19E. ANOTHER QUEER IN BUSH COURT

19E. ANOTHER QUEER IN BUSH COURT

There are now at least a dozen open homosexuals in the Bush administration. We are so fortunate that "Brother" Bush is a conservative Christian! Imagine what would happen if some LIBERAL (like AlGore or John Kerry) was in office?

Well, when liberal Democrat Bill Clinton was in office, he was able to get ONLY ONE avowed sodomite confirmed by Congress because the Republicans in Congress OPPOSED such perversion. However, now with one of their own in the Oval Office, the GOP votes party over principle and SUPPORTS the SAME things they once opposed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/322031p-275336c.html

Out of the closet & into sub-Cabinet?

President Bush isn't letting potential howls from the Christian right stop him from nominating an openly gay man as assistant secretary of commerce.

Just in time for Pride Week, Bush has tapped longtime aide Israel Hernandez for the post, which also carries the title of director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.

The 35-year-old Republican go-getter has been a Bush acolyte since the President's 1994 campaign for governor of Texas. (Among Hernandez's duties was supplying the candidate with breath mints, prompting Dubya to dub him "Altoid Boy.")

Most recently, the graduate of Texas A&M's George H.W. Bush School of Government served as aide-de-camp to senior White House adviser Karl Rove.

One source tells us Hernandez waited until Bush was sworn in for a second term to formally tell him he is gay. By then, says a source, he'd brought his partner to several official events.


19. SODOMITES IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION.


It has been previously documented that President Bush has named at LEAST nine known sodomites to important government positions, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan would make #10, (see #9 BSI). Several sources suggest he has named over a dozen more to lower positions. Several other probable "Log Cabin" sodomites in the Bush administration are named at http://www.daveblackonline.com/george_bush_on_sodomy.htm.

Remember, Bill Clinton only named ONE sodomite to his administration, and her to an undersecretary position (Roberta Achtenberg) - and that was the first one ever. No doubt there are some homosexuals in both administrations who are still in the closet (Janet Reno?), but next to Bush, Clinton seems to be a "homophobe".

When 'Slick' tried to name another (James Hormel), he was soundly REJECTED by the Republican-controlled Congress. Yet this SAME Republican-controlled Congress simply "rubber stamps" Bush when he does the SAME ABOMINABLE THINGS they rejected from Clinton.

This is not just out of ignorance on Bush's part. It is calculated and intentional. An article from Concerned Women of America (http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3266&department=CFI&categoryid=papers), linked on BushRevealed.com demonstrates that in one of the cases Bush first nominated a fundamental Christian, Jerry Thacker, a Bob Jones Alum who has a ministry to AIDS sufferers (the Scepter Institute), to the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS. Ralph Ovadal covers the incident at http://www.wcuweb.com/Documents/homo-fascismwatch/2003,1-31DecisionbyGeorgeBush.htm.

Thacker, whose family contracted AIDS through his wife's blood transfusion, believes homosexuality is a sin, like any Christian should (and Bro. Bush IS a Christian, isn't he?). He believes the solution to sodomy and its inherent diseases is for sodomites to receive Jesus Christ as Saviour.

Of course the Lavender Lobby howled. So Bro. Bush promptly dumped the Christian and replaced him with a homosexual.

Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said of Thacker, "The views that he holds are far, far removed from what the president believes."

They ARE? I thought Bush was a conservative Christian?

This time the development is that a homosexual prostitute, using an alias, had been given press credentials by the White House, and routinely called on by Bush's Press Secretary McClellan. This has also spurred some homosexual groups to threaten to 'out' the homosexuals in the Bush administration. Given that this article documents ten, with the likelihood of another dozen, who will be left for the queer groups to 'out'?

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42954

Homosexual press hot to 'out' Bush figures

Gannon-gate leads to charges about top Republican officials

February 21, 2005 By Joseph Farah

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

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19B. Bush Adm. Knew Who Queer Male Harlot Was.

He provided them with his real name, so any security check would've determined that reporter Jeff Guckert (AKA Gannon) was a homosexual male prostitute. And Congress confirms he was properly approved. That means the Bush administration okayed him with both eyes open, it was not an oversight.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=161

Secret Service responds on Gannon inquiry

says ‘no deviation’ from ‘proper procedures’

Secret Service says Gannon approved appropriately

By John Byrne RAW STORY
Editor

The Secret Service has responded to a request from House Democrats to investigate the approval of discredited White House correspondent ‘Jeff Gannon’ and says there was “no deviation” from “proper procedures,” RAW STORY can reveal.

The Service, which responded in a letter to Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Louise Slaughter on Monday, asserts that Gannon was approved appropriately.

“Please be advised that our Office of Protective Operations has looked into this matter and has determined that there was no deviation from Secret Service standards and procedures as your letter suggests,” wrote Secret Service Deputy Assistant Director Conrad A. Everett.

Mr. Guckert provided the Secret Service with his legal name, rather than his ‘pen name,’ and was assessed using the same criteria applied to all individuals seeking access to White House briefings.

“We would note,” Everett added, “that members of the press who are afforded access to the White House may utilize professional names that differ from their legal names. The Secret Service, however, requires that legal names be provided to enable the screening processes to work effectively.”

Rep. Slaughter, in a statement to be included with the Secret Service letter shortly, thanked the Service for their response but said it only raised more questions.

“While I appreciate the Secret Service’s response to some of our questions, the bigger picture remains,” Slaughter said in a statement to RAW STORY. “The relationship between this Administration and Jeff Gannon was anything but typical and the American people deserve the full, unvarnished truth.”

“Who at the White House was responsible for submitting Mr. Guckert’s name for clearance?” Slaughter added. “How often was he cleared? One what days did he receive a day pass? We deserve answers.”

Rep. Conyers will say the Service’s response dodged the issue.

“I thank the Secret Service for its partial response,” Conyers said, “but I am disappointed that it dodged the heart of the issue: who at the White House paved the way for Mr. Guckert to have repeated and staged access to the President.”

AmericaBLOG’s John Aravosis, who dug up indiscreet photos of Gannon selling his own escort services, says that a bigger unanswered question remains: If Gannon’s day pass was effectively equivalent to a “hard pass” given to long-term White House reporters, why didn’t Gannon get a more thorough background check?“Why do reporters with hard passes have to get three month background checks?” Aravosis asked. “The answer has to be [because of] their ongoing unfettered access to the White House.”

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19C. Queer Male Harlot Was Denied for Being Conservative.

Now here is a real interesting development. Gannon-Guckert was denied a press pass to Congress because of his associations with an ultra-conservative faction of the Republican party - but he was given a press pass to the White House without any trouble.

http://www.fcnp.com/450/besen.htm

Interestingly, Guckert was denied Capitol Hill press passes because Talon News was considered an illegitimate right wing propaganda service run by Republican rabble-rouser Bobby Eberle. Yet, he somehow got into the White House. At the heart of the scandal are a couple of crucial questions: Was Guckert simply an ambitious prostitute or a propitious presidential plant? If he was a plant, exactly who greased the wheels that got him past tight security? The vulgar scandal has revived Washington whispers that the supposedly anti-gay Republican Party is really nothing less than a gay affirmative action program.

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19D. Queer Karl Rove Outed.

Yet another key member of the Bush administration turns out to be a sodomite. That makes at least 11. Karl Rove is the one who shaped Bush's reelection strategy. Ironically, he's the one who pushed Bush's campaign as a "morality" candidacy.

One queer after another keeps appearing in Bush's wake. Pretty soon it'll be hard to find someone in the Bush administration who isn't queer.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=65&contentid=1997

Karl Rove Seen at Homosexual Orgies in Washington

by TOM FLOCCO

Walter Storch, editor of the Barnes Review News reported three weeks ago that "Karl Rove was seen by one of my people entering a private homosexual orgy at a five-star Washington hotel over the Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) weekend last year." [2004]

A Barnes reporter told Storch that "Karl greatly enjoyed the supervision of a certain hairy 350-lb. Leather Dominator who had won the Miss Virginia Daddy Bear title at the MAL festivities."

Storch wrote, "Karl used to hang out a JR’s, which is on 17th between P & S streets, before he became so well-known. This is a respectable gay bar for discreet people...," adding, "there is an expensive apartment...over near Dupont Circle that certain powerful senators take turns visiting with their pickups."

"Bush, via Karl Rove, was projected as a moral man who would return a hedonistic America to the simpler virtues of a bygone era. A large part of the American public, unhappy with what they saw as debilitating liberalism, abortion on demand, gay marriage and other forms of moral decay, put Bush back in office," said the Barnes editor.

18A, 18B, & 18C. Bush Middle East Inconsistencies.

President Bush continues to make confusing and conflicting statements pertaining to peace in the Middle East. Recall that Bush insisted he will bring peace to the Middle East this term (#28 BSI). He has also increased funding to Muslim terrorist groups (#17 BSI, #1 BSII).

Here he calls for a "contiguous Palestine" on Israeli land. No country of Palestine has ever existed. Palestinians are largely an outgrowth of Jordan, but nobody is asking Jordan (or any of the two dozen Arabic countries) to forfeit any of their land for their own people.

If it is such an imperative to have a "contiguous Palestine" can we assume that he also wants a "contiguous Israel"? That would mean Israel gets all of Jerusalem and they can remove that silly Islamic Dome of the Rock and begin to rebuild the Jewish Temple there. A good deal of Bible prophecy rests on how that will come about.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050221/D88D0NN02.html

Bush Calls for 'Contiguous' Palestine

Feb 21, 11:26 AM (ET)

By TOM RAUMBRUSSELS, Belgium

(AP) - President Bush on Monday laid out a checklist for Israel and Palestine to achieve peace with two independent states, including an insistence that the Palestinians get contiguous land in the West Bank.

"A state on scattered territories will not work," Bush said during a speech in the first overseas trip of his second term.

Bush pressed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be forthcoming on giving up Israeli settlements in the West Bank when peace negotiations on a Palestinian state reach their final stage. On Sunday, Israel's cabinet agreed for the first time since capturing the West Bank and Gaza 38 years ago to dismantle some of the dozens of Jewish settlements it has built there.

Bush said Israel must freeze settlement activity and help Palestinians build their economy for the peace process to work. For the Palestinians' part, Bush said their leaders must confront and dismantle terrorist groups, fight corruption, encourage free enterprise and give authority with the people in democracy.

Bush outlined the steps during a wide-ranging speech designed to repair strained relationships with Europe. Bush put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the top of a list of common goals between the U.S. and its allies.

"Our greatest opportunity and immediate goal is peace in the Middle East," Bush said.

Bush pledged U.S. and European support to help implement a U.S. backed schedule for achieving peace and an independent Palestinian state and help the Palestinians build their economic, political and security institutions.

He said he hoped Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will lay out a plan for reform at a conference in London next month hosted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Bush said he's sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "to convey America's strong support for the Palestinian people as they build a democratic state."

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18B. Mrs. Bush to Honor Islam.

The Jew haters will again pretend like this stuff isn't happening, but once again the Bush's are lending their support to Islam.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44389

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU

Bush Temple Mount visit fuels Jewish group's anger

First lady's ascent to holy site called measure 'to honor Islam'

May 21, 2005

By Aaron Klein

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – A group that led a Jewish protest at the Temple Mount last month in hopes of reclaiming the site from its Islamic custodians has expressed disappointment that U.S. First Lady Laura Bush, who arrives here tomorrow, plans to visit the Mount to honor Muslim tradition.

Bush, touring Jordan today, arrives in Israel tomorrow as part of a wider Middle East tour aimed at advancing regional peace and encouraging Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in accordance with the U.S.-backed road map.

According to Israeli media reports, the First Lady will visit the Temple Mount, among other religious sites.

U.S. officials said Bush had requested activities to honor Israel's three religions during her Israel visit. She will tour the Western Wall to pay respects to Judaism, visit a church in Jericho to honor Christianity, and ascend the Temple Mount to express good will toward Islam, said an official.

But David Ha'ivri, director of Revava, a Jewish Temple Mount activist group, said he is concerned Bush's visit will be perceived as official American recognition of Islamic control of the Mount.

"It's a major misconception," Ha'ivri told WND. "Many think the Temple Mount is the holy place of Muslims and the Kotel (Western Wall) is the holy place for Jews. No, the Kotel is only holy because it's part of a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, which itself is the holiest place for Jews. It was the location of our first and second Temples, and will be the site of our third." Ha'ivri continued: "On her visit to the most holy place on earth for Jews – the Temple Mount – we are calling on Mrs. Bush to demand freedom of access to Jewish worshipers and open a dialogue to return the Temple Mount to its rightful owners, the Jews."

Ha'ivri last month sparked international dialogue when he announced plans to bring 10,000 Jews to the Temple Mount, prompting Muslims throughout the Middle East to hold demonstrations against Jewish claims to the site. On the protest day, only about 200 Jewish protesters were allowed past intense security, which included over 3,500 Israeli police stationed at checkpoints and entrances throughout the Old City, the walled section of Jerusalem that encompasses the Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their planned intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area. Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.

The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It is still open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered "sensitive" by the Waqf, the Muslim custodians of the Temple Mount.

During "open" days, Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site.

Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.

"The situation is simply intolerable," said Ha'ivri, who promised future protests. "This is a Jewish state. The Temple Mount is the most holy Jewish site. We're not going away until Jews can once again pray there unrestricted."

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18C. Bush Again Aids Islam Terrorists.

By gov't standards, $50 million might not be a lot of money (then give it to me!), but giving more money to the Muslim terrorists will do nothing to bring peace into the area, nor anything for the cause of Christ, the interest of America, or the cause of conservatism.

Bush wants to take land away from Israel and keep them from expanding in their OWN country, to comply with his arbitrary "roadmap", while he praises the Arabs for rejecting terror. Is he sane? The Palestinian Authority he is giving our money to ARE terrorists. They were Arafat's group!

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid%3DA32TSUZTD4LNACRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=8618342

Bush pledges $50 million in aid for Palestinians

May 26, 2005

By Wafa Amr and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush pledged $50 million in aid for the Palestinians Thursday and urged Israel to stop settlement expansion and other activities that could prejudice negotiations on a final peace deal.

Standing with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a White House Rose Garden news conference, Bush also said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would travel to Jerusalem and Ramallah to consult with Israeli and Palestinian leaders about Israel's planned August pullout from the Gaza Strip.

Abbas, the first Palestinian president to visit Washington since peace talks collapsed in 2000, complained of Israeli settlement activity and said "time is becoming our greatest enemy."

"We must end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before it is too late," Abbas said.

Bush's announcement of U.S. aid to the Palestinians for Gaza Strip projects was a symbolic gesture of support for Abbas, who has sought money to be channeled directly to the Palestinian Authority instead of through third parties.

"To help ensure that the Gaza disengagement is a success, the United States will provide the Palestinian Authority $50 million to be used for new housing and infrastructure projects in the Gaza," Bush said. The United States each year provides Israel more than $2 billion.

Washington, eager to embark on the stalled peace "road map," has welcomed Abbas' vow to seek statehood by peaceful means as well as a cease-fire he declared with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in February and persuaded militants to accept.

Sharon has demanded, however, that Abbas do more to bring a complete halt to militant violence, which has broken out again from time to time despite the truce. Sharon is grappling with rightist protests against the planned Gaza pullout while Palestinians worry that the unilateral withdrawal will divert attention from Israel's settlement expansions in the West Bank, while keeping the small strip of land isolated.

Bush's pressure on Israel to stop settlement expansion and other activities was a nod to another main Abbas concern. "Israel should not undertake any activities that contravenes road map obligations or prejudices final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Therefore Israel must remove unauthorized outposts and stop settlement expansion," Bush said.

The U.S. president also raised questions about a barrier that Israel is building in the name of security but which Palestinians call a disguised annexation of land. "The barrier being erected by Israel as a part of its security effort must be a security rather than political barrier and its route should take into account, consistent with security needs, its impact on Palestinians not engaged in terrorist activities," he said.

Bush also said the Palestinians have work to do to help jump-start the peace process, such as fighting corruption and reforming Palestinian security services. "The United States and the international community applaud your rejection of terrorism," he told Abbas.

"All who engage in terror are the enemies of a Palestinian state and must be held to account," Bush said.

Scorecard Updates: # 6, 10, and 11

Please click on these links for updates to :

• # 6 A, B, C and D
• # 10 A & B
• # 11 A, B, and C

Thank you, ed.

17. Bush Pushes Expensive "Free" Trade.

It doesn't matter what side of the free-trade vs. fair-trade argument you are on - we are being sold an expensive bill of goods by President Bush.

His previous "free" trade efforts, such as NAFTA, GATT, and WTO have cost America millions of jobs and moved markets to countries where nobody has any money. We have shipped out our high-tech and industrial jobs overseas and replaced some of them with entry-level service jobs to keep the numbers from appearing as bad as they actually are (Would you like to "super-size" that order?).

Bush would like to super-size the damage caused by these New World Order trade agreements. He wants to expand the devastation caused by NAFTA with CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) and FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas Agreement). Now besides losing jobs to Mexico, we'll lose them to Honduras, Venezuela, and other countries south of Mexico, many of which have become Communist in recent years. Mexico will also lose some of the jobs they stole from us to the same nations.

NAFTA contained some 2,000 pages. Can someone tell me how a FREE trade agreement can contain 2,000 pages of trade REGULATIONS?

Apparently the modern definitions are that anything that hurts America is considered "free trade" and anything that helps America is considered "fair trade". But why do the conservative Republicans continue to support the type of trade that harms America? It's almost as if they weren't on our side.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=509736

Bush Economic Report Pushes Free Trade

Bush's Economic Report Argues the Benefits of Free and Fair Trade Despite Criticisms

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Feb 17, 2005 — Contending that Americans benefit from free trade, President Bush said Thursday he would keep pursuing liberalization agreements around the world, even as critics say his policies have resulted in record trade deficits and millions of lost jobs.

Bush's pledge came in his annual economic report to Congress, a 438-page document that argued that his economic policies, ranging from making his first-term tax cuts permanent to overhauling Social Security, will lead to greater prosperity.

TG: Wait a minute. Make the tax CUTS permanent while overhauling Social Security, which he has already proposed tax HIKES to accomplish? Whoever is working Puppet Bush's marionette strings is truly a master puppeteer. He made the guy say two *opposite* things at the same time, out of the same mouth. That's impressive.

"I believe that Americans benefit from open markets and free and fair trade and I am working to open up markets around the world and make sure that the playing field is level for our workers, farmers, manufacturers and other job creators," Bush said in his message to Congress.

The administration devoted an entire chapter to extolling the benefits of free trade and seeking to answer critics who contend the country's soaring trade deficits, which last year hit a record of $617.7 billion, were costing millions of jobs.

However, the report did not repeat an argument made last year that critics viewed as endorsing the idea that the "outsourcing" of American jobs to lower-wage countries represented a benefit to the U.S. economy.

TG: He couldn't make that insane argument again. Some of us catch on after getting burnt a few times.

16. The Fuhrer Selects Herr Negroponte.

President Bush selected John Negroponte to be America's first National Intelligence director.

If you recall, this was the American version of the Gestapo or KGB, when 14 U.S. intelligence agencies were combined into one powerful federal leviathan (see #23 on Scorecard I).

Negroponte is certainly qualified when it comes to being oppressive on the federal level (or higher). He was the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (that alone is socialistic enough) responsible for pushing the U.N. resolutions that became the excuse to invade Iraq, even though the image was that "Cowboy" Bush bucked the U.N. The fact is, the U.S. was doing the U.N.'s dirty work, and taking all the heat for it.

He was most recently our Ambassador to Iraq, and we all see how well that's going.

Administration sources say some other candidates declined the post because the legislation creating the intel job was too vague in describing its authority. Well, someone seeking *unconstitutional* authority would not be bothered by vague laws. The vagueness makes them easier to apply as desired and harder for citizens to defend against.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050217/D88AC8RO1.html

Bush Nominates Negroponte As Intel Chief

Feb 17, 11:20 AM (ET)

By KATHERINE SHRADER

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently the administration's top representative in Iraq, to be America's first national intelligence director.

Announcing the move, Bush said that Negroponte understands global intelligence needs because he's had a long career in the foreign service.

Bush also said that Negroponte will make decisions on the budgets for the various intelligence agencies.

"John will make sure that those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions," the president said.

TG: Yes, Big Brother will have all he needs to know about us. He will be reading this rebuttal on the internet faster than you are right now. In fact, I think I hear someone knocking at my door right now ...

Bush named Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden, who has served as director of the National Security Agency since March 1999, as Negroponte's deputy. He is the longest serving director of the secretive codebreaking agency and has pushed for changes, such as asking longtime agency veterans to retire and increasing reliance on technology contractors.

TG: Ah yes, get rid of all those old timers who still might remember that we have a Constitution we're supposed to operate under.

Discussing the authority that Negroponte will have, Bush said that "people who control the money, people who have access to the president generally have a lot of influence. And that's why John Negroponte is going to have a lot of influence. He will set the budgets."

TG: He will set the budgets? Why, according to the Constitution (the WHAT?) that's only the job of Congress. All legislative powers are vested in Congress, and all revenue bills must originate in the House.

Bush said he had not received any preliminary findings from the commission that's investigating failures of prewar intelligence - headed by former Sen. Chuck Robb, R-Va., and Republican Laurence Silberman - which is expected to issue a final report next month.

Negroponte, 65, was at the United Nations when he was tapped to take on the delicate job of transforming the U.S. presence in Iraq from that of an occupier to that of an adviser. Bush chose him for the job last April and he went to Baghdad hours after the handover of sovereignty to Iraq's interim government.

TG: Being that Negroponte was our Ambassador to the U.N. and to Iraq during these "failures of prewar intelligence", you don't think he might be somewhat responsible for ... oh, no, of course not.

According to one well-informed administration official, former CIA director Robert Gates was Bush's first choice but Gates and some other candidates declined the post.

They worried that the legislation establishing the intelligence job was too vague in outlining its authority, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington were the impetus for legislation passed by Congress and signed by Bush, creating the new position.

The bill represented the most sweeping intelligence legislation in over 50 years. The director of national intelligence will hold a pre-eminent role in U.S. national security affairs and coordinate the work of all 15 U.S. intelligence agencies.

Spokeswoman Sarah Little said Negroponte told the senator he would need to return to Iraq to tie up issues there. Little said the confirmation may be weeks away.

TG: That's probably an optimistic prediction. It will take years to tie up issues in Iraq.

As ambassador to the United Nations, Negroponte helped win unanimous approval of a Security Council resolution that demanded Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein comply with U.N. mandates to disarm.

Negroponte worked to expand the role for international security forces in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban government.

Negroponte's confirmation to the United Nations post was delayed a half-year mostly because of criticism of his record as the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985.

In Honduras, he played a prominent role in assisting the Contras in Nicaragua in their war with the left-wing Sandinista government. Human rights groups alleged that Negroponte acquiesced in human rights abuses by Honduran death squads funded and partly trained by the CIA.

Negroponte testified during the hearings for the U.N. post that he did not believe death squads were operating in Honduras.

TG: He didn't believe any death squads existed there, but he did believe WMDs existed in Iraq. And this guy is now in charge of all U.S. intelligence?

In the past year, the intelligence community has been faced with a series of negative reports, including the work of the Sept. 11 commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry on the flawed Iraq intelligence.

TG: Flawed what in the past year? And Negroponte has been working where for the past year?

15. Bush Administration Fights Former American POWs.

Why in the world would the Bush administration fight against our POWs? These are the guinea pigs the Bush administration sent to fight this futile, fraudulent war on terror. Even more, these suffered as prisoners of war, undergoing torture. Of all the people for Bush to stab in the back, he picked the ones he should reward. But our POWs have been shafted in every war since WWII, so it's no surprise that Bush continues the abuse of America's finest.

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-pow15feb15.story

White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis fight the Bush administration in trying to collect compensation.

By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.

The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The rationale: Today's Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.

TG: The Iraqis get the money instead of our POWs? Abominable.

The case abounds with ironies. It pits the U.S. government squarely against its own war heroes and the Geneva Convention.

Many of the pilots were tortured in the same Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, where American soldiers abused Iraqis 15 months ago. Those Iraqi victims, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said, deserve compensation from the United States.

TG: And the Iraqi victims get money too. Everybody but our POWs.

But the American victims of Iraqi torturers are not entitled to similar payments from Iraq, the U.S. government says.

"It seems so strange to have our own country fighting us on this," said retired Air Force Col. David W. Eberly, the senior officer among the former POWs.

The 17 Gulf War POWs looked to have a very strong case when they first filed suit in 2002. They had been undeniably tortured by a tyrannical regime, one that had $1.7 billion of its assets frozen by the U.S. government. The picture changed, however, when the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Hussein from power nearly two years ago.

On July 21, 2003, two weeks after the Gulf War POWs won their court case in U.S. District Court, the Bush administration intervened to argue that their claims should be dismissed.

"No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through at the hands of this very brutal regime and at the hands of Saddam Hussein," White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters when asked about the case in November 2003.

Government lawyers have insisted, literally, on "no amount of money" going to the Gulf War POWs. "These resources are required for the urgent national security needs of rebuilding Iraq," McClellan said.

TG: More money goes to rebuilding Iraq, but none to our POWs. Pitiful.

On July 7, 2003, the judge handed down a long opinion that described the abuse suffered by the Gulf War POWs, and he awarded them $653 million in compensatory damages. He also assessed $306 million in punitive damages against Iraq. Lawyers for the POWs asked him to put a hold on some of Iraq's frozen assets.

No sooner had the POWs celebrated their victory than they came up against a new roadblock: Bush administration lawyers argued that the case should be thrown out of court on the grounds that Bush had voided any such claims against Iraq, which was now under U.S. occupation.

Already frustrated by the turn of events, the former POWs were startled when Rumsfeld said he favored awarding compensation to the Iraqi prisoners who were abused by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib.

TG: Rumsfield and Bush are tag team partners vying against our POWs. What a travesty.

"I am seeking a way to provide appropriate compensation to those detainees who suffered grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the U.S. military. It is the right thing to do," Rumsfeld told a Senate committee last year.

14. Bush already violating his "tight" budget.

The ink isn't even dry on the budget that Bush is crowing about and already he is violating it by adding $billions for the war on terror that are NOT included in his budget. His increases on spending for public relations and faith-control initiatives are odious enough, but at least they were included in the budget. No doubt this is only the beginning, showing that his budget isn't worth the paper it's printed on (then again, a $2.6 TRILLION budget takes a LOT of paper).

Remember, this is the unconstitutional war that was supposed to pay for itself with the oil we gained.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050214/D888CR4G0.html

Bush Wants $82B More for Iraq, Afgan Costs

Feb 14, 11:10 AM (ET)

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush was poised to officially ask Congress Monday for an estimated $82 billion in additional funds to cover the costs of continuing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The White House was to send the supplemental budget request to Capitol Hill late Monday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters.

Last Monday, Bush submitted an overall $2.5 trillion budget for Fiscal 2006. That document called for restraining spending across a wide swath of government programs from popular farm subsidies to poor people's health programs.

Spending on the military, the biggest part of discretionary spending, would rise by 4.8 percent in 2006 to $419.3 billion. But this figure does not include the estimated $82 billion that the administration wants to pay for the ongoing military expenses in Iraq and the Middle East.

Administration officials, who discussed this special request late last month on grounds of anonymity, had said that $75 billion of it would be for U.S. military costs, with the rest including funds to train and equip Iraqi and Afghan forces, aid the new Palestinian leadership, build an embassy in Baghdad and help victims of warfare in Sudan's Darfur province.

Congress approved $25 billion for the wars last summer. Using figures compiled by the Congressional Research Service, which prepares reports for lawmakers, the newest request would push the totals provided for the conflicts and worldwide efforts against terrorism past $300 billion. That includes $25 billion already provided for rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a written statement on this issue earlier, President Bush had said the special appropriation would support U.S. troops and help the United States "stand with the Iraqi people and against the terrorists trying desperately to block democracy and the advance of human rights."

13. Bush Supports Liberal Restrictions on Free Speech

This bill exposed a lot of phonies in Washington. Without question it is a liberal Democrat bill that restricts free speech in violation of the very first Amendment of the Bill of Rights. It's not to surprising that overtly liberal Republican joined with ultra-liberal Russ Feingold, but it was a bit surprising that the Republican-majority Congress blew their pseudo-conservative cover and passed the bill, and the Republican-majority Supreme Court upheld it. It shouldn't have been surprising to anyone who pays attention to what's going on that fake conservative Republican President George Bush signed it.

It's amazing how conservative Christians can't see through these fakers, when they hardly even make a pretense at being Constitutional conservative Americans anymore. At least there are a few conservatives who are trying to rescind this abomination.

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\\Politics\\archive\\200502\\POL20050209b.html

McCain-Feingold 'Antidote' Re-Introduced in House

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com
Morning Editor
February 09, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - Those who believe that campaign finance "reform" didn't reform anything are rallying behind a newly re-introduced bill called the First Amendment Restoration Act.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), is intended to overturn portions of the McCain-Feingold law that prevent advocacy groups from running certain political ads in the days leading up to an election.

Free speech advocates describe Bartlett's bill as an antidote to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which they see as an effort to protect incumbent politicians from criticism.

"Passing the First Amendment Restoration Act will be a good and necessary first step toward repairing the damage done to Americans' constitutional rights by so-called 'campaign finance reform,' said the Center for Individual Freedom."

Right now, those 'reforms' prevent voters from talking about their elected representatives just when other citizens are most likely to be listening -- before elections.

The First Amendment Restoration Act will begin to give Americans back their free speech rights, said Reid Cox, the Center's general counsel.

Under McCain-Feingold, advocacy groups may not buy broadcast ads naming a specific candidate ("Vote for Joe", "Defeat Sam") within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary.

To the surprise of many McCain-Feingold opponents, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld key elements of the law that Congress passed and President Bush signed.

"Our leaders should be listening carefully to what the American people have to say, especially during elections, rather than trying to ban them from saying anything at all," Cox said in a press release."The First Amendment Restoration Act will help ensure that our elected representatives hear from their constituents 365 days a year. Surely all Americans can agree that our government should not be limiting political speech in the days, weeks and months before we decide who should lead us next."

Despite the law intended to curb campaign spending, the 2004 presidential election was the most expensive in history.

Sen. McCain is now proposing a crackdown on 527 groups -- which accounted for much of the political spending in 2004. Those 527 groups, named after a section of the tax code, are exempt from "soft money" limits imposed on political parties

12. U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks.

WHAT? The U.S. is refusing to have talks with North Korea? Why those intolerant war mongers! North Korea ought to nuke 'em if they don't want to use diplomacy and negotiation. Here's North Korea making an effort at diplomacy and peace, and the U.S. is spurning their efforts.

If the U.S. demanded one-on-one talks, and North Korea refused, no doubt Bush would call them "evil" and use that to justify attacking them. Even if they are evil (which they are), that doesn't give the U.S. the right to be hypocrites.

Wasn't that part of the U.S. excuse to attack Saddam? He refused diplomacy?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050211/D886D24G0.html

U.S. Refuses One-On-One North Korea Talks

Feb 11, 10:36 AM (ET)

By DEB RIECHMANN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration said Friday that it wasn't interested in one-on-one talks with North Korea about its nuclear programs outside the six-party negotiations involving the communist nation's neighbors.

"It's not an issue between North Korea and the United States. It's a regional issue," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. "And it's an issue that impacts all of its neighbors."

North Korea has plenty of opportunity to talk to the United States within six-party talks, McClellan said.

TG: But I thought the Bush administration didn't care about the UN community? I thought the cowboy was going to do what's right even if the "world community" didn't follow?

In an interview with a South Korean newspaper Friday, North Korea's U.N. envoy demanded bilateral talks with the United States.

"We will return to the six-nation talks when we see a reason to do so and the conditions are ripe," Han Sung Ryol told Seoul's Hankyoreh newspaper in an interview published Friday.

"If the United States moves to have direct dialogue with us, we can take that as a signal that the United States is changing its hostile policy toward us."

11A, 11B and 11C. Homeland Czar can "suspend all laws".

An obscure portion of the "REAL ID Act of 2005" dealing with securing our borders gives the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to "waive all laws" as he determines necessary for construction of roads and barriers, and they are not subject to any judicial review. That's more power than some kings and dictators have. It may have been meant for a limited purpose, but no limitations are in the law. They can twist that law to apply to almost anything under the realm of "Homeland Security" and "protecting our borders". That certainly explains why the votes on some of these Homeland security bills were taken before the bills were even written and issued. Otherwise they would never have passed even our liberal Congress.

That ability would be dangerous enough in the hands of a trustworthy, loyal, constitutional American - but remember who the nominee for Homeland Czar is. Peter Chertoff, the lone Clinton holdover lawyer who covered up the suspicious death of Vince Foster and has defended the interests of Osama bin Laden! (see #'s 61 & 97 [Link to Bush Scorecard ]).

We won't have to worry about Hillary becoming president in 2008 - she'll already be in total control through Chertoff as Homeland Czar and Bill Clinton at the UN. And some of you thought you were voting for Bush. You didn't know you were REALLY voting for Hillary!

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42787

ON CAPITOL HILL

Homeland chief to 'waive all laws'?Security provision in REAL ID Act gives feds broad powers at border

February 10, 2005

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Opposition to a homeland-security bill brought to the floor of Congress yesterday largely has centered on fears it would lead to a national ID, but some critics point to an overlooked section that apparently gives the White House sweeping powers to suspend laws for the purpose of protecting U.S. borders.

Section 102 of the REAL ID Act of 2005 seeks to expedite the building of a three-mile fence at the border near San Diego to staunch the flood of illegal aliens that travel through an area known as "smuggler's gulch."

Environmental laws have been the project's chief roadblock, but the bill's language appears to provide an unlimited scope, reading, "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section."

Significantly, it also says courts are prohibited from reviewing the secretary's decision.

"Taking judicial review away is quite dramatic," [Cato Institute's Jim Harper] told WND. "The secretary, under a strict reading, could waive any law and conceivably detain people, wiretap -- the list would go on and on of the laws that could be waived."

SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.

Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:

(c) Waiver-

(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.

(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court shall have jurisdiction--

• (A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
• (B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.

The bill's chief sponsor, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., says the main purpose is to "prevent another 9-11 attack by disrupting terrorist travel."

TG: Do you see that? This bill's chief sponsor is a supposed ultra-conservative Republican who was vocally against some of the earlier Homeland legislation because it violated American liberty. Now here he is, after building that trust, supporting a potentially worse Homeland bill than what he criticized!

"The ostensible purpose is to allow the Homeland Security secretary to operate in that one area -- but 'all laws'? Would that include the Posse Comitatus Act?" Jeff Deist, spokesman for Rep. Ron Paul asked, referring to the measure passed in 1878 that bars the Army, and now the Air Force also, from executing laws except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. Paul contends that despite Sensenbrenners' denials, the REAL ID Act moves the country toward creation of a national ID card.

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11B. Friend of Bill and Osama Confirmed as HS Czar.

Congress confirmed Peter Chertoff as Homeland Security Chief today (2-15-05). There are some odd things about Chertoff that make him the last guy who should be in charge of Homeland Security.

When Bill Clinton took office, he shocked Washington by firing all the U.S. attorneys - except ONE. Guess who that one was?

Chertoff also covered up the suspicious death of Vince Foster, but that's not all. He has defended the interests of Osama bin Laden! (see #'s 61 & 97 Bush Scorecard). It was expected that would hinder his confirmation, after all, bin Laden is the main terrorist the Homeland Security department is supposed to be protecting us from. Having the guy who defended Osama's financiers in charge of Homeland Security is a classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse. But Congress approved him anyway. Are they that stupid, or are they complicit in the undermining of America? I can't believe they are that stupid.

Since this is related to #11, I'll be generous and not even make this another item, but attach it as 11B. That way no one can accuse me of stretching the case against Bush and his administration.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050215/2005-02-15T212427Z_01_N15487355_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-CHERTOFF-DC.html

Senate Confirms New Homeland Security Chief

Feb 15, 4:24 PM (ET)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who testified against torture and preached the need to protect civil liberties, won Senate confirmation on Tuesday to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department.

TG: Oh look at this spin! They paint him as a concerned good-guy and conveniently omit the things I mentioned above.

The Senate approved President Bush's nomination of the former U.S. assistant attorney general to succeed Tom Ridge as secretary of the department created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The vote completed Senate action on Bush's second-term cabinet, though he still must fill some key, non-cabinet jobs -- like the newly created post of director of national intelligence.

Democrats and Republicans praised Chertoff for agreeing to give up a lifetime job as a federal appeals court judge to accept the tough task of bolstering national security.

Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, noted that Chertoff explained his reason why at a confirmation hearing earlier this month before her homeland security committee."The call to serve in helping protect America was the one call I could not decline," Collins quoted Chertoff as saying.

TG: Yes, what a statesman! Too bad it's not in favor of the American state.

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11C. Chertoff Covered Up Everything.

The article at the URL below is lengthy, but it shows just why Chertoff should be the last guy in charge of Homeland Security. He was involved in sweeping things under the rug in virtually every incident of terrorism in America. President Bush cannot possibly be so ignorant of these things, but the only alternative is that he supports the Gestapo/KGB tactics of the man he nominated.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick4.htm

This report presents a study of Michael Chertoff’s role in the 1993 WTC bombing, the OKC bombing and the 9-11 terrorist attacks as well as Chertoff’s coverup of FBI and DOJ foreknowledge and provocation of these attacks. The information in the report strongly implicates Chertoff in intentionally helping create and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in order to provide a pretext for much of the controversial police state provisions in laws which Chertoff has helped write. Chertoff’s unethical and criminal roles and conduct revealed in this report raises grave concerns that Chertoff, as head of Homeland Security, would further attempt to impose a US police state and continue to use illegal, unconstitutional and immoral tactics against the America people.

10A and 10B. Bush to Increase Gov't Control of Churches

"Brother" Bush calls this control his "faith-based initiative". When it comes to gov't subsidized programs, there are always string attached - sometimes ropes and cables. Anything the gov't funds, the gov't controls. The initiative has already been used to prevent churches from "injecting religion" into their programs (see #'s 48 & 70).

The religion injected included encouraging people to witness their faith, read the scriptures, and attend church services. Those are among the most basic things a church is SUPPOSED to do. Therefore (Big) "Brother" Bush, the wonderful, conservative, Christian President, is actively hindering Christian churches from performing their most basic ministry activities under his own program. He can't blame this on his aides, congress, or the courts - this was his brainchild.

Not only that, but despite Bush's self-professed "lean" budget (see previous item #9), calling for alleged tightening, it's more than curious that he decided to increase funding for this intrusive program by more than 60%. It must be a real priority for "Bro." Bush to put the handcuffs and leg irons on Christian churches.

http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2913663


Bush budget boosts funding for faith-based initiatives


WHITE HOUSE While President Bush is proposing budget cuts to many domestic programs, he's seeking more funding for his faith-based initiatives.

Jim Towey (TOO'-ee), who heads the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, says Bush has asked for an additional 150 (m) million dollars -- a 63-percent increase -- for five programs.

The money would be used for maternity group homes and programs for drug treatment, prisoner re-entry into society, mentoring the children of prisoners and the Capital Compassion Fund.

Towey says the increases reflect Bush's belief that the initiatives -- many of them in partnership with religious charities -- provide effective service and more options to those in need.

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10B. Sellouts and Thieves.

It's already been shown that Christian ministries will be forced to compromise their scriptural responsibilities if they accept a Bush faith-based initiative grant. Here is a list of some Christian ministries that have accepted or applied for faith-bash grants. They either already have, or are willing to, compromise their ministries for a few bucks.

Not only are they sellouts, they are thieves. The money they seek is forcefully taken from taxpayers, largely against their will. Taking money from someone else without their permission is stealing, even if it's used for a religious cause. If someone breaks into my house during the night to steal my money, they're going to get shot, even if they are stealing the money to give it to a worthy cause like "Jerry's kids". It's my decision which ministries I contribute to, it's not for some thief to determine. It's no less stealing even if it's a gov't taking it out of my paycheck before I get to see it, and they intend to give some to charity.

The ministries below are complicit in the thievery:

http://mattchancey.blogspot.com/2005/02/faith-based-in-big-government.html

The Bush administration, through its Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has doled out millions of dollars to conservative Christian organizations. Pat Robertson received $1.5 million. Chuck Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries was one of four groups selected to receive a $22.5 million grant. Catholic Relief Services, World Vision and the Salvation Army have all received pork from Uncle Sam; and Campus Crusade for Christ, Samaritan’s Purse (Billy Graham’s son’s ministry), and other evangelical organizations have applied for access to the government trough.

Reading the list of grant reviewers is like reading off a list of “who’s who in the Religious Right.” Summit Ministries, Turning Point, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Coalition, the Traditional Values Coalition, and Paul Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation, are all gate-keepers in President Bush’s faith-based welfare program.

Christian conservative organizations fighting for so-called “individual liberty and personal responsibility” disgrace their charters by taking welfare from the Bush Administration. Paul Weyrich, Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson, Beverly LaHaye, Lou Sheldon, and Franklin Graham have all read the Constitution and should know better. Government money always comes with strings attached.

9. Bush PR spending up 80%.

While bragging about how tight his new budget is (a $2.57 TRILLION budget that increases the deficit by $42 billion - http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050208/D884313O0.html ), President Bush has increased spending on his public relations by 80% since taking office.

Never mind the burden the war on terror has added to the budget, Bush's IMAGE has to be maintained. It takes a lot of money to fool people who should know better, into believing he is a good Christian and conservative.

Recently it was uncovered that the Bush administration has been paying at least two media personnel to report favorably on his programs, and at least one of them was a homosexual (#'s 52, 80, & 98). On the day Bush ordered his aides to stop the payoffs, the second offense was discovered.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7fd51392-791f-11d9-89c5-00000e2511c8.html

US government ratchets up PR budget

By Holly Yeager in Washington :

February 7 2005

But the costs [of PR] have been creeping upward - a sign that politics is being conducted in a new way, in which the message of the day can be delivered by ever-increasing means.

The federal government spent $88.2m on contracts with public relations agencies last year, according to a report last month by congressional Democrats. That is up from $39m in 2000.

The payments have drawn criticism since the disclosure that Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, had received $241,000 from the Department of Education to promote the administration's "No Child Left Behind" initiative in television and radio appearances.

Other such payments have recently come to light, including $21,500 from the Department of Health and Human Services to a syndicated columnist to promote the president's pro-marriage proposals.

8. Bush ' 05 budget is record for abortion spending.

Bush is pro-life, is he? Well the current budget as shown on a 2-7-05 Columbia Christians for Life press release shows that spending for Title X (funding source for Planned Parenthood, the largest aborter in America) is currently the highest it's ever been.

Yes, George Bush is allocating more of YOUR money to kill babies than any previous president, including Bill Clinton (by over $30 million). That's not even counting the abortions that will be done by the 'birth-control' (abortifacient) pills (which Bush became the first to authorize), which may dwarf abortions done by surgical methods.

http://www.lefemineforlife.net/

http://www.covenantnews.com/lefemine050208.htm

http://thomas.loc.gov/ (you have to search for bill 4818 of the 108th Congress)

Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, $288,283,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects

The Republican-majority U.S. House approved H.R. 4818 by a vote of 344 to 51, on 11-20-04 (Roll Call Number: 542).[Republicans 183 Yea, 27 Nay; Democrats 160 Yea, 24 Nay; 1 Independent Yea]

The Republican-majority U.S. Senate approved H.R. 4818 by a vote of 65 to 30, on 11-20-04 (Record Vote Number: 215)[Republicans 42 Yea, 6 Nay; Democrats 23 Yea, 23 Nay; 1 Independent Nay]

The Republican President signed H.R. 4818 into law, authorizing the highest ever spending level for Title X in the history of the program,on 12-8-04. It became Public Law No. 108-447.

Neither the president nor congress have any constitutional right to spend one penny of our tax money on abortion. It is unconstitutional as well as heinous.

7A, 7B, and 7C. Bush recommends "booze and sex" novel.

This might not seem important enough to make the Scorecard, but it is another glaring example that the wholesome, Bible-reading, praying, Christian image of George W. Bush is fabricated. The first lady, Laura Bush, showed more of the same by inviting the author of the "beer and sex" novel her husband is recommending to the White House last year. In a similar vein, Tex Marrs reported that V.P Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, has authored "steamy lesbian sex novels". Birds of a feather.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/06/news/letter.html

White House Letter: Why is Bush reading Tom Wolfe? Don't ask

Elisabeth Bumiller

International Herald Tribune

Monday, February 7, 2005

WASHINGTON If you ask the White House what President George W. Bush is reading these days, the press office will call back with the official list: "His Excellency: George Washington," by Joseph J. Ellis, "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow and, not least, the Bible.

What the official list omits is Tom Wolfe's racy new beer-and sex-soaked novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons." The president, a Wolfe fan, has not only read the book but is enthusiastically recommending it to friends.

It is unclear exactly what Bush liked so much about the book, which is told from the point of view of a young woman from the God-fearing backwoods of North Carolina, Charlotte Simmons, the first in her family to go to college.

Charlotte, who is at first shocked by the booze and debauchery she encounters at Wolfe's Dupont University, modeled on Duke among others, eventually succumbs in a chapter-long deflowering scene at the hands of a drunken fraternity rat. Then she sinks into depression.

Bush, who was the hard-drinking, hard-partying president of the jock fraternity at Yale, Delta Kappa Epsilon, is also the father of two partying twins, Jenna and Barbara.

Jenna graduated last year from the University of Texas and Barbara from Yale, and on neither campus is the milieu of Charlotte Simmons entirely foreign.

Does Bush like the book because it is a journey back to his keg nights at Deke, or because it offers a glimpse into the world of his daughters' generation? Or does he like the writing? Or is it all of the above? The White House won't say.

Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, did not respond to phone calls or e-mail messages last week asking about Bush's interest in Wolfe's book.

So perhaps Wolfe had some thoughts. In relatively short order he was located last Friday at a conference at his alma mater in Lexington, Virginia, Washington and Lee University. He was asked if he thought it unusual that a 58-year-old man, that is, the president, had so embraced his book.

"Well, a 74-year-old man wrote it," Wolfe replied.

He said he had no idea why Bush liked it. "I imagine he responded to the blinding talent," Wolfe added, chuckling, "but beyond that, I'm just not sure."

Wolfe, who voted for Bush and was invited by the first lady to the White House last year to speak at a salute to the authors Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, said he had not talked to the president about his book. But he said that Bush's father once told him how much he liked "The Bonfire of the Vanities," Wolfe's novel about New York City bond traders and racial politics during the excesses of the 1980s.

Friends note that the current President Bush has read every one of Wolfe's books, including "A Man in Full," the behemoth about real estate and social change in Atlanta in the 1990s.

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7B. Porn Star to Dine With Bush.

Every time I post something like this I get accused of having my mind in the gutter, but I can't help it if President Bush, his daughters, and sometimes his wife, are so often involved in such racy matters. I'll place this along with the last Bush family obscenity, rather than making it a new item.

Porn star to dine with Bush

Ex-candidate for governor sees it as 'great networking opportunity'

May 20, 2005

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A porn star who unsuccessfully ran for California governor will be among the guests who will dine with President Bush at an upcoming fund-raiser.

According to Counterpunch, the National Republican Congressional Committee is hosting a dinner June 14, and among those in attendance will be the buxom Marey Carey, and her boss, Mark Kulkis.

"I'm hoping to run as lieutenant governor of California next year," Carey said. "Since Arnold [Schwarzenegger] is a Republican, I thought this dinner would be a great networking opportunity for me."

"I'm especially looking forward to meeting Karl Rove," Carey added. "Smart men like him are so sexy. I know that he's against gay marriage, but I think I can convince him that a little girl-on-girl action now and then isn't so bad!"

Carey lost to Schwarzenegger in the 2003 California recall election. Her platform included: taxing breast enhancements, making lap dances tax deductible, recruiting porn stars as "ambassadors of good will," and putting Web cams up in every room of the governor's mansion.

Just last weekend, Carey, whose real name is Mary Cook, was among five people arrested at a new strip club in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash. All were accused of violating the local adult-cabaret ordinance, some by getting too close to customers and others – including Carey – by touching themselves in a sexual manner, according to the Associated Press.

The inclusion of porn-industry representatives at a Republican event is shocking many Bush supporters.

"The Republican Party has been hijacked," said a caller on Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily Radioactive program. "[Bush] is Clinton all over again! Only he doesn't have someone under his desk."

"I'm honored to be invited to this event," said Kulkis, who heads Kick A-- Pictures. "Republicans bill themselves as the pro-business party. Well, you won't find a group of people more pro-business than pornographers. We contributed over $10 billion to the national economy last year."

Kulkis is currently an honorary chairman on the NRCC's Business Advisory Council, a roundtable of millionaire business entrepreneurs who advocate a robust "pro-business agenda."

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7C. Bush Nominee Adulterer Who Forcefully Sodomized Wife.

Another Bush connection with perversion. Don't blame me, I'm only the messenger.

These clips are rather vulgar, but there's no way to avoid the unpleasant truth.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050512/cm_thenation/20050530mcgarvey/nc:742

Dr. Hager's Family Values

According to Davis, Hager's public moralizing on sexual matters clashed with his deplorable treatment of her during their marriage. Davis alleges that between 1995 and their divorce in 2002, Hager repeatedly sodomized her without her consent.

Several sources on and off the record confirmed that she had told them it was the sexual and emotional abuse within their marriage that eventually forced her out. "I probably wouldn't have objected so much, or felt it was so abusive if he had just wanted normal [vaginal] sex all the time," she explained to me. "But it was the painful, invasive, totally nonconsensual nature of the [anal] sex that was so horrible."

Back in Lexington, where the couple continued to live, Linda Hager, as she was still known at the time, was sinking into a deep depression, she says. Though her marriage had been dead for nearly a decade, she could not see her way clear to divorce; she had no money of her own and few marketable skills. But life with David Hager had grown unbearable. As his public profile increased, so did the tension in their home, which she says periodically triggered episodes of abuse.

"I would be asleep," she recalls, "and since [the sodomy] was painful and threatening, I woke up. Sometimes I acquiesced once he had started, just to make it go faster, and sometimes I tried to push him off.... I would [confront] David later, and he would say, 'You asked me to do that,' and I would say, 'No, I never asked for it.''

"Sometime between the births of Neal and Jonathan, Hager embarked on an affair with a Bible-study classmate who was a friend of Davis's.

A close friend of Davis's remembers her calling long distance when she found out: "She was angry and distraught, like any woman with two children would be. But she was committed to working it out.

" Sex was always a source of conflict in the marriage. Though it wasn't emotionally satisfying for her, Davis says she soon learned that sex could "buy" peace with Hager after a long day of arguing, or insure his forgiveness after she spent too much money.

"Sex was coinage; it was a commodity," she said. Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from vaginal to anal sex. Davis protested. "He would say, 'Oh, I didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I can't feel the difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I would say, 'Well then, you're in the wrong business.'"

6A, 6B, 6C and 6D. The attack on Iraq accomplished just what? They can vote?

Let's see, we sacrificed the lives of a few thousand Americans to rid Iraq of a Muslim fundamentalist who despises Americans, Christians, and Jews to replace him with a Muslim fundamentalist who despises Americans, Christians, and Jews, who is beating the secular, 'moderate' candidate backed by the U.S.

We gave them free elections and they put back into power almost what we removed from power, the only difference being the sect of Islam. Well, that's not the only difference. The new guy is an Ayatollah from IRAN (haven't we had trouble with them before?).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL

U.S. 'in for a shock'

In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite

Borzou Daragahi, Chronicle Foreign Service

Friday, February 4, 2005

Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.

The partial totals so far show the Iraqi List headed by Allawi, a secular Shiite and onetime CIA protege, trailed far behind with only 18 percent of the votes, despite an aggressive television ad campaign waged with U.S. aid. A lopsided majority of votes, 72 percent, went to the United Iraqi Alliance list, topped by a Shiite cleric who lived in Iran for many years and whose Sciri party has close ties to Iran's clerical regime.

More than a third of the alliance's vote came from Baghdad, the cosmopolitan capital where Allawi had been expected to fare well.

The alliance "is a very diverse group of people, from Westernized independents to Sunni sheikhs to people who really believe in an Islamic state, " one Western diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said of the alliance on Wednesday. "It will be hard to maintain unity."

TG: No unity? What good is this doing them?

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6B. Free Elections in Iraq?

This point is stunning enough that it certainly could stand on it's own, but since it's related to #6 on Scorecard II, I'll label it 6B so no one can claim I'm 'milking' any of these.

This further information comes from the 2-21-05 New American magazine article, "Who 'Won' in Iraq's Elections?", p. 5.

Remember when all the conservatives who only see the veneer got so giddy because of the "free" elections in Iraq? It was such a great thing to see so many Iraqis flock to the polling places at great risk. Regardless of the problems with the attack on Iraq - at least THIS was a good thing. Wasn't it?

In point #6 we saw that Bush's candidates were getting trounced by one of the bad guys, Iranian-born Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Well, that's the *good* news - it gets much worse.

The facts present a very disturbing truth, so those of you who want to keep your eyes, ears, hearts, and minds closed to reality can return to your television sets now. Better to waste your time filling your mind with sewage than be disturbed by the truth (that's sarcasm).

Originally, the Bush administration wanted their hand-picked coalition gov't and constitution to be installed. That's no surprise, although it was surprising that the coalition gov't included several of Saddam's Generals mixed with a few Communists, and the constitution removed the rights of Iraqi citizens to bear arms and practice religious freedom.

But al-Sistani insisted on democratic elections. Knowing that his Shiite Muslims held a majority gave him a good chance to win, unless there was too much rebellion among the Shiite citizens. But the Ayatollah had an ace up his sleeve.

Of course Bush had to go along with the free elections, after all, we were forcing freedom on the people we attacked. We had to pretend like we wanted them all along. Bush probably thought his puppets had a reasonable change to win among the Iraqis who embraced our invading soldiers with open arms (the election showed that there may have not as been as many Iraqis who were happy we're occupying their country as the Bush administration has claimed).

But then Ayatollah al-Sistani played his final card. He issued a "fatwa", a Muslim religious order, commanding the Shiites to go to the polls and support the Shiite slate of al-Sistani. So those multitudes flocking to the polls were not exercising newly given freedom, they were obeying a decree of their "Pope", with the risk of hell if they disobeyed. So now Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is Iraq's "freely and democratically elected" dictator!

Who knows who those people would've really voted for had they actually been voting freely? In any case, the fact is (I warned you to go back to your television while you had the chance), 1,500 Americans have died, 10,000 more have been wounded, and over $100 Billion of taxpayer's money has been spent to install an Ayatollah in Iraq similar to the one in Iran who gave us such trouble the past few decades.

Come to think of it, the Iranian Ayatollah despotism is giving us some trouble right now, so much that they are our probable next target in the war on terror. So the most ironic thing about this is we are about to fight another war because they have the SAME kind of government in Iran that we just installed in Iraq (Don't forget, we installed Saddam in Iraq in the first place as well as deposing the Shah of Iran which brought on Ayatollah Khomeini.)

We'll never have to worry about running out of enemies to fight in this fraudulent war on terror if we keep creating them as we go along.

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6C. Iraqi Election Fraud

It's hardly surprising that substantial charges of fraud have been brought up pertaining to the recent Iraqi elections. With the Shiite Muslims running the elections it's not difficult to believe that other groups and religions would be discriminated against.

Assist News is reporting that of the 1.4 million Assyrian Iraqi Christians, only 32,000 were recorded as having voted. That's a turnout of a whopping 2.3% in an election being hailed for high turnouts. A radical Muslim Ayatollah dictatorship that discriminates against Christians. That's what our men fought and died for to install in Iraq.

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6D. Another American-backed Candidate Withdraws.

The elections in Iraq have turned out to be a total disaster for America. First, Iranian-born Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani declared a "fatwa", ordering the majority Shiite Muslims to vote for him over the American-backed Ayad Allawi. Then we saw that only 2.3% of the Assyrian Iraqi Christians registered votes, though the Bush administration was lauding the high turnout of the elections. Now we have another American-backed candidate pulling out.

Ahmad Chalabi was a front-runner for the prime minister position, but the United Iraqi Alliance, the winning Shiite organization of al-Sistani, pressured Chalabi to withdraw in favor of UIA candidate Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the interim V.P. His only opposition for the slot will come from Allawi, who has already been beaten back by the UIA.

These elections are beginning to look like Communist elections where favorite candidates are threatened by opponents and withdraw meekly. Those who resist are often found dead.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050222/D88DJJ8O0.html

Shiites Pick al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee

Feb 22, 8:54 AM (ET)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Interim Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari was chosen as his Shiite ticket's candidate for prime minister Tuesday after Ahmad Chalabi dropped his bid, senior alliance officials said.

Pressure from within the ranks of the United Iraqi Alliance, which won Iraq's landmark Jan. 30 election, forced the withdrawal of Chalabi, a one-time Pentagon favorite, said Hussein al-Moussawi from the Shiite Political Council, an umbrella group for 38 Shiite parties.

"They wanted him to withdraw. They didn't want to push the vote to a secret ballot," al-Moussawi said. The office of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, confirmed that Chalabi had withdrawn his bid to be prime minister.

"Chalabi announced his withdrawal and everyone agreed on al-Jaafari. Then Chalabi declared his support to al-Jaafari," said Haytham al Husaini, a top al-Hakim aide. SCIRI, the main group making up the alliance, tried for days to persuade Chalabi to quit the race, some of its senior officials said. Al-Jaafari's only other likely opponent for the post would be interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who was nominated for the job by his group.

The Iraqi List got only 14 percent of the vote - or 40 seats - in the election.

The conservative Al-Jaafari, a 58-year-old family doctor, is the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party, which waged a bloody campaign against Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1970s. Saddam crushed the campaign in 1982 and Dawa based itself in Iran.

TG: On what grounds do they call this killer a 'conservative'? Is that just another way to give the word conservative a bad connotation by association? Notice too his connections with Iran, just like Ayatollah al-Sistani.