A continuing list of scandals All (Every Single One)

[proiowadem]

...of the immoral, unethical, hypocritical or down right illegal actions that the bush
administration, and republican in general have committed since Bush took office in 2001.
I think that once we have a list of all the problems of this administration it will help to
convince people that rethuglicans do not belong in power. This is a BIG project and I
need as much help as I can get. I’ll start with a few that come to mind, please add the ones
that I miss; again it’s a BIG project.


1) DOWNING STREET MINUTES
--A) “Spikes of Activity”
--B) “…intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy…”
2) IRAQ (the lead up to the war)
--A) Lies About WMD
-----i. To the press and public
-----ii. To our Senators and Congressman
-----iii. To the UN and the International Community
--B) Lies about Al Quieda link
--C) Lied about cost of war
--D) “…I doubt six months.”
--E) Dissent is unpatriotic
--F) “Freedom Fries” (just plain childish)
--G) No UN or International Support
--H) No post war planning
3) IRAQ (the war and reconstruction)
--A) Nearly 1,800 American soldiers dead
--B) Over 13,000 wounded
--C) Over 100,000 civilian dead
--D) Absolutely NO WMD found
--E) 9 BILLION dollars just missing
--F) No exit plan
--G) Inadequate forces
-----i. to stop looting
-----ii. protect ammunition depots
-----iii. enough troops to protect Oil though
--H) Abu Ghraib (TORTURE)
--I) Halliburton
-----i. over a BILLION in over charges
-----ii. Cheney still receives 150,000 a year
-----iii. Cheney has 433,000 in stock options
-----iv. dirty food
--J) Iraq citizens are left without clean water
--K) Iraq citizens are left without electricity
4) Afghanistan
--A) Too few Troops
--B) Lack of Focus
--C) Paying warlords to find Bin Laden
--D) Lack of reconstruction
5) The Party Who Lost Their Scruples
--A) ROVE
-----i. leaked CIA operative’s identity
-----ii. a man with no Scruples
-----iii. 9/11 comments
--B) NOVAK
-----i. leaked CIA operative’s name
-----ii. a man with no Scruples
--C) Rush Limbaugh
-----i. addicted to OxyContin (Hypocrite)
--D) Gonzales
-----i. legal defense for the abuse and torture of prisoners
-----ii. Recommended opting out of the Geneva Convention
--E) Jeb Bush
-----i. Terry Schivo case
--F) Bill Frist
-----i. Schivo diagnosis on senate floor
-----ii. Denial of diagnosis after autopsy prove him wrong
--G) The Swift Boat Bastards
--H) Any one who works at Fox News
-----i. except Clark
--I) Ann Coulter
-----i. For every word she ever spoke or wrote
--J) Dick Cheney
-----i. Halliburton
-----ii. “last throes”
-----iii. voted against asking to free Nelson Mandela (pre2001)
--K) Condoleezza Rice
-----i. “Bin Laden determined to Attack inside United States” (8/6/01)
--L) Colin Powell
-----i. Vial of anthrax at the UN
--M) Delay
-----i. illegal fund raising
-----ii. orchestrated the Texas congressional redistricting
--N) President Bush
-----i. Appeared in military uniform to declare “Mission Accomplished”
-----ii. Considers ROVE his “Brain”
-----iii. Considers Gonzales a friend
-----iv. He chose Cheney as a running mate
-----v. More vacations than any other president in history
-----vi. He’s the man with his finger on the button
-----vii. He is responsible for all those under him
-----viii. Used Colin Powel to legitamize administration
-----ix. (I dare you to find one thing he’s done right)
-----x. (I double dog dare you)
6) Power Grabs
--A) Threatened to unethically end Filibuster
--B) Republican controlled branches
-----i. White House
-----ii. Senate
-----iii. House of Representatives
-----iv. Supreme Court
7) Media
--A) Tax payer money for fake news reports
--B) Tax payer money for journalist to support policy
8) Environment
--A) Clear Skies
--B) Healthy Forests Initiative
--C) ANWAR
9) Economy
10) Taxes
--A) Majority went to the wealthiest one percent
--B) Unprecedented tax cuts during time of War
11) Corporate Corruption
12) TORTURE
--A) Guantonamo Bay
-----i. Stress positions
-----ii. Koran Desecration
-----iii. Sleep depravation
--B) Abu Ghraib
-----i. Dogs set on prisoners
-----ii. Sexual degradation
-----iii. Blame the soldiers, the “few bad apples”
--C) Sent prisoner to countries that routinely use TORTURE
-----i. Uzbekistan boils their victims alive
--D) “Cruel and Unusual”
13) Election Fraud
14) Religion in Politics
--A) Faith based initiatives
-----i. Abstinence only sex education
--B) Anti-Gay Hysteria
--C) Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment
--D) Terry Schivo
--E) Stem cell research ban
-----i. current plan allows destruction of some embryos (Hypocrite)
-----ii. (its either life or its not, and therefore wrong or not)
-----iii. over 400,000 left in storage that will never be used
15) Homeland Security
--A) The terror color code
-----i. manipulation for political gain
--B) Unprotected Nuclear and Chemical plants
--C) Lack of border security
16) Legislation
--A) P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act
--B) Bankruptcy bill



Okay its a start if you can think of any that should be put on, or expand on any already on there let me know.:nuke:

[proiowadem]

1. Please tell me if you disagree with anything on there

I want to be open about this.

[Griffy]

34. the bigest lie of all.. 9-11! WTC7 and what really happened!

It is the lie that they use over and over... as if they didnt want it, help it or plan it... the controled demo of WTC7 rasies serious questions, and If you dont think that building was controlled demo, then tell me why it fell, because I'm open to all ideas, but only from people that have looked at the video and taken the time to look into it... in this world of propaganda it takes careful research to find any truth!

[GeekMonkey]

2. 17) Medical Marijuana

--A) ignored states' rights
--B) attacked helpless patients
--C) refuses to accept science
--D) afraid of hemp denting petroleum profits
--E) afraid of people growing their own medicine and bypassing the pharmcos

[rman]

3. education: no child left behind

you might also want to fit "new freedom initiative" in there somewhere.

[RedSpartan]

4. How about...

The staged toppling of Saddam's statue.

[Just Me]

5. Covert propaganda, corrupt/criminal cronyism, "medicare",...

,...private mercs,...just a few additions off the top.

Great outline btw!!! :yourock:

:hi: A belated welcome to DU from me to you!!!

[lostnfound]

6. Haiti: helped armed thugs replace a democratically elected president nt

[proiowadem]

7. I had forgoten about that one

[lostnfound]

10. It's easy to forget since the media never mentions it.

But people are still being slaughtered there for being active in Lavalas. And last I heard, Aristide's right hand man was near death from a hunger strike, in prison.

[Just Me]

24. I am ashamed for having forgotten that really f-upped activity.

Gee :cry:

These thugs have wreaked so much damage in so little time!!! :grr:

[lostnfound]

8. Venezuela: attempted (but failed) coup against democratically elected pres

president Chavez

[jsamuel]

9. all those ppl in the ohio scandal

and the election problems as well

Also the head of the Republican Party in Kansas and others around him were convicted recently.

[kittenpants]

12. yes, noe & coingate

along with Taft covering it up.

Also, don't forget that Rush isn't just a drug addict, but he also spreads RW propaganda. Great list.

[wli]

11. more

police brutality vs. WTO/IMF demonstrators
detaining US citizens in Guantanamo-like detention camps (Pier 57 etc.)
Mazar-i-sharif massacre and coverup (mass graves)
chemical weapons used on Fallujah
use of psyops against US citizens
sponsoring coup d'etat attempts in Venezuela
NORTHCOMM Canada/Mexico sovereignty incursion
harboring Latin American terrorists (Posada IIRC)

[proiowadem]

13. so far its just the DU common knowledge stuff

I'll be working on links for the next installment

[ginnyinWI]

14. ANWAR

Put under Environment: allowing drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Wilderness.

[joanne]

15. All time record deficit

Whatever happened to the anthrax terrorist?

Whatever happened to OBL????????

Too many unanswered questions about 9/11.

Great list you have, by the way. Well done!

[alittlelark]

16. 9-11, the most massive intelligence failure in US history

I'm sure that one belongs in there somewhere.;-)

[proiowadem]

17. I'm also looking for the rethugs with no scrupels

[Jo March]

18. 9/11 - lied about the air quality around Ground Zero

Hundreds of fire fighters, police and rescue workers breathed in air that was toxic. The long term affects? I'm sure there will be some nasty surprises in about 2 - 5 more years.

[Jo March]

19. "It's not our business to count civilian casualties"

We don't even count civilian war dead anymore because this admin doesn't want to count them!!!

[Jo March]

20. Discontinuing the count of terror attacks

Remember, the US government will no longer keep a record of the number of terrorist attacks in the world (probably because they kept happening more frequently!).

[LSK]

21. social security "crisis" and medicare prescription drug benefits n/t

[Jo March]

22. Chavez election - tried to interfere with that

Don't forget that one!

[Jo March]

23. Iran elections - tried to interfere with their elections

* encouraged Iranians to not vote!

[Jo March]

25. Placed gag order on doctors in other countries: abortion

If poor countries mention abortion to pregnant women, then the US will cut their funding. Millions of women will no longer get to hear about abortions.

[mod mom]

26. Coingate in Ohio with $ funnelling into bu$h/cheney '04. You could

probably include the entire Ohio GOP for that matter: Blackwell with his election rigging, the corruption influence of the Taft administration etc.

[Jo March]

27. Gave $43 million to the Taliban

You know - back before we needed to destroy Afghanistan.

[Jo March]

28. Cut funding for school free-lunch programs nt

[Jo March]

29. Raised the "terror threat level" when his ratings went down nt

[Jo March]

30. Released a bin Laden tape right before the Presidential elections

to scare the voters.

[madinmaryland]

31. Great Post!!!

Thanks for consolidating all of the information. One could build quite a comprehensive document based on this outline.

[sandnsea]

32. ABC Guide to Bush Administration Scandals

I started on it a couple weeks ago, I wanted to add a link to the main group addressing each scandal before I put it online. I didn't crosscheck, but here's my list:

A is for the Abramoff Fundraising Scandal, Asbestos bailout,
B is for the Bush/Blair War Memo, Body Armor
C is for Clear Skies and tripling mercury emissions, Chalabi Iranian spy, now head of Iraq Oil Ministry
D is for DFI, Darfur
E is for Energy Task Force,
F is for Fake News, Fake Terror Alerts,
G is for Gannongate, Geneva Convention violations
H is for Healthy Forests, Humvee Armor
I is for IRAQ War Lies
J is for Judicial Radicals
K is for Kyoto Climate Change lies,
L is for LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES
M is for the Medicare Accounting Lies,
N is for the Nuclear Option, NCLB, Nuclear Weapon research
O is for Oil for Food (52% US kickbacks),
P is for Poindexter's Terrorism Futures Market, Privatization lies
Q is for Quagmire
R is for Richard Perle Influence Peddling, opening roadless areas
S is for Star Wars Missile Defense failure,
T is for Torture Scandal, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan & Gitmo, tax give-aways
U is for UN nominee spectacle John Bolton, UN bugging, Underfunding Homeland Security
V is for Valerie Plame, vaccination crisis, gutting Veteran's Benefits
W is for Wildlife Refuge lies
X is for Camp X-Ray
Y is for Yucca Mtn, Yellowcake
Z is for Ground Zero EPA Lies

[JHB]

33. Clintons "trashed" the White House (and offices)

Small beans next to most of the rest of the stuff, but it does serve as a reminder that Bushco has been lying and manipulating the press from the very moment they came in.

Not to mention the reckless disregard for the taxpayers' money, since it sparked a congressional investigation that cost at least a few hundred thousand just to find ordinary wear and tear.