War

[~*Emma*~]

hey whats a global moderator

[.:~*Shuiliya*~:.]

Actually, I'm not quite sure.

[~*Emma*~]

ur name comes up blue im so jelouse

[No Limits]

i'm not jealous what is there to be jealous about anyway

[_Lavender_]

Whom, exactly, is we?  I know that US is at war with Iraq.  But that's it.. so far at least.  President Bush is a stupid blankity blank for declaring war.  Gr, I'm so freaking mad. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

humm......now that weve been in the war for months, I dont think you really have the right to say that about the President. When you say, thats it you are clearly mistaken my dear. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. This is only a reminder that the world is not perfect, as we see it, but that we do need to help out others when their relitives are being killed in cold blood for Suddam Hussien`s amusement.

[Em]

BLUE IS MY FAVE COLOR THATS Y I WAS JELOUS

[Sabastian]

We got Sadam today!!!  Or was it yeturday now.  lol.  Yea for us!

[~ Ella]

*Party's around the room*

WOOT WOOT!! He is so0o0o0o B.U.S.T.E.D!!  :P  lolz

[Kiara Johnson]

heehee, butterbeers for all!!! :redballoon:  PARTY!

[Zack]

Yes!!

[Avril]

lol ;D

[Avril]

heehee, butterbeers for all!!! :redballoon:  PARTY!

your butterbeers are delicious..hmmmm!LOL

[~ Ella]

*Does a cute victory dance around the room, then trips over and bursts into a fit of laughter.*

[Professor_Snape]

All About George Bush


1. It appears that the Bush Administration has consistently misled the American public about Iraq , most significantly regarding Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and his ties to al Queda and Osama bin Laden.
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/beyond-niger.html

2. The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water while allowing utility companies (many of whom are Bush campaign contributors) to profit off of the weakened regulations. In 2002, the head of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement resigned, complaining that the agency was "fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce." (CNN, Aug. 22, 2002)
The Bush Record on the Environment for 2003:
http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/2003.asp

3. Bush is underfunding education. The President cut $200 million from his own No Child Left Behind Act, eliminating crucial educational programs for lower income children and cutting professional training for more than 20,000 teachers.

Flawed from its very foundation, No Child Left Behind is based on then-Governor Bush's late-'90s "Texas Miracle,"—a program of standardized testing designed to increase performance and reduce dropout rates--now recognized as a scandalous failure.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0338/schanberg.php

4. The Bush Administration's Patriot Act threatens our constitutional rights and civil liberties. Passed by a post 9/11 Congress, the Patriot act expands the ability of law enforcement to conduct secret searches, and engage various forms of surveillance, including internet monitoring and wiretapping. It gives the FBI access to American citizens' highly personal medical, financial, mental health, and student records without notification or permission, and allows them to investigate individuals without probable cause of a crime. Finally, it permits non-citizens to be jailed based on mere suspicion and held indefinitely in six month increments without meaningful judicial review.
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12126&c=207

5. Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich. Bush claimed that his tax cut would "reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax." He failed to mention that this "relief" program would put half of the tax cut's dividends into the hands of our nation's wealthiest 5%, while 8.1 million citizens in the bottom half of the income bracket receive approximately $300 a year.
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwbfinal.htm

6. 3.3 million jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone) have been lost since Bush took office--more than the last 11 Presidents combined. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2001-August 2003) Meanwhile, huge corporations are paying fewer taxes than ever:
http://www.cbpp.org/10-16-03tax.htm

7. Bush is underfunding homeland security : While energetic in waging war abroad, the Bush administration has been oddly lethargic in fortifying our defenses at home. Domestic security agencies have been neglected. Police and firefighters have been denied essential resources, and muddled public strategy has only spread alarm and confusion.
http://www.ppionline.org/

[Professor_Snape]

All About George Bush pt. 2

Check out just the most obvious pork salted into the President's $87 billion request for Iraqi military operations and "reconstruction" efforts.

George Bush, for example, thinks Americans should cough up $9 million to establish postal ZIP codes in Iraq. "How has Iraq made it for these thousands of years without Americans helping them develop a ZIP code?" asks South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson. "It is amazing. ... What a generous thing for this Administration to do for other people on the other side of the planet, on our dime, borrowing money to do it."

Bush has also asked for $100 million for 2,000 trash trucks -- which works out as $50,000 per truck. He wants to spend $400 million on building new jails able to hold 8,000 additional prisoners -- which works out to $50,000 per bed. "I have a lot of constituents in my state of South Dakota who live in homes that don't cost $50,000 per bedroom," Senator Johnson says. Or how about the $30 million we've reportedly set aside to teach Iraqis English as a second language. "Undoubtedly there will be a contract to be 'bid' out, surely to that great educational institution, Halliburton, to provide ESL teachers from the US at wartime salaries," writes Tom Englehardt, editor of the indispensable TomDispatch.com.

Once the Iraqis at the Baghdad Fire Department's largest station learn English, they'll be able to read the English-language "Baghdad Fire Department" T-shirts we've decked their employees in. The BFD seems to be a symbol for our whole approach, by the way: US taxpayers have paid for a repainting of the station, new beds, air conditioners, office equipment, a television and a DVD player, reports ABC Nightly News. So the BFD probably on the surface looks more luxurious than most American fire stations. But ABC reports, that "after doing their best for the cameras, the firefighters told us there were still no replacements for the fire engines and protective gear taken by looters just after the war. 'I'm happy the Americans helped us,' said one of them. 'But if I'm going to fight fires, I'm going to need better clothing than a T-shirt. It's nylon and will burn right off'."

Sorry, did our shock & awe campaign cost you your fire trucks? Here, have a million-dollar T-shirt. And smile for the nice Americans back home.

The Bush Administration request also includes $164 million "to improve the curriculum for training Iraq's new army", Associated Press reports. Not "to improve the new Army," simply to improve "the curriculum" for it. It includes $4 million to establish telephone area codes and a 911-emergency response number. It includes $100 million to hide the families of 100 Iraqis in the witness protection program, $19 million for post office Wi-Fi, $50 million for traffic cops. It includes $150 million "to begin work on a $500 million to $700 million children's hospital with all the latest technology." (Because there's no shortage of $700 million children's hospitals in America, right?)

The request also includes nearly a billion dollars to import oil into Iraq, the country with the world's second-largest oil reserves. No wonder Bush couldn't find oil in Texas.