Where is the outrage, Bush supporters? [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

Where is the outrage, Bush supporters?

You've been lied to ......... over and over and over.

Bush told you, in 1999, that the economy was on the verge of a recession. That wasn't true. At first. But then Bush gave those huge tax cuts to his close friends. His base, is what he called them. Voila! Recession. And you thought you were his base, didn't you? Well .... he lied.

Bush also told you in 1999 that our military was broken and if asked, much of it would have to say 'Not ready for duty, Sir.' But then, during the 'shock and awe' show, they performed 'magnificently'. That was all before he did anything one way or the other to change the military. In fact, that was President Clinton's military. The military for which Al Gore said he would increase funding. Well, once again, Bush lied to you. In the aftermath of 'shock and awe', he began systematic cuts in military funding. Not the funding that underwrites war, but the funding that underwrites the welfare of the warriors. Lie upon lie.

On September 11, 2001, our country was attacked. Bush climbed atop the rubble that was the remains of 3000 dead people and, through his bullhorn and with his arm around the shoulders of a veteran fireman, said he would hunt the perpetrator and get him 'dead or alive'. Virtually at the same time, he was already diverting funds from that action to begin the preparation for a war that did not need to be fought. Now, some four years later, Osama bin Laden remains at large. That promise made on the graves of 3000 dead people? Fatuous. A lie. Pure and simple.

Bush righteously invaded Afghanistan, the country where those who hit us and killed more than 3000 souls were reputed to have trained. But even that righteous invasion was at least a partial lie. The perpetrators were not from there. They were from Saudi Arabia. If that invasion were not a lie, it was, at least, a shell game of misdirection. In a word, I suppose, it could be called ..... a lie.

And while you thought he was working hard to get bin Laden, he really wasn't. He was diverting billions to soften up his Daddy's old enemy, Saddam. He lied to you as he went about achieving a two-fer. One-upping his Daddy and securing the second richest oil reserves in the world. When he thought the softening was ripe, he regaled you with visions of mushroom clouds. All that, however, is now shown to have been a lie, the truth being in the British meeting minutes given to a reporter who covers the Downing Street beat in London. The rest of the truth is in the current cover up of his staff's actions to deflect and obscure the truth in the words of a former ambassador by exposing his wife as a CIA NOC operative.

Bush promised a new tone in Washington. I know he led you to think this new tone would be honesty and integrity. Well, in truth, we had that already. But you remember all that sex from the last administration. So you thought he meant morality. Well, once again he lied.

There's nothing moral about lying to the entire country.

There's nothing moral about favoring energy companies over states where energy was regulated for the common good.

There's nothing moral about a campaign of fear to keep you voting for the guy 'who will keep you safe'.

There's nothing moral about killing thousands of foreign nationals and several thousands of our own military in an elective war.

There's nothing moral about a war of 'preemption'.

There's nothing moral about revealing CIA secrets for purely vindictive and political purposes.

There's nothing moral about continuing to employ as his highest political adviser a man who does the deed of outing an agent.

There's nothing moral about withholding funding for vital stem cell research.

There's nothing moral about marginalizing the view of over half the country's citizens.

There's nothing moral about imposing a de facto state religion.

In truth, there's nothing moral about anything done by George Bush. And yet he would have you think him a moral man. And if you think that, you would be accepting a lie.