Top 10 reasons.....

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Top 10 reasons that George W. Bush invaded Iraq.


10 - Because Saddam was personally responsible for 9/11; I mean because the US was under imminent threat of attack from Iraq; I mean, Saddam had weapons of mass distraction, I mean destruction programs, that he was selling to the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Oh, wait a minute, now it's coming to me. Because we wanted to liberate the Iraqi people against a ruthless and mean dictator. Yeah, that's it. Like we said all along, Bush just wanted to liberate the Iraqi people.

9 - What is our oil doing under their sand?

8 - Did we mention 9/11 yet? Not that there is any evidence connecting Saddam to 9/11 but we'll just keep mentioning it (but we won't talk about the oil).

7 - Just because you are a chicken hawk, doesn't mean you can't give out a serving of whoop ass (as long as you get others to do it for you).

6 - Bush thought, "What is the stupidest thing I can do to get the whole world's opinion against the United States?"

5 - His advisors thought it was a good way to get his mind off the red button.

4 - Because he heard that Osama Bin Laden was in Pakistan.

3 - It had absolutely nothing to do with oil. Repeat, absolutely nothing to do with oil.

2 - North Korea has the nuclear bomb and everybody knew that Iraq didn't.

And the #1 reason Bush Jr. invaded Iraq - Cheney made him do it.

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Top 10 reasons Bush is a Terrorist

1. Military spending in the United States is already 53% of the total federal budget, while education and other social services total only 9% of the budget. Bush has proposed an extra $48 billion for his "War on Terrorism."

2. The United States possesses more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world combined. The Bush Administration refuses to comply with international treaties or allow its weapons programs to be inspected by international experts.

3. Bush's USA Patriot Act, passed supposedly to address terrorism in the U.S., has actually limited our civil liberties. It also establishes military tribunals where defendants don't have the right to know the charges or the evidence used against them.

4. The Bush Terror War means increased attacks on immigrant rights. This includes legal threats such as deportations and imprisonment without charges for long periods (thousands have been arrested and held for months) of time as well as rights to education, housing and jobs.

5. The Bush Administration has encouraged a racist environment that has increased the number of attacks. Without proof, the government has closed down Somali businesses and have started to question other Arab and Muslim owned businesses. The FBI has also harassed Somalis and Iraqis around the country.

6. In Palestine, the U.S. aid to and support for Israel has resulted in the death of over 1,320 Palestinians and another 18,701 injured as well as the destruction or extensive damage of over 7000 homes and 4000 buildings since September 2000. Between 1947 and 1948, Palestinians lost 75% of their land since 1948 while Israel has received $91 billion from the U.S. (as of 2000) and is currently the largest recipient of US aid since World War II.

7. In Afghanistan, the U.S. war killed over 3,500 civilians in the first two months and 1.2 million Afghanis have been displaced because of the war. The bombing campaign has destroyed the countryside and scattered it with unexploded bombs and bomblets, some of which are radioactive because of their depleted uranium coating. The U.S. military continues to carry out missions there and has continued to occupy the country.

8. In Colombia, the U.S. government has given the Colombian military equipment, money, and training and has supported the Colombian government despite its terrible human rights records, including connections to paramilitary forces that kill labor, peasant, and leftist political leaders and anybody else who voices their opposition to the government. This on-going support has destroyed the peace process and ended the cease-fire.

9. In Iraq, the bombing and sanctions (mostly by U.S. actions or support) continue. The sanctions have killed millions of people already and continue to create hardships and death for the Iraqi people. Clean water, food & medicine availability, public health, and environmental clean-up from the bombing are all compromised by the sanctions.

10. The U.S. government continues to expand its efforts to influence and control the world. President Bush has threatened North Korea, Iran and Iraq with war, calling them the "axis of evil". The U.S. government has also sent troops to the Philippines, where U.S. bases were closed about 10 years ago. U.S. military advisors are now in the Republic of Georgia and Yemen. The U.S has renewed threats of intervention against the government in Somalia, and has admitting to spying.

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Top 10 Reasons to Get Out Of Iraq

1) The Human Costs Keep Increasing

On September 7 the death toll of U.S. soldiers reached 1,000. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged that the insurgency is likely to turn even more violent. While the American death toll made headlines across the United States, the mounting number of Iraqi deaths, at least ten times greater, gets scant attention. The U.S. military refuses to monitor or even estimate the number of Iraqi civilian casualties. As Gen. Tommy Franks described the Pentagon's approach earlier in Afghanistan, "We don't do body counts."

2) Iraqis Aren't Better Off

While the removal of the dictator Saddam was a welcome development for many Iraqis, the streets of Baghdad and other cities remain dangerous war zones. Clean water, electricity and even gasoline in this oil-rich country are all in even shorter supply than during the dark years of economic sanctions. Women face new restrictions and new dangers. Democracy, freedom and human rights appear out of reach. And Iraq remains occupied by 160,000 foreign troops, with all of the indignity that military occupation brings.

3) The War Is Bankrupting America

This year's federal budget deficit will reach a new record – $422 billion. The Bush administration's combination of massive spending on the war and tax cuts for the wealthy means less money for social spending. The Administration's fiscal-year 2005 budget request proposes deep cuts in critical domestic programs. It also virtually freezes funding for domestic discretionary programs other than homeland security. Among the programs the Administration seeks to eliminate: grants for low-income schools and family literacy; Community Development Block Grants; Rural Housing and Economic Development; and Arts in Education grants.

4) Halliburton's War Profiteering

The U.S. government's Iraq reconstruction process has cost both Iraqis and Americans. Instead of boosting Iraqi self-determination by granting contracts to experienced Iraqi businesses and working to lower the huge unemployment problem inside Iraq, the U.S. government has favored U.S. firms with strong political ties. Major contracts worth billions of dollars have been awarded with limited or no competition. American auditors and the media have documented numerous cases of fraud, waste and incompetence. The most egregious problems are attributed to Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm and the largest recipient of Iraq-related contracts.

5) The "International Coalition" Is Fleeing

The "coalition," always more symbolically than militarily significant, is unraveling. While the impact is felt more at the political than military level, the Bush administration's claim that it is "leading an international coalition" in Iraq is increasingly indefensible. Eight nations have now left the coalition and many other countries have reduced their contingents. Singapore has left only thirty-three soldiers in Iraq out of 191, and Moldova's forces have dwindled to twelve.

6) Recruitment for Al Qaeda Has Accelerated

The war against Iraq is leaving U.S. citizens more vulnerable to terrorist attacks at home and abroad. According to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the best-known and most authoritative source of information on global military capabilities and trends, the war in Iraq has accelerated recruitment for Al Qaeda and made the world less safe. It estimates worldwide Al Qaeda membership now at 18,000, with 1,000 active in Iraq. It states that the occupation has become the organization's "potent global recruitment pretext," has divided the United States and Britain from their allies and has weakened the war on terrorism.

7) The War Is Draining First Responders From Our Communities

Since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 364,000 Reserve and National Guard troops have been called for military service. This spring alone, 35,000 new Guard troops were sent to Iraq. Their deployment puts a particularly heavy burden on their home communities, because many of them serve as "first responders," including police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel. A poll conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum found that 44 percent of police forces across the nation have lost officers as a result of deployment to Iraq.

8) Torture at Abu Ghraib

The Bush administration claimed that the liberation of Iraqis from the inhumane rule of a dictator was a good-enough reason for taking military action against that country. Now investigations of the U.S. military's torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib has stripped the United States of even that wobbly claim. The Bush Administration has tried to blame a "few bad apples" for the torture, but abuse has been widespread, with more than 300 allegations of abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq or Guantánamo. Many more may exist, in light of the fact that Army investigators revealed in early September at a Congressional hearing that as many as 100 detainees were hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross at the request of the CIA. This was part of a larger strategy by the government, described by Human Rights Watch as "decisions made by the Bush administration to bend, ignore, or cast rules aside."

9) Many Americans Oppose the War

Polls conducted in August 2004 by the CNN/USA TODAY/Gallup and the Pew Research Center showed a great divide in the country: 51 percent believe that "the situation in Iraq was not worth going to war over" and 52 percent disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the war. Almost 60 percent believe that President Bush does not "have a clear plan for bringing the situation in Iraq to a successful conclusion."

10) No "Sovereignty" Has Been Transferred

The U.S. occupation of Iraq officially ended on June 28, in a secret ceremony in Baghdad. Officially, the Americans handed "full sovereignty" to the Iraqi Interim Government. This was sovereignty in name, not in deed. Not only do 160,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the "100 Orders" of former CPA head Paul Bremer remain to control the economy. Although many thought the "end" of the occupation would also mean the end of the orders, on his last day in Iraq, Bremer simply transferred authority for the orders to the undemocratically appointed interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, who has longtime ties to the CIA.

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Top 10 reasons you should have voted bush in 2004

10. The 17 percent productivity growth from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2004 stands head and shoulders above the growth rate for any comparable period. In the first 13 quarters of the Bush Administration, the basic determinant of our standard of living increased by almost as much as during the entire 32 quarters of the Clinton Administration.
9. The USA Patriot Act brought down the artificial wall separating law enforcement and intelligence officers and allowed them to talk to each other as they work to prevent future attacks.

8. If the Indian tribes sue to get back the land you're living on, which candidate do you want in control?
7. What's more important, knowing how to pronounce "nuclear bombs" or knowing who to drop 'em on?

6. He can't be as dumb as everyone says.

5. He's the only candidate who stands for the principles that originally made this country great - like slavery and denying the vote to women.

4. If Bush had been President, we never would have gotten involved in Vietnam. Especially if he could have been President and still have been "draft age".


3. Big deal, Kerry got the Purple Hearts and Silver Stars. Bush got the Yellow Moons and Green Clovers.

2. Are you a man or not? Our guy - named after a beer. Their guy - named after a character on Sex in the City.

1. Actually, there's no reason to vote for him if you live in Florida. You don't have to. We got that shit under control.

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HAHAHA... it's a shame there were no better options for president though. Kerry = ultra-gay. Well that and most far left liberals = ultra gay