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Our President
OUR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
Arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. Pled guilty, paid a fine, and had driver's license suspended for 30 days. Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
Military:
Joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. Refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
College:
Graduated from Yale University with a low C average. Was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
Ran for U.S. Congress and lost. Began career in the oil business in Midland,Texas, in 1975.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after selling all stock owned.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
Changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During his tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.
Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
Set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
With the help of his brother, the governor of Florida, and his father's appointments to the Supreme Court, became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
The first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
Invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
Spent the surplus the U.S. had when he entered office and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
Shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
Set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
Members of cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history.
Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
Is the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign
donations.
Largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one Bush's best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
Protected friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.
Presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. Presided over the highest gasoline
prices in U.S. history.
Changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S.
history.
Created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the
United States government.
Broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
Is the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
Withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
Is the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the
2002 U.S. election).
Set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
Set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. After taking off
the entire month of August, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
Garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
Is the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the
military occupation of a sovereign nation. Did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.
Cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families - in wartime.
In State of the Union Address, lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
Is the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
Supports development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster".
Failed to fulfill pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of tenure as governor of Texas are now in father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into insider trading and bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that Bush, or Vice President Chaney, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
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