A few of Bush's many, many failures and lies:
- Misleading us, saying Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction"
- Breaking the Geneva Conventions by using torture
- Telling the 45 million uninsured Americans to just go to the emergency room
- Repeated implying a connection between Saddam and 9/11, ignoring clear contrary evidence
- Failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina
- Launching a war that's killed 4,150 Americans and wounded more than 30, 000
- Challenging Iraqi insurgents to attack U.S. troops: "Bring 'em on"
- Granting no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq
- Hiring an unqualified crony to run FEMA
- Praising crony's performance: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"
- Neglecting reconstruction of New Orleans' homes and levees Promising American troops would be greeted as liberators
- Declaring "Mission Accomplished" and later blaming the banner on troops
- Cherry-picking facts about WMDs in Iraq, then blaming the CIA
- Promising the Iraq war would lower gas prices
- Claiming the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes" in 2005
- Allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape
- Launching a war that's killed countless Iraqi civilians
- Using Terri Schiavo for political gain
- Attempting to alter Constitution to allow discrimination against gay people
- Wiretapping our phones without court order
- Stealing the 2000 election (remember Katherine Harris, voter purges, and the Supreme Court?)
- Ignoring, then concealing the pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Enforcing abstinence-only programs in public schools
- Rejecting the Kyoto Treaty to stop climate change
- Giving tax cuts to the rich while spending record amounts
- Failing seniors with the costly Medicare prescription drug benefit
- Swiftboating John Kerry
- Outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to retaliate for truth about Iraq's WMDs
- Spending $341 million a day in Iraq (Iraq has a budget surplus)
- Neglecting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center
- Allowing Afghanistan to fall into chaos, with the Taliban and al Qaeda regaining control
- Holding prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay
- Covering up torture at Abu Ghraib
- Turning a budget surplus into massive budget deficit
- Letting more than a million homes go into foreclosure—the highest rate ever recorded
- Holding secret meetings with Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Shell, and BP to set energy policy
- Letting gas prices double while resisting fuel efficiency and clean energy
- Setting the record for most days on vacation (1020 days, or more than one-third of his entire eight years!) by any president in U.S. history
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