Ten Reasons to Fire George W. Bush by Jesse Walker

[andyjackson1828]

If you're looking for reasons to be disgusted with George W. Bush, here are the top 10:

1. The war in Iraq. Over a thousand soldiers and counting have died to subdue a country that was never a threat to the United States. Now we're trapped in an open-ended conflict against a hydra-headed enemy, while terrorism around the world actually increases.

One of the silliest arguments for the invasion held that our presence in Iraq was a "flypaper" attracting the world's terrorists to one distant spot. At this point, it's pretty clear that if there's a flypaper in Baghdad, the biggest bug that's stuck to it is the U.S.A.

2. Abu Ghraib. And by "Abu Ghraib" I mean all the places where Americans have tortured detainees, not just the prison that gave the scandal its name. While there are still people who claim that this was merely a matter of seven poorly supervised soldiers "abusing" (not torturing!) some terrorists, it's clear now that the abuse was much more widespread; that it included rape, beatings, and killings; that the prison population consisted overwhelmingly of innocents and petty crooks, not terrorists; and that the torture very likely emerged not from the unsupervised behavior of some low-level soldiers, but from policies set at the top levels of the Bush administration. Along the way, we discovered that the administration's lawyers believe the president has the power to unilaterally suspend the nation's laws—a policy that, if taken seriously, would roll back the central principle of the Glorious Revolution.



The rest at...

http://www.reason.com/links/links071304.shtml

1. No one must have read reason 10 yet.

:evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=62378

[Demeter]

3. I Regret To Say I Don't Dispute Any Point In The List

Including the criticism of Kerry. My only hope is that Kerry, being demonstrably less insane than Bush, will wake up to find he has the House, the Senate and the White HOuse, and show some true American liberal spirit and CHANGE HIS POLICIES! No more going along to get along, but real leadership out of the Bush-created wilderness.