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The
next time someone criticizes John Kerry for being a flip-flopper
remind them:
Bush
was against campaign finance reform; now he's for it.
Bush
was against a Homeland Security Department; now he's for it.
Bush
was against a 9/11 commission; now he's for it.
Bush
was against an Iraq WMD investigation; now he's for it.
Bush
was against nation building; now he's for it.
Bush
was against deficits; now he's for them.
Bush
was for free trade; then he was for tariffs on steel, and now he's
against them again.
Bush
was against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict; now he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian
State.
Bush
was for states' rights to decide on gay marriage; now he is for
changing the Constitution to outlaw gay marriage.
Bush
said he would provide money for first responders (fire, police,
emergency); then he doesn't.
Bush
said that "help is on the way" to the military; then he
cuts their benefits and health care.
Bush
claimed to be in favor of environmental protection; then he secretly
approved oil drilling on Padre Island in Texas and other places and
took many more anti-environmental actions.
Bush
said he is the "education president;" then he refused to
fully fund key education programs and rarely does his homework, such
as read position papers so he will be more knowledgeable on issues.
Bush
said that him being governor of Texas for six years was enough
political experience to be president of the U.S.; then he criticized
Sen. John Edwards for not having enough experience after Edwards had
served six years in the U.S. Senate.
During
the 2000 campaign, Bush said there were too many lawsuits being
filed; then during the Florida recount, he was the first to file a
lawsuit to stop the legal counting of votes after Gore took
advantage of Florida law to ask for a recount.
On
Nov. 7, 2000, the Bush campaign supported Florida county officials
drawing up new copies of some 10,000 spoiled absentee votes in 26
Republican-leaning counties that the machines did not read and
marking them for the candidates when they showed "clear
intent;" they opposed doing the same thing after Nov. 7 when
Gore asked for such recounts. Bush dominated absentee balloting in
Florida by a two-to-one margin.
Bush
said during the 2000 campaign that he did not have a "litmus
test" for judges he appointed to be against abortion; then he
mostly appointed judges who were against abortion.
In
the early 1990s, Bush led a campaign to raise taxes in Arlington,
Texas, to build a new baseball stadium for the team he partly owned;
he later criticized politicians for supporting tax increases –
after he got rich by selling the team with the new stadium to a
wealthy campaign contributor.
Bush
opposed the U.S. negotiating with North Korea; now he supports it.
Bush
went to the racist and segregationist Bob Jones University in South
Carolina; then he said he shouldn't have.
Bush
said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to
sanction military action against Iraq; later Bush announced he would
not call for a vote.
Bush
first said the "mission accomplished" Iraqi banner was put
up by the sailors; he later admitted it was done by his advance
team.
Bush
was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the
U.S.; after meeting with Mexican President Fox, he decided against
it.
Bush
was opposed to Rice testifying in front of the 9/11 commission
citing "separation of powers;" then he was for it.
Bush
was against Ba'ath party members holding office or government jobs
in Iraq; now he's for it.
Bush
said we must not appease terrorists; then he lifted trade sanctions
on admitted terrorist Mohammar Quaddafi and Pakistan, which pardoned
its official who sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, and North
Korea.
Bush
said he would wait until after the Nov. election to ask for more
money for the war effort; then he decided he needed it before the
election, after all.
Bush
said, "Leaving Iraq prematurely would only embolden the
terrorists and increase the danger to America." His
administration now says that U.S. troops will pull out of Iraq when
the new provisional authority asks. Then he said they'll stay
"as long as needed" again. Now he's
saying
that the Iraqis can ask the troops to leave, and they will. Or is
he?
The
Bush administration officials said that the Geneva Conventions don't
apply to "enemy combatants." Now they claims they do.
Bush
officials said before the Iraq invasion that Iraq posed an
"imminent threat" to U.S. security and that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction and even nuclear weapons; after the
invasion, they denied saying the word "imminent" and
saying that Iraq had WMDs and nuclear weapons, even though they were
caught on tape making such statements.
"The
most important thing is for us to find Osama Bin Laden. It is our
number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -
George W. Bush, Sept. 13, 2001
"I
don't know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don't care.
It's not that important. It's not our priority." - George W.
Bush, March 13, 2002
Are
you getting tired of this? Well, some in the American military are
getting tired of this, too: "The (Bush) administration has an
overly simplistic view of how and when to use our military. By not
bringing in our friends and allies, they have created a mess in Iraq
and are
crippling
our forces around the world." -Retired Admiral William Crowe,
former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Ronald Reagan
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