Bush's lying more blatant than ever

Our unelected president came up with a real doozy last month. At a fundraiser in Milwaukee Wisconsin (travel and security arrangements paid for by the US taxpayer, of course), he said:

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

(White House press release) That's right. According to George W. Bush, free nations do not develop chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. Apparently Bush forgot about the guy standing right behind him with the nuclear launch codes. But he must have remembered eventually, because on November 25 he authorized a new nuclear weapons program. The idiot can't even keep his own lies straight. But as long as reporters never challenge them he doesn't really need to.
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Support our troops, Republican style

Since the beginning of the war, Republican politicians have been urging Americans to "support our troops". They present the slogan with the unspoken (and sometimes spoken) implication that supporting the armed forces means supporting the policies of the Bush administration. The idea that voicing opposition to the way the government uses military force somehow aids the enemy is as ridiculous now as it was when Nixon was peddling it over thirty years ago. So let's see how Republican politicians have been supporting our troops: Republican Congress makes cuts to food for troops, school for their kids Bush cuts military housing Republican Congress cuts pay for National Guard; red tape means some don't get paid at all Wounded soldiers neglected for months; no medical treatment, no air conditioning, no press Bush and Republican Congress cut benefits for disabled veterans Bush cuts funding for Veterans Administration Reublicans deny free speech to veterans
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Congress legalizes war profiteering

When the Senate passed Bush's 87 billion dollar spending bill for the wars on Iraq and on terrorism, they added an amendment threatening prison terms and fines for any company that overcharges the American taxpayer for services rendered in Iraq. $87 billion is a lot of money, and Senators of both parties thought it was important to make sure no military contractors would take advantage of this bill to defraud the taxpayers. But under pressure from the White House the amendment was dropped in conference committee.

The provision — included during the Senate Appropriations Committee markup with unanimous support but removed in conference — would have subjected those who deliberately defrauded the United States or Iraq to jail terms of up to 20 years and costly fines.

A Senate Democratic aide said, "Several House Republican conferees were clearly empathetic, but they had to look to a higher authority. That higher authority was the White House, which had sent the marching order to strip this from the bill."

Other attempts by Congress to require more accountability for spending the money, especially the reconstruction funds, were for the most part watered down or removed. The White House staff did not respond to a request for comment.

(The Hill article) If the motives behind the Iraq war weren't clear before, they should be now: big money for Bush campaign donors, including a company that still has Dick Cheney on its payroll, at the expense of American taxpayers - and American lives.
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