Well, i hate to discuss politics, as it mostly leads to flame wars, but i got something on the topic a few months ago from a friend, i tought it may be worth sharing
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GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
202-456-1111
president@whitehouse.gov
LAW ENFORCEMENT:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been lost and is not available.
MILITARY:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard I avoided combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE:
I graduated from Yale University with a C- average. I was an active cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. Therefore, I began a career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but found no oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt just after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal which acquired land using taxpayer money. With campaign help from my father and donations from our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas Treasury by billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
With assistance from my brother, governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing the election by possibly 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I am the first President in US history to enter office with a criminal record. I spent the US surplus and successfully bankrupted the U.S.Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S.history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month
period. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continued every month throughout my Presidency to date.
I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President. I am the all-time US and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S.History,Enron. My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during the election decision of 2000. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating any one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history. I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States Government.
I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history. I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission. I withdrew the U.S.from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention
I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. I
garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history. I have set the
all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest main public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
I have invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost to taxpayers of over one billion dollars per week. I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, preemptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation (under the guise of searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction). I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. Citizens, and the world community. In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the
lies on our British friends. I am now supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. This is to fulfill my so far failed pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to justice.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time. I am also the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%)
view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view. All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes
from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
PLEASE CONSIDER ME WHEN VOTING IN 2004.
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I'm not from the US, so i cant confirm the details about internal politics and stuff written in that email snippet, but i can tell you, that this one is painfully true:
"I am also the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security."
From the outside, Bush seems like a bullying jackass, who pays no attention to international laws or treaties, so basically doesnt gives sh*t about international politics. For him, there seem to be two sides: with me, or against me..
Considering the ammount of 'anti-planet' bombs he has at hand, this is more than scary.
That kind of politics will one day break the bond between the EU and the USA, and im not sure we wanna live trough that, no matter which continent we live on.
Take the current war for example: it has nothing to do with terrorism, that may have been the causus belli, the reason for the war, but i think the 'evidence' the whole war was based on was already proved wrong.
What happened? The Intelligence Agency apologized for the mistake, and the war went on.
The only reason Bush has a chance is, that its not the world that has to elect the new US president, but the people living there. I just hope they make the right choice.
The above post is not intended to offend anyone: my only problem with the USA to date is its president, which can - and hopefully will - change soon.
Re: 2004 Presidential Election.
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