As you know from his statements in the recent Presidential debates, Bush has said that in his second term he will be (by his Supreme Court appointments) be overturning Roe v Wade, meaning that for the first time since 1973, states will be able to ban abortion — thirty states, affecting about 70 million US women, are set to ban abortion as soon as they can (more, more). Bush's anti-woman stance doesn't end there — Bush just pulled the US out of the UN women's rights pledge (which was supported by previous administrations), because it includes the statement that women should have equal “sexual rights” to men. Bush has said the US won't sign anything that alleges that sexuality is a right, let alone an equal right (more). Gotta love the “free-est” country in the world.
But still, over 50% of Americans are behind Bush on all this. I know people get angry when I ask this, but are these Americans uninformed about what Bush is doing, or do they genuinely support such evil (evil)? Or is the problem that those polls are fraudulent, and then selectively chosen by conservative-bias media like CNN (more)? The whole thing just seems to become a battle of lies (more), and you never know in the end who's voice gets to be part of “democracy” and who's does not (more).
While you're mulling that over in your head, let me quote what Bill Clinton said to George Bush in his security briefing in December 2000 (so ten months before the 9/11 attacks; more):
I think you will find that by far your biggest threat is Bin Ladin and the al Qaeda. One of the great regrets of my presidency is that I didn't get him [Bin Ladin] for you, because I tried to.
Immediately upon taking office, Bush proposed cutting a half billion dollars from the Justice Department's anti-terrorism budget. It's interesting what players in this big game are stepping out and opposing this Bush Cabal. Burger King has stepped up and said it won't have its ads played alongside Sinclair's propaganda (more), and of course many of you are hearing the Marshall Mathers Plan (more) as well.
Following up on yesterday's post, the US Army is now recalling — drafting — seniors as old as seventy (more), and the punchline is that we're not talking about clerical errors — these people really are being forced to serve in Iraq (alongside the disabled I suppose). Also following up I'd like to link to Is Suicide Part Of The Job?, which I think is a very fair question when you're talking about back-door drafted troops being ordered on missions that are almost guaranteed to kill a number of people in the unit. Would you die for this war? You are after all asking your countrymen to do so.
While you read this, remember as well that the death toll is skewed in this war. Modern medicine, combined with modern body armor, means that actual death toll is quite low for the US. What is much higher are injury numbers — with full armor and medical support, you're going to have your extremities blown off, but the core survives. Unfortunately because of the way the definitions have been written, most of these injuries get hidden. The “official” number is about 7,000 casualties, but when you talk to the folks at the medical hospitals, they'll tell you the airlifted number is closer to 30,000 US casualties (more).
In addition, Tenet admits that the CIA made huge mistakes in what it presented and that Iraq was a massive error (more), and according to Douglas Feith (US Undersecretary of Defense), as recently as January of this year, the Pentagon was providing fraudulent data to Congress (more) in order to support the Bush-Cheney stance on the Iraq war… The Iraq War… Hows that going again? Oh yeah, the insurgent forces are growing not just in number, but in funding (more), and Iraq is starting to look a lot like the US politically — deeply divided but leaning toward theocracy (more).
What? The US is becoming a theocracy? Perhaps you've never heard of the widely supported bipartisan Constitution Restoration Act of 2004, which would declare all liberty and freedom as sourcing from God, and permit — without the opportunity for legal challenge — the police and judiciary of the United States to “rewrite” the law as dictated by God (more). I kid you not. Everyone is afraid to be the person “voting against God”, so don't be surprised when it passes (more).
All this looks fabulously evil in its corruption when you look and see stuff like this: the CIA's latest 9/11 report — which names names in the administration — has been vetoed by Bush and can not be released now until after his re-appointing as President (more).
PS. And to my Christian friends on IAM, happy 6000th birthday (more) to the Universe.
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