1,001 Reasons Not To Vote For Bush (Vol. 93)
921. Because in the 21st century, we really shouldn't be harking back to the 19th. As Seymour Hersh noted in the Oct. 27, 2004, Ann Arbor News: "I think one thing you have to face up to is the fact there are roughly 70 million people in America who do not believe in evolution - and those are Bush supporters."
922. A Bush administration flip-flop: The New York Times reported Oct. 27, 2004: "President Bush's aides told reporters that because the soldiers had found no trace of the missing explosives on April 10, they could have been removed before the invasion. They based their assertions on a report broadcast by NBC News on Monday night that showed video images of the 101st arriving at Al Qaqaa. By yesterday afternoon Mr. Bush's aides had moderated their view, saying it was a 'mystery' when the explosives disappeared and that Mr. Bush did not want to comment on the matter until the facts were known."
923. In the Oct. 27, 2004, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dan Simpson, a career diplomat and self-described "virtually a lifelong Republican," explains why he plans to vote for John Kerry. Among the reasons: "as a longtime foreign affairs professional I feel that George W. Bush has made an awful mess of U.S. policy."
924. From that Oct. 27, 2004, Post-Gazette piece: "I believe that he came to office with the intention of transferring as much of America's wealth as possible into the hands of defense contractors such as Dick Cheney's Halliburton and the oil companies that were his background and remain his so-called 'base.' The result is a U.S. economy on the skids."
925. And from that Oct. 27, 2004, Post-Gazette article: "All I can say is that I was not used to being systematically lied to by an American government that was cooking the intelligence on the basis of which it was supposed to be making serious decisions, such as to go to war."
926. An Oct. 26, 2004, Knight Ridder article says a senator is accusing the Bush administration of withholding documents on the flu vaccine shortage until after the election: " 'What is happening is obvious,' said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform. 'The administration is trying to delay the release of the vaccine documents until after the election. These documents should be released immediately.' "
927. Thanks to that Bush quote about jumping to conclusions without knowing the facts, Gen. Wesley Clark got the chance to say something you don't hear very often: "President Bush couldn’t be more right."
928. From Wesley Clark's statement, via Atrios: "He jumped to conclusions about any connection between Saddam Hussein and 911. He jumped to conclusions about weapons of mass destruction. He jumped to conclusions about the mission being accomplished. He jumped to conclusions about how we had enough troops on the ground to win the peace. And because he jumped to conclusions, terrorists and insurgents in Iraq may very well have their hands on powerful explosives to attack our troops, we are stuck in Iraq without a plan to win the peace, and Americans are less safe both at home and abroad."
929. The president who was going to restore decency and all has an affinity for a certain obscene gesture.
930. On Oct. 27, 2004, the Associated Press reported: "Four British citizens released from Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States seeking $10 million each in damages for abuse they allegedly suffered at the U.S. military outpost in Cuba, attorneys said Wednesday."



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