Bush Legacy List

[Sparky]

Bush Legacy List



Abu Ghraib
Abramoff, Jack
Afghanistan - Where's Osama?
Al-Qaeda - No credible link between 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks and Iraq
Attitude - Ignorance and Arrogance
Bin Laden, Osama
Brownie - You're doing a heckuvva job.
Bolton, John - Nobel Peace Prize nomination for a world-class thug
Budget - Education cuts; inability to stay within budget (see Deficit)
Chalabi, Ahmed
Cheney -18% approval rating. See Halliburton
Chertoff (see Katrina)
Constitution - a document to be ignored
Death Toll - Iraq, Afghanistan
Deception - WMDs
Deficit - Has sparked bipartisan protest
Education - No child left behind
Energy - Back tracking on alternative forms of energy
Enron
Environment - Clear Skies, Kyoto back out
Ethics - Scandals
Fallujah
Faulty Premise - the case for WMDs
FEMA
Filibuster - Might as well not have the option
Fleischer, Ari - See lies and lying liars
Freedom - See deception
Government Spending
Gajillion - New number used to describe our debt
Gonzales, Alberto - A sad excuse for Attorney General
Genocide in Darfur - We can't spare the troops for a legitimate cause
Global Warming
Halliburton - No bid contracts
Health Care - Don't get sick
Homeland Security
Honesty - Yes, can we have some please?
Hussein, Saddam - Friend, then enemy of Rummy
International Relations
Iraq
Impeach ?
Jingoism
Justice Alito
Justice Roberts
Katrina
Kickbacks - See Abramoff, Jack
Liberty
Lies
"Mission Accomplished"
McClellan, Scotty
Medicare Part D - AKA The prescription drug plan
No Child Left Behind - AKA dumbing down of the masses
National Security Administration - See behind you
Novak, Robert
Oil - Apparently we're addicted to it
Oligopoly
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Patriot Act
Petroleum Profits
Phosphorus, White - See WMD
Plamegate
Quagmire - Iraq
Questions but no answers
The Qur'an - Flushed down the toilet and pissed on by US soldiers
Rumsfeld, Donald
Reserves, AKA IED fodder in Iraq
Reserves, Alaskan Oil
Roe v. Wade - We hardly knew ye
SCOTUS, stacked and going down the tubes
Security of the ports in jeopardy
Saud, House of - AKA Bush Buddies (remember 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis)
Stem Cell research stymied
Tenet, George
Terror, War on - See Quagmire, political subterfuge
UN Commission on Human Rights - Not supported by the US
Unemployment
Vegetable - See Terri Schiavo
Vietnam, Overcoming the Syndrome - See Iraq
War - Claims we're at war, but there's been no act of congress
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Whittington, Harry - Shot in face and apologizes to Cheney
Women's Rights
Xenophobia
Xmas, The "war" on
Yellow-cake Uranium lies - AKA Yellowcake Forgery
Yale - Continues to devalue the currency of other Yale students
Yellow-bellied draft-dodgers - Sending other people's kids to war?
Zacharias Moussawi
Zig-zag - See rationales for war

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Good list. I think that reading some of the quotes can tell a lot about him as well. Maybe some of the best ones should be printed in the school books:

"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." —George W. Bush, Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005

"Wow! Brazil is big." —George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005

"My thoughts are, we're going to get somebody who knows what they're talking about when it comes to rebuilding cities." —George W. Bush, on rebuilding New Orleans, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 2, 2005

"The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations, and they've, uhh — because, we do share values. And, they're universal values, they're not American values or, you know — European values, they're universal values. And those values — uhh — being universal, ought to be applied everywhere." —George W. Bush, at a press conference with European Union dignitaries, Washington, D.C.,June 20. 2005.

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

“Well, we've made the decision to defeat the terrorists abroad so we don't have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education and literacy." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005

[I'm] occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005

"I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005

"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."—George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

"The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off." —George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

"When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one — my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world." —George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

"Another example would be the Dred Scott case, which is where judges, years ago, said that the Constitution allowed slavery because of personal property rights. That's a personal opinion. That's not what the constitution says. The constitution of the United States says we're all — you know, it doesn't say that. It doesn't speak to the equality of America." —George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo.", Oct. 8, 2004

"I think it's very important for the American President to mean what he says. That's why I understand that the enemy could misread what I say. That's why I try to be as clearly I can." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

"Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." —George W. Bush, telling Time magazine that he underestimated the Iraqi resistance

"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" —George W. Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Aug. 13, 2004

"Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life." —George W. Bush, Annandale, Va, Aug. 9, 2004

"Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." —George W. Bush, speaking to minority journalists, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004

"We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004

"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destabilize their country." —George W. Bush, interview with Al Arabiya Television, May 5, 2004

"We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom." —George W. Bush, Charlotte, N.C., April 5, 2004

"In my judgment, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences." —George W. Bush, Meet the Press, Feb. 8, 2004

"I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003

"We had a chance to visit with Teresa Nelson who's a parent, and a mom or a dad." —George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 9, 2003

"Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the world when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2003

"It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America." —George W. Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003

"I'm the master of low expectations." —George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 29, 2003