Posted on 07/18/2004 6:16:18 AM PDT by yoe
This is a re-post - lest we forget and what must be told about our President Bush - read it carefully and see why the Democrats are fighting back so hard to regain power - from unions to the environmentalists to the United Nations President Bush has acted for America and Americans. Please pass this on.
Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 35 months
· Banned Partial Birth Abortion
· Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy
· Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
· Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court
· Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
· Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America.
· Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses
· Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes
· Pushed through THREE raises for our military.
· Increased Defense Dept funding which had deteriorated during the previous 8 years
· Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.
· Supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals
· Signed E.O. reversing Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act
· Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit
· Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers
· Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right
· Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e. the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty)
· Successfully executed 2 wars: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom
· Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network)
· The capture of Saddam Hussian
· Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed
· Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
· Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia
· Initiated comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was critical.
· Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency
· Reorganized bureaucracy...after 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency: the Department of Homeland Security.
· Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
· Improving govt. efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid...weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises. Wants merit based promotions/raises only.
· Orchestrated Republican control of the White House, the House AND the Senate.
· Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.
· GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)
· Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession.
· Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
· Signed 2 income tax cuts ---- 1 of which was the largest Dollar value tax cut in world history.
· Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains
· In process of eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
· Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people
· Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)
· Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.
· Signed trade promotion authority
· Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
· Passed Medicare Reform (authorized $39.5 Billion per year for preventive medicine such as drugs and doctor visits as well as included a ten year Privatization option)
· Urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits
· Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims
· Submitted comprehensive Energy Plan--awaits Congressional action (works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.)
· Endorses and promotes The Responsibility Era
· Started the USA Freedom Corps
· Initiated review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of federal gov while increasing private sector jobs.
· Part of coalition (Russia, Israel, EU, Palestine, USA) for Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace"
· Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become The League of Nations ( in other words, completely irrelevant)
· Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
· Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. br> · As part of the national forests clean-up, the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges) and removed the need for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
· Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
· President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003. It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.
You just pretty much announced to everyone that you are a troll. Have you been lurking or have you been zotted before? You must realize that this is a conservative group and If you where more honest then identify yourself as a Libertarian.
I hope you understand, for the rest of us, that's not good enough.
The rest of us? as in who? Don't say you speak for the American people because you don't. You pretty much have to speak for yourself.
Have we got a live one?
Have we got a live one?Yep ! But Southack is tearing him a new arse !
There will be a wake later, I think.
And a good job at that. It's beginning to look like a hit & run troll
Kerry didn't try to "gut our intelligence" when he suggested we use it's surplus...
Kerry didnt have to, our intelligence was gutted during the Clinton administration people used for intelligence werent nice; stopped all profiling and ham strung the CIA and FBI with a WALL of no inner agency weights and balances except for the helpful FBI files for Mrs. Clinton.
There was no need to try to deceive the public...
President Bush, Prime Minster Blair, the United Nations, our Congress had only what was left of our intelligence and what ever the others had to go on this was not a deception as it was agreed upon by all parties and it was not a unilateral decision on the part of President Bush.
I would go on but someone else will have to educate you if you wont do your own research. The Clinton administration also warned the American public about those ties and defended its response to al Qaeda terror by citing an Iraqi connection. Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed Hikmat Shakir was an officer in the Fedayeen, it would establish a direct link between Iraq and the al Qaeda operatives who planned 9/11. Shakir was present at the January 2000 al Qaeda "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9/11 attacks were planned. The U.S. has never been sure whether he was there on behalf of the Iraqi regime or whether he was an Iraqi Islamicist who hooked up with al Qaeda on his own.
Even the former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said, in testimony before the 9-11 Commission, it would take us another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs. Thanks to historic levels of funding authorized in this bill we will continue to make great strides in achieving our goal of strengthening our intelligence agencies.
Most recently, much debate has occurred about whether there is a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qeada. Our understanding of terrorist efforts and intentions come from our intelligence and that intelligence has shown that under both the Bush and Clinton Administrations there was significant evidence of a relationship between the tyrannical Iraqi leader and the terrorist group. Under President Clinton, there were at least two official pronouncements of an alarming alliance between Baghdad and al Qaeda. One came from William S. Cohen, Clintons defense secretary. He cited an al Qaeda-Baghdad link to justify the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. The other pronouncement is contained in a Justice Department indictment on Nov. 4, 1998, charging bin Laden with murder in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The indictment disclosed a close relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam's regime, which included specialists on chemical weapons and all types of bombs, including truck bombs, a favorite weapon of terrorists (Washington Times).
There is no doubt that there was a connection between Saddam and al Qeada to some extent. Unfortunately, our intelligence community was hamstringed to amass all of the information. .........
There is simply a ton of evidence for those who want to see and read the truth.
Memo: buy more kitty litter . .
BOOKbump
It's ZOT!ing time in the city... and the people rejoice.
The mods are being extremely generous to the trolls lately. This one is still active, yet refuses to come back and debate (as was his original request)!
dammit, I read this tread before the troll showed up...
I always miss the good stuff.... thanks for the VK alert :)
dammit, I read this thread before the troll showed up...
I always miss the good stuff.... thanks for the VK alert :)
Yes, things are soooooo bad that even the lice farmers themselves are calling on the laughable UN to get out of this mean widdle United States of America.
Actually, I think we ought to all help them and sign their little urine soaked petition.
note to self...
the post key is faster than the escape key...
Awaiting a follow-up fax?
Poking the troll to see if it's really dead?
Still alive. I'll go out on a limb, and predict not for long.
He did not lie, he was given information that was considered valid by Britain and most of the world...I suspect your motives..
Americans are not sheep..We don't all agree on everything or every person...Here we want what is best for the country..
Bush/Cheney 04, the very best.... in my opinion.
Sure sign of a troll...post and run!
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