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Presidential Talking Points--Please Copy and Distribute
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Presidential Talking Points--Please Copy and Distribute

Talking Points for Every Concerned American
Updated to February 5, 2004

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The George W. Bush Record Exposed:
Nothing but Lies, Deceptions, and Crimes against Humanity

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was
and never will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…corporations have
been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow,
and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign
by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” – Abraham
Lincoln

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders,
that is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
-Hermann Goering (Nazi planner)

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los
Angeles to restore order;
tomorrow they will be grateful…especially if their very existence
were threatened (by terrorists). Then they would plead with their
leaders to protect them from evil.
The one thing every person fears is the unknown.”
- Henry Kissinger

***This extract of Kissinger’s speech to the Bildburgers is straight
from the Nazi playbook (see Goering above). Delivered at
Evian, France, on May 21, 1992, it foretells the
essential
stratagem used by Bush to rally American support for
his War of Terror and to pursue the neocon
quest for world domination.***


1. Bush Deserted from the Military when the U.S. was at
War in Vietnam:
Bush, it is alleged, avoided his military obligations, including service
in Vietnam, by deserting from the Texas Air National Guard (a
“champagne unit”), and then used his father’s political connections
to avoid prosecution by court-martial. The Uniform Code of Military
Justice (UCMJ) has no statute of limitation governing desertion in
time of war, thus Bush if court-martialed and convicted he could
receive the death penalty
–Washington Post, July 28, 1999, Boston Globe, October 31, 2000, Boston
Globe, November 3, 2000.
–See a recent interview with the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Walter Robinson
who broke this story at www.democracynow.org.
Why is a military deserter serving as commander-in-chief? Why
did Bush try to restrict combat pay and deny veteran’s benefits for
non-combatants?
Bush’s military desertion, and the many other atrocities (listed
below, mandate his immediate resignation. Not one person has
stepped forward to affirm that Bush fulfilled his military service.
If Bush is not a wartime military deserter, he should come
clean and make public his full military record. Until recently, the
mainstream media has refused to report Bush’s desertion, and
Bush apologists, including Ed Gillespie (Chair of the Republican
National Committee), have not refuted the desertion charge?

2. Bush and Cheney Knew: They Deliberately Lied Big
Time about 9/11:
They were Told 9/11 was Imminent, and, whether with
Intent or Not,
They were Asleep at the Helm; The post-9/11 Record
Clearly Shows
Presidential Gross Negligence and Perhaps even
Complicity in 9/11.
Bush deliberately and repeatedly lied to us saying he had received no
warnings that a 9/11-type attack was imminent, when, in fact, there
were numerous credible warnings.
– Sources are far too numerous to list.
After failing to protect us from the 9/11 attack, Bush had the
audacity to launch his 2004 presidential campaign with a doctored
TV ad that portrays him as the nations’ protector against terrorism
when it was his inept leadership and heavy vacation schedule that
failed the American people on 9/11. – Sources are far too numerous to list.
Bush has logged more vacation time than any other president.
While Bush was asleep at the helm, ignoring the 9/11 terrorists,
Attorney General Ashcroft was cutting anti-terrorism defense
spending and Bush was sending millions of dollars worth of weapons
to the Afghani Taliban and bin Laden’s al Qaeda. – Eric Margolis,
Toronto Sun, January 1, 2004.
Recently, former Republican governor of New Jersey and chair of
the official 9/11 investigating commission, Thomas Kean said, that
with real leadership, 9/11 would have been prevented. Governor
Kean said publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been
prevented. “This was not something that had to happen.” Governor
Kean closed the interview promising additional revelations in the
near future, but, the next day, in a follow-up interview on ABC’s
Nightline, he appeared far more cautious; you could almost see Karl
Rove’s and Dick Cheney’s heel prints on his face.
– Excerpted from an interview with Governor Kean by Randall Pinkston for CBS
Evening News, December 17, 2003.
Why did Bush and his national security advisor, who has a
Chevron oil tanker named after her, ignore numerous credible
warnings that an attack on 9/11 was imminent? Why was Bush
spending so much time vacationing in Texas just prior to 9/11?
Why did Bush fail to alert the American people that the 9/11
attack was imminent? Why,
just before leaving for vacation on August 6, 2001,—a full 36
days prior to 9/11—did Bush tell his Director of Counter-
Terrorism that he wanted no further briefings on al Qaeda’s
terrorist plans? Why did Bush continue reading a goat story to
children in a Florida schoolroom long after he was told that
America had been attacked? Why are so many Bush supporters, !
including close family members, reaping staggering profits from
his War of Terror?
Many Americans now view the Bush War of Terror as an
evolving global nightmare for everyone except for Republican
neocons who personally reap vast profits from perpetual pre-
emptive war.

3. Bush and Cheney Knew: They Deliberately Lied Big
Time about Their
Reasons for Invading Iraq (Words of Mass Deception):
Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld deliberately and repeatedly lied about
why they invaded Iraq, a full accounting of their lies would fill
several books. The biggest and most oft told Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld lie was that Iraq had and was amassing WMDs (chemical
and biological), that Iraq posed an imminent threat to America, and
that Iraq would soon have nuclear weapons. Recently, the Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board has concluded that Bush’s claim that
Iraq was seeking uranium was bogus and merely an act of
desperation in an effort to mislead the American people into thinking
Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat. – Washington Post, December 24,
2003.
Some of the evidence Bush used to support the invasion was
forged; for example; the document purporting to prove that Iraq was
attempting to purchase uranium from Nigeria is dated October, 2000
and bears the signature of a Nigerian foreign minister who had not
been foreign minister since 1989. – ABC News, July 16, 2003.
On May 28, 2003 Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (a
self-proclaimed neocon hawk and leading proponent of the Iraqi
invasion) said, “we settled on weapons of mass destruction as
justification for invading Iraq because it was the one reason we could
all agree on.” -U.S. Department of Defense, May 28, 2003
Recently Dr. Hans Blix quit as head of the WMD search team in
Iraq saying that “nothing even remotely resembling WMD have been
found.” These remarks were confirmed another lead inspector David
Kay. Kay said no WMD were found in Iraq because there were none
produced since the early 1990’s. Nevertheless, following, in
chronological order, are but a few of the whopping lies Bush told us
in an effort to rally our support for the Iraqi invasion:
-“Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were
used for the production of biological weapons.” – United Nations
Address, September 12, 2002.
-“Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is
rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.” – Radio
talk, October 5, 2002.
-“We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of
chemical agents…and is targeting America with them. They are also
reconstituting their nuclear weapons program.” – Speech, Ohio, October
7, 2002.
-“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no
doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of
the most lethal weapons ever devised.” – Address to the nation, March 17,
2003.
We now know with certainty that everything Bush told us about his
reasons for invading Iraq were intentional lies because:
-During the first week of February 2004 the heads of the CIA and
the DIA have declared that they never told Bush Iraq was an
imminent threat.
– Sources are far too numerous to list.
-Bush began planning for the invasion just days after taking office,
including the use of American soldiers. Long before 9/11 Bush said,
“Go find me a way to do this.” He then used 9/11 as an excuse and
intentionally fooled the American people into thinking that Saddam
Hussein was responsible for the attack.
– Former Bush Treasury Secretary under Bush, Paul O’Neill, in an interview
with CBS News, January 9, 2004.
-after a five month search, 1,400 U.S.-led United Nations WMD
discovery investigators came up empty-handed in Iraq;
-Bush was caught red-handed using forged documents to justify the
invasion;
-February 24, 2001, in Cairo, Secretary of State Colin Powell
declared, “Saddam Hussein has not developed any significant
capability with respect to WMD. He is (even) unable to project
conventional power against his neighbors.”
Why Bush lied to us is now known. Recently, Bush has told us
that he wanted to use Iraq as a base of operations to export
democracy to the Middle East—nothing but another blatant lie.
Some of the real reasons Bush had for his invasion of Iraq are:
-to obtain control over Middle East oil and to build oil pipelines;
a recently released British/American Joint Intelligence Committee
report shows that Republican president Richard Nixon ordered
the Defense Department to begin planning for the seizure Middle
East oilfields over 30 years ago.
- Beth Gardiner, AP writer, January 1, 2004; New York Times, January 2,
2004.
-to award billions of dollars of no bid contracts to his campaign
supporters like Halliburton, a company that now stands accused
of bilking U.S. taxpayers by overcharging for their no-bid services
and accepting bribes. – Reuters, December 31, 2003.
-to fool the American people into thinking he was a real leader, a
real president, and a real commander-in-chief instead of an
unrepentant military deserter;
-to fool the American people into thinking we need him to protect
us from terrorists;
-and, most importantly, to further the neocon agenda for world
domination by military and economic means by prosecuting a War
of Terror on any nation that gets in America’s way.
Should the American people reelect a president who deliberately
and repeatedly lies to the American people about matters as
crucial as war and peace? Do Bush lies about his reasons for
invading Iraq constitute a criminal act--possibly treason--and an
impeachable offense? Bush lies about Iraq fooled 60% of the
American people into thinking Saddam Hussein was responsible
for 9/11, and that is why so many Americans once thought the
invasio! n was justified. Bush diplomatic blunders, lies, and
deceptions have convinced much of the world into thinking that
America is the world’s leading terrorist nation.

***More American soldiers lost their lives in the first year since
we invaded Iraq (nearly 530 as of February 6, 2004), more than
in the first three years of our official involvement in Vietnam. -
Reuters, November 13, 2003. I It is estimated that over 20,000
American soldiers have been wounded and medically evacuated
from Iraq.

***British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says that American and
British soldiers will remain in Iraq until 2007. – New York Times,
January 5, 2004.

***America’s invasion of Iraq is essentially a war fought by the
underclass, financed by American workers, and all for the profit
of super-rich Republican neocons.
-An idea advanced by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh in a
speech on November 13, 2003.

4. Bush Lied to Us about Iraq and then Used Our
Soldiers as Backdrops for His
Re-election Propaganda Stunts:
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and
superfluities of others.”
- Plutarch, Greek historian.
On Thanksgiving Day, 2003, Bush sneaked into Baghdad Airport to
share a meal with our soldiers. The soldiers he visited were declared
off limits to the press and ordered to vocalize their support for Bush.
As matters turned out, the turkey he posed with was as plastic as his
campaign stunt, and many soldiers refused their meals. Bush spent
only 2 ½ hours acting out this taxpayer financed pre-election
propaganda stunt and then sneaked back into America without even a
glance at the devastations his elective war has wrought on the Iraqi
people (well over 10,000 innocent people maimed and murdered).
While there, he lied to our soldiers about their mission saying, “You
are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq so that we don’t have to face
them in our own country.”
In an earlier episode, in May 2003, Bush staged a chauffeured
landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier anchored
just off California. There he prematurely announced victory in Iraq
when, in fact, we have lost more soldiers after his announcement
than before it. When Salon reporter Eric Boehlert asked Senator
Max Cleland (a real war hero) what he thought of the Bush
campaign stunt he responded, “I’ll tell you the truth, I thought, oh
my God, a man who deliberately got out of going to Vietnam by
hiding out in the National Guard and who did not even complete his
National Guard tour of duty, now walks onto an aircraft carrier in a
flight suit with helmet under his ! arm, as if he’s Tom Cruise in Top
Gun.”
Retired four-star General Anthony Zinni said, “The more I saw,
the more I thought this war was the product of the neocons who
didn’t understand the region and who were going to create havoc
there. These were dilettantes from Washington thi

• Retired four-star General Anthony Zinni said — Bob Zimmerman, Sat Feb 7 12:00
• 17. Bush and Cheney are Pursuing a Policy — Bob Zimmerman, Sat Feb 7 12:02