• Gutting the CIA, DIA, and NSA of independently minded analysts and replacing them with administration-friendly dupes to provide support for their preconceptions.
• Ignoring informed military advice regarding the Iraq war (beginning with Gen. Eric K. Shinseki and continuing with many others) including the results of war games from 1999 demonstrating that SecDef Rumsfeld’s 2003 invasion plan was disastrously ill-conceived.
• Allowing U.S. troops to be committed to combat in the absence of an exculpatory emergency with ‘the army they had’ rather than ‘the army they needed’ and for allowing SecDef Rumsfeld to arrogantly dismiss their concerns regarding their safety without remonstrance.
• Creating a National Debt that will burden our children and their children while putting the nation into hock to China and others who hold our debt but whose concerns are not our national well-being.
• Denying and lying to the American public about the nature and threat of Global Warming and failing to begin taking even the most rudimentary steps to preserve civilization as we know it for the future.
• Being the world’s largest arms supplier thus contributing to the largest, ongoing, human rights violation in history - the use of small arms in third-world conflicts.
• Demanding other nations give up terrorists to U.S. jurisdiction but refusing to give up convicted terrorists and indicted human rights abusers (José L. Carillos & Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada) to face justice in the countries having jurisdiction.
• Failing to aggressively pursue a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a wider Mideast peace policy thereby raising the threat of violence worldwide.
• Relying, without exception, to a narrow neoconservative voice in the execution of our foreign affairs and ignoring valid informed opinions advocating other courses of action.
• Failing to adhere to previous treaties and agreements such as the ABM treaty and the NPT agreements, for advocating the development and possible use of new nuclear weapons, for assisting India (an NPT non-signatory) in expanding its nuclear capabilities, for renouncing the “no first-use” policy on nuclear weapons thereby making the world a more dangerous place, by announcing (and implementing) a policy of pre-emptive war based on the paranoid delusion of the 1% doctrine, and for beginning the militarization of space.
• Failing to pursue Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and failing to support the nascent democracy there and, instead, transferring troops & material to attack Iraq thereby risking the very existence of the Afghan democracy.
• Concealing the construction of a Pakistani nuclear reactor capable of nuclear weapons production from Congress.
• Stubbornly refusing face-to-face negotiations with Iran and North Korea despite their repeated requests on the illogical reasoning that it would “reward” them for not complying with our demands.
• Pursuing a schizophrenic relationship with the United Nations in which we publicly condemn its inability to accomplish its goals and its corruption while denying guaranteed funds & dues payments needed to achieve those goals, insisting on internationally unpopular and scientifically unsound policies (E.g.; no mention of condoms in AIDS treatment), and refusing to join in international human rights policies, treaties, and protocols (International Criminal Court, Kyoto Protocol, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, International Flow of Illicit Small Arms 2001, Land Mine Treaty 1997, International Plan for Cleaner Energy, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 and the 1994 Agreement, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, 2000, World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, September 2001, Continuing a 39-year-old illegal U.S. embargo against Cuba strengthened by Bush, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cairo Action Plan, and the American Servicemember's Protection Act to name a few either initiated or continued by the Bush administration).

• Appointing unqualified corporate shills (read "lobbyist") to head government oversight agencies with whose entire raison ‘de terre they disagree.
• Providing billions of dollars of ‘corporate welfare’ to oil, gas, coal, tobacco, automobile, manufacturing, and other corporations that use that money to reduce worker’s benefits, outsource their jobs, and increase corporate profits & CEO benefits,
• Supporting legislation designed to open public lands, our National Parks, and resources to exploitation at cut-rate prices and with no, or minimal, benefit to the public.
• Refusing - repeatedly - to raise the minimum wage to a livable level,
• Supporting legislation to protect corporations from legal redress for pollution, tax-evasion, and employee abuse.
• Supporting legislation and court actions that work to destroy the power and unity of labor unions to further the profit-making goals of big business.
• Supporting legislation that penalizes debtors and made it harder to declare bankruptcy while doing nothing to lower the living costs creating those debts.
• Supporting legislation against net neutrality and for media conglomeration that consolidates mass communications in the hands of an elite few with the narrow interest of maximizing profits and who will espouse whatever politics serve that end with the resultant loss of local independent input and of minority voices.
• Removing laws that protect government & industry “whistleblowers” thus protecting ongoing malfeasance while punishing honesty.
• Siding with insurance companies to limit malpractice and other tort compensation such as workplace liability.
• Failing to regulate and demand legislation to lower pharmaceutical prices for Medicare Part D.
• Trying to privatize Social Security in order to benefit a wealthy few while failing to constructively address the real issues facing those approaching retirement.
• Failing to re-direct an American economy so dependent on the production of military goods & services that it will fail unless U.S. military action and arms sales continue at their current level - essentially precluding peace - all to insure the continued existence and profits of a bloated national “defense” arms industry.
• Being so intertwined with the corporations given reconstruction contracts in Iraq that they could get away with shoddy work, undelivered contractual promises, and untold billions of dollars of war profiteering because to investigate them would have brought the administration and its partisan no-bid contract awards into question.
• Outsourcing critical U.S. security operations (ports management and military-security operations) to businesses with questionable qualifications (Dubai Ports, Blackwater, etc.).
• Privatizing U.S. Governmental functions.  E.g.: Tax Collection.

• Advocating authoritarianism and extremism in our domestic and international relationships thus breaking down the norms of civil & political interactions.
• Failing to care for the poor and dispossessed by failing both in preparation and aftercare, especially the Gulf Coast Hurricane victims.
• Continuing to prosecute a so-called “War on Drugs” that has failed to attack or redress the root causes of drug abuse (poverty, illiteracy, hopelessness, and racism) but has succeeded in criminalizing a generation of African-American men and is going to do the same to Latinos while, at the same time, has extended our military penetration and control into Latin American countries inflaming their populations against us.
• Consciously conflating their administration as the political manifestation of Christianity in order to validate a political agenda.
• Pursuing a policy of global militarization with the self-evident goal of global American hegemony (a so-called “pax-Americana”) with, or without, the consent of those affected in order to monopolize a shrinking supply of fossil fuel and other natural resources.
• Allowing and assisting the corruption of Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and others in creating virtual female slave-labor colonies (including contractually bound mandatory abortions - despite their ’pro-life’ stance) in the U.S. Marianas so “Made In the U.S.A.” labels can be applied for the benefit of U.S. and Chinese manufacturing concerns.
• Turning the American political system into a childish game of sound-bite “gotcha” moments, deliberately “framing” arguments to avoid discussing them in substantive terms but, instead, conflating them with unrelated or tangential issues, unfairly demonizing its critics while remaining steadfast in ignoring corruption and hypocrisy within their own party all to achieve one goal - complete dominance of the American political process in order to advance their narrow authoritarian agenda.
• Instituting the politics of fear rather than rational discourse into the national political discussion.
• Supervising the subversion of the electoral process by trying to re-institute various voting “tests” such as voter I.D.s and by failing to insure a reliable voting process in favor of error-ridden electronic voting machines provided by partisan contractors.
• Denying and subverting science to further their pro-corporate and religious agendas.
• Tolerating the insertion of American propaganda into reputedly neutral U.S. and Iraqi news outlets.
• Defunding the Veteran’s Administration thus depriving our past & current veterans of guaranteed benefits and stripping an entire generation of war-injured veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan of healthcare they will desperately require causing them to rely on private care mainly at their expense.
• Intentionally creating funding shortages (“Starving the Beast”) in order to cut back on social service entitlements like children’s health care, full-service women’s clinics, indigent pre-natal care, Medicaid, homeless shelters, and much more by creating an artificial ‘lack’ of funds.  The so-called “YOYO” policy (You’re On Your Own).
• Failing to provide a system of healthcare that allows all Americans to access reasonably priced healthcare rather than the vastly more expensive alternative of emergency care in extremis.
• Diverting public funds from failing public schools into private schools of dubious quality and, often, with religious requirements at odds with the 1^st Amendment to the Constitution.           
• Supporting teaching religious doctrine to children as though it were scientific fact instead of teaching scientific fact regarding issues as diverse as Evolution, American History, and Health.
• Mandating religious doctrine rather than scientific data into healthcare choices regarding women’s healthcare, choice, contraception, and STD protection.
• Attempting to mandate the insertion of religious doctrine into the life and death choices faced by people dealing with their beloved relatives by legal decree.

Intentionally engaging in deception and fostering divisiveness by:

• Supporting the extreme position of the NRA and failing to control the widespread availability of handguns and assault weapons in this country.
• Evading the intent of laws passed by Congress through the use of “signing statements”.
• Evading lawful Congressional oversight of controversial appointees by use of recess appointments.
• Dismantling the Government’s Civil Rights division and, perversely, using it to defend challenges to affirmative action.
• For tolerating and advancing lies about the death of Pat Tillman and other U.S. servicemen killed under circumstances that would detract from the Administration’s pro-war stance.
• Failing to exercise leadership when GOP-led and funded groups (e.g.; Swift Boat Veterans for “Truth”) engaged in vicious character assassination and outright lies from which the Administration benefited.
• Continuing to interfere in the electoral processes of Latin American nations to a degree that is illegal for any other nation to do in the U.S.
• Appointing religious & political ideologues to the Supreme Court and to life-long Federal Court positions with the avowed intent of altering the social structure of our country under the false-flag of “strict constructionism“.
• Demonizing segments of society (feminists, GLBT, immigrant, non-Judeo-Christians, and others) in an attempt to fragment Americans into a “them” and “us” society (“Divide and Conquer”).

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