A far worse world under Bush

[gulliver]

Compare the world as it was before and after Bush assumed the presidency.

There was a better economy before Bush. We didn't have constant terrorist bombings all over the world. We didn't have GIs dying overseas. We weren't spending hundreds of billions on Iraq.

Citizens of other countries liked us and our president before Bush. The American image abroad was sterling. Our president is now despised and ridiculed. Foreigners openly wonder whether America has lost its mind.

The rate of middle class job outsourcing was a trickle before Bush. Now it is a gusher. We didn't have record fiscal and trade deficits. We didn't have a constantly falling dollar.

We thought gas and oil prices were getting high before Bush. Now look at them. And instead of talking about conservation, all our president does is talk about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And, thanks to globalism, China and India are just starting to buy loads of cars now, competing for oil consumption and pollution production.

We didn't have Russia cracking down on democracy and stifling a free press before Bush. Nuclear Pakistan, an exporter of arms technology to North Korea and Iran, a primary home of some of the most virulent anti-Americans in the world, was not an American "ally" before Bush.

Look around. The world was a better place before Bush.

[patricia92243]

Sarcasm-It's all Clinton's fault - just ask any GOP! Gag.

[bluestateguy]

1. Just imagine a second Bush term

Unencumbered by having to face the voters again.

He'll "discover" the big deficits and make draconian cuts to programs that provide for people in need.

Wars in Syria, Iran, North Korea, maybe even Cuba and Saudi Arabia.

The draft.

You ain't seen nothing yet, buddy.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. I agree

I fear if this monster is allowed to remain in the White House, the Constitution will be shredded, our rights to privacy taken away, and a whole bunch of us will wind up in Guantanimo type camps simply because we are progressives, environmentalists, or non-fundamentalists.

[BootinUp]

8. geebus what a horrid thought

There's no way in hell he is gettin a second term!

[DarkSim]

2. Post that on freerepublic.com

They'll love it.

[izzie]

7. He will have to add sex and killing, they are big for that.

It is a fun site as they really do the same thing over and over. Get up tight about sex, wish to kill someone, and always blame the massager. They hardly get into a subject that they do not tear the person who wrote the item apart if they say anything they do not like even if he is a Republican. It is like they are not Americans, but right wing nuts first.I really do not see Bush as a Republic, or not the ones I knew.

[Cursive_Knives512]

3. Four more years! Four more years!

'Cause, ya know, four years isn't quite enough to ruin America. Eight is a perfect number. Yuck.

[cosmicdot]

5. but, House Resolution 557 says "the world have been made safer"

... and, 105 Democrats voted "yea" in agreement ... enabling 'power of legitimacy'

if Bu$h-Cheney don't have a leg to stand on, just pass a resolution to give them one - it must be true, right? the House resolved it so - Smirk, his surrogates and the Media crackerjacks can just cite this resolution to sound-byte any criticisms

can we have a resolution stating Smirk is the worst pResident in history, and is a threat to our peace, security and welfare?





HRES 557 IH


108th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. RES. 557
Relating to the liberation of the Iraqi people and the valiant service of the United States Armed Forces and Coalition forces.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 11, 2004
Mr. HYDE (for himself, Mr. DELAY, Mr. BLUNT, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. GOSS, and Mr. HUNTER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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RESOLUTION
Relating to the liberation of the Iraqi people and the valiant service of the United States Armed Forces and Coalition forces.

Whereas Saddam Hussein and his regime committed crimes against humanity, systematically violating the human rights of Iraqis and citizens of other countries;

Whereas Saddam Hussein's terror regime subjected the Iraqi people to murder, torture, rape, and amputation;

Whereas on March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein's regime had and unleashed weapons of mass destruction against Kurdish citizens, killing nearly 5,000 of them;

Whereas as many as 270 mass grave sites, containing the remains of as many as 400,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's regime, have been found in Iraq;

Whereas rape was used to intimidate the Iraqi population, with victims often raped in front of their families;

Whereas the regime punished the Marsh Arabs by draining the marshlands, which created hundreds of thousands of refugees and caused an ecological catastrophe;

Whereas the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338), passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 360 to 38, made it United States policy to support efforts to remove from power the regime headed by Saddam Hussein;

Whereas with the Iraqi regime failing to comply with 16 previously adopted United Nations Security Council resolutions, the Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 1441 on November 8, 2002, declaring that Iraq `has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions, including resolution 687 (1991), in particular through Iraq's failure to cooperate with United Nations inspectors'; and

Whereas on October 10, 2002, the House of Representatives passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243) and on March 19, 2003, the United States initiated military operations in Iraq: Now, therefore, be it


Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

(1) affirms that the United States and the world have been made safer with the removal of Saddam Hussein and his regime from power in Iraq;

(2) commends the Iraqi people for their courage in the face of unspeakable oppression and brutality inflicted on them by Saddam Hussein's regime;

(3) commends the Iraqi people on the adoption of Iraq's interim constitution; and

(4) commends the members of the United States Armed Forces and Coalition forces for liberating Iraq and expresses its gratitude for their valiant service.

Resolution Text
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.RES.557:

Vote breakdown
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll064.xml

[BootinUp]

9. Oh brother, what a joke

Someone wake me up, I must be in the twilight zone.

[iqpriapus]

6. A new Modernism

Four more years? there will definitely be a proliferation of ex-pats in Canada and Europe. I will be one of them if they and their candidate steal the election in 2012. When I think about this it saddens and angers me for the same reason: I would have to leave my home. But, I think, we have the opportunity to take our talent into the world, create a utopia (or the closest damn thing to one), whilst the Ann coulters get stoned to death in the new theocracy for wearing provocative clothes, or for being a woman and speaking, or just for being a whoor, and the dittoheads are burned at the stake for worshiping an idol.

[nicecakes]

10. We didn't have constant terrorist bombings all over the world.

Does anyone have some real numbers on this? A breakdown by year for the last 20 years would help show any trends. I seem to remember one or two bombings from 1992-2001 but maybe they we minor ones?

Anyone have a link to the numbers?

[BootinUp]

11. It is the most incompetent

Administration of the last 100 years.

This morning on CNN, Clark was interviewed by Soledad O' Brien. After Clark ripped Bush to pieces over his Iraq mess, Soledad asked " How much of a problem is this for the president...Could it be career ending?"

I was so happy that she asked it in those words, I think his 15 minutes are about up.

Another short story. Yesterday I had some inspectors come to the plant to collect annual samples. Two nice southern guys. One of them starts some chit chat...

Visitor:"Hows business?"

Me: "Going very well."

Visitor:"Yeah, the other businesses I was at yesterday are doing better. If we can just keep those terrorists off of us. But this thing in Spain, giving in to the terrorists like that."

Me: "Well maybe the new Spanish government will do a better job providing Security. We the US should be providing more help with Security."

Visitor: "Uh Uh well uh everyone deserves security...."

End of conversation.

[coloradodem2005]

12. Of the last 100 years?

Try in American History.


It is time for him to pay for his sins.

[BootinUp]

13. oops

Let me re-calibrate my rhetoric. Ok done. :)