Let's be clear - POLITICAL
Sep. 30th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windelinaBush's position on the following:
Bush does NOT favor including labor and environmental standards in trade agreements
Bush does NOT favor the US being part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
or the International Criminal Court
or the treaty banning land mines
or the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
Bush DOES want to build a missile defense system, and he wants to build it NOW before doing more research on its capabilities
Bush DOES favor increased defense spending
This War President sent men to Iraq without adequate supplies (body armor, anyone).
He's has cut pay and benefits to military personnel.
And instituted involuntary and mandatory extensions of tours of duty, even for personnel suffering from exhaustion, stress and likely PTSS.
He took a budget surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in history.
Overall, there has been a net jobs loss in the four years of his presidency. Job growth continues sluggish over a year after the recession ended.
And on top of all that, he's a bigger "flip-flopper" than Kerry could ever aspire to be.
Against the 9/11 commission, then for it.
Against Condi Rice testifying, then for it.
Against testifying himself, then doing it (although demanding it be off the record, NOT under oath, and that he have Cheney with him).
Those are just the recent ones. Go back to his 2000 campaign, where his rhetoric was a lot more moderate and see just how much he's changed his positions.
But if you're against abortion - he's your man.
If you believe you're safer now - he's your man. (And you also need to do some real research on our flight safety standards, our chemical and weapons plants, and our intelligence communications network.)
Bah. I don't get it. Iraq is a mess, and (my opinion) our presence there is just making things worse. We need to support a UN takeover - perhaps the insurgents (NOT terrorists, thank you) would respond better to a truly unilateral world force.
Everything points to the fact that - it seems - a majority of Americans would prefer to "give up freedoms" to ensure safety. In my cynical hyperbole, they would prefer an Orwellian existence, as long as it meant they still had their tv and their cheetohs.
Bush does NOT favor including labor and environmental standards in trade agreements
Bush does NOT favor the US being part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
or the International Criminal Court
or the treaty banning land mines
or the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
Bush DOES want to build a missile defense system, and he wants to build it NOW before doing more research on its capabilities
Bush DOES favor increased defense spending
This War President sent men to Iraq without adequate supplies (body armor, anyone).
He's has cut pay and benefits to military personnel.
And instituted involuntary and mandatory extensions of tours of duty, even for personnel suffering from exhaustion, stress and likely PTSS.
He took a budget surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in history.
Overall, there has been a net jobs loss in the four years of his presidency. Job growth continues sluggish over a year after the recession ended.
And on top of all that, he's a bigger "flip-flopper" than Kerry could ever aspire to be.
Against the 9/11 commission, then for it.
Against Condi Rice testifying, then for it.
Against testifying himself, then doing it (although demanding it be off the record, NOT under oath, and that he have Cheney with him).
Those are just the recent ones. Go back to his 2000 campaign, where his rhetoric was a lot more moderate and see just how much he's changed his positions.
But if you're against abortion - he's your man.
If you believe you're safer now - he's your man. (And you also need to do some real research on our flight safety standards, our chemical and weapons plants, and our intelligence communications network.)
Bah. I don't get it. Iraq is a mess, and (my opinion) our presence there is just making things worse. We need to support a UN takeover - perhaps the insurgents (NOT terrorists, thank you) would respond better to a truly unilateral world force.
Everything points to the fact that - it seems - a majority of Americans would prefer to "give up freedoms" to ensure safety. In my cynical hyperbole, they would prefer an Orwellian existence, as long as it meant they still had their tv and their cheetohs.
