Let's take a look at some more facts: 505: Number of American soldiers who have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq so far (as of January 23, 2004) - NOW CLOSING IN ON 3,000! 0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi surrender to the Allies in May 19450: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney in 200310 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into the White House9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day since the invasion in March 20031.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since hostilities began16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the conflict$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens by the end of 200336%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 199992%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable water a year ago60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable water today32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not precision-guided1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 20031st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United States history$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases each day$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of 19 January 20041st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57 million) was set in 200210: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 331st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, setting a record in American electoral history$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in 2004$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 200328: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard Nixon)13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each year3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing children1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,0001,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,0001st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 200380%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with an American military presence40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year in taxes44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held prisoners of war+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in poverty1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was greater than the one the previous spring54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately elected to his post1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40 years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at federal level9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling 200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the Pentagon Not enough you say? Have legitimate arguments against everyone of those facts eh? Think he's "not so bad" or that "young people hate him because it's 'trendy' to do so"? Well here's a 100 more facts about what a great f*cking guy he is:IRAQ1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.Source: American Progress2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.Sources: Fox News, Boston Globe3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.Source: PBS4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.Source: Washington Post5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.Source: globalsecurity.org6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.Source: Yahoo News7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.Source: New York Times9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.Source: USA Today10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or information to terrorist networks."Sources: New York Times, White House news release11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a WMD program for more than twelve years.Source: Los Angeles TimesTERRORISM12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.Source: CNN.com13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they relied on local warlords.Source: csmonitor.com14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after 9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.Source: nti.org15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.Source: armscontrol.org16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.Source: Associated Press17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.Source: American Progress18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a potent new source of financing for terrorists.Source: Pakistan Tribune19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.Source: Washington Post20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.Source: San Francisco Chronicle21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.Source: New York Times22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism funding by 23 percent.Source: americanprogress.org23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.Source: commondreams.org24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.Source: commondreams.org25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is screened.Source: commondreams.orgNATIONAL SECURITY26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.Source: New York Times27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.Source: commondreams.org28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study.Source: nationaldefensemagazine.orgCRONYISM AND CORRUPTION30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.Sources: The Washington Post, The Taipei Times, BBC News31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.Source: detnews.com32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which would have benefited major campaign contributors.taxpayer.net, Washington Post33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.Source: MSNBC34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100 former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.Source: Source: commondreams.org35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.Source: MSNBC36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003, including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for First Lady Laura Bush.Source: Seattle Times37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative contracts to several companies in which he is an investor, including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.Source: cq.com38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score political points in a campaign advertisement.Source: Washington PostTHE ECONOMY39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy in the long run."Source: CBS News40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.Sources: Fortune, dfw.com41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.Source: epinet.org42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.Source: cbpp.org43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.Source: The Guardian44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.Sources: New York Times, cantonrep.com45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent of the benefits.Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.Source: iht.com48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the working poor.Source: theolympian.com49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million families in danger of losing their housing.Source: San Francisco Examiner51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.Source: Los Angeles TimesEDUCATION52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion.Source: nwitimes.com53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent. Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut the maximum scholarship amount.Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the National Education Association--a union of teachers--a "terrorist organization."Sources: CNN.comHEALTHCARE55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.Source: Washington Post, realcities.com56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.Source: General Accounting Office57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.Source: CBS News58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.Source: American Progress60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but allows the corporations offering the cards to change their prices once a week.Source: Washington Post61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.Source: American Progress62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.Source: commondreams.org63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the Administration's help, the HMOs won.Source: ABC News64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.Source: Washington Post65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial subsidies from the government.Source: Bloomberg News66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.Source: CNN.com67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.Source: Miami Herald68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.Source: iht.com69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help curb smoking.Source: tobaccofreekids.org70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on abstinence-only education programs even though there is no scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.Source: salon.com71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.Source: LA WeeklyENVIRONMENT72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths each year.Source: cta.policy.net73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.Source: calwild.org74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global warming.Source: Washington Post75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary, debilitating ailments.Sierra Club , EPA76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of a new Hummer.Source: Washington Post77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in the government and let them roll back safety regulations, putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.Source: New York Times78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to regulate it.Source: Washington Post79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.Source: ems.org80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.Source: bushgreenwatch.orgRIGHTS AND LIBERTIES81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.Source: hrwatch.org82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in US custody.Source: Wall Street Journal83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.Source: hrwatch.org84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime, arrested US citizen Jos? Padilla at an airport in Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact with his friends and family.Source: news.findlaw.com85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President advising him that he can legally authorize torture.Source: news.findlaw.com86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the 2004 political conventions.Source: New York Times87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review the conduct of his own department.Source: humanrightsfirst.orgFLIP FLOPS88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.Source: americanprogressaction.org89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he supported a constitutional amendment banning it.Sources: CNN.com, White House90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."Source: americanprogressaction.org91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.Sources: White House, americanprogress.org92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.Sources: White House, Washington PostBIOGRAPHY93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.Source: Boston Globe94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1.Source: The Guardian95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.Source: White HouseSECRECY96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.Source: Philadelphia Inquirer97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14 million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the highest level of spending in ten years.Source: openthegovernment.org98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for every $1 it spent declassifying documents.Source: openthegovernment.org99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.Source: Washington Post100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.I think you get the f*cking point.
Let's take a look at some more facts: 505: Number of American soldiers who have died during the invasion and occupation of Iraq so far (as of January 23, 2004) - NOW CLOSING IN ON 3,000! 0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi surrender to the Allies in May 19450: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney in 200310 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into the White House9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day since the invasion in March 20031.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since hostilities began16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the conflict$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens by the end of 200336%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 199992%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable water a year ago60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable water today32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not precision-guided1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 20031st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United States history$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases each day$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of 19 January 20041st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57 million) was set in 200210: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 331st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, setting a record in American electoral history$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in 2004$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 200328: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard Nixon)13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each year3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing children1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,0001,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,0001st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 200380%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with an American military presence40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year in taxes44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held prisoners of war+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in poverty1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was greater than the one the previous spring54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately elected to his post1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40 years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at federal level9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling 200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the Pentagon Not enough you say? Have legitimate arguments against everyone of those facts eh? Think he's "not so bad" or that "young people hate him because it's 'trendy' to do so"? Well here's a 100 more facts about what a great f*cking guy he is:IRAQ1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.Source: American Progress2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.Sources: Fox News, Boston Globe3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.Source: PBS4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.Source: Washington Post5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.Source: globalsecurity.org6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.Source: Yahoo News7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.Source: New York Times9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.Source: USA Today10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons, or materials, or information to terrorist networks."Sources: New York Times, White House news release11. According to Duelfer, the UN inspections regime put an "economic strangle hold" on Hussein that prevented him from developing a WMD program for more than twelve years.Source: Los Angeles TimesTERRORISM12. After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack America," President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.Source: CNN.com13. The Bush Administration failed to commit enough troops to capture Osama bin Laden when US forces had him cornered in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in November 2001. Instead, they relied on local warlords.Source: csmonitor.com14. The Bush Administration secured less nuclear material from sites around the world vulnerable to terrorists in the two years after 9/11 than were secured in the two years before 9/11.Source: nti.org15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.Source: armscontrol.org16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money.Source: Associated Press17. According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.Source: American Progress18. The Bush Administration did not devote the resources necessary to prevent a resurgence in the production of poppies, the raw material used to create heroin, in Afghanistan--creating a potent new source of financing for terrorists.Source: Pakistan Tribune19. Vice President Cheney told voters that unless they elect George Bush in November, "we'll get hit again" by terrorists.Source: Washington Post20. Even though an Al Qaeda training manual suggests terrorists come to the United States and buy assault weapons, the Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the expiration of the ban.Source: San Francisco Chronicle21. Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.Source: New York Times22. Before 9/11, John Ashcroft proposed slashing counterterrorism funding by 23 percent.Source: americanprogress.org23. Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time.Source: commondreams.org24. The Bush Administration granted the 9/11 Commission $3 million to investigate the September 11 attacks and $50 million to the commission that investigated the Columbia space shuttle crash.Source: commondreams.org25. More than three years after 9/11, just 5 percent of all cargo--including cargo transported on passenger planes--is screened.Source: commondreams.orgNATIONAL SECURITY26. During the Bush Administration, North Korea quadrupled its suspected nuclear arsenal from two to eight weapons.Source: New York Times27. The Bush Administration has openly opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, undermining nuclear nonproliferation efforts.Source: commondreams.org28. The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times29. The Bush Administration underfunded the needs of the nation's first responders by $98 billion, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study.Source: nationaldefensemagazine.orgCRONYISM AND CORRUPTION30. The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.Sources: The Washington Post, The Taipei Times, BBC News31. The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.Source: detnews.com32. The Bush Administration relentlessly pushed an energy bill containing $23.5 billion in corporate tax breaks, much of which would have benefited major campaign contributors.taxpayer.net, Washington Post33. The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD. It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.Source: MSNBC34. The Bush Administration installed as top officials more than 100 former lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.Source: Source: commondreams.org35. The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay--a close friend of President Bush--help write its energy policy.Source: MSNBC36. Top Bush Administration officials accepted $127,600 in jewelry and other presents from the Saudi royal family in 2003, including diamond-and-sapphire jewelry valued at $95,500 for First Lady Laura Bush.Source: Seattle Times37. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge awarded lucrative contracts to several companies in which he is an investor, including Microsoft, GE, Sprint, Pfizer and Oracle.Source: cq.com38. President Bush used images of firefighters carrying flag-draped coffins through the rubble of the World Trade Center to score political points in a campaign advertisement.Source: Washington PostTHE ECONOMY39. President Bush's top economic adviser, Greg Mankiw, said the outsourcing of American jobs abroad was "a plus for the economy in the long run."Source: CBS News40. The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.Sources: Fortune, dfw.com41. The Bush Administration implemented regulations that made millions of workers ineligible for overtime pay.Source: epinet.org42. The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.Source: cbpp.org43. President Bush is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs--around 800,000--over a four-year term.Source: The Guardian44. The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.Sources: New York Times, cantonrep.com45. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush said "the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum." He passed the tax cuts, but the top 20 percent of earners received 68 percent of the benefits.Sources: cbpp.org, vote-smart.org46. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to pay down the national debt to a historically low level. As of September 30, the national debt stood at $7,379,052,696,330.32, a record high.Sources: www.georgewbush.com , Bureau of the Public Debt47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.Source: iht.com48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the working poor.Source: theolympian.com49. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to protect the Social Security surplus. As President, he spent all of it.Sources: georgewbush.com, Congressional Budget Office50. The Bush Administration proposed slashing funding for the largest federal public housing program, putting 2 million families in danger of losing their housing.Source: San Francisco Examiner51. The Bush Administration did nothing to prevent the minimum wage from falling to an inflation-adjusted fifty-year low.Source: Los Angeles TimesEDUCATION52. The Bush Administration underfunded the No Child Left Behind Act by $9.4 billion.Source: nwitimes.com53. In 2000, candidate George W. Bush promised to increase the maximum federal scholarship, or Pell Grant, by 50 percent. Instead, each year he has been in office he has frozen or cut the maximum scholarship amount.Source: Source: edworkforce.house.gov x54. The Bush Administration's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called the National Education Association--a union of teachers--a "terrorist organization."Sources: CNN.comHEALTHCARE55. The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.Source: Washington Post, realcities.com56. The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.Source: General Accounting Office57. The Bush Administration stunted research that could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heart disease and muscular dystrophy by placing severe restrictions on the use of federal dollars for embryonic stem-cell research.Source: CBS News58. The Bush Administration reinstated the "global gag rule," which requires foreign NGOs to withhold information about legal abortion services or lose US funds for family planning.Source: healthsciences.columbia.edu59. The Bush Administration authorized twenty companies that have been charged with fraud at the federal or state level to offer Medicare prescription drug cards to seniors.Source: American Progress60. The Bush Administration created a prescription drug card for Medicare that locks seniors into one card for up to a year but allows the corporations offering the cards to change their prices once a week.Source: Washington Post61. The Bush Administration blocked efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate cheaper prescription drug prices for seniors.Source: American Progress62. At the behest of the french fry industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.Source: commondreams.org63. In a case before the Supreme Court, the Bush Administrations sided with HMOs--arguing that patients shouldn't be allowed to sue HMOs when they are improperly denied treatment. With the Administration's help, the HMOs won.Source: ABC News64. The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.Source: Washington Post65. President Bush signed a Medicare law that allows companies that reduce healthcare benefits for retirees to receive substantial subsidies from the government.Source: Bloomberg News66. Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.Source: CNN.com67. The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.Source: Miami Herald68. One day after President Bush bragged about his efforts to help seniors afford healthcare, the Administration announced the largest dollar increase of Medicare premiums in history.Source: iht.com69. The Bush Administration--at the behest of the tobacco industry--tried to water down a global treaty that aimed to help curb smoking.Source: tobaccofreekids.org70. The Bush Administration has spent $270 million on abstinence-only education programs even though there is no scientific evidence demonstrating that they are effective in dissuading teenagers from having sex or reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.Source: salon.com71. The Bush Administration slashed funding for programs that suggested ways, other than abstinence, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.Source: LA WeeklyENVIRONMENT72. The Bush Administration gutted clean-air standards for aging power plants, resulting in at least 20,000 premature deaths each year.Source: cta.policy.net73. The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.Source: calwild.org74. President Bush broke his promise to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions, an essential step in combating global warming.Source: Washington Post75. Days after 9/11, the Bush Administration told people living near Ground Zero that the air was safe--even though they knew it wasn't--subjecting hundreds of people to unnecessary, debilitating ailments.Sierra Club , EPA76. The Bush Administration created a massive tax loophole for SUVs--allowing, for example, the write-off of the entire cost of a new Hummer.Source: Washington Post77. The Bush Administration put former coal-industry big shots in the government and let them roll back safety regulations, putting miners at greater risk of black lung disease.Source: New York Times78. The Bush Administration said that even though the weed killer atrazine was seeping into water supplies--creating, among other bizarre creatures, hermaphroditic frogs--there was no reason to regulate it.Source: Washington Post79. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $600 million next year.Source: ems.org80. President Bush broke his campaign promise to end the maintenance backlog at national parks. He has provided just 7 percent of the funds needed, according to National Park Service estimates.Source: bushgreenwatch.orgRIGHTS AND LIBERTIES81. Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.Source: hrwatch.org82. The Bush Administration ignored pleas from the International Committee of the Red Cross to stop the abuse of prisoners in US custody.Source: Wall Street Journal83. In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.Source: hrwatch.org84. The Bush Administration, without ever charging him with a crime, arrested US citizen Jos? Padilla at an airport in Chicago, held him on a naval brig in South Carolina for two years, denied him access to a lawyer and prohibited any contact with his friends and family.Source: news.findlaw.com85. President Bush's top legal adviser wrote a memo to the President advising him that he can legally authorize torture.Source: news.findlaw.com86. At the direction of Bush Administration officials, the FBI went door to door questioning people planning on protesting at the 2004 political conventions.Source: New York Times87. The Bush Administration refuses to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate the abuse of foreign prisoners in American custody. Instead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld selected the members of a commission to review the conduct of his own department.Source: humanrightsfirst.orgFLIP FLOPS88. President Bush opposed the creation of the 9/11 Commission before he supported it, delaying an essential inquiry into one of the greatest intelligence failure in American history.Source: americanprogressaction.org89. President Bush said gay marriage was a state issue before he supported a constitutional amendment banning it.Sources: CNN.com, White House90. President Bush said he was committed to capturing Osama bin Laden "dead or alive" before he said, "I truly am not that concerned about him."Source: americanprogressaction.org91. President Bush said we had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before he admitted we hadn't found them.Sources: White House, americanprogress.org92. President Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," before he admitted Saddam had no role in 9/11.Sources: White House, Washington PostBIOGRAPHY93. George Bush didn't come close to meeting his commitments to the National Guard. Records show he performed no service in a six-month period in 1972 and a three-month period in 1973.Source: Boston Globe94. In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1.Source: The Guardian95. When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn't think of one.Source: White HouseSECRECY96. The Bush Administration refuses to release twenty-seven pages of a Congressional report that reportedly detail the Saudi Arabian government's connections to the 9/11 hijackers.Source: Philadelphia Inquirer97. Last year the Bush Administration spent $6.5 billion creating 14 million new classified documents and securing old secrets--the highest level of spending in ten years.Source: openthegovernment.org98. The Bush Administration spent $120 classifying documents for every $1 it spent declassifying documents.Source: openthegovernment.org99. The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.Source: Washington Post100. The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.I think you get the f*cking point.</div>I'm not gonna bother reading all of those facts to see if there true but you mine as well post the link you got these off of because I'm sure you neevr wrote them yiurself. I'd love too see how reliable the site was you got these from/. Plus you can make any president look horrible if you search for every negative in them and post nothing else. Plus I'm sure nothing there had anything to do with Bush being a communist which is the main point of this thread. I don't think anyone here said Bush has done a great job. BTW you have still failed to tell us what a communist even is or why Bush is a bad president(which you obviously had no clue why because you ahd to search for a site with a site with facts on it to tell us.)
Edit: I see you already edited your post to look better...
