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...Americans See 59 Burning Problems that Bush has Let Fester
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction? - President Bush told the
American people that we were going to war with Iraq because the country possessed
weapons of mass destruction. No WMD's were ever found. But this didn't stop
Bush's war on Iraq. The Bush administration simply invented a new story to tell
the American people and kept on with their war on Iraq that, as the Downing
Street Memo revealed, had been decided upon no later than July of 2002.
2. Bush pushes for tax cuts despite federal deficit spending
- The President Bush solution to spending more money than available funds seems
to be to cut funds even more. Bush lobbied Congress to enact an estimated $1.6
trillion in tax cuts over 10 years. [www.cnn.com/2004/business/12/20/us.budget.snow/index.html]
3. Bush Betrays Conservative Principle of Small Government I: Big Spending,
Big Deficit - The U.S. government ran a $413 billion deficit in fiscal
year 2004, according to the Congressional Budget Office. This is $35 billion
higher than the previous record for a deficit. The previous record deficit of
$377 billion was set by the Bush administration in 2003.
4. Osama bin Laden I - The whereabouts of bin Laden, architect
of the Sept. 11 attacks, and top militants such as his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri,
and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, remain unknown.
5. Friendly relations with Saudi Arabia - "Saudi Arabia
systematically violates international human rights standards even after agreeing
to be bound by them. For example, in September 1997 Saudi Arabia acceded to
the Convention against Torture. Yet, torture is widespread in Saudi Arabia's
criminal justice system. (Saudi Arabia acceded to the Convention against Torture
and the Convention against Discrimination on Sept 23, 1997)." Amnesty International,
"Saudi Arabia: Open for Business," February 8, 2000.
6. A Preemptive War - "Iraq has never threatened nor
been implicated in any attack against U.S. territory and the CIA has reported
no Iraqi-sponsored attacks against American interests since 1991." Stephen
Zunes, "An Annotated Overview of the Foreign Policy Segments of President
George W. Bush's State of the Union Address," Foreign Policy In Focus,
January 29, 2003. Segments of President George W. Bush's State of the Union
Address," Foreign Policy In Focus, January 29, 2003
7. Abandoning our Troops I - The Bush administration announced
that it would rollback 'modest' increases of benefits to troops. The Army Times
noted, "the administration announced that on Oct. 1 [2003] it wants to
roll back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger from $225 to $150
(a cut of 33%) and family-separation allowances from $250 to $100 (a cut of
60%) for troops getting shot at in combat zones." http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292259-1989240.php
8. Bush cares more about Oil Companies than Working Americans
- With gas prices soaring in the United States, the Miami Herald reported that
the president refused to "personally lobby oil cartel leaders to change
their minds." *1
9. Bush's Handling of Iraq War - 61% of Americans gave a negative
rating when asked to rate President Bush's handling of the war on Iraq according
to a Harris Poll conducted between May 4 and May 10, 2005. *2
10. Bush's priorities do not match those of the American people
- In a CNN survey released on June 29, 2005, respondents were asked what government
programs were most important to them. Nearly three-quarters of adults say the
nation's health insurance program for the poor, Medicaid, is a "very important"
government program, ranking it close to Social Security (88 percent) and Medicare
(83 percent), equal to aid to public schools, and ahead of defense (57 percent)
and foreign aid (20 percent). This sharply contrasts with the Bush administrations
priorities, which is trying to increase defense spending while attempting to
cut funding to health care programs like Medicaid and Medicare and to dismantle
entirely Social Security through privatization. *3
11. The Downing Street Memo - According to the revelations
in a recently disclosed top level Top Secret British Memo (read it for yourself
online), president Bush had decided no later than July, 2002, to attack Iraq
and that "the intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy".
*4
12. Bush mislead the American People to gain support for his war on
Iraq - Despite the fact that the 9/11 Commission concluded that there
was no credible evidence that Saddam Hussein ever had any links with Al Qaeda,
more than two-thirds of the American people still believe that such a link exists.
According to a Harris Poll conducted between June 8 and June 15, 2005, a large
69% majority of the public still believes that Saddam Hussein had been supporting
Al Qaeda. Only 22% believe that he did not support them, even though no clear
evidence has been found that he was. This fact is a credit to the tremendous
power of the propaganda of the Bush administration in rallying support for the
war on Iraq.
13. The 2003 Federal Deficit - The Bush administration ran
a deficit $377 billion in 2003, a new record high for a federal deficit, according
to the Congressional Budget Office.
14. The 2004 Federal Deficit - The Bush administration set
a new record for a federal deficit in the 2004 fiscal year, running a $413 billion
deficit.
15. The Kyoto Protocol - President Bush continues to refuse
to sign the agreement, which set targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions,
making the United States the only [industrialized nation / first world / what?]
to not do so.
16. Osama bin Laden II - From the start of his supposed "war
on terror", Bush has had a different agenda. Using the tragedy of Sept.
11 as a trump card to garner support, President Bush brought America into an
Iraqi quagmire that is costing American lives with no foreseeable exit. What
about bin Laden, the person responsible for Sept. 11? President Bush doesn't
care: "I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much
time on him. . . I truly am not that concerned about him." President Bush,
Press Conference, 3/13/2002.
17. Bush's Work Ethic - As of April 2004, President Bush had
made 33 trips to Crawford during his presidency, bringing his total to more
than 230 days at the ranch in just over three years. "Add his 78 trips
to Camp David and five to his family's compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, and
Bush has spent all or part of 500 days - or about 40 percent of his presidency
- at one of these his three retreats." *5
18. Tough on Terrorism? - "[T]hey didn't allow me to
brief him on terrorism. You know, they're saying now that when I was afforded
the opportunity to talk to him about cyber security, it was my choice. I could
have talked about terrorism or cyber security. That's not true. I asked in January
to brief him, the president, on terrorism, to give him the same briefing I had
given Vice President Cheney, Colin Powell and Condi Rice. And I was told, 'You
can't do that briefing, Dick, until after the policy development process.'"
Richard Clarke interview with Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press, March 28,
2004.
19. Donald Rumsfeld - It says something when people from your
own party criticize the work you are doing. It speaks volumes more when criticism
spans the spectrum from the moderate conservative Senator John McCain to the
vehemently conservative Trent Lott. Such is the case with Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, has been sharply critical
of Rumsfeld, stating that he has "no confidence" in the defense secretary
and telling The Associated Press, "There are very strong differences of
opinion between myself and Secretary Rumsfeld" on the issue of troop strength
in Iraq. Republican Senator Trent Lott is also critical: "I'm not a fan
of Secretary Rumsfeld," Lott told the AP. "I don't think he listens
enough to his uniformed officers."
20. John Ashcroft - "Former interim FBI chief Thomas
Pickard testified Tuesday that Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft didn't want to hear
about terrorism when Pickard tried to brief him during the summer of 2001, as
intelligence reports about terrorist threats were reaching a historic level."
Cam Simpson, "Ashcroft Ignored Terrorism, Panel Told; Attorney General
Denies Charges, Blames Clinton," Chicago Tribune, April 14, 2004.
21. Abandoning our Troops II - The Bush administration has
shown flagrant negligence in placing troops in Iraq without essential equipment,
including sufficient body armor and uparmored vehicles. Republican Senator Susan
Collins, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated: "The Department
of Defense still has been unable to ensure that our troops have the equipment
they need to perform their mission as safely as possible." *6
22. Abandoning our Troops III - At the beginning of 2005,
the Pentagon had received only 5,910 of the 8,105 of factory-armored Humvees
commanders said they needed. *7
23. Abandoning our Troops IV - The Army requested production
of an additional 100 Humvees a month only after a soldier complained about the
lack of necessary armor on trucks during a December 9, 2004 town hall meeting
with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Kuwait. *8
24. Abandoning our Veterans I - "On Nov. 12, the Office
of Management & Budget opposed restoring $1.3 billion in funding for Veterans
Administration hospitals that the House Appropriations Committee had cut. ''It's
as if they're not even aware [that] there's a war on terror going on,' says
Steve Thomas, an American Legion spokesman and Navy vet who notes casualties
in Iraq could make demand for VA services soar." Stan Crock in Washington,
with William C. Symonds in Boston, "Will The Troops Salute Bush In '04?,"
Business Week, December 8, 2003.
25. Abandoning our Veterans II - In 2003, the Bush administration
proposed increasing prescription drug costs for veterans, a proposal that would
have doubled the cost of prescription drugs. "The Bush plan would have
included a new $250 enrollment fee and a co-pay increase from $7 to $15 for
veterans earning over $24,000." The House amended the proposal to reject
the Bush administration's fee increases and to recoup the $264 million in costs
by reducing administrative funding for the VA. "Panel Rejects Extra Funds
for AmeriCorps," Washington Post, July 22, 2003.
26. Over 1,729 America soldiers dead - And counting, with
no exit strategy declared and with Bush continuing to refuse to give a timetable
for withdrawing troops. *9
27. Karl Rove and the Valerie Plame/CIA Case - Lawrence O'Donnell,
the MSNBC analyst who first broke the Rove/Cooper link on Friday, wrote on the
Huffington Post blog today, that Rove's lawyer had "launched what sounds
like an I-did-not-inhale defense. He told Newsweek that his client 'never knowingly
disclosed classified information." Rove's critics suggest that he could
be charged with perjury if he did not tell the truth about this to a grand jury.
*10
28. Bush Betrays Conservative Principle of Small Government II: Terri
Schiavo - In an incredible showing of government intervention, President
Bush decided to become involved in the Terri Schiavo case. Bush had no constitutional
grounds for doing so; rather he based it on the morality he shares with his
fundamental Christian constituency. His brother Jeb Bush, governor of Florida,
refuses to withdraw from the case, ordering in June of this year for a prosecutor
to investigate Schiavo's fall 15 years ago. *11
29. Bush Betrays Conservative Principle of Small Government III: Same
Sex Marriage - President Bush is pushing for a constitutional amendment
to ban same sex marriages. Bush support for such a measure is not based in constitutional
reasons, but rather out of his own fundamental Christian morality, seeking to
protect the "sanctity of marriage." *12
30. Bush Betrays Conservative Principle of Small Government IV: Stem
Cell Research Restrictions - Bush wants government restrictions to
limit stem cell research that could provide invaluable developments in treating
terminal illness and disease. Bush opposes a House-passed bill that would lift
his 2001 restrictions on public funding for research on newly developed embryonic
stem cell lines. When defending his position on the issue, rather than providing
constitutional reasons, Bush continually cites the personal morality that he
shares with his strong constituent of fundamentalist Christians. At the Southern
Baptist Convention on June 21, 2005, President Bush spoke out against stem cell
research by quoting the Bible hymn "Great is Thy Faithfulness," stating,
""Thy compassions, they fail not." The president went on to say,
"A compassionate society protects and defends its most vulnerable members
at every stage of life." *13
31. The Conglomeration of Church and State I - Bush promotes
federal spending for religious social services - In June of 2005, Bush renewed
his call for Congress to pass a law that would allow religious groups with federal
contracts to consider questions of faith when making employment decisions. The
ACLU has continually opposed such measures, saying that it would make it legal
to refuse employment to someone if they were not Christian, or even if they
were not the right type of Christian. *14
32. The Conglomeration of Church and State II - Bush supports
faith-based initiatives - While faith-based initiatives by themselves are not
necessarily discriminatory nor proselytizing, the situation becomes problematic
when the federal government gets to decide which religions to fund and which
requests to ignore. When President Bush first proposed his plan four years ago,
the ACLU said that it would give the government the power to determine what
constituted a legitimate religion. More than likely, funds would go to the religious
communities that were already well established in America and would be less
likely to go to smaller sects. Diana Eck, professor of religion at Harvard University
and founder of the Pluralism Project, cautions that although the successes of
faith based organizations may be laudable, once the government gets involved
in funding, everything becomes more complicated. "When federal funding
goes directly into the coffers of churches and faith-based communities that
have advancing their own faith as part of their mission, then we are playing
with fire in a way."
33. The Conglomeration of Church and State III - The Republican
Party of Texas' platform states that the United States is a "Christian
nation." *15
34. Bush wants to Dismantle Social Security I - The New York
Times reported that "the president's new budget uses Social Security surpluses
to pay for other programs every year through 2013, ultimately diverting more
than $1.4 trillion in Social Security funds to other purposes." *16
35. Bush wants to Dismantle Social Security II -59% of Americans
disapprove of Bush's plan to weaken social security, 49% believed his real agenda
was to dismantle social security, and only 36% believed his real intention was
to help social security according to a Harris Poll conducted between May 4 and
May 10, 2005. *17
36. Bush Lacks the Confidence of Americans - Only 26% of Americans
said that they were confident that current U.S. policies would be successful
in Iraq according to a Harris Poll conducted between May 4 and May 10, 2005.
*18
37. Bush the Flip-flopper - Bush stated that the war on terror
is not winnable: "I don't think you can win [the war on terror]" (President
Bush, 8/3/04). Bush later stated: "Make no mistake about it, we are winning
and we will win [the war on terror]" (President Bush, 8/31/04).
38. Abu Ghraib Torture - The torture of Abu Ghraib 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.
39. U.S. Female troops facing combat in Iraq - The Pentagon's
policy banning women in combat units is being tested in Iraq, where the lack
of a defined front line is exposing female troops to combat. The Pentagon's
policy banning women in combat units is being tested in Iraq, where the lack
of a defined front line is exposing female troops to combat. *20
40. Iraqi Civilians being killed - In the last six months,
over 8,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the combat between U.S. soldiers
and insurgents. *21
41. Bush warned of military preparedness problems before war began
by a top U.S. commander, but he proceeded anyway - "Army Lt. Gen.
Ricardo Sanchez wrote a memo in December 2003 in which he complained to top
Army officials about a shortage of spare parts, lack of protective gear and
poor readiness rates for Army weapons in Iraq." *22
42. Business more important to Bush than clean air - In a
letter to Sen. Chuck Hagel, Present Bush wrote, "I do not believe, however,
that the government should impose on power plants mandatory emissions reductions
for carbon dioxide, which is not a 'pollutant' under the Clean Air Act."
43. Crumbling coalition I - President Bush's "coalition
of the willing" sounded better in speeches to rally support for his war
on Iraq than the support that actually materialized. In March of 2004, of the
approximately 150,000 coalition troops in Iraq, nearly 130,000 were American
troops, making the coalition support a combined total of less than 25,000 troops.
44. Crumbling coalition II - Though even the loss of one human
life is a great tragedy and not something to be made light of, American soldiers
are being hit the heaviest in terms of military casualties in Iraq. As of July
5, 2005, the death toll in the Iraq war was 1,746 Americans, 90 Britons, 13
Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 25 Italians,
one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards,
two Thai and 18 Ukrainians.
45. Crumbling coalition III - In addition to bearing the vast
majority of the military burden in Iraq, America is also feeling the brunt of
the financial burden. While coalition countries pledged 13 billion dollars in
support in 2003, as of June 2005 only 3 billion had actually been delivered.
46. Toxic levels of mercury - "The White House is promoting
the controversial Clear Skies Act of 2003, which the Environmental Protection
Agency claims will provide health benefits cheaper, faster and more reliably
than the current Clean Air Act. A number of groups like the Natural Resources
Defense Council contest this, saying Clear Skies will only weaken and delay
health protections by releasing more toxic mercury emissions and tons of smog-forming
nitrogen oxides." *24 High levels of mercury have been shown to produce
birth defects in pregnant women as well as other serious health problems.
47. Discrimination in Educational Opportunities I: The increasing cost
of Higher Education - According to the College Board's recently released
"Trends in College Pricing 2003," for the 2003-2004 school year, the
average total costs of attending a four-year public school increased by 14.1
percent over the previous year. For a four-year private institution, the jump
was six percent. At the University of California-Berkeley, where costs for the
2003-04 school year rose by 27.8 percent over the previous year, Assistant Vice
Chancellor Richard Black said in an interview with the Harvard Political Review
that priorities have been misguided at the state and federal levels, resulting
in higher education getting short-changed. Looking ahead, Black argued that
"while higher tuition rates have not yet had an impact on overall enrollment,
in the near future, even as soon as the 2004-05 school year, we will begin to
see fewer needy students and a more affluent freshmen class."
48. Discrimination in Educational Opportunities II: Unequal effects
of higher costs for higher learning - Indeed, higher college prices
have disparate impacts on families in lower income brackets. For families in
the top income quartile, the total cost of a four-year public institution represents
only around six percent of their income. For the middle half of income levels,
these same fees represent 19 percent, and for the lowest income bracket, the
figure is 71 percent.
49. Discrimination in Educational Opportunities III: Poor students
are a minority in top schools - Even with generous financial aid programs
at many colleges, there is still a distinct relationship between income levels
and enrollment. Of students at the top 50 four-year universities on U.S. News
and World Report's annual rankings, a mere 18 percent qualify for federal Pell
Grants, the federal government's primary means of distributing need-based scholarships
to lower income families. Even then, the average Pell Grant covers less than
30 percent of a student's college costs.
50. Discrimination in Educational Opportunities IV: Less and less education
funds going to those who need it most - Since the 1980s, the federal
government has been moving away from the strictly need-based assistance established
by the G.I. Bill after World War II. The total funds targeted at lower-income
families constitute only 43 percent of federal financial aid. Tom Mortenson,
an expert on post-secondary education at the Mortenson Research Center on Public
Policy, told the Harvard Political Review that "the federal government
has been moving away from need-based to merit-based funding," which he
argues has resulted in more aid going "to classes of society that are more
politically influential."
51. Labor is Hurting in America - In the early 1960s, 30 percent
of the workforce was unionized. By 2002, only 9.3 percent of private sector
workers were unionized, and this figure dropped to 8.1 in 2003.
52. American media I: Media consolidation - The role of the
federal government on issues dealing with media consolidation has been guided
by the 1945 Supreme Court case Associated Press v. U.S, which determined that
"the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic
sources is essential to the welfare of the public." In 2003, however, the
Federal Communications Commission relaxed laws preventing ownership of both
television stations and newspapers within a single market. With the recent FCC
deregulation, it is now easier for a single corporation to own all of the news
outlets in one market. While consumers can change the channel or search the
Internet for alternative national news, there is a greater chance that a person
will be faced with a single local news source.
53. American media II: People who watch a comedy news show are more
educated about political issues than people who watch regular network media
outlets - People are listening to Jon Stewart. With his recent best-seller
America (The Book) and his hit fake news show on Comedy Central, The Daily Show,
it seems clear that his message is being heard: for instance, over 1.5 million
people tuned in to watch Stewart interview John Kerry. Still, his message and
role are not so clear, depending in large part on who is listening. Fox News
personality Bill O'Reilly characterized Stewart's audience as "stoned slackers"
and "dopey kids," when Stewart appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last
September. O'Reilly's description of Stewart's fans is a bit off the mark. According
to the National Annenberg Election Survey from the University of Pennsylvania,
Daily Show viewers are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have
four or more years of college education. If these are the "stoned slackers"
to whom O'Reilly referred, it is interesting to consider who watches his program:
the survey found that O'Reilly's audience was only 24 percent more likely than
average to have this same level of education. With such an educated audience
comes a certain set of expectations for Stewart. His popularity among educated
young Americans might be due to a desire for a more critical (or satirical)
approach to the news. The same Annenberg survey also found that Daily Show viewers
know more about election issues than people who get their news from traditional
media outlets. A survey by the Pew Research Center, published in January 2004,
verifies this supposition, finding that 21 percent of people under the age of
30 now name comedy shows as one of their primary news sources.
54. Unemployment I: Increasing jobless rate - The Bush Administration
has seen unemployment rise to its highest rates in nearly a decade. In May of
2003, unemployment rose to 6.4 percent from 6.1 percent in May, according to
the U.S. Labor Department, the highest level since April 1994. The report also
showed there were 2.0 million unemployed people who had been looking for work
for 27 weeks or longer, an increase of 410,000 from the previous year. They
represented 21.4 percent of the total unemployed, up from 18.8 percent a year
earlier. The percentage of unemployed people who have exhausted unemployment
benefits is now near an all-time high. *25
55. Unemployment II: Outsourcing - The exporting of U.S. jobs
to cheap foreign labor markets has produced nationwide pain from our nation's
major cities to our small towns, in urban and suburban America. Lou Dobb's of
CNN writes, "The loss of millions of manufacturing jobs and hundreds of
thousands of service jobs over the past few years, and the threat of the loss
of millions more to offshore outsourcing, is a clear call to our business and
political leaders that our trade policies simply are not working. At the least,
not in the national interest." It is unlikely that the ever corporation-friendly
George W. Bush will do anything about this, as outsourcing reportedly saves
corporations 20-40% of cost per exported American job.
56. Losing Support I: The conservative newspaper The Economist says
that things are going poorly for the president in the international sphere -
In its June 23rd, 2005 issue, The Economist wrote: Mr. Bush's second term is
not going well. The most visible disaster remains Iraq: the euphoria of the
January election has worn off, six out of ten Americans want to bring their
troops home and he has failed to get much help from the Europeans. His secretary
of state, Condoleezza Rice, is (correctly) beating the drum for democracy in
the Middle East; but the face of American justice remains the internment camp
at Guantánamo Bay, which Mr. Bush seems unsure whether to close. A new
Pew survey of global attitudes to the United States shows hearts and minds are
not being won.
57. Losing Support I: The Economist doesn't think things are looking
too great for George domestically either - In its June 23rd, 2005 issue,
The Economist wrote: Things are also going badly at home, where his approval
ratings have dipped below 45%. The president has spent weeks on the road, flogging
his ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security system-and nobody seems to
be buying it. This week, the ever less loyal Republican Congress again held
up the nomination of John Bolton, his proposed ambassador to the United Nations.
Mr. Bush has had to postpone his efforts to reform the tax code, and he is struggling
to hold down government spending, after his first-term splurge, and also to
get through a tiny Central American trade deal. *57
58. Bush's approval rating is below 45% - After a high in
the upper seventies following Sept. 11, President Bush's approval rating has
steadily declined, with the exceptions of a few upward hiccups coinciding with
the start of the Iraq war and the capture of Saddam Hussein. According to The
Economist, as of June 25, 2005 Bush's approval rating had dipped below 45%.
*58
59. Bush is divisive - Rather than bringing the country together
as Bush promised in his re-election campaign, Bush has only more sharply divided
the country. Two of the main initiatives taken by the Bush administration in
the past year have only exacerbated already tense relations with the Democratic
Party - attempting to "save" the life of Terri Schiavo in Florida
and trying to force the Democrats to give up the filibuster they are using in
the Senate to stop his judicial nominations. It is a safe bet that Bush will
appoint a stringent conservative (as he has promised to do) to fill the place
of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, as well as potentially
Chief Justice William Rehnquist if his health continues to fail.
1. Miami Herald, 4/1/04
2. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=571
3. http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/29/medicaid.popularity.ap/index.html
4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, 2087-1593607,00.html
5. Bush Retreats to a Favorite Getaway: Crawford ranch, Houston Chronicle, April
11, 2004.
6. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/rumsfeld.senators/index.html
7. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/rumsfeld.senators/index.html
8. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/rumsfeld.senators/index.html
9. See Fort Bragg speech, 6/28/05
10. http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3208
11. http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/17/schiavo.governor.ap/index.html
12. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/bush.gay.marriage/index.html
13. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/21/bush.baptists.ap/index.html
14. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/21/bush.baptists.ap/index.html
15. Economist, 1/30/05
16. NYT, 2/6/2002
17. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=570
18. http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=571
20. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/24/women.combat/index.html
21. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/30/iraq.main/index.html
22. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/prez.iraq/index.html
24. http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.overview/index.html
25. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4105189
26. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4105189
27. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4105189
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