Bob Zimmerman
Retired four-star General Anthony Zinni said
Sat Feb 7 12:00:45 2004
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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 think tanks who never
had an idea that worked on the ground.” – Washington Post, December
22, 2003.
“I think the American people were conned into this war.” – Chicago
Tribune, December 31, 2003.
Recently, a scathing report released by the
U.S. Army War College called the Bush War
of Terror “unfocused” and the Bush invasion
of Iraq a disastrous “strategic error.”
– Jeffery Record for the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute,
December 2003.
Why won’t Bush behave like a real president and use the billion
plus he spent on these propaganda stunts to fight AIDS, or help
the homeless, or bring the survival equipment that our soldiers
need up-to-date? Why did he lie to our soldiers about their
mission?
The truth is that it was Saudi Arabia and not Iraq that was
home to most of the 9/11 terrorists and their primary financier.
On Election Day our soldiers will punish Bush for unnecessarily
sending them i! nto harms way and for his continuing shabby
treatment of them. On Election Day the American people will
punish Bush for his many lies, deceptions, failure to protect us,
and his brutal crimes against humanity.

5. Bush Knows: He has Destroyed more American Jobs
than Herbert Hoover:
Bush inherited an economy that had set records for domestic job
growth, 22 million new jobs from 1993 to 2000. Under Bush
America has lost 3 million jobs and there is no end in sight. Under
Bush, Americans are suffering increasing joblessness, increasing
poverty, increasing personal bankruptcies, lower wages, higher
taxes, higher energy costs, higher medical care costs, higher tuition
costs, higher credit card debt, and greater financial insecurity than at
any time since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.
Why won’t Bush listen to his former Treasury Secretary Paul
O’Neill and resign his failed presidency? Americans must put an
end to Bush-led economic class warfare before the neocons
destroy over 200 years of social progress. Former Labor Secretary
Robert Reich explained O’Neill’s public exposure of Bush
incompetence by saying O’Neill was appalled by what he saw.

6. Bush and Cheney Want to Place WMD in Outer
Space:
Bush plans for a piloted mission to Mars are no joke. Bush could
care less about space exploration. His space plans have a nefarious
purpose. Bush wants to “use the heavens for military, economic, and
strategic gain.” – Reuters, January 18, 2004.
Why is Bush busily converting the peaceable exploration of space
into a nightmarish “War of the Worlds” scenario? Bush is by far
the most dangerous man on earth and must be stopped before it is
too late. The militarization of space is an un-Christian
undertaking and could lead to genocidal consequences. Is Bush
insane? Why would any sane person give priority to placing
weapons in space over and above spending for the health,
education, and welfare of the American people?

7. Bush Refuses to Cooperate with the Official 9/11
Investigating Commission:
Bush, even though he had personally pledged the cooperation of the
executive branch of government to the chair of the official 9/11
investigating commission, refuses to cooperate, forcing the
commission to resort to its subpoena power. Instead of fully
cooperating, Bush has issued specific orders restricting the flow of
vital documentary evidence to 9/11 commission. - See Eric Boehlert’s
interview of Senator Max Cleland, a member of the official 9/11 congressional
investigating commission, for details of the Bush 9/11 cover-up, Salon, November
21, 2003.
-See, also, The New Pearl Harbor: Was the Bush Administration Complicit in
9/11? This new book by David ray Griffin, a theologian, makes an astonishingly
strong showing of Bush motives for allowing 9/11 to happen.
Why is Bush stalling the official 9/11 investigation commission?
Just what is it that he is trying to hide? We now know the
documentary evidence shows that Bush knew far more about 9/11
than he has thus far admitted. The documentary evidence proves
that Bush failed the American people on 9/11. The extent of that
failure and the possible complicity of his administration in 9/11
are the only reason for this extensive obstruction of justice.

8. Bush Actions upon Learning of the 9/11 Attack are
Highly Suspect:
Bush continued reading a goat story to Florida schoolchildren for a
nearly ½ hour after being informed by his chief of staff that America
had been attacked on 9/11, and he has obstructed an investigation
into whether or not NORAD (our first line of domestic defense)
received orders to stand down, thereby entirely ignoring the 9/11
attack.
Bush’s former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill summed up Bush
and his cabinets leadership skills by saying, “Bush was like a blind
man in a roomful of deaf people.”
- Former Bush Treasury Secretary under Bush, Paul O’Neill, in an interview with
CBS News, January 9, 2004.
Why did Bush fail to take immediate action? It is hard to believe
that an American president would continue reading a goat story
to schoolchildren after being informed by his chief of staff that
America was being attacked. Bush’s failure to act leads to the
conclusion that Bush had foreknowledge of the 9/11 terrorist
attack and that is why news of the actual attack came as no
surprise to him?

9. Bush is Deliberately Stonewalling the Families of the
Victims of 9/11:
Bush, showing utter disregard for family values, refuses to respond
to the inquiries of the families of the 9/11 victims, instead calling
their probing questions unimportant and unnecessary. With much of
the mass media either cowed by the Bush regime, most of the
important questions about 9/11 remain unanswered. Refusing to
accept millions of dollars in Bush bribes to stay silent, some 74
families of the victims of 9/11 are suing Bush in order to learn what
really happened on 9/11. – Sources are far too numerous to list.
Why is Bush, a self-proclaimed “compassionate conservative” so
unresponsive to the questions of the families of the 9/11 victims?
Why do hundreds of key 9/11 questions like why did NORAD fail
to respond and why was WTC Building 7 demolished remain
unanswered by the Bush administration? Why did Bush abandon
“family values” in favor of neocon values?

10. Bush Concern for America’s National Security is
Entirely Bogus:
Bush created the largest governmental bureaucracy in U.S. history
and he named it the Department of Homeland Security (homeland is
a Nazi term). The Bush family financial empire that helped create
Bush’s political ascendancy has its roots in treasonous practices:
Trading with and financing the Nazi’s and longstanding relationships
with Saudi financiers of terrorism including the bin Laden family and
the Carlyle Group, (named after Thomas Carlyle, considered by
George Orwell the prophet of Nazi fascism). When Bush lied to us
about his reasons for invading Iraq, and then ordered our soldiers
into harms way based on those lies, that extended Bush family
treasonous acts to a third generation, his generation.
– Sources are far too numerous to list.
Why, if Bush really cares about our national security, did he fail
to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, thus
rendering it the Department of Homeland Insecurity? Why did
Bush promise to increase funding for first responders, our first
line of defense and then try to cut $1 billion from existing grants?
Why did Bush fail to punish Saudi financiers of terrorism (Bush
family friends) and instead order the murderous bombing of
thousands of innocent Iraqi women and children?

11. Bush has Deliberately Obstructed Justice in the
Criminal Investigation of
White House National Security Leaks:
Bush or a member of his staff intentionally and vindictively leaked
the name of an undercover CIA agent (a felony and breech of
national security) to ultra-conservative pundit Bob Novak. The Bush
people have obstructed justice by refusing to cooperate in the
criminal investigation of White House personnel to find the leaker(s).
Finally, long after Ashcroft recused himself citing conflicts of
interest, a special prosecutor (former U.S. attorney Patrick J.
Fitzgerald) has taken over the politically-
charged criminal investigation and a grand jury has been convened to
hear and evaluate evidence of alleged Bush White House criminality.
– MSNBC, December 30, 2003.
Why would Bush, the most secretive president in U.S. history,
obstruct efforts to determine whom it was that leaked? Did Bush
himself do the leaking? There is simply no excuse for not
convening a grand jury. This leak and other intentional acts of
the Bush administration, such as sending our troops into harms
way based on nothing but self-serving lies, may constitute the
gravest treasons ever committed in America.

12. The Bush-led Anti-Democratic Neocon
(neoconservative = fascist) Agenda:
Bush and his neocon cohorts have set out to implement an anti-
democratic, anti-worker, anti-environment agenda. Under the ruse of
exporting democracy and freedom, the neocon agenda includes:
-American empire instead of American republic;
-world domination by pre-emptive military and economic means, the
very same goals pursued by Hitler and Stalin.
-destroying the United Nations with a unilateral and bilateral
approach to
implementing foreign policy and declaring pre-emptive elective
wars;
-replacing democratic rule with corporate/neocon rule;
-increasing the power of the president to that of dictator;
-reducing civil and human rights to pre-Bill of Rights levels;
-exploiting labor and the environment to the fullest;
-exporting American jobs to cheap labor markets abroad;
-consolidating the media to reflect a single voice, the neocon voice;
-eliminating unions and driving wage rates, overtime, and benefits
ever lower;
-destroying our meager social safety net, including Social Security
and Medicare.
– See the origins of the neocon agenda at Project for a New American
Century: Rebuilding America’s Defenses, www.newamericancentury.org.
Long before 9/11, the neocons planned for the American invasion of
Afghanistan and Iraq to secure oil and control the region. Bush neocons said that
these invasions would not be supported by the American people without another
P! earl Harbor. Was 9/11 planned and executed by Bush neocons to gain support
for their elective wars?
Why does Bush want to eliminate overtime and drive wage rates
lower and lower? Simply put, under Bush American workers are
being transformed into Wal-Mart workers, people who work hard
but do not earn a living wage, and who must apply for Food
Stamps to help them make ends meet. If they could find a way to
do it, Bush and Wal-Mart would be happy to export all of our
jobs to India and China. What makes Bush thing the American
people support perpetual war and the destruction of the United
Nations? In 2000 Bush said he was a uniter and not a divider.
Well, he has succeeded at that and only that. He has united the
entire world against us.

13. Bush Public Policy Favors only Wealthy Special
Interest Groups:
Bush has sought to enrich heavily bankrolled special interest groups
and giant multinational corporations by doling out lucrative no-bid
contracts, creating numerous tax loopholes, and failing to prosecute
corporate criminality. Meanwhile, federal spending as a percent of
GDP, which decreased under Clinton, has soared under Bush who
has failed to veto a single appropriations bill and has increased
military spending to record levels. – Washington Post, Dece! mber 6, 2003.
Under Bush, CEOs use corporate jets for personal travel,
paying only $260 to travel from coast to coast. Their corporations
then deduct the real cost of the trip as a business expense and
working people end up picking up the tab, paying thousands of
dollars in additional taxes every time a CEO boards a corporate
aircraft. Another loophole, just one of hundreds, allows investment
partnership profits to go untaxed. Closing the loophole is an easy
matter; instead, it is ignored, and working people are left to pay the
tax, which amounts to tens of billions of dollars every year.
– New York Sunday Times Magazine article entitled The Loophole Artist, by
David Cay Johnson, December 21, 2003.
Why is Bush, a so-called conservative, on a spending spree that
endangers the health and economic security of the vast majority of
the American people?

14. Bush has Deliberately Set Out to Destroy Social
Security and has Failed to
Protect the Pensions of Working People:
Bush is waging war on the elderly and on future generations of
Americans with his intentional efforts to destroy Social Security. He
has failed to do anything to protect the pension plans of retirees from
unscrupulous employers and he has conspired with Senator Lindsay
Graham to draft legislation that will begin privatizing Social Security
in 2005.
- Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2003.
Why won’t Bush realize that his plan to privatize Social Security
will lead to “Social Insecurity?” Why is the further enrichment of
the wealthy more important to Bush than guarantying retirement
with dignity for our seniors?

15. Bush Seeks to Fool Seniors and Destroy Medicare with
his Phony Drug Bill:
In a recent survey of his audience, CNN’s Lou Dobbs asked his
audience if they were better off after three years of George W. Bush;
94% answered NO.
Bush rammed a prescription drug bill through a Republican
dominated Congress that will provide zero benefits for most seniors
and actually serve to drive drug costs higher by encouraging the drug
companies to raise prices and making the import of drugs from
Canada illegal.
The Bush drug bill is deliberately designed to destroy Medicare
by providing windfall profits to the drug, managed-care (HMOs),
and the health insurance industries, the very industries that provide
Republicans with windfall campaign contributions (bribes). Bush
fooled the AARP into supporting the bill, an action they now wish
they could reverse.
– Sources are far too numerous to list.
Why is Bush on a mission to fool seniors into thinking his phony
prescription drug will benefit them? Why does Bush favor the
giant drug companies over the health and well-being of the
American people? Why are the working poor who cannot afford
health insurance paying for the health insurance of their elected
representatives?

16. Bush is Anti-Choice, Anti-Women’s Rights, and Anti-
Civil and Gay Rights:
Bush is waging war on women and gays by aggressively appointing
judges who seek to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and by supporting
legislation that would narrow a woman’s right to choose and reverse
the recent ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court that affirms
the right to marry to all people. – The sources are far too numerous to list.
Why does Bush feel justified in trying to impose his religious

• 17. Bush and Cheney are Pursuing a Policy — Bob Zimmerman, Sat Feb 7 12:02