1,001 Reasons Not To Vote For Bush (Vol. 91)
901. They never learn. The BBC reported Oct. 26, 2004: "A secret document obtained from inside Bush headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals."
902. In the Oct. 27, 2004, edition of The Hill, Brad Bannon notes Bush's slippage in a Washington Post tracking poll and comments: "The Post survey indicates that a clear majority of Americans feel that state of the nation is pretty screwed up. More than half (55 percent) of the likely voters in the national voter poll feel that things in the United States have gotten seriously off the right track while only two out of every five Americans think that things generally are going in the right direction."
903. In his Hill commentary, Brad Bannon expands on that "seriously off the right track" stuff: "The economy is soft and Iraq is a quagmire. Americans are losing good paying jobs overseas and getting new jobs at the Taco Bell downtown. We have lost over a thousand young Americans in Iraq and there is no end in sight to American involvement there. The number of Americans living in poverty has increased in each of the last three years while the number of Americans who have health insurance has decreased in the same period."
904. In an Oct. 25, 2004, story about the nation's murder rate rising for the fourth consecutive year -- four years? what a coincidence! -- the nation's top law enforcement officer offered this view: "All across our country, law-abiding Americans are enjoying unprecedented safety."
905. The Oct. 26, 2004, Daily Mislead sums up another pitiful administration attempt to avoid responsibility:" In Iraq, 380 tons of powerful explosives have been looted and may have fallen into the hands of insurgents. In an effort to deflect blame, administration officials are pushing the theory that when 'U.S. forces...reached the Al Qaqaa military facility in early April 2003, the weapons cache was already gone.' This theory is not credible."
906. Why not? From the Oct. 26, 2004, Daily Mislead: "According to an AP report, U.S. solders visited the Al Qaqaa in April 2003 and 'found thousands of five-centimetre by 12-centimetre boxes, each containing three vials of white powder.' Officials who tested the powder said it was 'believed to be explosives.' Yesterday, 'an official who monitors developments in Iraq' confirmed that 'US-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact.' Thereafter, according to the official, 'the site was not secured by U.S. forces.' "
907. From the Oct. 22, 2004, Daily Outrage at The Nation: "Last week a former employee at the voter registration firm Sproul & Associates in Las Vegas--run by ex-Arizona Christian Coalition head Nathan Sproul and funded with $600,000 of GOP-money--said he witnessed co-workers shredding new applications of registered Democrats. (Investigations are under way in Oregon and West Virginia into similar Sproul allegations.)"
908. The Associated Press reported Oct. 26, 2004: "Iraq's interim prime minister blamed U.S.-led coalition forces Tuesday for 'great negligence' in the ambush that killed about 50 American-trained soldiers, and a U.S. airstrike in Fallujah killed an aide to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the military said."
909. In that Oct. 26, 2004, AP article, Ayad Allawi, the interim prime minister, is quoted as telling the Iraqi National Council: "You should expect an escalation in terrorist acts."
910. Guess Allawi isn't using those Bush speechwriters anymore. On Sept. 21, 2004, he had a slightly different tone at an appearance with Bush: "It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq. We are defeating terrorists."

- posted by Boots @ 10/27/2004 11:05:00 AM