101 Biggest Lies... #6 to #10
#6: W is a Downhome Guy
Why did George W. Bush sit with Sasha Cohen at the Olympics?
In 2002, George W. Bush campaigns at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's annual meeting [85% of the nearly $2,000,000 donated by the beef industry in the last three election cycles has gone to Republicans]."We want the people in China eating U.S. beef," he declares to thunderous applause. Bush reminds the audience that he has done much for both cattle ranchers and the beef industry, and plans to do more
After participating in the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies later that day, Bush shows up in the stands next to a shocked and giggly young girl who hands him her cell phone so he can say hi to her "mommy". The youngster is figure skater Sasha Cohen, and the subsequent media attention she garners by this interaction propels her into the national spotlight.
Of the 211 members of the US Olympic squad, which has the unique distinction of being the official youth spokesperson for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association?
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#7: Iraq is Just a Temporary Gig
Scenes of intense activity rarely witnessed in Iraq are unfolding behind the fortified perimeter of the Green Zone. At least a dozen cranes punch toward the sky. Most Iraqis endure blackouts of up to 22 hours a day, but the site is floodlit by night so work can continue around the clock.
This will be the new U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the largest in the world. When finished, it will be visible from space. It’s also the biggest construction project under way in war-torn Baghdad.
"They could build houses, or they could bring security to Baghdad," Mohammed Jasim, a former truck driver now squatting in an abandoned building near the 1/2 billion dollar embassy project. "But it's clear they only came here for their own benefit."
Though the site is an open secret, U.S. Embassy officials are forbidden to discuss it.
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report reveals that the 104-acre embassy compound, about the size of the Vatican, will resemble a mini-state, entirely independent from the outside world. It will generate its own power, pump its own sewage and draw its own water.Within the compound there will be hundreds of apartments for diplomats, barracks for Marine guards, separate residences for the ambassador and his deputy, a gym, a swimming pool, a club, a food court, and a beauty salon.
"No [other] large-scale U.S.-funded construction program in Iraq has yet met its schedule or budget," the report states. Iraqis also are marveling at the scale of the project and the rapid rate at which it is starting to rise above the walls of the Green Zone, off-limits to most Iraqis. "Why are they only building this building?" asks Baghdad resident Abdul Kareem al-Khiat."All the Iraqis are asking this question."
The new embassy is being built entirely by imported labor. The contractor, First Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting Co., linked to human-trafficking allegations by a Chicago Tribune investigation last year, has hired a workforce of 900 mostly Asian workers who live onsite.
#8: Democrats Coddle Illegal Immigrants
Government statistics show that the Bush administration, which vowed to crack down on US companies
that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions long before it began stirring up the US immigration controversy.
Between 2000 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back
95 % by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, before it was merged into Homeland Security. The
number of corporate employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants
dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined
from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.
#9: The Republicans Are War Experts
There's nothing like never having been in combat that fuels adolescent fantasies about war and weapons and cool explosions and stuff, and insulates one from ever considering the real human tragedy of war. Not ONE SINGLE MEMBER of Bush's inner war cabinet has ever seen combat (including Donald Rumsfeld), and only two of them has even worn a uniform.
Every one of these little warmongers, however, has substantial financial (personal and/or familial) investment in the defense industry More>
#10: Christians Are Qualified to Judge Homosexuals
Prominent Bush-backer Rev. Craig Stephen White has preached for years about the dangers of homosexuality, publicly declaring that "homosexuals are going to hell." Recently, however, White was convicted of "solicitation to commit involuntary sexual deviate intercourse, attempt at luring a child into a motor vehicle, solicitation to commit prostitution, and corruption of minors."
According to official sources, White, in his minivan, approached a 14-year-old boy on the afternoon of June 26, 2003. He asked whether the boy knew of any strip clubs or adult video stores in the area. The victim did not, and gave White directions to a local non-adult video store instead.
White offered the boy some beer, changed his mind, then invited him to enter the van and ride along to the video store. The boy declined and White left. He returned minutes later, though, and this time directly requested the boy exchange oral sex for money.
The victim again refused, and memorized the minivan's license plate number as White drove off .
[NOTE: Thanks to Top Ten Conservative Idiots]
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