I like how this emphasized the complicity of all parties, such as the media, Powell, and most of all: the US electorate.

Along those lines, my only criticism is that #10 should be #1.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declares impeachment is "off the table".

After years of willful mismanglement of the United States, the American public finally gets a clue and elects Democrats to a majority in both houses of the US Congress.

Despite the public's expectation that Congress will start to set things right and that the Bush administration would finally be shown some justice for what it has done, newly appointed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California immediately declares that "impeachment is off the table".

This is actually a sign that the Democrats, while making a lot of political noise, are actually on Bush's side, and on most of the major issues of the day are as fully supportive of the President as the Republican Congress was.

Congress goes on to keep the Iraq war fully funded with no limits whatsoever, cave on FISA, and conduct lots of weak investigations that go nowhere but provide a not very entertaining political Kabuki show.

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It's funny how that spin station, 'focks' likes to show how congresses approval ratings are lower than butches, but it's because congress isn't doing what they were brought to do, which was kick these jackasses out of congress and/or nail them on their corruption.

These Democrats are completely incompetent and Nancy Pee(on her constituants)losi needs to be kicked out herself!!

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I agree that the re-relection of this half-witted, dispicable little thug deserves to be on the list. As I wrote in the very first posting on my blog on June 2, 2006:

"In November of 2000, when the voters of the United States of America foolishly sent this moron to the executive mansion, we effectively pointed the proverbial loaded pistol at our own collective head. Four years later, on Election Day 2004 - make no mistake about it - we pulled the trigger."

Did you ever think that your country would sink this low? Ouch!

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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your use of the phrase "epic fail" made my day.

'soup /b/

also, fantastic list. i'm printing these and distributing flyers.

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this inept, dangerous, deceitful little soul was the near-perfect device to distract the public, while his 'handlers' commited the most profound crimes in broad daylight.

Arrest Silverstein/Bushcon and heal or stay stuck in the Lie.

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The List goes on and on.
If they could steal 2000 Selection what's going to stop them from stealing
2008?
It is tragic.

Add your own:

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Only small mention of our favorite turd:-( There were obviously too many events with Bush that made thoughtful Americans cringe with embarrassment. Maybe Bushisms are a different article, but my favorites are:

"The German asparagus are fabulous."

"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions."

"One of the things important about history is to remember the true history."

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."


And one quote for the Obama fans:

"Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change --I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect."


dboy

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Thank You for providing lasting permanent documentation of George W. Bush's presidency. When someone claims that at least President Bush wasn't as bad a President as Warren Harding, we can point to your article and say "Oh Yes he was, look at this". Probably one or two of the countdown points could have been used for the Bush administration's systematic destruction of the American economy.

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My only minor disagreement is that Bush was not elected either time. I'm not sure I believe that over 59 million people voted for him in 2004. It's quite well documented that there was election fraud, particularly in Ohio where in at least one voting district, there were more votes for Bush than there were registered voters!

Yes, much the 'Murkin voting public was still bamboozled by the Decidinator, but "we" did not elect him. The Republican-controlled paperless voting machines, the long lines of voters waiting for hours and hours in predominantly Democratic districts due to too few machines (while those in wealthy areas had plenty of voting machines), miscounts, lost votes, purging of voter lists, intimidation, and even misinformation sent to Democrats telling them their day to vote had been changed all contributed to a very, very questionable result.

I do get kind of tired of reading and hearing about how foolish "we" all were to "re-elect" Bush, when this notion is, at best, in contention. It's like saying "we" allowed the invasion of Iraq when so many of us marched in protest, wrote letters to congress and the newspapers, and tried to spread the word about how wrong it was.

Having said all that, I find it quite admirable and even amazing that anyone could sort through the myriad of atrocities perpetuated by the Bush administration and come up with such a lucid, all-encompasing assessment of its failures.

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Living with him is much harder. Historians will mark the end of America's golden age at his election.

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He has 4 months to go. I have a sick feeling in my gut that the list is not complete. There are too many accidents out there waiting to happen. I do hope I'm wrong. Thanks, ANNA

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Dictator Bush has single handedly run this country straight into the ground. All he cares about is Global Domination and nothing else.

JT
Ultimate Anonymity

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Can you believe that I can hardly bear to revisit it all...... Way back when some of his speaking errors and embarrassing moments were humorous. Then anger ensued.
Now, they're just pathetic and horribly sad.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_el_pr/obama_faith

HAPPY NOW ?!?!?

VOTENADER.ORG !!!!!

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If you make a sandwich and then let set on a table for two weeks, it will grow mold. It's a certainty. If your partner then gets on your case for wasting food, you're not likely to get away with it by saying, "It's not my fault! The fungus did it."

Similarly, if the people of a country knowingly adopt a lifestyle that is dependent upon massive imports from unstable, undemocratic parts of the world, they will end up with a country that is dominated by a military-industrial complex that will use the people's dependence as an excuse to accumulate the power required to ensure a secure supply. It's a certainty. It was predicted more than thirty years ago and came to pass exactly as predicted. We watched it happen and did nothing to stop it.

Now we whine because they know they own us and therefore can't be bothered to offer serious candidates for public office. What do you expect?

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We need to know who the real culprits were, because the perpetrators are still out there. We need a new investigation because the Zelikow/Keane Commission did not answer all the questions, like how and why did that building #7 come down at free-fall speed without having been hit by a plane?

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Still a few months to go and given the 10 examples of how Americans have become completely complacent and apathetic, you can expect many, many more "bad moments"no matter who "wins" in 2008.

Just keep asking yourself what would have happened if Gore or Kerry had been responsible for just ONE while in office.

Americans are slow learners with short memories.

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What are all these turds in the bush admin going to do after January 2009? I guess they're going to be globetrotting all over creation with the Secret Service guarding their miserable asses giving $100,000 speeches? The thought sickens me...

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On April 7, 2003, under standing orders from George W., a B1 bomber carried out a decapitation strike on a Baghdad restaurant where Saddam Hussein was eating a late lunch. Reportedly.

Shortly after the mission began, the Ace of Spades, suspecting he had been betrayed by someone on his staff, slipped out of the al-Sa’ah restaurant’s backdoor and fled the scene. Ten minutes later, four 2,000-pound bunker busters dropped by the diverted bomber blew the suburban eatery to bits along with cooks, waiters, bus boys, customers, cashier, pedestrians passing by and the occupants of three nearby homes.

Fourteen civilians died in that Baghdad neighborhood on April 7, people who lost their lives simply for being there, including two young children. Yet back in the United States, few Americans protested the barbaric aspect of the B1 mission, not on TV or in the press anyway. Quite the contrary, there was glorification of Bush’s decision to “take out Saddam,” as so many in his administration enjoyed saying. Well, that’s not how I felt.

Because I know something about the misery of warfare, the B1 mission horrified me. I was also outraged at Bush for allowing such an atrocity to happen. When a president of the United States decides to preemptively strike another country for the first time in American history with massive air power, then, by God, he had better get it right. And that doesn’t mean killing innocent human beings because he has a grudge against their leader.

Republicans will retort, “We killed millions of civilians in World War Two, thousands at a time.” True, but there’s a difference. A humungous one. We didn’t start the hostilities. Germany and Japan did.

The president claims to be a born-again Christian who got a second chance at life when he turned 40. If that’s the case and not just hypocritical bullshit for public consumption, then he’d better get down on his knees and beg forgiveness from Jesus for killing those poor people on April 7. Because if George W. doesn’t show contrition, which I haven’t seen or heard expressed so far, he may end up in the eternal down-under sharing a table with Saddam and his sons in a barbecue joint called “Hell.”

To excuse our cowboy commander-in-chief, Republicans will argue he didn’t give orders to the B1 crew; someone else did. But that reason won’t wash, either. As our nation’s top military leader who authorized the decapitation strike, he has blood on his hands just like Osama bin Laden.

Here’s the nexus in a nutshell. For the loved ones of 9/11 victims, it’s heart-wrenching to hear but must be said. If you believe as I do that human lives are precious, especially those of children who deserve an opportunity to grow up and have kids of their own, then we must face the truth no matter how painful. Other than motivation, the only difference between a B1 dropping bombs on a civilian restaurant from 30,000 feet and someone flying a jetliner into an office building is the number of people that die.

As an addendum to this tawdry tale, in 2004 I watched George W. on CNN. He was in the Oval Office answering questions about a retaliatory air assault against Syria by Israeli jets. The reason for the revenge mission was a Hamas suicide bombing of a crowded Jewish eating establishment that killed 20 people.

When asked by a White House reporter if the Israeli raid was justified, Bush glowered and replied sternly, “When Hamas blows up a restaurant with civilians inside, that’s terrorism.”

I kid you not. I heard him say that with my own ears. Those were the exact words spoken by George bin Laden.

From the book, George Dub-ya Bush, THE PHONY FIGHTER PILOT, by
Hugh E. Scott, Vietnam vet, registered Republican and Obama supporter

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Tom Degan has never been far off the mark! I get more value out of his comments than most articles.

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But! But! But!

Bill Clinton got a hummer!

Al Gore is fat and preachy!

John Kerry shot himself!

Liberals are all traitors!

Why do you hate the troops!

Smoking gun? Mushroom cloud??

Freedom Toast! Freedom Toast! Braaaaaawk!

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9/11 is number one hands down! He allowed it to happen, either purposely or through neglect, and anything related to those attacks must take a back seat. Mission Accoplished is a good choice but for the wrong reason. In most people's minds the invasion of Iraq is far from being a success. From all accounts however, the plan right from the start was to throw Iraq into complete and utter chaos and that indeed was "Mission Accomplished". Google Order 17 or watch the documentary "No Way Out" Bush, unfortunately, knew exactly what he was talking about!

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The initiative in San Francisco to name a sewage plant after Bush (despite the fact that the plant actually works) is just the beginning. We need a national campaign of locally-based efforts construct appropriately defamatory monuments to this, the most mendacious, incompetent, and perverse Administration in the history of the nation.

Send your ideas --


The Bush Regime Memorial Society

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I think what we should do is dedicate January 20th as a new, yearly National holiday so we can annually celebrate the end of boygeorge's regime and his abuse of the Office of the President! Hell,I'll even volunteer to host the first party...to begin at 12:01 pm on 01.20.09

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You forgot the most recent, the US ARMY War College's publication of a 600 page document explaining how unprepared and inept they were in handling the Occupation of Iraq.

These are the people that Bush keeps telling us know what is going on there.

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Valerie Plame should absolutely be in the top ten.

She was actively engaged in keeping WMD's out of the hands of terrorists. By outing her, Bush committed an act of treason in a time of war. "Aiding and Abetting the enemy" I believe it's called, and there is a traditional response involving a long rope and a short fall.

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Until you can cut through the biggest myth of the 21st Century, you have not realized the bases for all of the issues listed. The Bush administration counts on the myopia of the American people as guided by a duplicitous media. When will we wake up and see the neocons for what they are?

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The start of the fall of the Soviet Union was orchestrated by one man in Poland named Lech Walsea. He got out their and put his life on the line in order to change a severely corrupt and brutal regime. Remember he started the movement where strikes crippled the rich and powerful. Think about it.

So it's time for one of you Americans to grow a nice set of Kahunas like Lech had and start the change yourself. No stinking lying politician, including Obama the evangelical, will do it for you. They are too comfortable with the power you have granted them.

I would be glad to do it but, I am not an American citizen and I have my own problems putting my country's Mini-Bush in his place.

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Now that the regime is banging the war drum against Iran, will bush indeed declare martial law before the election and declare himself King????? Time to throw tea into boston harbor???????

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I strenuously object - because they're not critical enough! Let me try: Bush is a stupid, criminal, hypocritical, lying, narcissistic, immature fool who thinks only of his worthless self. He's a dry drunk, to use an AA term. He's a spoiled child. He does have an appropriately low self-image, which is why he's always describing himself in heroic terms. He can't speak decent English. He knows nothing and has no desire to learn. He has failed at every single thing he's ever done. I doubt that he could competently run a hot dog stand. He should be tried and hanged. If no one tries him for murder and war crimes, the whole country deserves to go to hell, which it's halfway to already.

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What a fucking country!

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Nice article Alternet, but just what does "awesomely bad" mean, aside from crappy language? Is that kind of like "gnarly" or something?

How about "atrocious", "despicable" or the like -- my point being, if you're to look intelligent in the face of such dopy evil, brushing up on the language and not soft-balling it would be an awesome idea. Meanwhile, HAVE A GREAT DAY!

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First I have to say I appreciate your list, I realize that you wanted to keep it short there are just waaaayyy too many things "what me worry" has said & done over the last 8 years to list.

Anyone that had an "engaged capable of a rational thought" brain didn't vote for this yahoo.

And while I realize there just isn't enough space you could have added the accomplices in Congress, "political pundits", and the reactionary right wingers that insisted that this man had/has a hold of reality!

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As bad as this Top 10 list is, I fear that, in the years to come, as we start learning more about events that are currently still secret, this Top 10 list will pale in comparison to the crimes this administration has committed -- we just don't know all the facts yet.
Char

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What an exceptional use of time and space. I checked the polls and the approximately 30% of the people who haven't removed their heads from their asses are standing by their man and the rest of the country who thinks this has been the worst leader in world history, still believe this has been the worst leader in world history.

In the meantime there's an election going on that could change the direction of not only our country, but our world, but rather than focus on Bush's clone, let's all focus on the last eight years of this debacle and let’s concentrate real hard on things that matter like “Obama’s tacking to the left.”

And where in this list is "he stole the election?" I can't believe it didn't make the list, or maybe it did and I was so engrossed I missed it. And "he stole the election" started this unparalleled, epic journey of stupidity. “He stole the election” is yet another great thing to expend time and space on and continue to talk about because...because...because...talking about “he stole the election” would make such a difference.

A lot like this very long article.

Sorry, this one wasn't worth reading, although it was sadly humorous in spots.

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but I have to go throw up now. How long do you think it will take to get rid of the putrid stench of this entire lying, incompetent administration?

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i find reading this post almost unbearable; it is so sad to be reminded of all this. daily, i am reminded (by something in the news) that gwb has not only never done anything good for america, every single thing he has EVER done has been bad for the country. i think it will take so long to undo the horrendous damage to our country that it will be very difficult to accomplish new tasks as they arise. i can't continue talking about this; it's too depressing.

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War With Iran...Economic Collapse..Armageddon..!

He's still got 202 days to completely destroy America and start WWIII..!

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First, I can't believe that I "wasted" the time it took to read your tirade and very obvious "hatred" of our President.
But at least you have enough common sense to realize we actually have three branches of government.
Oh, by the way, which one of those branches has the responsibility of declaring war? You did mention the "Iraqi War" didn't you?
You managed to show your ignorance in many ways with your article. Maybe our troops (yes, over 4000 at last count) have not died in vain: They have helped continue to give hateful people such as yourself the freedom to speak your mind.
God bless our country, its' leaders, and more specifically our troops.

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He probably should have seen about getting his codpiece from "The Black Adder". For those not familiar with "The Black Adder", I'm sorry. You should familiarize yourself with it. It's almost as funny as watching bush in his flight suit. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

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...in the history of the world.

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Colin Powell was a war criminal. He assisted in the mai lai massacre coverup. In fact, his handling of that cover up is THE reason why his career took off like a rocket. He was rewarded for war crimes. And now there are PLENTY of fools who consider him a hero. That's what happens when an entire country full of people are all asleep. Stupid people ELECT stupid people. They wanted "a president you could have a beer with". Americans got what they wanted with this idiot president. The only way to change Washington D.C. is to change America.


dboy

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Could you also ask what were were Hitler's 10 worst moments/? Same type of person.

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Why can't a local municipality city or jurisdiction, swear out a warrant for the people in the White House as soon as the new president is in office.As soon as Bush/Chaney step foot in their city they would be charged with a felony ? Even if it is symbolic.!!!!!!

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If the writer is judging the worst moment in Bush's presidency, it's easily 9/11. He and his idiot staff should have known it was coming and could have stopped it. Body count: no one really knows, since both Afghanistan and Iraq came out of the hysterical fearmongering and bellicose mentality resulting from 9/11. Also, secret prisons, torture, the ruined economy, the Plame affair, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib (not to forget Bagram either). 9/11 was the rock tossed into the lake; the ripples are still spreading. Bush is like King Midas, but instead of gold, everything he touches turns to shit.

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Or for electing a drunk to office.

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You missed Tora Bora. The 10th Mountain division sitting in Uzbekistan, polishing their weapons while two intermittently warring tribal chiefs who had been taking al-Qaida's money a few weeks earlier were enlisted to do the fighting.Having seen the towers go down, the Americans were no doubt itching to mix it up with bin Laden's boys but they were held back. Tora Bora was thus not surrounded and the Pakistani border wasn't sealed off, allowing Osama to escape. WE HAD HIM, but bad executive decisions let him get away.

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Don't forget the NCLB Act, high stakes testing, and Reading First: All Halliburtons of education.

Thank you George Bush for being the UN-education president. We have had dumb presidents, but egads, George W. has to be the winner in this department and also the most evil one as well. Our nation is definitely at risk, ask the young people. They know, they are the victims.

Bush should have just stayed at home, dressed up, and played with his toys.

I can't believe the popular vote was against him and yet he became president for two terms. This is how broken the system is, and how evil and out of touch the politicos are. They don't care one hoot about the common person, plus they get the best perks, the best health care, and the best retirement while we suckers have to pay their way for the rest of our lives.

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I hope I'm not out of line to post a link to my compendium of Bush utterances:

http://fabpedigree.com/politic.htm

James

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I see a lot of posts critical of the American people collectively for allowing this atrocity of the Bush administration to happen.

1.) First of all, we didn't elect Bush either time since both elections were stolen. We need a better system of voting. (Duh!) Why is this so hard?

2.) How can so few do so much damage? Where was Congress? Sadly, the Congress is an institution that has been purchased by BIG MONEY - much of it invested in the military industrial complex. If we can take BIG MONEY out of the political process, maybe we'll have politicians who actually represent the people who vote for them. We the citizens DEPEND on them to represent US (and not the corporations who fund their campaigns)!

3.) Amazingly, the events of 9-11 have yet to be investigated! Come on PEOPLE - are you really buying the "official story"? The 9-11 Commission funding of only $6m to investigate ($40m was spent to investigate "Whitewater"), two years after the fact and only because of the victims families' pressure - with the conclusions already accepted as "truth" - does NOT constitute a real investigation by any stretch of the imagination! Where did all the evidence go? Who benefited financially? What ABOUT Building Seven? Google "9-11 truth". This atrocity of the never ending "War on Terror" hinges on "9-11" so come on people, DEMAND a real investigation, properly funded, independent of politics. Don't you think that would be taxpayer money WELL SPENT??

4.) We need an educated electorate. The vast majority of voters do not know the basics of how our government is supposed to work. How many know and understand the Constitution/ Bill of Rights? Because of our collective lack of basic knowledge, we vote folks into office based on personality/ image. BIG MONEY buys ads and we the voters are so unaware that we believe anything the ad says. We need a much better informed citizenry and it starts with our public education K-12.

5.) The major news media outlets are complicit in all of the above. How do we fix? I do not know - but we need to put our heads together to figure this out. Our future freedom depends on it!

So you can't really blame the ignorant, lazy, fat, and spoiled American people - it's almost like we're nurtured from the beginning of life to be this way by our (purchased) government. Read 1984 again.

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If, in fact, 59 million people voted for a second term of G W then we got what we asked for and deserved (frankly I can't believe he was even taken seriously as a candidate the first time around). What really bothers me is that our government tried to impeach Clinton for having sex and yet this idiot gets away with one stupid, irresponsible, incompetent, criminal act after another and our representatives sit back and twiddle their thumbs. His mistakes cost lives, thousands upon thousands of them. This isn't even counting the thousands and thousands of young lives he has ruined. This administration, at the very least, should be impeached and tried as war criminals.

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While I agree with almost everything in "The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments..." article, I have to express support for the Space Program, which I've supported since its inception. Yes, there is a valid argument that perhaps the money spent on it might have better uses - and in the past there was definitely waste, as there tends to be in any bureaucracy - however, I think the benefits are worth the expense and the social and cultural gains have and will continue to justify space exploration.

One (major) caveat: I'm working my way through a book called "Twilight War - The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance" by Mike Moore, which goes through the history of space exploration/exploitation and details the growing movement toward militarizing space - way beyond "Space Wars" - and serves as a decent backgrounder for anyone wanting to be informed about how the "space warriors" are trying to push NASA, and the Air Force, into a very different space program.

I absolutely do not support the militarization of space... that it's inevitable for war to move to space seems almost certain now and that's sad, but not really surprizing, given how all other horizions eventually get militarized. So, it's with mixed feelings that I have to grudgingly accept that still-president Bush gave that speech expressing support for continued exploration of space.

NASA needs better funding to operate... but it also needs the public to check in and stay on top of exactly what direction this country is going in space. People need to work to support the peaceful use of space and oppose space militarization.

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This is not Freedom! It is Freedumb!

They have blackmail pictures of Pelosi in odd situations with little gremlins or little girls. Same with Harry Reid, he tap dances with Wide Stance Larry Craig in the John and they have proof. Only reason that can come to mind that someone as stupid as old wide eyes "deer in headlights" Pelosi would take impeachment "off the table" is that she snorts coke off the bellies of children and they have pictures of the act. She and Harry are traitors and in bed with the AIPAC, PNAC and Neocon triators. There is no reason for their inaction to bring justice to the guilty and punish those responsible for ruining this country. Why why why?

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Not sure if you all have seen this movie, but it is worth watching. The first part of the movie touches on how religion has been used as a means of control. it then goes on to speak about the current POTUS and how his family has been robbing and running this country into the ground at least since Prescott Bush (GWB's grandfather)...google him. Anyway, get edu-macated and watch this movie:

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm

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You forgot Gannon!

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AKA the pharmaceutical company giveaway, where Bush and his pressure on the GOP congress prevented the US Gov't from getting a better price.

This has the quadrafecta: Bush lied to the US, Bush lied to his own party, the Bush administration threatened to fire an employee if he told Congress the truth, and the eventual cost is over a trillion.

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No "No Child Left Behind"?

As though the poor in America's school system wasn't lousy enough to begin with.

This place is farked. I'm catching the next boat out before the whole building comes crashing down.

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and they hate this guy.

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Well ya 10 could be #1 but the fact that bush and his administration sacrificed those dear people on 9/11 and no one caught that is what keeps me wondering just where they find these politicians. Oh ya I forgot Americans don't really watch or read the news that much. Only 34% have a college education and only 2% know jackshit about foriegn affairs. Why do you think the media doesn't report more on global affairs and politics? Because america would rather watch cristy brinkleys divorce (as if anyone with a brain could give a crap about her or her mariage, whats he #5, lmao). Im disgusted with this country and it's blind citizens. It's no wonder we have the worse reputation in the world and we just sit back and watch the girls next door, it'll work it's self out. Thats how bush got re-elected DUH.

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Voters unite!!! Force our own term limits. Congress as well as our presidents approval ratings are at all time lows!!!!
It is simple, no matter what party affiliation you have and even if you like your representatives vote against all incumbents!!!!
Maybe then we would not have career politicians and the ones we elect might actually try to do something constructive for their alotted time in office. It would take out the good ol boy network and lessen the special interests groups impact. In fact we might find that spending millions of $$ to campaign won't make as much sense when they know re-election is not a possibility. It would sure make going to the polls easy and the guesswork out of marking your ballot. Let's face it, we all know that in our current situation that term limits will never be passed, so lets just do it ourselves. Unite against all incumbents!!!!!

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"Mission Accomplished" wins out over the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and the end of habeas corpus? Puh-lease! Where are our priorities?

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As strange as the title may sound, it sums up the moral conflict this country faces every time we send troops down the streets of Iraq, drop smart ass bombs on innocent civilians, and evaluate our involvement as something other then the true genocide it is. We use patriotism like we once used oil. However, like oil, our patriotism is running short for this war, and the warmongers are having a hard time finding it in large quantity.

The power players running this war have a lot of nerve. We had the nerve to kill Iraq’s leader for genocide crimes that Saddam Hussein would also call a necessary evil. Almost on a daily bases, we have to get up and paint a new face of denial to hold back the Iraqi outrage, the world outrage and the American outrage for what we know is genocide. Yes, this lie requires daily maintenance, for without it, George Bush would be held for the same crimes he charged Saddam Hussein for.

A lie of this magnitude requires maintenance to keep it afloat. Condoleezza Rice is doing her part to make this terrible crime okay. No doubt, her conscience demands the same daily maintenance; she does not want to wake up to what she has supported. Would you?

Joseph

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The Bush MisAdministration at the LEAST allowed it to happen! Cheney was in full knowledge, and told interceptor planes to "Stand Down"!
The evidence was hastily melted down and destroyed, but as anyone can see, those Buildings were brought down by steel-cutting Thermite Charges!
The plan was called the Project for a New American Century...PNAC!

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I admit that I did not carefully read all of the 138 previous posts, but nowhere did I see a mention of Bush's Gag Rule, which, in the long run, may be the most devastating thing that he has done to America and to the world, especially to women.

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The executive branch has the authority to fire the federal prosecutors, with or without a reason.

Congress does NOT have the authority to second-guess this, nor does it have oversight. By subpeoning Gonzales to testify, Congress was doing an abuse of power.

Also, Abu Graib should have been number one, easily.

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Why? They have had 8 years to perfect the stealing of any election. Scream bloody murder about why we need paper confirmation of our vote. Machs nicht! Watch the following video (it's long, but worth it!)and see if your vote will ever count again!

http://freedocumentaries.org/
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