August 11, 2006
Cheney says Lieberman's primary loss will "embolden the Al Queda types."  Since becoming vice president, Cheney has had ONE press conference.

July 21, 2006
Bush gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel an unwanted back rub at the G-8 summit.  Video shows her tensing up and grimacing.

July 20, 2006
Bush used the first veto of his presidency to block legislation that would have overturned the ban on federal funding for stem cell research.

July 19, 2006
Gonzales told the Senate that Bush personally blocked a Justice Department investigation into the legality of the eavesdropping program that intercepts Amcericans' international calls and e-mails.

July 16, 2006
The cost for the war in Iraq is $291 billion.  The pre-war estimate was $1.7 billion (and $0 according to Wolfowitz).

According to the Dept. of Homeland Security, Indiana and Wisconsin are the states with the most terrorist targets.

Robert Novak names Karl Rove as one of his three sources for the Valerie Plame case.  The White House originally said Rove had nothing to do with it.

July 6, 2006
The CIA has disbanded its unit dedicated to searching for Osama bin Laden.

July 4, 2006
Both Rice and Rumsfeld have compared the insurgency in Iraq to Germany after World War 2.
RICE: "SS officers engaged in sabotage and attacked both coalition forces and locals much like today's Baathist and fedayeen remnants."
RUMSFELD: "Nazi regime remnants targeted Allied soldiers, and they targeted Germans who cooperated with Allied forces.  They blew up police stations and government buildings, and they destroyed stocks of art and antiques that were stored by the Berlin Museum.  Does this sound familiar?"
These statements are historically false.  There were zero post-conflict combat casualties in Germany or Japan.

"I'm worried about an opponent who use nation-building and the military in the same sentence.  See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win was and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."  --George W. Bush (11/6/00)

June 30, 2006
Ten people associated with the Saddam Hussein trial have been assassinated including three of his lawyers.

Five soldiers are being investigated for raping and killing a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq.

June 21, 2006
Dick Cheney told the National Press Club: "I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered (in Iraq)."  Plenty of people anticipated the level of violence including the Army War College.  This is at least the third catastrophe that the Bush administration did not anticipate along with flying planes into buildings and the flooding in New Orleans.  Cheney also stood by his statement that the insurgency was in its "last throes" that he made last year.

Bush administration official David Safavian, the former General Services Administration chief of staff, was found guilty on four felony counts for his association with criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

June 20, 2006
A memo from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad dated June 6 and sent to the State Department paints a grim picture of life in Iraq: "upscale neighborhoods have visibly deteriorated and one of them is now described as a ghost town;" "some groups are pushing women to cover even their face, a step not taken in Iran even at its most conservative;" "criticism of the U.S. has grown so severe that most people believe the U.S. is punishing populations as Saddam did."

June 16, 2006
Bush signed legislation that will allow the FCC to fine broadcasters $325,000 per incident that exceeds "the bounds of decency."  It increases the maximum fine by ten times.

June 15, 2006
More journalists have died covering the Iraq War than died covering World War 2.

Bush mocked reporter Peter Wallsten for wearing sunglasses at a press conference.   Wallsten needs the sunglasses because he has Stargardt's disease, a form of macular degeneration.

June 4, 2006
Bush backed a resolution to amend the Constitution to ban same sex marriage.

June 1, 2006
New York and Washington D.C. have had their anti-terrorism funding cut.  Meanwhile, cities like Omaha, Louisville, and Charlotte have had their funding increased.  The Department of Homeland Security said that Washington was a "low risk" city and that New York did not have landmarks.

34% of people in a recent poll called Bush the worst president since the end of World War 2.  The next closest was Nixon with 17%.

There are three more investigations (beyond Haditha) that U.S. soldiers have murdered civillians in Iraq.

May 31, 2006
The Supreme Court scaled back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official miscondunt.  The decision was 5-4 with Alito casting the deciding vote.  Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said:  "The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States."

A report by the Harvard Medical School found Canadians to be healthier than Americans.  Canada's national health insurance program is at least part of the reason.

May 28, 2006
The Italian prime minister, Romano Prodi, called Iraq "a grave error."  "Terrorism has found a new base and new excuses for internal and external terrorist action."  Italy will pull out its 3,000 troops by the end of the year.  Only three countries in the Coalition of the Willing will have more than 1,000 troops in Iraq (USA, UK, South Korea).  Nations that have exited include Singapore, Nicaragua, Spain, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Norway, Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, Tonga, Hungary, Portugal, Moldova, Netherlands, Ukraine, Bulgaria.

Bush calls the formation of the Iraqi government a "turning point."  This is at least the eighth "turning point" he has cited.  The government still has not established the Defense or Interior Departments.

Shiite militias in southern Iraq are trained in Iran.  The missile used to shoot down a British helicopter near Basra is thought to have come from Iran.

The coach of the Iraqi national tennis team, Hussein Ahmed Rashid, and two of his players, Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Auda, were gunned down for WEARING SHORTS.  Earlier fifteen members of the Iraqi Taekwondo team were kidnapped as they returned from a tournament in Jordan.

May 27, 2006
During a press conference, Bush admits saying "bring it on" and "wanted dead or alive" were mistakes, and that he should learn to express himself in a more sophisticated manner.

The FBI raid the Congressional office of Democrat William Jefferson.  This is the first time this has happened in the history of the United States and may be a violation of the Constitution's separation of powers.  Alberto Gonzales signed off on the procedure.

Military investigators probing the deaths last November of about two dozen Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha have evidence that points toward unprovoked murder by Marines.  Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch called it "Iraq's My Lai."  There is another murder investigation against Marines from an April 26 incident near Fallujah.

When asked if he would see Al Gore's global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Bush's response was "doubt it."

Bush Pioneer Kenny Boy is found guilty on all counts.

May 19, 2006
Bush signs a $70 billion tax reflief package.  87% of the benefits go to households earning $100,000 or more.

In his confirmation hearing, Hayden called the Porter Goss administration amateur hour.  In a prior interview with  a reporter, Hayden strongly argued that the phrase "probable cause" did not appear in amendment IV of the constitution (it does). 

Tony Snow, a former Fox employee, called ABC a "competing network" during a press conference.

The UN Committee Agaist Torture called for Guantanamo Bay to be closed as did Britain's Attorney General.

May 15, 2006
According to Brian Ross, the government is monitoring the phone calls of investigative journalists at ABC news, the NY Times, and the Washington Post.

Dusty Foggo, the #3 man at the CIA (a Porter Goss appointee), has his home and office raided by the FBI.  Foggo has been linked to the Duke Cunningham prostitute scandal.

According to an Irish paper, 200,000 AK-47's that were meant for the Iraq army have been lost.

Bush's approval rating is at 29%.

May 12, 2006
72% of the rivers and streams in the national parks are too polluted to fish in.

May 10, 2006
Gen. Hayden's signature program at the NSA was a classified project code named TRAILBLAZER designed to analyze millions of bits of information.  The program cost $1.2 billion and after six years has resulted in little more than schematic drawings.

May 9, 2006
A German reporter asked Bush "what was your most wonderful moment in your terms of being president?"  Bush replied "I would say the best moment was when I caught a seven-and-a-half pound large-mouth bass on my lake."

Bush nominates Gen. Michael Hayden to be CIA chief.  Hayden designed the NSA's warrantless surveillance program.

Bush's approval rating is at 31%.

May 8, 2006
Bush has issued 750 signing statements, asides placed at the end of bills saying the law may not apply to him.  Prior to Bush, all the presidents in history combined to issue 320 signing statements.

May 6, 2006
A British helicopter was shot down in Basra.  British forces rushed to the area but were met by a hail of stones from the crowd of at least 250 people, who jumped for joy and raised their fists.  The crowd set fire to three armored vehicles. 

April 28, 2006
Bush rejects calls by lawmakers for a tax on oil company windfall profits.

April 23, 2006
The former chief of the CIA's European operations, Tyler Drumheller, accuses the White House of ignoring the spy agency's doubts that Iraq had a budding nuclear program or weapons of mass destruction as the U.S. prepared for war: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit in to the policy."  Drumheller said the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source (Iraq's foreign minister Naji Sabri) who claimed there were no active programs for WMD.

April 20, 2006
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing the U.S. $10 billion a month.

Bush's approval rating is at 33%.

April 18, 2006
Gay families are let into the White House Easter egg hunt only after Bush has left.

April 14, 2006
Six retired generals (Zinni, Batiste, Swannack, Newbold, Eaton, Riggs) have called for Rumsfeld to step down.

April 13, 2006
A Pentagon team of experts determined in May of 2003 that two small trailers found in Iraq were not used to make biological weapons.  Two days after the team sent its findings to Washington, Bush made the opposite claim on Polish TV: "We have found the weapons of mass destruction.  We found biological laboratories."

April 7, 2006
According to Scooter Libby's testimony, Bush authorized disclosure of classified information on Iraq's weapons to rebut war critics.

April 4, 2006
The EPA claimed that wet land areas have grown for the first time since the 1950s.  The reason for this is because they changed the definition of the term wet lands to include golf course water hazards.  Actual wet lands are down 500,000 acres.

March 30, 2006
Another British memo is released saying that Bush intended to invade Iraq regardless of what the weapon inspectors found.  It also stated that Bush had a plan to paint a U.S. plane in U.N. colors in an attempt to draw Iraqi fire. 

March 24, 2006
Bush has gone longer than any president since JEFFERSON not to exercise his veto.  Congress has sent him 1,091 bills all of which he has signed.

7% of black women said they approve of Bush's performance.

When Cheney checks into a hotel, he insists that the TV be turned on to the FOX news channel.

March 20, 2006
Coinciding with the three year anniversary of the Iraq invasion.  The Pentagon begins OPERATION SWARMER the largest air assault in Iraq since shock and awe.  Not a shot is fired.  It seems to be a media ploy in an attempt to rally sagging poll numbers.  The former prime minister of Iraq says there is a civil war in his country.

There are death squads in Iraq operating out of the Defense and Interior ministries.

Members of a shadowy U.S. military unit (Task Force 6-26) turned Saddam Hussein's torture chambers into their own interrogation cells, beating prisoners, and using detainees for target practice in games of paintball.  This happened after the Abu Ghraib abuses were made public.

March 19, 2006
Phil Cooney, a former oil lobbyist, editied scientific reports on global warming for the Bush administration.  He has left that job and now works for Exxon/Mobil.  NASA scientist Jim Hansen has had his global warming warnings censored by the Bush administration as well.

65%of the American people disapprove of Bush's handling of the Iraq war.

March 16, 2006
During the Clinton administration 22.7 million new jobs were added.  So far during Bush's presidency 2.6 million jobs have been added.

The Agriculture Department plans to scale back testing for mad cow disease.

March 13, 2006
Bush's former top domestic advisor, Claude Allen, was arrested for shoplifting at Target.  Allen had been a Bush judicial nominee, but his nomination was blocked by Democrats.

2,000 people per month have been executed by death squads in Iraq for the past year.

March 10, 2006
70% of Americans do not like the direction the country is headed in.

March 7, 2006
Bush has to fly to Texas at tax payers' expense to vote because he forgot to get an absentee ballot.  In the State of the Union, Bush said America was addicted to oil.

March 1, 2006
Video is released of a conference before Katrina hit where Bush is warned that there could be flooding and the levees could overflow.  Four days later Bush will say "no one could have anticipated a breech of the levees."  During the meeting Bush does not ask any questions and tells local authorities that the federal government will be ready to supply all the support necessary.

February 28, 2006
Bush's approval rating is 34%.  Cheney's is 18%.

February 25, 2006
Thomas Kean,  the head of the 911 commission, said the UAE deal to take over U.S. ports "never should have happened."  The former Republican governor of New Jersey also said "there's no question that two of the 911 highjackers came from there and money was laundered through there."

February 24, 2006
A sheik from the UAE has donated $1 million to the Bush library.

February 22, 2006
Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. ports to a state owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration.  The UAE has been a financial and operations base for terrorists and was one of only three countries to recognize the Taliban when they were in power.

February 16, 2006
Cheney did not go with Whittington to the hospital after he shot him.  He was not questioned by the police until fourteen hours after the incident.  He admitted to having "one beer."

More Abu Ghraib torture pictures are released.

February 14, 2006
According to the GAO, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion of the tax payers' money on propaganda over the past two years.

The White House refuses to release photos of Bush with criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Valerie Plame was working on the WMD in Iran issue.  Losing her as a CIA operative compromises the U.S. approach to this problem.

February 12, 2006
Cheney shoots 78 year old Harry Whittington during a hunting trip in Texas.  Whittington is the first person since Alexander Hamilton to be shot by a sitting Vice President.  The birds Cheney was hunting were farm raised.  Killing farm raised birds is standard Cheney hunting procedure.

The Justice Department is investigating a charge that Halliburton has overcharged by $1 billion for work in Iraq.  The war profiteers Custer and Battles have been charged with defrauding the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for Iraq war contracts.  As of now, the U.S. government has done nothing to recover missing money from Iraq.

February 11, 2006
Paul Pillar, the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South East Asia, claims the Bush administration deliberately misused or ignored intelligence in the buildup of the invasion of Iraq.  "The administration went to war without requesting, and evidently without being influenced by, any strategic level intelligence assesments on any aspect of Iraq."

The American Bar Association denounces Bush's eavesdropping program.

February 10, 2006
Scooter Libby told a grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq.

February 9, 2006
Bush says a terrorist plot was thwarted to blow up the tallest building on the west coast, "LIBERTY tower."  The tallest building on the west coast is LIBRARY tower.

Alberto Gonzales testifies before the Senate about Bush's domestic sying program.  He is not under oath.

February 2, 2006
The GAO issues a critical report of the White House handling of the Katrina disaster.  The Office said a single official should have been put in charge of coordinating federal decision making and that there was no clear chain of command.

Bush called himself the Educator-in-Chief at a post State of the Union speech.  Meanwhile, Congress passed a bill limiting student loans.

Bush defended the huge ($36.13 billion) profits by Exxon Mobil saying it is simply a reflection of the marketplace.

Bush cut funding for mine safety enforcement by $15 million and stacked the Mine Safety and Health Administration with representatives of corporate interests.  They have also cut 170 positions from the MSHA.  Bush withdrew 17 Clinton-era mine safety initiatives.

The criminal Jack Abramoff was a lobbyist to keep U.S. employment restrictions away from the sweat shops of Saipan.  He also lobbied to improve the image of apartheid.  Abramoff called the Indians he lobbied for "monkeys," "idiots," and "troglodites."

January 30, 2006
The Bush administration's former chief procurement official, David Safavian, tipped off criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff that the government was about to suspend the federal contracts of Tyco, an Abramoff client.

25% of AIDS grants go to religious groups that stress abstinence over condom use.

January 29, 2006
An audit of the Coalition Provisional Authority reported a "spectacular misuse of tens of millions of dollars."

January 27, 2006
According to a Bloomberg/L.A. Times poll, 62% of Americans want to move in a different direction other than the one Bush has set forth.  His approval rating is 43%.

The terrorist group Hamas won elections in Palestine casting serious doubts on Bush's policy of democracy in the Middle East.

January 25, 2005
The Bush administration has failed to collect $700 million from oil companies in 2005 who have extracted oil on federal land.

January 20, 2006
Economists Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia) and Linda Bilmes (Harvard) have estimated the cost of the war in Iraq at between 1 trillion and 2 trillion dollars.  Soon after the invasion, Wolfowitz and others claimed the war costs would be covered by Iraqi oil revenues.

January 18, 2006
Human Rights Watch's annual report is critical of Bush's policies: "U.S. disregard for human rights in the name of fighting terrorism has actually hurt efforts to combat terror groups."

January 17, 2006
Alberto Gonzales defended Bush's warrantless wire taps saying the Clinton Administration used similar tactics in 1993 in the investigation of Aldrich Ames.  The specific FISA law wasn't put into place until 1995.

January 16, 2006
According to Timothy Flanigan, who has been nominated to be deputy attorney general, Jack Abramoff claimed Karl Rove could help Tyco avoid a special liability tax.  Flanigan is a former Tyco employee.

Rove's secretary, Susan Ralston, was Abramoff's peronal aide.  She would determine who would get through to Turd Blossom based on Abramoff's approval.

Abramoff charged chiefs from the Choctau and Coushatta Indian tribes $25,000 a piece to have lunch with Bush.

January 11, 2006
During a speech on Katrina refief, Bush said "some people think the S.B.A. stands for Slow Bureaucratic Paperwork."

January 4, 2006
Disgraced criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a Bush Pioneer (someone who donated over $100,000 to Bush).

December 22, 2005
FISA judge James Robertson resigns in protest of Bush's unauthorized domestic spying.

Cheney casts the deciding vote to cut $40 billion dollars for Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, and agriculture benefits.  Bush has given away a budget surplus in tax cuts.  And $70 billion in more tax cuts for the wealthy are planned.

December 18, 2005
While in Europe, Dr. Rice claims that America does NOT take detainees to other countries where they are tortured.  THIS IS A LIE.  The U.S. renditioin program is well documented and is being investigated by the EU.

Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Serveillance Act.  In April, Bush told a crowd in Buffalo that a court order was necessary to do wire taps.

December 12, 2005
In an interview with Brian Williams, Bush said:  "We were welcomed in Iraq.  It just wasn't a peaceful welcome."  Bush also estimated the number of civillian deaths in Iraq at 30,000.  In 2004, the medical journal The Lancet estimated the total at 100,000.

December 10, 2005
Valerie Plame resigns from the CIA.  "Her career was arbitrarily and whimsically destroyed by a mean political trick," said Vincent Cannistraro, a former chief of operations for the CIA Counterterrorism Center.

December 8, 2005
Breaking a tradition of openness that began in 1816, the Bush administration has without explanation withheld the names and work locations of 900,000 civilian workers.  Since 1989,the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has been posting on the Internet a database with the name, work location and job category of all 2.7 million federal civilian workers.  The data are used by reporters and watchdog groups.

December 5, 2005
Despite a 12 billion dollar contract, Halliburton pays its African employees 45 cents an hour for work done in Iraq.

The 911 commission issues a harsh report on the administration's effort to protect and ready the nation for terrorist attacks.

November 30, 2005
The U.S. military paid Iraqi newspapers to plant favorable stories about the war and rebuilding effort.

In a speech on World AIDS day, Bush pronounces "condom" as "condemn."

November 23, 2005
According to a British government memo, in April 2004 Tony Blair had to talk Bush out of bombing Al-Jeezera headquarters in Qatar.

November 22, 2005
In a speech, Cheney said it was O.K. for Congress to debate whether invading Iraq was that right decision, calling such open exchanges "more than just a sign of a healthy political system--it's also something I enjoy."  Minutes later he called critics of the war "corrupt and shameless" and accusations that there was a rush to war "dishonest and reprehensible."

November 21, 2005
In 1985, Alito wrote: "I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a  right to an abortion."

November 18, 2005
U.S. occupation officials gave Robert J. Stein, a man with a federal fraud conviction, control of millions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction.  He has been charged with accepting kickbacks to steer contracts to Philip H. Bloom.  Stein and Bloom were both arrested.

November 15, 2005
Cheney's approval rating is 26%.

November 7, 2005
Newly declassified parts of a document from the Defense Intelligence Agency showed that the administration was alerted that an al-Qaida member in U.S. custody was lying about links between the terrorist group and Saddam Hussein.

Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona protested Bush saying: "Let's get rid of Bush.  I am proud to be an Argentine who can oppose the human rubbish that Bush is."

Scooter Libby has written a novel called The Apprentice about child prostitution.

November 5, 2005
Bush's approval ratings are the lowest for any president since Nixon.

November 4, 2005
Embarassing e-mails Brownie wrote during Katrina were released including: "Can I quit now?  Can I go home?"/"If you look at my lovely FEMA attire, you'll really vomit.  I am a fashion god."/"Do you know anyone who dog sits?"/"Last hurrah was supposed to have been Labor Day.  I'm trapped now, please rescue me."  A Congressional panel report probing the federal response said "Mr. Brown made few decisions and seemed out of touch."

October 31, 2005
Bush nominates staunch anti-abortion judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the 911 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships, and railways from terrorists.

October 28, 2005
Scooter Libby is indicted by a federal grand jury.  The investigation of Turd Blosson continues.  "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our sources.  They are in my view the most insidious of traitors."--George H.W. Bush

1,846 soldiers have died in Iraq since Bush declared the end of major combat.

October 27, 2005
Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination to the Supreme Court.

October 26, 2005
The White House is against a Senate approved ban on torturing detainees in U.S. custody that was proposed by John McCain.  Cheney and CIA director Porter Goss met with McCain and suggested excluding from the torture ban overseas clandestine counterterrorism operations.

October 25, 2005
Bush refuses to release documents detailing advice Harriet Miers has given him while serving in the White House.

Former State Department official, Lawrence Wilkerson, said: "Cheney and Rumsfeld have hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus deciding in secret to carry out policies that left the U.S. weaker and more isolated in the world.  What I saw is a cabal between the Vice President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense on critical issues that made decisions that beaurocracy did not know were being made.  Now it is paying the consequences of making these decisions in secret.  Far more telling to me, is America is paying the consequences."

Karen Hughes told a group of Indonesian students that Saddam Hussein gassed hundreds of thousands of his own people.  The gassing of the Kurds actually killed 5,000.

October 23, 2005
Michael Chertoff the Director of Homeland Security did not activate the Catastrophic Incident Annex, a portion of the National Response Plan that if followed could have saved lives.

E-mails to and from former FEMA director Michael Brown reveal that his press secretary, Sharon Worthy, told FEMA's deputy director that Brownie needed more than 30 minutes for dinner during the crisis.

October 17, 2005
The Bush administration sells 155 acres of public land in Colorado for nine hundred dollars.

Heroin production in Afghanistan has gone up 2,000% since the U.S. invasion.

October 16, 2005
Bush has a teleconference with soldiers in Tikrit where the questions and answers were rehearsed beforehand.

October 15, 2005
Bush's approval rating among African Americans is 2%.

October 10, 2005
Karen Hughes was named Head of Public Diplomacy on March 14, but she did not start work for five months because she had to help her son get ready to go to Stanford.  From March 14 until taking her oath, Hughes made $450,000 in speaker fees.

According to a report from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, "another major factor in the delayed response to the hurricane aftermath was that the bulk of Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard was deployed in Iraq."

October 6, 2005
Bush selects Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.  Miers was his lawyer in Texas.  She has never been a judge.  She was in charge of Bush's selection commitee.

The Bush administration's former chief procurment official, David Safavian, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Bush urges all Americans to conserve fuel.  In 2001, Cheney said: "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."

October 3, 2005
Federal investigators found that the contract the Bush administration had with commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the president's education plan violated a government ban on "covert propaganda."

Dr. Susan Wood resigned her post as director of the Office of Women's Health because the FDA delayed a vote on whether to allow Plan B emergency contraception to be sold over the counter.  Her replacement, Dr. Norris E. Alderson, is a veterinarian.

September 30, 2005
Scooter Libby (Cheney's chief of staff) is identified as Judith Miller's source in the Valerie Plame case.

September 29, 2005
The White House is fighting a congressional effort that would give poor hurricane victims the same access to health care under Medicaid that Sept. 11 survivors received.

Michael Brown was warned weeks before Katrina hit that his agency's backlogged computer systems could delay supplies and put personnel at risk during an emergency.  Brownie has been kept on the FEMA payroll as a consultant regarding what went wrong with the response to Katrina.

September 28, 2005
Brownie defends his handling of the Katrina disaster before Congress.  "So I guess you want me to be the superhero, to step in there and take everyone out of New Orleans."

September 12, 2005
Michael Brown claimed he was named outstanding political science professor at Central State University.  He never taught there.  He was a student.  He also claimed he was on the board of governors of a nursing home that had no idea who he was.  He graduated from a law school (Oklahoma City University) that was not acredited.

FEMA rejected 500 air pilots from Florida, 3 helicopters, and hundreds of emergency workers from Chicago.  "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."--G.W. Bush.  Brown is forced to resign due to his bungling of the relief effort.

September 11, 2005
Four years after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Osama bin Laden has still not been brought to justice.

According to Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Resource Center, at the beginning of the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration wanted to cut hazard pay and death benefits for the troops.

September 9, 2005
Joe Allbaugh, the former head of FEMA and Bush's former campaign manager, is a lobbyist for companies that profit from disaster relief including Halliburton and a water filtration company in Florida.  He was drumming up Katrina business for his clients in Baton Rouge.

September 8, 2005
The Rolling Stones song "Sweet Neo Con" is about Bush: "You ride around your white castle on your little white horse/You lie to your people, and blame it on your war, of course/You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of shit."

September 7, 2005
50 firemen from Atlanta were called in to the Gulf Coast.  Their first assignment was to stand behind Bush as he toured the area.  "FEMA hired the best of the best firefighters, got them together and gave them secretary jobs."--Thomas Blomgren, fireman, Battle Creek, MI.

September 6, 2005
(8/29) Katrina hits the Gulf Coast/Bush gives a speech on Medicare in Arizona.  (8/30) Levees break in New Orleans/Bush goes to San Diego for a WW 2 ceremony.  (9/1) Bush goes on "Good Morning America" and says: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."  For years massive flooding after a hurricane has been predicted in New Orleans, including a series of articles in the "Times-Picayune" from June 2002.

The previous job of Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, was a commisioner for the International Arabian Horse Association.  He was forced to resign because he was bad at supervision.  Brown waited until hours after Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region.

September 5, 2005
Barbara Bush has this to say about the victims of Hurricane Katrina on AFM's "Marketplace:"  "And so many people in the arenas are underpriviledged anyway.  This is working very well for them.  What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas."

September 3. 2005
National Guard troops arrive in New Orleans five days after Hurricane Katrina.  On a live televised relief concert, Kanye West said:  "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

August 29, 2005
Bolton wants to get rid of the UN millennium goals that the US has already agreed to.

The US will not agree to join other countries in a nuclear test ban treaty.

Bush's approval rating is 36%.

Sir Michael Jay of the British Foreign Office said the war in Iraq was increasing the chances of terrorism in England.

August 21, 2005
The Shiite majority in Iraq is allied with Iran (Axis of Evil).  The Iraqi constitution draft says no law can contradict Islamic law.

Bush nominated Donald Winter to be the Secretary of the Navy.  He was an executive at Northrup Drummond the company that developed the DDX, a warship that has come under scrutiny by Congress for staggering cost growth.  Winter will decide the fate of the DDX program if he is approved.

August 15, 2005
The FCC has hired Penny Nance, an anti-pornography activist, as an advisor.  She is a lobbyist who works for Christian preceps in public policy.  She is a board member for Concerned Women of America.  Their mission is "to bring Biblical principles to all levels of public policy."  She founded the Kids First Coalition and advocates stricter enforcement of indecency laws.

August 12, 2005
Bush refuses to meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq.  In response to Sheehan, Bush said: "I think it's important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say.  But I also think it's important for me to go on with my life."

August 7, 2005
Bush thinks intelligent design should be taught in school.

August 6, 2005
Bush refuses to release memos John Roberts wrote when he worked for the government.

Bush's approval rating on the handling of Iraq is 38%.

August 3, 2005
Bush has spent 27% of his presidency on vacation.

August 2, 2005
Bush installs John Bolton as UN ambassador by recess apointment circumventing the Senate confirmation process.  Bolton is the only UN ambassador not to have Senate approval.

July 30, 2005
Bush is taking his 50th vacation to his Texas ranch since being elected president.

The Senate voted to shield firearms manufacturers, dealers and importers bought by victims of gun crimes, a measure opponents said had been ordered by the gun lobby.  "This bill has one motivation--payback by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership of the Congress to the powerful special interest of the National Rifle Association."--Ted Kennedy.  The gun industry gave 88% of its campaign contributions to Republicans in the 2004 campaign cycle.

July 27, 2005
The Bush administration stops using the phrase "global war on terror" replacing it with "global struggle against extremism."

July 24, 2005
"Iraq has been an absolute gift to al-Qaida.  They seem to have no difficulty getting more and more recruits."--Paul Rogers, Bradford University/UK

July 20, 2005
Bush's supreme court nominee, John Roberts, wrote a brief saying "we continue to believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled."

July 19, 2005
Bush vowed to fire any aide who has "committed a crime" in the Valerie Plame case.  This is a far looser standard than the original assertion that "anyone involved in the CIA leak" would no longer be welcome in the administration.  The percentage of Americans who believe Bush is "honest and straightforward" is 41 per cent.

July 17, 2005
Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, is named as a source in the Valerie Plame case.

July 15, 2005
Bush again refuses to speak at the NAACP convention.

July 12, 2005
Time magazine documents reveal that Karl Rove (Turd Blossom) was involved in the Valerie Plame case.  In 2003, the White House said the idea that Rove was involved was "ridiculous."

July 7. 2005
Bush introduces Energy Secretary Sam Bodman saying: "Now I want you to pay careful attention to this.  He's a Ph.D., and I'm the C student, but notice who is the adviser and who is the president."

July 5, 2005
The US is the only G8 country not to sign the Kyoto treaty.

June 25, 2005
Kenneth Tomlinson, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, monitors shows for liberal content and chased Bill Moyers' NOW off the air.

Halliburton received a $72 million bonus for work done in Iraq.

June 24, 2005
The United States' popularity is lagging behind communist China around the world, even among longtime allies in Europe.  Only Indonesia and Poland viewed the U.S. more positively than China.

June 23, 2005
In a speech, Karl Rove (Turd Blossom) said: "Liberals saw the savagery of the 911 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding to our attackers."

June 21, 2005
Three women from Denver were kicked out of a Bush social security rally by a White House representitive.  They had not caused a disturbance.  They were kicked out for having a No Blood for Oil bumper sticker.  Similar situations happened in Fargo, Tuscon, and New Hampshire.

June 20, 2005
Cheney claims the insurgency in Iraq is "in its last throes."  In 2003, the pentagon estimated there were 5,000 insurgents.  Their estimate today is 25,000.  Top military officials contradict Cheney before Congress.

June 16, 2005
The autopsy of Terry Schiavo showed that her brain was half the size of a normal brain and there was zero hope for recovery.

June 14, 2005
According to State Department documents, Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto treaty was due to pressure from Exxon/Mobile.

Bush claims 200 terrorists have been convicted as a result of the Patriot Act.  The actual number is 39.

Bush's approval rating is 42%.  Only Nixon had a rating below 40%.

June 12, 2005
According to the Downing Street memo (7/23/02): "A post-war occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise.  As already made clear, the U.S. military plans are virtually silent on this point."

June 10, 2005
Bush called FDR a socialist for inventing social security.  In 1978, Bush wanted to privatize social security saying it would be bankrupt by 1988.

June 8, 2005
Bush's expert on global warming, Phillip Cooney, is a former petroleum industy lobbyist.  He was forced to resign as Chief of Staff of the Council of Environmental Quality after it was revealed he edited government climate reports in ways that cast doubt on the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.  Cooney has no scientific training.

June 5, 2005
In 2002, John Bolton orchestrated the firing of diplomat Jose Bustani because he was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad.  A UN tribunal has judged this act unlawful.  Bustani says at one point he received a menacing phone call from Bolton.

May 26, 2005
Amnesty International called the prison at Guantanamo Bay the "gulag of our times."  They also said: "When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity."

May 25, 2005
Bush names Timothy Flanigan, a senior lawyer for Tyco International, to be deputy attorney general.  Tyco's nominal headquarters is in Bermuda as a tax shelter.

May 22, 2005
The federal government has spent $167 million on abstinence only education for groups such as the Silver Ring Thing.  As a condition of funding, they must teach that condoms do not work.

May 21, 2005
Bush vowed to veto legislation intended to ease restrictions he imposed on stem cell research in 2001.

May 8, 2005
A classified memo (the Downing Street memo) was leaked during the recent British election.  The memo is from a July 23, 2002 meeting between US and UK officials (including Richard Dearlove, head of MI-6).  It states that "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and wmd.  But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around policy...There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

May 6, 2005
The Bush administration took sweeping action to open 60 million acres, about one third of national forest land, to new road construction which could lead to logging, mining, and other commercial use of these previously protected areas.

May 5, 2005
$100 million in Iraqi reconstruction cash, which was supposed to be handed out by U.S. workers in shrink wrapped bricks of hundred dollar bills, can not be accounted for.

May 1, 2005
According to 60 Minutes, there was massive use of torture at Guantanamo Bay.

The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year.  The State Department has decided not to make them public in its annual report on terrorism.  Terrorist attacks in Iraq increased nine times over last year's total.

April 27, 2005
"I appreciate the leadership of Congressman Tom De Lay in working on important issues that matter to the country."--GWB

April 22, 2005
The cost for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan is over $300 billion.  Early on, the Bush administration claimed the war in Iraq would pay for itself with oil revenues.

April 13, 2005
In the nomination hearing of John Bolton for UN ambassador, Carl Ford, a Republican and former assistant secretary of state for intelligence, called Bolton "a serial abuser" and "a quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy."  In a 1994 speech, Bolton said the UN did not exist and that the UN would lose nothing by lopping 10 stories off its 38-story headquarters.

According to German intelligence, Osama bin Laden eluded capture at Tora Bora by bribing Afghan militias delegated the task of capturing him.

April 3, 2005
Bush has nominated Cheney's son-in-law, Philip J. Perry a prominent lawyer who represents companies in the homeland security field, to be the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. missile defense program cost $370 million more than planned and its performance remains uncertain and unverified.

March 31, 2005
Malnutrition among the youngest Iraqis has doubled since the U.S. invasion.

Next year, the administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle.

March 21, 2005
Bush signs emergency legislation aimed at prolonging the life of severly brain damaged Terry Schiavo.

March 20, 2005
Buch nominates Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank.  Wolfowitz has said that the entire cost for the war in Iraq would be paid for with Iraqi oil money.

Halliburton charged the Petagon $27.5 million to ship $85,000 worth of fuel from Kuwait to Iraq.

March 18, 2005
Bush nominates William Myers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court.  Myers was a long-time lobbyist for the mining and cattle industries.  Virtually every environmental organization opposes his nomination, along with civil rights, labor, and Indian groups.

March 16, 2005
Bush's plans for space exploration are forcing wrenching changes at NASA, putting thousands of jobs at risk and threatening the closing of facilities.

March 13, 2005
The Bushes were flown to the first W. inauguration by Ken Lay on an Enron plane.

March 6, 2005
According to the State Department, Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state and its heroin production poses a threat to world stability.

Bush's uncle, Bucky Bush, is on the board of Engineered Support, a defense contractor that profits from the war in Iraq.  He has exercised stock options worth $500,000.  The stock has gone up %1,000 in the past five years.

February 22, 2005
At a bill signing, Bush beckoned to a Hispanic man in the front row and said, "I welcome our new attorney general."  But the man in the front row was not Alberto Gonzales, it was Hector Barreto of the Small Business Administration.

February 18, 2005
On April 20, 2004. Bush hosted a meeting at his Crawford ranch for what he called "wildlife conservation organizations."  These organizations were gun and hunting lobbyists including the NRA, the Safari Club, Ducks Unlimited, Quail Unlimited, and the U.S. Sportsman's Alliance.

February 10, 2005
A fake reporter was uncovered who asked loaded questions during news conferences at the White House.  Jeff Gannon who writes for the web stie GOPUSA was revealed to be James Guckert who owns the web site domain names hotmilitarystuds.com and militaryescorts.com and offered his services as a gay escort.  Gannon/Guckert's stories appeared on a site founded by Texas Republican Robert Eberle.  In a press conference with Bush, Gannon/Guckert asked if he could work with Democrats "who have divorced themselves from reality."

The projected cost of Bush's Medicare program sky rockets from $400 billion to $724 billion.

$700 million will be cut from EPA clean water projects.  Spending on the federal Land and Water Conservation fund will amount to $132 million instead of the $900 million Bush promised during his campaign.

February 6, 2005
Bush molded a $2.5 trillion spending plan as a response to a string of record deficits.  It includes the following cuts: a $600 million grant program for police would shrink to $60 million, grants to firefighters would be reduced from $715 million to $500 million, the EPA's $8.1 billion would drop by $450 million, the Bureau of Indian Affairs would lose $100 million mostly in funding for schools, a $2.2 billion program that provides low-income people with aid for heating expenses would be cut to $2 billion.  The cost of the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan run $5 billion per month. 

January 31, 2005
Bush states that his plan to privatize Social Security would benefit blacks because they tend to have shorter lives.

January 27, 2005
The Bush administration embarked on a renewed effort to replace large sections of the Clean Air Act with industry-friendly Clear Skies policies.

January 26, 2005
Bush asks for an additional $80 billion in war spending pushing the budget deficit to a record $427 billion.

The Bush administration is again caught paying a journalist to support their agenda.  This time Maggie Gallagher was given $21,500 to promote marriage.

January 24, 2005
Bush phones a Pro-Life rally outside the White House to voice his support for their cause.

January 23, 2005
WASHINGTON POST: "Why do you think Osama bin Laden has not been caught?"
BUSH: "Because he's hiding."

January 22, 2005
The government plans to open for exploratory drilling thousands of acres of Alaska's North Slope that have been protected for decades.

January 20, 2005
The Bush administration has proposed subsidizing construction of new nuclear power plants.

January 14, 2005
Bush admits saying "bring 'em on" was a mistake.  "Those words had an unintended consequence."

According to the National Intelligence Council, Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of terrorists.

January 12, 2005
The search for WMD in Iraq officially ends in failure.
 
January 8, 2005
The Education Department acknowledged that it paid $240,000 in taxpayer money to Armstrong Williams, a syndicated newspaper columnist and television commentator, to promote the No Child Left Behind Act.

January 7, 2005
More Ohio voting irregularities reported including: 25 electronic voting machines in Mahoning County gave Kerry votes to Bush, in Cuyahoga County 10,000 voters were erroneously purged from voting rolls, in Franklin County 27 out of 30 wards with the most machines per voter voted for Bush while 6 of 7 wards with the fewest machines per voter voted for Kerry.

January 6, 2005
Attorney General nominee, Alberto Gonzales has called the Geneva Convention "obsolete and quaint."  He is considered instrumental in establishing the interogation policy that led to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

December 29, 2004
A new Pell Grant formula will knock 90,000 students off the eligibility rolls and slash grants to 1.3 million others.

December 28, 2004
Corporations have given huge sums of money to Bush's inaugral gala including Philip Morris, Chevron Texaco, Exxon Mobile, Occidental Petroleum, and Richard Kinder, former Enron president.

December 26, 2004
Bush's nickname for Karl Rove is TURD BLOSSOM.   Rove made millions of dollars in the junk mail business.

December 23, 2004
Managers of the nation's 155 national forests will have more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without environmental reviews.

December 20, 2004
The Pentagon admits that Donald Rumsfeld did not sign condolence letters to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq.  According to soldier-turned-writer David Hackworth, Rumsfeld "has relinquished this sacred duty to a signature device rather than signing the sad documents himself."

On November 3, 2004, visits to the Canadian immigration web site jumped from 50,000 hits a day to 180,000.

December 17, 2004
20/20 reports that Tom Ridge held a Homeland Security summit at the largest spa in Hawaii.

Bush's pick to replace Ridge, Bernie Kerrik, has to withdraw his name because of a series of scandals including misuse of 911 funds and mob connections.

December 15, 2004
Bush gives Medals of Freedom to Paul Bremer, Tommy Franks, and George Tenet all architects of the failed Iraq policy.

December 13, 2004
A series of voting irregularities are detected in Ohio including a "computer glitch" in suburban Columbus that gave Bush 3,893 votes in a precinct where 638 votes were cast.  Walden O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc. a voting machine manufacturer, wrote in an August 2003 invitation to a Bush fundraising event that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."

December 9, 2004
Clark Irvin, the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, was fired after criticizing the agency.

December 1, 2004
The U.S. death toll in November equals the record high for the Iraq War.

November 27, 2004
A report by Inspector General Staurt Bowen said Halliburton "did not effectively manage government property" and auditors could not locate hundred of items worth millions of dollars.

November 22, 2004
The poppy crop in Afghanistan reaches an historic high.

According to the TRAC study at Syracuse University, federal enforcement of civil rights laws has dropped sharply since 1999.

November 21, 2004
Malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the invasion.

November 20, 2004
The U.S. has decided to sell $1 billion in weapons to Pakistan.

November 13, 2004
Cheney goes to the hospital with a cold.  He also received a flu shot when supplies were limited.

November 12, 2004
CIA terrorism expert Michael Scheuer resigns because "there has not been adequate national debate over the nature of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden."  He also said "there is not a lot of military pressure on bin Laden."

November 7, 2004
After the election, the headline in The Daily Mirror of London read: How can 59, 054, 087 people be so Dumb?

October 30, 2004
More Russian "loose nukes" were destroyed in the two years before September 11, 2001 than the two years after.

General Richard Myers said there is "no way to militarily win the war in Iraq."

October 29, 2004
The Lancet report estimates that 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion.

Cheney calls the war in Iraq "a remarkable success story."

The FBI has expanded its criminal investigation of Halliburton.

The IRS is investigating the NAACP after their chairman made anti-Bush statements.

October 25, 2004
380 tons of military grade explosives are missing in Iraq.

The top civillian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, Bunnatine Greenhouse, charges that the Army granted large contracts to Halliburton without following rules designed to ensure competition and fair prices.

October 19, 2004
Hassan Rowhani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, endorses Bush.

October 15, 2004
There is home video of a drunken George W. Bush at the 1992 wedding of Jamie Weiss.  Bush claims he stopped drinking in 1986.

October 10, 2004
During Bush's six years as Texas governor more people were executed than the entire country executed between 1981 and 1990.

October 6, 2004
Paul Bremer admits that not enough troops were used in the invasion of Iraq.

When Dick Cheney was in Congress, he voted against the Martin Luther King holiday and against a referendum trying to get Nelson Mandella released from prison.

Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, said there is no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.  He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such weapons had dimmed, not grown, over the years.

October 5, 2004
Rumsfeld says he has not seen any "good, hard evidence" that links Iraq to al Queda.

October 4, 2004
It was revealed that there was a dispute in 2002 between the CIA and the Energy Department over whether Iraq's efforts to acquire aluminum tubes were related to nuclear weapons.  In September of 2002, Condoleeza Rice siad the tubes "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs."

Details have emerged showing the U.S. government and a representative of Bush's election campaign were heavily involved in drafting Iraqi president Allawi's speech to Congress.

Col. Anthony Christino said the interogations in Guantanamo Bay have not prevented a single terrorist attack.  He said Bush and Rumsfeld have wildly exagerrated their intelligence value.

October 2, 2004
Bush refuses to declassify a National Intelligence Estimate issued in August painting a troubling picture of the situation in Iraq.

October 1, 2004
John Eisenhower, the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, endorses Kerry saying: "Recent developments indicate that the current Republican Party leadership has confused confident leadership with hubris and arrogance."

September 29. 2004
Three dozen doctors, including six former presidents of the Academy of Pediatrics, signed a statement criticizing Bush's neglect of children's health care.

September 25, 2004
Larry Salathe, a senior economist at the Department of Agriculture, has come under fire for suggesting that the Bush administration could maximize votes in dairy states by keeping milk prices high.

September 24, 2004
In nine different speeches, Bush uses the wrong name, Abu Nidal, to identify the killer of Leon Klinghoffer.

September 22, 2004
One of Ralph Nader's biggest financial supporters is Nijad Fares, the son of Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares.  In 2000, Fares gave $200,000 to the Bush Inaugral fund.  Another big Nader contributor is Richard Egan, Bush's former ambassador to Ireland.

A Pentagon analyst concluded that the Iraqi informer codenamed "Curve Ball" was unreliable and an alcoholic.  Yet, Curve Ball was the main source of information for Powell's UN speech.

September 18, 2004
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage alleged that insurgents have stepped up their deadly assaults in Iraq because they want to "influence the election against President Bush."

September 14, 2004
Bush does nothing to renew the assault weapons ban.

September 2004 has been the deadliest month in world terror since September 2001.

September 10, 2004
For every year of the Bush presidency, health insurance premiums have risen by double digits.

A 527 group attacking Kerry (MoveOnForAmerica.org), was created by Stephen Marks, a former press secretary for Jeb Bush.

September 9, 2004
Cheney denies saying there will be a terrorist attack if Kerry is elected even though the day before he said: "if we make the wrong choice in November, we will be hit and hit hard by an attack that will be devastating to the United States."

The Government Accountability Office said the Bush administration illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare law.  It also said the head of Medicare, Thomas Scully, should repay his salary to the government for his role in the deceit.  Scully said he would not.

September 8, 2004
During a campaign speech in Iowa, Cheney tells the audience that if Kerry is elected there will be a devastating terrorist attack in the U.S.

The federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion this year.

September 7, 2004
During a campaign speech, Bush said: "OBGYNs aren't able to practice their love with women."

September 4, 2004
Two men who appear in the Swift Boat Veterans ads (Paul Galanti and Kenneth Cordier) are Bush political appointees serving on a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.

September 2, 2004
A University of Illinois student, Devon Largio, has done a thesis delineating 27 separate rationales advanced by the administration for the war in Iraq.

John Ashcroft has asked the Government Printing Office to instruct libraries to remove five publications dealing with federal law.

After Cheney's speech at the convention, members of his family joined him on stage except for his lesbian daughter, Mary.

Someone from Douglas Feith's office is accused of passing classified information to the Israelis via the lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

August 31, 2004
When asked if we can win the war on terror during an interview with Matt Lauer, Bush responds: "I don' t think you can win it."

Powell cancels an appearance at the Olympic closing ceremony because of protests.

The trade deficit has risen all three years of the Bush presidency.

August 28, 2004
Bush admits that he made a miscalculation of what the conditions would be in Iraq.

August 27, 2004
For the third straight year the number of both the poor and the uninsured has risen.

August 24, 2004
Two members of the Bush campaign (Benjamin Ginsberg and Kenneth Cordier) have been connected to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.  Any coordination between the two groups is a violation of law.  Bush has said there is no connection.

August 22, 2004
Chicago Tribune editor and Vietnam vet  William Rood supports Kerry's version of the events that lead to his Silver Star.  Rood was also a swift boat commander with Kerry and personally witnessed the battle and published documents to support his claims. The group attacking Kerry's war record, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is financed by Bob Perry, a Texas republican with personal ties to Bush and Karl Rove.

The Iraqi Olympic soccer team has come out against Bush using them in his campaign ads.   One player told Sports Illustrated: "How will he (Bush) meet his God having slaughtered so many men and women.  He has committed so many crimes."

Christian rockers Third Day and Michael W. Smith will perform at the Republican convention.

August 19, 2004
Bush holds question and answer rallies where the audience is screened ahead of time and bused in.

August 13, 2004
According to a CBO report, the top 1% wealthiest Americans received 1/3 of the Bush tax cuts.

August 12, 2004
Cheney says Kerry lacks "deeply held convictions about right and wrong."

August 10, 2004
Former Bush ally and member of the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing Council Ahmed Chalabi is wanted for counterfeiting Iraqi money.

August 7, 2004
The Bush administration plans to spend millions of dollars upgrading the Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas.  They have also budgeted millions of dollars to design bunker buster nuclear bombs.

August 6, 2004
Bruce Springsteen organizes a series of concerts in battleground states calling for Bush to be removed from office.

In a speech, Bush said: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.   They never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

The opium output in Afghanistan has reached its highest levels ever.

August 4, 2004
Halliburton agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about the size of its profits for more than a year when Cheney ran the company.

August 3, 2004
General Tommy Franks attributes the stresses on U.S. forces in Iraq due to the failure to get the support of more allies.  He also said troop strength was not large enough and that war planners did not foresee the insurgency.  In his book "American Soldier," Franks referred to Douglas Feith, udersecretary of defense for policy, as "a theorist whose ideas were often impractical."

August 1, 2004
Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of Afghanistan because it is too dangerous.  They have been in Afghanistan for 25 years including during the war with the Soviets.

Iraqi prime minister Allawi has placed restrictions on the media making criticism of the prime minister illegal.  He has reinstituted the Information Ministry that was abolished by the Americans.

Halliburton has lost $18.6 million in government property in Iraq including trucks, computers, and office furniture.

A rally for Cheney in New Mexico made tickets only available to people who were willing to sign a statement saying they supported Bush.

July 31, 2004
Bush changed the Clean Water Act legalizing mountain top mining in West Virginia, a major source of pollution.

July 22, 2004
At least 13 relatives of Osama bin Laden, with their body guards and associates, were allowed to fly out of the United States eight days after the September 11 attack.

July 21, 2004
Another Bush judicial nominee, William Myers, is rejected.  This time it is because of his terrible environmental record.  Myers was a lobbyist for the mining industry.

July 20, 2004
According to General Jack Keene, the war planners were "seduced" by Iraqi exiles with regard to the outcome after the war.  As a result, the Pentagon did not do enough post-war planning and did not see the insurgency coming.

July 17, 2004
The Bush administration wants to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list.  "This proposal puts the brakes on wolf recovery just as the species was starting to rebound."--Barry Braden, managing director of the Wolf Conversation Center.

July 16, 2004
Child poverty has risen for the first time in a decade.

July 13, 2004
The Bush administration announced planes to revoke Clinton's "roadless rule" that protected millions of acres of national forests by banning roads that would be used by logging and mining operations.  Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, called it the Bush presidency's "biggest single give away to the timber industry."

July 10, 2004
For the fourth straight year Bush has declined an invitation to address the NAACP convention.  He is the first sitting president since Hoover not to address the group.

The Senate Intelligence Commitee report says that bad information was used to justify the war with Iraq.  Yet, Bush still defends his decision.

July 7, 2004
Bush nominates J. Leon Holmes to the federal bench in Arkansas.  Holmes has said such things as "rape victims become pregnant as often as it snows in Miami" and "in marriage, the woman is to place herself in the authority of the man."

July 4, 2004
In 2001 and 2002, Halliburton paid Cheney $367,000 in deferred compensation.

While Cheney was CEO of Halliburton the company sold Iraq $73 million in oil equipment and did $24 million in oil field work.

June 30, 2004
The cost of the war in Iraq is $4 billion per month for the U.S.

June 24, 2004
Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar is so connected to the Bush family that he is referred to as Bandar Bush.

Wolfowitz had to apologize to reporters for saying "...part of our problem is a lot of the press are afraid to travel very much, so they sit in Baghdad and they publish rumors."

Cheney tells Senator Patrick Leahy to "go fuck yourself" after Leahy questions him about Halliburton's policies.

June 23, 2004
Wolfowitz admits before Congress that the Pentagon underestimated the tenacity of the insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell.

June 22, 2004
48 Nobel Prize winners denounce Bush.

June 21, 2004
Bush nominates Thomas Griffith to the federal appeals court even though Griffith has been practicing law in Utah without a state license for the past four years.

Halliburton executive A. Jack Stanley was accused by the company of financial wrong doing.  Stanley was promoted by Dick Cheney.

Halliburton was accused of overcharging the government including such practices as charging $100 for cleaning a 15 pound bag of laundry and abandoning $85,000 trucks when they get a flat tire.  They have mismanaged $8 billion of Iraq contracts.

Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, under the direction of the CIA, ran a terror campaign inside Iraq that included car bombs that killed civillians in the early 90's.

June 20, 2004
The Coalition Provisional Authority is filled with Republican insiders rather than Middle East or nation building experts including: Michael Karem, James Haveman, Thomas Foley, Michael Fleischer (Ari Fleischer's brother), Stuart Bowen, and John Agresto.

June 17, 2004
An Iraqi general (Abed Hamed Mowhoush) was tortured to death while in U.S. custody.

June 16, 2004
The 911 commission report states that there was no connection between al Queda and Iraq.

June 15, 2004
The White House said it would not relax restrictions on stem cell research.

June 14, 2004
26 retired diplomats and military officers are urging America to vote Bush out of office.  Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change released a statement saying: "We agree that we have lost confidence in the ability of the Bush administration to advocate for American interests or to provide the kind of leadership we think is essential."

June 11, 2004
The State Department admits that it was incorrect in reporting that terrorism declined worldwide last year, a finding used to boost Bush's chief foreign policy claim of success in countering terrorism.

June 9, 2004
Ashcroft will not release a 2002 policy memo on the degree of pain and suffering permitted during enemy interrogations.

June 6, 2004
While eulogizing Ronald Reagan, Bush mispronounces tyranny.

June 4, 2004
Bush hires a defense lawyer, Jim Sharp, to advise him with regard to the CIA leak case.

June 2, 2004
Chalabi is officially accused of supplying intelligence to Iran.

According to the N.Y. Times, the vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib possessed no intelligence information.

June 1, 2004
Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor.

May 28, 2004
Ashcroft claims that al Queda has announced it is 90% ready to attack the U.S.  This claim came from a discredited internet site.

May 24, 2004
In a nationally televised speech, Bush is unable to pronounce Abu Ghraib.

May 23, 2004
The GAO determined that the Department of Health and Human Services violated federal law when it used federal funds to produce overt propaganda.

The Agriculture Department allowed Canadian Beef into the country despite a ban due to mad cow disease.

According to a new public opinion poll conducted by the U.S. authority, only 7% of Iraqis view America as liberators.

May 22, 2004
The Bush administration has turned on their favorite Iraqi, Ahmad Chalabi, raiding his home and office in Baghdad.  They also cut off the $340,000 per month they were paying him.  Chalabi has been convicted of bank fraud in Jordan and is suspected of selling intelligence to Iran.  Chalabi sat behind Laura Bush at the State of the Union Address.

May 19, 2004
In front of a Senate commitee, Wolfowitz admits the Iraq strategy was flawed.

May 17, 2004
The Bush Justice Dpartment is prosecuting Greenpeace activists under the obscure "sailor mongering" law.

The Bush administration had an opportunity to bomb terrotist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (the guy who cut of the head of Nick Berg) at his training camp in Northern Iraq before the war.  But they did not do it because they thought it would weaken their argument for invasion.

May 16, 2004
Internal EPA documents show that a proposed progaram to monitor air pollution at livestock farms was largely conceived and heavily influenced by lobbyists for the livestock industry.

Bush defends his policy of not reading the paper saying he likes to have a "clean slate."

May 13, 2004
More prisoner abuse photos were shown to Congress that are even more horrible than the first batch.  Dick Durbin (D-ILL) said: "It felt like I was looking into one of the rings of hell and it's a ring of our own creation."  Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-COL) said: "I don't know how the hell these people got into our Army."

The group Human Rights Watch alleges more abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan.

May 11, 2004
According to the Washington Times, U.S. marines have committed war crimes in Falujah.

Tax payer money was used for Iraqi exiles to lobby for an American invasion of Iraq.

Prisons in Texas were under a federal consent decree during Bush's term as governor because of prisoner abuse.

Lane McCotter, the man in charge of the reopening of Abu Ghraib prison, was forced to resign as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 because of a prisoner abuse scandal.  He then ran a private prison firm that was under investigation by the Justice Department.

May 10, 2004
In March 2003, Bush warned Iraq that if American POW's were abused the people responsible would be treated as war criminals.

May 6, 2004
The Bush administration rejects the sale of over the counter, morning after birth control pills even though the FDA recommends it.

Rumsfeld said what happened at Abu Ghraib prison was not torture.  It was just abuse.

Bush asks Congress for $25 billion in funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.  Previously, the administration said it would not ask for more money during this year.

May 1, 2004
April was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq with 136 soldiers killed.  One year ago today, Bush proclaimed the end to major combat.

April 30, 2004
Video of mistreated Iraqi prisoners is released across the globe.  This is the same prison where Hussein had tortured Iraqis.

The Sinclair group refuses to air  a "Nightline" show devoted to reading the names of the hundreds of U.S. service members killed in Iraq.  Sinclair is a major contributor to the Bush campaign.

April 29, 2004
Bush appears before the 911 commission, but he was not under oath and there was no transcript or recording of his testimony.

In February 2001, ambassador Paul Bremer (now head man in Iraq) gave a speech stating that the Bush administration was paying no attention to terrorism and that it will take a major event for them to wake up to the threat.

Bush believes that only Christians go to heaven.

Neither Rumsfeld nor Powell were consulted about their opinions about the invasion of Iraq prior to the final decision.

Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, is the Bush campaign manager in the Sotheast.

Through the Compassion Capital Fund, the government has given out $100 million to religious organizations (all of them Christian).

April 28, 2004
Cheney received five deferments from the military draft.  In 1989, Cheney said "I had other priorities in the 60's other than military service."

April 27, 2004
Bush does not want there to be a transcript of his testimony before the 911 commission.

Bush advisor Karen Hughes supported her pro-life views by saying "since September 11th, a lot of Americans value life more."

April 25, 2004
The number of people living below the official poverty line grew by more than 3.5 million from 2000 to 2002.

April 22, 2004
"George W. Bush is the greatest threat to the global environment."--RFK, Jr.

April 20, 2004
The CEO of a company that makes electronic voting machines is the head of Bush's campaign in Ohio.

April 19, 2004
In February 2003, Wolfowitz said Iraq would be easier to occupy than Afghanistan because it did not have ethnic divisions.

The IEEA said nuclear sites in Iraq are unguarded and equipment and material has been moved out of the country.

April 18, 2004
Cheney addressed the annual convention of the NRA.

Bush supported legislative efforts in the Senate to block liability suits against gun manufacturers.

According to Bob Woodward, Bush has made a deal with the Saudi ambassador to lower oil prices right before the election.

Bush has expressed that he has a higher calling from God to free people throughout the world.

April 15, 2004
Bush is the first U.S. president to support Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

April 14, 2004
Former interim FBI chief Thomas Pickard testified that Ashcroft did not want to hear about terrorism when Pickard tried to brief him in the summer of 2001.

Dale Watson, the former head of counterterrorism at the FBI, said "that he almost fell out of his chair " when he saw that the May 10, 2001 Justice Department memo made no mention of terrorism.

April 13, 2004
In a memo from May 10, 2001, Ashcroft listed seven "strategic goals" for the Justice Department.  Terrorism was not listed nor was it among the multiple "priority objectives" he mentioned.

Cheney still possesses Halliburton stock options.

Bush is the first president since Hoover not to create one net job.

In the Coalition of the Willing, the group providing the third largest number of troops in Iraq after the U.S and the U.K. is private security officers.

Bush is the only president to have a tax cut during a war.

April 12, 2004
When Paul Bremer was asked who the United States would turn over power to in Iraq, his response was "that's a good question."

April 11, 2004
The August 6, 2001 PDB titled BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN U.S. was released contradicting Condoleezza Rice's testimony that it contained only historical information about Al Quada and "did not warn of attacks inside the United States."  The PDB stated "FBI information indicates a pattern of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preperations for hijacking or other types of attacks."

The White House Communications Director called Bush the Communicator in Chief based on Bush's long speeches explaining world events.

U.S. soldiers in Iraq have been given a pamphlet by In Touch Ministries asking them to pray for Bush.

According to military strategists you need 20 soldiers per 1,000 citizens to stabalize a post-war environment.  In Iraq, there are 6 soldiers per 1,000.

April 8, 2004
David Potorti, a spokesman for a group of Sept. 11 victims' families, said that the White House has shown a pattern of unwillingness to work with the 911 investigation.

April 7, 2004
Bush will not testify in public in front of the 911 commission and insists on appearing with Dick Cheney.

Bush's top advisor on Islam, Grover Nordquist, has ties to terrorist organizations including Hamas.  In a 2000 debate with Al Gore, Bush denounced racial profiling of Arabs and the use of secret evidence against Muslims.

April 6, 2004
Bush stopped the investigation into the Massey mining disaster in Kentucky and fired the whistle blower.

Secretary of State Powell admits that the claim he made to the U.N. about Iraqi mobile weapons labs came from fawlty information (an unreliable Iraqi source with the code name Curveball).

March 26, 2004
At the Correspondents Association dinner, Bush made jokes about the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

March 25, 2004
Richard Clarke testified that bin Laden was not a priority for the Bush administration (something confirmed by Bush himself in the Bob Woodward book), and that he was so concerned that he sent a memo to Conoleezza Rice on September 4, 2001 stating "imagine a day after a terrorist attack, with hundreds of Americans dead at home and abroad, and ask yourself what you could have done earlier."

In his testimony, CIA director George Tenet said two veteran officers "were so worried about an impending disaster that they considered resigning and going public with their concerns" in July of 2001.

March 23, 2004
Condoleezza Rice refuses to testify in public before the 911 commission.

March 20, 2004
In his book, Against All Enemies, Bush counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke says that Rumsfeld wanted to bomb Iraq the day after 911.

March 18, 2004
The Pentagon plans to withhold $300 million in payments to Halliburton because of possible overcharging for meals served to troops in Iraq and Kuwait.

The prime minister of Poland said he was misled about the reasons to go to war in Iraq.

March 17, 2004
The Bush administration produced fake news stories supporting the Medicare bill with actors playing the roles or reporters.

The non-partisan Pew Research Center conducted a survey on foreign views of the United States which found the U.S. image has never polled lower.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ordered a formal investigation that the Bush administration withheld information about the cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill from members of Congress.  Medicare's top financial analyst, Richard Foster, says that Medicare Administrator Thomas Scully threatened to fire him if he shared actual cost estimates with lawmakers.

March 11, 2004
Bush political appointee, John Thomas Burch, registered the Internet domain names veteransforjohnkerry.org and veteransforjohnkerry.com.  Burch was involved in a smear campaign against John McCain in the 2000 primary.

March 6, 2004
A transcript subpoenaed in the CIA leak investigation reveals the White House press operation began trying to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV days before a columnist blew the cover of his CIA officer wife.

March 5, 2004
Democratic officials, a firefighters union and relatives of September 11 victims assailed President Bush for using video images from the site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers in the first round of his re-election campaign's television ads.

Long-term joblessness is the worst it has been for more than twenty years.

March 4, 2004
Ethicists from across the nation launched a broadside at the President's Coucil on Bioethics, charging the panel's membership has titlted sharply to the right and "lacks credibility as a forum."

March 2, 2004
Secretary of Education Rod Paige calls the national teacher's union a terrorist organization.

February 25, 2004
Bush calls for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

February 24, 2004
The Pentagon has opened a criminal investigation of fraud against Halliburton.

February 19, 2004
Bush distanced himself from the annual economic report's claim that the economy would add 2.6 million jobs this year.  Treasury Secretary John Snow and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans refused to publicly endorse the job estimate.

February 15, 2004
The Bush administration wants to make it easier for cities to release partially treated sewage, a policy shift that could boost levels of disease-causing pathogens in Lake Michigan and other waterways.

February 12, 2004
Alan Greenspan says that if the huge national deficit is not dealt with soon, there will be dire economic consequences.

Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went on a hunting trip together last month even though the Supreme Court is hearing a case regarding Cheney's energy task force.

February 11. 2004
Bush releases his National Guard records.  From May to October of 1972 and December of 1972, there is no record of service.  There is another gap from February to March of 1973.  It has been acknowledged that Bush's father used connections so that Bush could bypass the waiting list to get into the Texas National Guard.

February 6, 2004
CIA director George Tenet states that the CIA never said Iraq was an imminent threat.  Yet:

On August 26, 2002, Cheney said: "Simply stated there is NO DOUBT that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.  There is NO DOUBT he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us."

On October 7, 2002, Bush said: "The danger is already significant and it only grows worse with time.  If we KNOW Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today--and we do--does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?"

On February 5, 2003, Powell said: "The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons pose to the world.  Let me now turn to those deadly weapons programs and describe why they are REAL and present dangers to the region and to the world."

On March 11, 2003, Rumsfeld said: "He claims to have no chemical or biological weapons, yet we KNOW he continues to hide biological and chemical weapons."

February 4, 2004
Bush has to appoint a commision to find out why he was so wrong about Iraq's weapons.

February 3, 2004
Halliburton is being investigated by the government for overcharging by $16 million meals provided for troops abroad.

January 29, 2004
The Bush administration sold Congress the Medicare bill saying the cost would be $400 billion but the actual cost will be $540 billion.

January 28, 2004
The commision investigating the 911 attack would like an extension to their May 27 deadline.  Bush is against it because the report would come out too close ot the election.

January 25, 2004
During Cheney's control of Halliburton, the company started doing business with the Iranian government.

January 24, 2004
2.3 million jobs have been lost during the Bush presidency.

David Kay, the CIA's chief weapons hunter, is convinced that the feared stockpiles never existed.

January 22, 2004
"The Bush administration has been one of the most fiscally irresponsible presidencies in many, many years."--Stephen Moore, economist

January 18, 2004
The White House wants Congress to allocate $1 billion for groups that create programs aimed at fostering good marriages.

January 17, 2004
Bush bypassed Congress and appointed racist Judge Charles Pickering to a federal appeals court.

January 15, 2004
Bush is booed when he visits Martin Luther King's grave site.

January 13, 2004
The Army War College published a report calling the war in Iraq unnecessary.

January  11, 2004
The Bush plan to invade Iraq was initiated during his first week in office (long before Sept. 11).

During discussion of the second round of tax cuts, Bush said "haven't we already given a tax cut to the rich."

January 10, 2004
While at Harken Energy Corp., Bush was in business with Salem bin Laden the brother of Osama.

Bush Sr. works for the Carlyle group; a company that manages the assets of the Saudi Binladen Corporation and profits from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

January 9, 2004
Former treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill described Bush cabinet meetings as a blind man in a room full of deaf people.

Despite creating record deficits, Bush announces plans to send people to Mars and build a lunar space station.

December 31, 2003
Former Marine General Anthony Zinni says "the American people were conned into the war in Iraq."

December 29, 2003
A Houston firm was given mobile phone service rights in Libya.

December 24, 2003
The Bush administration opens up 300,000 acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forrest to logging.

December 21, 2003
When aked about the inability to find WMDs in Iraq, Bush responds "What's the difference?"

December 17, 2003
Bush said he could support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

December 16, 2003
The Sierra Club is suing Dick Cheney because he refuses to disclose information about the workings of his energy task force.

The Bush administration proposed giving power plants up to 15 years to install new technology aimed solely at reducing mercury pollution.

December 10, 2003
According to the Pentagon, Halliburton overcharged the U.S. by $61 million for gas for Iraq.

December 7, 2003
The turkeys provided to the troops in Iraq for Thanksgiving were supplied by Halliburton.

According to 60 Minutes, the U.S. millitary has given key police posts to Saddam loyalists.

December 4, 2003
Bush signs a bill allowing more timber to be cut with less environmental scrutiny.

November 30, 2003
Neal Bush, a key figure in the Savings & Loan Scandal, admitted during divorce procedures to sex romps with Asian prostitutes.

November 23, 2003
Bush tries to block POW's from the first Gulf War from collecting money from Iraq awarded to them in a law suit.

November 19, 2003
The Senate rejects Bush agriculture nominee Thomas Dorr.  In 1999, Dorr said the economic success of three Iowa counties was due to their lack of ethnic diversity.  He also falsified paperwork to avoid limits on subsidies for his own farm.

November 6, 2003
The Bush administration has dropped enforcement actions against dozens of coal fired power plants that were under investigation for violating the Clean Air Act and allegedly spewing thousands of tons of illegal pollution into the air.

November 1, 2003
Bush claimed the aircraft carrier banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED was the idea of the sailors and not the White House.

Rumsfeld claimed that when he called Iraq a slog he didn't mean it as a bad thing.

All the companies given Iraq contracts have political contacts or are major contributors to the Republican party with Halliburton leading the way with a $2.33 billion contract.

October 27, 2003
The White House refuses to turn over classified intelligence documents requested by the federal 911 probe.

October 24, 2003
Bush nominates ultra right wing judge, Janice Brown, to the federal appeals court.

October 1, 2003
A White House representative said in April that the Iraq reconstruction would cost 1.7 billion dollars.  The cost is now 87 billion and climbing.

In March, Paul Wolfowitz said Iraqi oil would pay for the reconstruction.

Bush admits that he does not read newspapers, and that he gets his news for Condoleeza Rice.

September 30, 2003
Bush's campaign manager in 2000, Joe Albaugh, has set up a consulting firm, New Bridge Strategies, to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq.

September 28, 2003
The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the Bush administration relied on dated, and perhaps inaccurate, intelligence when it argued that Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and its ties to Al Queda were justification for military action.

The Bush tax package allows for a deduction for the purchase of a Hummer.

The White House leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent when her husband (Joseph Wilson) criticized the administration.

September 27, 2003
Bush is unable to get foreign support for rebuilding Iraq.

September  21, 2003
The Chief of Staff of the White House was the chief lobbyist for the auto industry.

Bush had to contradict Cheney's remarks about a direct link between Sadam Hussein and 9/11.

September 10, 2003
Bush asks for 87 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq.  Bush had said the entire war could be paid off with oil revenues.

September 6, 2003
Karl Rove is being investigated by the EPA for misconduct.

September 5, 2003
Jobs were lost for the seventh consecutive month.

September 4, 2003
The Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a report on the Iraq invasion calling it RUSHED and FLAWED.

September 2, 2003
1.7 million more people moved into poverty last year.

September 1, 2003
The Inspector General of the EPA said the White House used pressure to downplay toxins in the air in New York after 911.

Requests for emergency food assistance rose 19% last year.

Bush drops his dog in front of a little girls' softball team.

August 26, 2003
The number of soldiers killed in Iraq since Bush declared an end to major combat operations on May 1 has exceeded the number killed before Bush decided that combat was over.

August 24, 2003
Bush denied having said that combat operations had ended in Iraq even though that is exactly what he said in May.

August 14, 2003
Despite mounting US casualties and the increasingly complex occupation in Iraq, the Bush administration is balking at granting the UN a greater security role.

More than 50 people were killed in Afghanistan in a series of attacks by a revived Taliban.

August 9, 2003
Pentagon hard liners pressing for regime change in Iran have held secret meetings with a weapons dealer who was a major figure in the Iran Contra scandal.

August 8, 2003
Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had 30,000 warheads capable of delivering chemical agents.  Weapons inspectors found 16.  None have been found since.  Bush was off by 29,984 (fuzzy numbers).

Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had mobile weapons labs.  Two trucks were found after the war that officials claimed were weapons labs.  No evidence of biological or chemical agents was found in the truck trailers.

Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had a GROWING FLEET of of drone aircraft that could be used to unleash chemical weapons against the United States.  No drones have been found much less a growing fleet.

Before the war, Bush claimed Iraq had missiles that could travel 620 miles or more.  U.S. forces have found NO missiles with that extended range.

Greg Thielmann, former member of the State Department intelligence unit: I believe the Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture to the American people of the military threat posed by Iraq.

August 2, 2003
Bush cut $34 million in funding for the UN Population Fund.

August 1, 2003
Iran contra figure John Poindexter resigned in response to the Pentagon plan for futures trading in the terrorism market.

July 31, 2003
Bush opposes gay marriages.

Iraq and the U.S. agree to a $1.6 billion plan to rehabilitate the Iraqi oil industry.  The deal was made with Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.

Despite two wars and a terrorist attack, Bush has had just 9 news conferences in 2 1/2 years in office.

Bush begins one of his annual month long vacations.

July 23, 2003
Bush federal appeals court nominee William Pryor has called abortion murder, supported school prayer, and criticized the Supreme Court for excluding religion from public life.

Senator Dick Durbin accused the White House of trying to remove him from the Intelligence Committee and waging a campaign of intimidation against critics of Bush policies in Iraq.

July 16, 2003
The White House projects record back to back deficits of one trillion dollars combined.

July 6, 2003
Joseph Wilson, whose 23 year career included senior positions in Africa and Iraq, said false allegations that Iraq was trying to buy uranium oxide from Niger were used by Bush as evidence to support his assertion that Iraq had rebuilt its nuclear program.

July 4, 2003
Unemployment is at a nine year high.

July 3, 2003
Bush had this to say about attacks on US soldiers in Iraq:  There are some who feel that, you know, the conditions are such that they can atack us there.  My answer is, bring em on.

Bush names Randall Tobias, a former Eli Lilly executive, to head a $15 billion AIDS program.

June 13, 2003
Bush will not allow displaced inhabitants of Diego Garcia to return to the island to visit the graves of their relatives.

June 12, 2003
The National Head Start Association filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration arguing that it used scare tactics to stifle criticism of Bush's proposed overhaul of the $6.8 billion early education program.

June 11, 2003
False information about Iraq buying uranium from Niger was in the State of the Union Address.

June 10, 2003
The Bush administration said it will propose a rule change that will allow road building in national forrests.

June 8, 2003
The Bush administration leaks to the press untrue stories about the French issuing passports to escaping Iraqi officials.

June 7, 2003
A Pentagon intelligence report completed in September 2002 stated that there was "no reliable information" that Iraq possessed chemical weapons.

June 6, 2003
Janet Rehnquist resigns as inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services after charges of incompetence by the GAO and Congress.  Her appointment was a favor to her father, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, for handing the election to Bush.

June 2, 2003
New  Bush administration policy calls for the Bureau of Land Management to stop assessing its land holdings for possible wilderness classification.

May 31, 2003
Bush's tax plan has a child care credit that does not apply to families making under $26, 000.  This will affect approximately 12 million of the poorest children in the country.

May 22, 2003
According to ABC, the top 5 per cent richest people in the country will get 50 per cent of Bush's tax cut.

May 21, 2003
Dick Cheney still receives a salary from Halliburton.  While Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, their government contracts increased by 91 per cent.

May 16, 2003
Bush's tax plan eliminates taxes on stock dividends.

May 15, 2003
Bush walks away from campaign promise to renew the federal ban on assault weapons.

May 11, 2003
Barrels of enriched uranium have been looted from Iraq's seven nuclear facilities and can be used to make a radiological dispersal device.

May 10, 2003
Bush seeks to lift a ten year ban on researching nuclear weapons and begin testing that ended eleven years ago.

May 6, 2003
Bush delivers a campaign speech from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.  He arrives in a fighter jet wearing a military uniform (despite hiding during the Viet Nam war in the Texas National Guard and spending a year AWOL).  This same stunt was pulled by Vladimir Putin although the Russian president actually flew the plane.  He claims an end to major combat and victory for the U.S.

April 22, 2003
Newt Gingrich is an advisor to Donald Rumsfeld.

Bush proposes giving $600 million in vouchers that would allow religious programs to get federal money for the first time.

The policy of regime change in Iraq was spelled out by the Project for a New American Century written in September of 2000 by, among others, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz.  It declares that to accomplish their goals there will need to be a new Pearl Harbor.

April 13, 2003
A subsidiary of Halliburton was given the contract to build cells at Camp X-Ray.

Bush's budget has zero dollars for Afghan aid.

March 26, 2003
Bush issues an executive order that will delay the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years (after the next presidential election).

March 25, 2003
Bush asks Congress for $75 billion to fund the war in Iraq while also requesting massive tax cuts.  Consumer confidence is at a ten year low.

March 19, 2003
The U.S. invades Iraq without U.N. support further alienating the rest of the world and compromising international law.  Bush ran on a platform opposed to nation building.

March 16, 2003
On "Meet the Press" Cheney has the following exchange with Tim Russert:

RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?

CHENEY: Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.

Later in the show Cheney said: "The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that."

March 2003
Three key Iran-Contra figures have been given diplomatic posts: John Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, and Oscar Reich.

March 2003
Halliburton has been given the contract to deal with burning oil fields in Iraq.  The terms of the contract were not disclosed.

March 8, 2003
Bush's new tax cuts, military spending, Medicare reform, and other programs could produce deficits of $1.82 trillion over the next ten years.

February 12, 2003
10 Nobel Prize winning economists attack Bush's tax plan.  Alan Greenspan also comes out against it.

February 2, 2003
"Environmental protections have been challenged before, but never have they faced a threat as far-reaching, insidious and destructive as the one proposed by the Bush administration." -- Gregory Welstone, Natural Resources Defense Council

"This is the first time we have listed administration policy as a threat to the parks." -- Ron Tipton, National Parks Conservatory Association

Bush's policies have opened the way for local governments to build roads across publicly owned wildlands, removed EPA protection from isolated wetlands, and allowed coal fired plants to expand without pollution-control devices.

January 30, 2003
Bush's 2003 budget will show a record deficit of over $300 billion.

January 28, 2003
The White House delivers a sneak preview of the State of the Union Address to a select group of Republican lobbyists and executives including American Cause, a conservative group founded by Pat Buchanan

January 25, 2003
Rumsfeld refers to France and Germany as old Europe further alienating the U.S. from its allies.  He also says those drafted into the army are worthless.

January 23, 2003
The Bush administration is planning to allow religious groups for the first time to use federal housing money to build centers where worship is held.

January 22, 2003
Bush's treasury secretary nominee, John Snow, was arrested in the 80's for DUI and being a deadbeat dad.

January 18, 2003
The Bush administration files briefs in the University of Michigan case stating that race should not be a factor in college entrance.

January 16, 2003
Bush comes out against affirmitive action with respect to the University of Michigan case.  Bush supports admitting students based solely on merit even though he was not admitted to Yale based solely on merit.

January 9, 2003
Bush renominates Judge Charles Pickering.

January 6, 2003
Bush proposes eliminating taxes on corporate dividends a measure that could cost the government $300 billion and mainly benefit the wealthy.

December 26, 2002
Researchers are complaining that the Bush administration is using political and idiological screening tests to ensure that its scientific consultants recommend no policies that are inconsistent with the White House agenda.

December 13, 2002
Circumventing Congress, Bush uses his executive powers to make it easier for religious groups to obtain federal funds.

December 8, 2002,
Bush names alleged war criminal Henry Kissinger had of 9/11 commision.  He will resign less than a week later due to opposition from victims' families.

December 5, 2002
Bush is reinstating a controversial bonus program under which high-ranking political appointees would be eligible for annual awards of $10,000 or more--a practice  banned in 1994 amid concerns for abuse.

December 3, 2002
John Dilulio, former head of Bush's effort to aid religious charities, said Karl Rove had assumed unprecedented power at the White House.  "It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."

November 30, 2002
Bush slashed pay raises for most civillian federal workers were to receive starting in January.

November 28, 2002
Iran-Contra figure John Poindexter serves as Head of the Defense Department's Personal Information Program.

The Bush administration announced a relaxation in federal logging guidelines allowing for swifter development in national forrests.

November 27, 2002
The director of communications for the prime minister of Canada calls Bush a moron.

Bush signs a bill for a federal bail-out of the insurance industry in the event of a catastrophic act of terrorism that essentially turns the federal government into an insurer of last resort.

November 22, 2002
The Bush administration eased clean air rules to allow utilities, refineries, and manufacturers to avoid having to install new anti-pollution equipment.

November 13, 2002
The Bush administration unveiled its plan allowing snowmobiles in Yellowstone to complaints from environmental groups.

October 30, 2002
Consumer confidence is at a nine year low.

October 29, 2002
The crime rate rises for the first time since 1991.

October 19. 2002
"Mr. Bush is as partisan a president as America has ever had."--The Economist

October 15, 2002
Bush does not support balistic fingerprints for guns.

October 8, 2002
In a speech on Iraq, Bush consistently mispronounces nuclear.

October 7, 2002
Bush threatens to veto the entire defense authorization bill if pension benefits for disabled military retiries are not eliminated.

September 30, 2002
In February 2001, Cheney claimed "the days of permanent campaigning are over."  Bush has made 60 campaign trips since January and raised $120 million compared to Clinton's $35 million his first year in office.

September 26, 2002
Bush says the Senate is more interested in special interests in Washington and not interested in the security of the American people.

September 20, 2002
12 previous terrorist plots to fly planes into buildings are revealed.  After 911, Condoleezza Rice said it was unimaginable that terrorists would fly planes into buildings.

September 19, 2002
Judicial nominee Michael McConnell is a staunch critic of Roe v. Wade.

The Bush administration has abandoned an international effort to strengthen the Biological Weapon Convention against germ warfare.

September 17, 2002
Bush screws up the fool me twice shame on me cliche.

September 13, 2002
FCC Chairman, Michael Powell, supports loosening restrictions that could lead to greater concentration in media ownership.

September 11, 2002
Bush opposed to drought relief package passed by Senate.

September 5, 2002
While CEO of Halliburton, Cheney did $24 million worth of buniness with Iraq.

September 4, 2002
Bush has spent 42 per cent of his term at leisure destinations.

Bush does not attend UN World Summit in Johannesburg.

September 2, 2002
Bush spends Labor Day with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners a union feuding with the AFL-CIO.

September 1, 2002
Bush did not make himself available to take a call from Nelson Mandella regarding Iraq.

August 21, 2002
Bush proposes to open up national forests to loggers as a way of fire prevention.

August 20, 2002
160 Bush supporters have stayed overnight in the White House; a policy they criticized the Clinton administration for doing.

August 10, 2002
Bush allows doctors and hospitals to give insurance companies patient medical records without the consent of the patient.

August 6, 2002
Bush signs the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

August 2002
Bush gives reporters an impassioned speech on how all the countries of the world must fight terrorism.  He then returns to his golf game telling reporters: Now take a look at this drive.
 
 August 5, 2002
Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, was made to pay 2 million dollars to settle charges that they inflated prices on military contracts.  They were still given a 10 year contract by the army.

July 26, 2002
Halliburton (the former employer of Dick Cheney) is given a 9.7 million dollar government contract.

July 24, 2002
Bush plans on vacationing in Crawford Texas from August 6 to September 2.  Bush nominates staunch anti abortion judge, Priscilla Owen, to the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

July 23, 2002
Bush pulls funding from a UN program that provides family planning and reproductive health care throughout the world.

July 22, 2002
For the second time, after Bush talks about the economy, the stock market plunges.

July 18, 2002
Thomas White, Secretary of the Army, was a former Enron executive who dumped stock prior to the Enron collapse.

July 17, 2002
The Bush administration says it needs five more years to study global warming.  Cheney dumped Halliburton stock two months before unexpected bad financial news.

July 13, 2002
A federal judge accused the Bush administration of making purposefully misleading arguments in defending the Cheney energy task force against two lawsuits.

July 12, 2002
The White House conceded that the federal budget deficit will grow much faster this year than expected and will remain in the red until at least 2005.

July 11, 2002
Bush calls an end to the type of business dealings he was involved with at Harken energy when he received two low interest loans to buy stock from the oil company where he served as a board member in the 1980s.  He then benefited from the relaxation by the company of the terms of the loans.

Halliburton is sued by Judicial Watch for exaggerating revenues.
 
July 9, 2002
Bush changed his response a third time while explaining shady stock maneuvers at Harken Energy.

July 4, 2002
Bush is being investigated for his stock dealings while at Harken Energy.

July 3, 2002
Bush promotes a bill to give federal money to religious charities.

June 28, 2002
Bush administration supports Supreme Court ruling on school vouchers.

June 12, 2002
Bush admits he did not read EPA report on global warming.

June 8, 2002
Bush signs executive order that could make air traffic control privatized.

June 2, 2002
When Cheney was CEO of Halliburton he was part of a videotape praising the accounting practices of Arthur Anderson.

June 1, 2002
In August of 2001, Ashcroft was given an FBI report detailing the threat of Al Queda.  Yet, Ashcroft rejected a proposed $58 million increase to finance counter terrorism.

May 8, 2002
Reversing long held government policy, the Bush administration told the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment protects an individuals right to possess firearms that is not tied to the maintenance of militias.

May 5, 2002
The Bush administration renounced any involvement in a treaty creating an international criminal tribunal.  This repudiation is certain to add friction between the US and Europe.

April 17, 2002
Mistakes in Bush speeches are removed in the official White House transcripts.

Bush fails to condemn coup in Venezuela questioning US commitment to democracy in South America.

April 1, 2002
Violence in the Middle East as Israel attacks the compound of Arafat.  Bush is on vacation in Crawford.

March 28, 2002
Bush uses welfare reform to promote marriage between low income couples.

March 22, 2002
The Bush administration proposed changing some of the federal rules protecting the confidentiality of medical records.

March 18, 2002
Tom Ridge refuses to testify before Congress about domestic security spending.  Lawmakers complain that the administration has done a poor job of briefing them about the war effort, potential terrorist attacks, and the money needed to protect the nation.

March 8 2002
It was revealed that when she was 17 Laura Bush killed someone in a car accident.

March 7, 2002
Assistant Secretary of the Army, Mike Parker, was fired for criticizing spending cuts Bush sought for the Army Corps of Engineers.  Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, is a former Enron executive who still has financial interests in the company.

Bush tried to get the attention of blind musician Stevie Wonder by waving at him.

The Bush tax cuts, defense increases and other spending could post a deficit of $121 billion in 2003 and $51 billion in 2004.

March 6, 2002
The Bush administration is moving to allow states to place welfare recipients in jobs that pay less then the minimum wage.  This is a reversal of federal policy.

Former Bush company, Spectrum 7, had business dealings with Enron in the late 1980s.  Previously, Bush said he met Ken Lay (Kenny Boy) after he was elected governor in 1994.  2 oil wells Bush owns are part of Enron.  When Bush ran for governor, he asked Lay to be the chairman of his fund raising efforts.

March 5, 2002
Bush hosts Christian rock concert at the White House.

March 3, 2002
Admiral John Poindexter, notorious for the Iran Contra affair, is given a Defense Department position.