About

THE FIRST FOUR YEARS

A JOB PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GEORGE W. BUSH

This book is dedicated to anyone and everyone that was, in any way, screwed by the Bush administration. The list of people includes (but is not limited to)

1. Al Gore and the people that voted for him

2. The members of the United States Navy that turned to Bush for help when their plane went down in China, only to find that they were not going to get help, and they had to think of their own plan.

3. The families of the 2,500+ Americans that were killed in the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 that Bush was warned about in advance but chose to do nothing about.

4. The 4,000+ Iraqi women, children, and civilian men that were murdered and slaughtered by the "few, the proud, the Marines" and the Americans that like to "Be all they can be in the Army reserves"

5. The 10,000+ American soldiers that were wounded in battle. Some of which had to get limbs amputated.

6. The famies of the 1,000+ Americans troops that were killed in Iraq

7. Any American who is not in the wealthiest 1% of the nation. This would mean 99% of America

8. Any American worker who lost their job to a citizen of Mexico, India, or China.

9. The United Nations

10. Any American that has their 4th Amendment rights trampled by the Patriot Act

11. Gay Americans

12. Any American who is Saudi Arabian in descent, but was born and raised in America, and was detained or discriminated against on airplanes, while 95% of the cargo bays were not examined and while a non Arab American was able to successfully bring box-cutters on board an airplane after telling the Govt. he was going to do so, to test security.

13. Any mother that could not bring her baby's formula or stroller on board airplanes, while people were allowed to bring 2 butane lighters and 4 books of matches on board.

14. Saddam Hussein, who was punished for commiting acts that other countries commit all the time and get off clean for. Countries like Saudi Arabia, which does business with the Bush family all the time.

15. The members of Congress who were not given the materials they requested of the Bush Administration in order pull through with the 9/11 Commission

16. The 20,000+ troops that were told they were allowed to come home and then when that date came, they were given word that they had to stay an extra 6 months.

17. The troops that requested body armor (which was purchased online) from their parents for birthday presents because the U.S. Govt. was not giving them the proper tools needed.

18. The children all over America that will not recieve attention because "No Child Left Behind" was underfunded.

19. The American soldiers, that are coming back from other countries, that cannot recieve mental help or employment assistance becuase somone needs to pay for Bush's 2 trillion dollar Social Security plan and it sure is not going to be the rich people.

20. Mother nature

21. Victims of abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect.

22. The 131 people that were killed by Governor George W. Bush of Texas. Some of these people suffered from insanity and mental retardation

23. The 114,000 people in Ohio alone (I still have no idea why the hell Ohio was a red state in the last election. Whatever they are smoking, it must be some good shit) that have lost health care under George Bush Jr.

24. Any American who is either attending, or (in my case) employed at, one of the 15 Catholic schools in the metro-Detroit area that are closing down due to the bad economy. The guest worker programs and tax loopholes also contribute to the lack of money to send children to these schools.

25. Any American motorist that is paying $2.19 for a gallon of gas.

26. Any person in any country that is just tired of looking at Bush's monkey face.

FOREWORD:

Thank you for taking the time to read "THE FIRST FOUR YEARS a job performance evaluation of George W. Bush". In this book you will hear from senators, congressmen, political analysts, authors and other political experts. but you will also hear from a few everyday Americans. Because after all Experts weren’t the only ones voting in the 2000 election or the 2004 election, they are certainly not the only ones paying taxes, and they are certainly not the only ones that should have a say.

In this book I give my solemn word and promise that EVERYTHING stated in this book is, to my knowledge, 100% true, factual, and correct! If anything I heard that may have sounded like a good addition to my book could not have been confirmed, I omitted it. Their were many rumors and speculations I have heard regarding George Bush and the people associated with him but due to inability to confirm either thru writing from a reliable source, video, audio, or any other means of validation I was not able to submit it into the book. For all you skeptics out there I have included a complete list of over 100 different sources in the back of the book. Every movie, book, website, and magazine was documented as a source. So if you don’t believe me you can look for yourself. With that being said, if anyone somehow finds evidence that I was incorrect about any statement in this book and they have sufficient proof of it, all they have to do is email me at "WakeMeUpIn08JDTL@aol.com" with the proof and their claim and if they are indeed correct, I will immediately revise the statement or totally withdraw it from the book.

I have also included many pictures to help get the point across. These pictures were carefuly weeded through and picked out of thousands of choices. After all, even George Bush himself says "One of the great things about books is sometimes their are some fantastic pictures"

Some people approve of George W. Bush’s performance as president in these past 4 years. In this book, I hope to show those people and every other American, that their trust is EXTREMELY misplaced. If you are one of these Bush supporters, as you read on, prepare to be astounded by what you read. If you are not one of his supporters that probably means you have good instinct and an ear for truth. This is just more confirmation for what you already know.

So relax, get your glasses on, and prepare to be enlightened. J thank you

CHAPTER 1

The 2000 Election

In the year 2000, the people of the United States of America were to elect a new president. The president at the time, Bill Clinton,was just finishing up his second term. That and the fact that he was impeached for committing perjury) which would (if their was NOT a two term limit) disable him from running for president again.Their were two men fighting for the title. Their names were Albert Gore Jr. and George Walker Bush. They both ran their campaigns and had their debates, moments, and catchphrases like "mending fences both figuratively and literally" and "fuzzy math". America watched as these two men duked it out for months. Then came Election Day of 2000.

On Election Day, the people did their patriotic duty and made their voices heard. Some stood in line for up to 2 hours or more just so they could pull the lever for their candidate of choice. After all was said and done and the polling stations closed, the news channels started bringing on the results. All states had made it clear who their winner was and it was one of the closest, if not the, closest election of all time. America had made its choice that night. Every state in the country knew exactly who they wanted to be the next president of the United States. The news channels made it clear that the facts have spoken and the results were in. The news channels can't argue with facts but somehow they found a way to. The Fox News Channel recalled a certain state which was, at the time, in the Al Gore column over into the George Bush column. It's no surprise that the man who did this was none other than George Bush's first cousin, John Ellis. Ellis was working as the man in charge at the decision desk that night. Every other channel proclaimed Al Gore to be the winner and thus the new president elect. And the state that was recalled was none other than Florida.

It seems experts in Florida were saying that Floridians may have accidentally voted for the wrong person. Gore supporters voted for Ralph Nader (who was running on a separate party that knows it's never going to have a snowball's chance in hell of winning an election) Nader supporters voted for Bush and other problems like this occurred. It seems funny that Florida was the only state out of all fifty in the country that had that problem. That was not the only problem that Florida, the state with a case of electile dysfunction, had . Another problem was the "chads". In many voting precincts in Florida, the ballot was actually punched in with a pen-like object. The only difference between this object and an actual pen was the fact that this object did not contain ink. It was merely a pointed object used to punch in a hole next to the name of the candidate. In many cases, the holes did not get punched all the way. When this occurred, it was referred to as a "chad". So the experts would debate for weeks about whether or not a hole that was not punched in all the way should technically count as a vote. The Republicans, The same party that George W. Bush was running for, felt that this was a waste of time. Maybe that was because they were winning.

Here are the facts. Who was the governor of Florida at the time of all this? None other than Jeb Bush. George's brother. When they were on Air Force One together, in an interview, with Jeb by his side, George looked right into the camera and said "Ya know something? We are gonna win Florida. Mark my words. You can write it down". How could he have been so sure that he was going to win in an election that was so close? Maybe because his brother was governor? Ok. It's a start. Maybe it's also because the woman in charge of the vote counting in Florida was none other than Bush's campaign manager. Still not convinced? How about this? The same woman that was in charge of the vote counting and George Bush's campaign paid a company in Florida called Data Base Technologies of Blue Lake to knock the names of African American voters off the voting list. African American voters have been proven to generally vote for Democrats. In this case, the Democrat happened to be Bush's opponent, Al Gore. So maybe when he said that he was going to win, he was thinking in his head about the plan for the election. His buddies could back him up. Sure it wouldn’t take care of the popular vote, which Al Gore defeated Bush in, but the only thing that counts is the electoral votes.

As you can probably imagine, the Bush supporters stood behind their man while the other half protested. An author named Jeff Toobin wrote a book that he called "Too Close to Call". He was asked to go on CNN news and in a television interview, he said "If their was a statewide recount under every scenario, Gore won the election." Their were lawsuits filed by Gore and other Democrats and their were recounts that were demanded, not to mention other shenanigans. This went on until one day they realized that their was no one able to solve this problem. It went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court did not investigate the authenticity of Bush's victory. All they did was decide whether or not the Democrats should be allowed any more recounts. They decided to vote against it.

The next big step was Inauguration day. Only it was not Gore's inauguration even though he had won the election. Or at least he would have if none of the black voters were knocked off the voting list at the command of "Dubya" as he is sometimes known. Perhaps he would've had a chance if Jeb Bush were not governor. Perhaps if someone else were governor they would have done something about someone tampering with the voting lists. If someone tried taking generally Republican voters off the list I'm pretty certain Jeb wouldn't have just stood by and watched like he did in this case. Some say he was ignorant of this situation. They say Jeb Bush had no idea what was going on with the voting lists. He was governor of the state. That's like a zookeeper not knowing what the animals are up to. He had full access to the voting lists. He couldn’t have legally or honestly made any changes but he could have gotten a list, from his staff, of everyone that was eligible and registered to vote. Then he could have compared this list with the voting lists that were sent out to the precincts, and if they matched then their was no problem. If they did not match, and their were names on the list of eligible voters that were registered, that were not on the list of voters given to the precincts, then they would know that their was indeed foul play. He could have spoken to any precinct he wanted. Jeb Bush could have easily cleared his brother's good name but he chose not to. He chose to let the Supreme Court handle it by simply saying one word. "No". No more recounts. This, in my opinion, proves that there was no good name to clear. Why else would Jeb not step forward and assist his brother? What was he trying to hide by not taking these steps?

So in, what we Americans believed to be, a foolproof election process, Bush had bought his way into the White House. Maybe that's what he meant when he said "They misunderestimated me". I'm sure you have heard people refer to George Bush as "an idiot" and a "moron" but, in reality, nothing could be farther from the truth. After all, it takes a real genius to lose an election and still get into the oval office. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our 43rd president. ~~Albert Gore Jr~~. George Walker Bush.

Chapter 2

Post Election Life

So George Bush moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Before moving in though, he had a little ceremony to attend to. His Inauguration and Inaugural address. On the way there, everything pretty much seemed to be going well.When Bush had arrived at his Inauguration he was greeted by his usual, right-wing nut-job, fans but those were not the only people there to see him. His Inaugural ceremony attracted many protesters. The protest grew violent and S.W.A.T. teams had to be called in. The traditional walk from the limousine through the crowd was impossible for Mr. Bush, unless he wanted a punch in the stomach, which he did not. The Secret Service made sure he was in his limousine and they drove the motorcade through the crowd and up to Capitol Hill. No U.S. president has ever seen anything like this on their Inaugural day.

China vs. America!!! Late on the Saturday night of March 31, 2001, a U.S. naval maritime patrol airplane was flying in the South China air. The plane collided with one of two Chinese fighter planes that were shadowing the U.S. Navy plane. Both airplanes were badly damaged and the American pilots made an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island. Nobody was hurt in this incident; however China still maintained possession of a United States military aircraft. The plane had U.S. military intelligence that was not known to China. They also detained the pilots.

George W. Bush held a press conference shortly after the incident. Here are a few highlights from that press conference: "The first step should be immediate access by our embassy personnel to our crew members. I am troubled by the lack of a timely Chinese response to our request for this access." "Failure of the Chinese government to react promptly to our request is inconsistent with standard diplomatic practice and with the expressed desire of both our countries for better relations." The Chinese government replied by saying, "The United States should apologize for the collision, which led to one of its jets and pilots going missing in the South China Sea." George Bush maintains that the United States has done nothing to apologize for and he continued to ask for the crew and plane's return.

The crew stayed there for 5 nights until (at the time) Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote a letter expressing regret for the missing Chinese pilot who was presumed dead but no apology was made. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Sun Yuxi, responded to Powell's letter by saying this in a press conference: "The U.S. expression of regret is a step in the right direction." "They have caused this air collision incident and they also entered illegally into China's airspace. It is fully natural for competent authorities in China to question them about this incident." Instead they urged the U.S. to take full responsibility for the incident. The White House ruled out an apology and President Bush said relations could be damaged if China did not return the plane and its crew soon.

Meanwhile, a senior Pentagon official said the 24-member crew of the Navy surveillance plane successfully planned and executed a plan to destroy sophisticated intelligence-gathering equipment on board. Officials did not elaborate on what was destroyed or how it was destroyed, although they said the plane suffered more damage than originally thought in the collision, including propeller damage and the loss of wing flaps and the air speed indicator. Ladies and gentlemen, those are the facts. When one of America's plane was stranded what did George W. Bush do? Nothing except worsen the situation. He basically said "I'll tell you where you can stick your apology, now give me back my plane or I'm gonna start getting pissed!"

Those soldiers depended on Bush. They depended on him, their Commander in Chief, to come to their aid and help them leave China. What did he do? He let them figure it out on their own. He let them come up with the plan to destroy the American developments in the plane so that the plane would be of no use to China's military. While they were busy thinking, Bush was busy bickering with China. They would say "apologize" and Bush would say, "No I'm not apologizing. I didn't do anything wrong. Ask Colin Powell. Hey Colin, did I do anything wrong?" "No boss you did nothing wrong." "There. Ya see? Now give me back my plane before you really make me mad and we're not friends anymore!" His diplomatic relations failed. He could not negotiate his way out of that. That was his first foreign relations test as president, and in my opinion, he failed. The troops got out and are now safe but that is no thanks to George W. Bush. After all, he was the man that once said "If you say you're going to do something and then don't do it, that's trustworthiness". No Mr. President, that is not trustworthiness. An average American had this to say... "I cannot believe Bush could'nt apologize for the plane incident. It's all about communication with other countries."

After the election, George W. Bush also lost Republican control of the Senate to the Democrats. His approval ratings slipped from 53% on May 3rd 2001 to 45% on September 5th of 2001. Obviously needing a break from all the stress from the China problem, the Republican loss of Senate control, slipping approval ratings, and other presidential matters, George Bush went on vacation. He did that a lot in his first 8 months in office. In fact, according to the Washington Post, he was on vacation 42% of the time during his first 8 months in office. That sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I know every job I've personally ever started I was not allowed to take almost half the time off in my first 8 months. When he was visiting his home away from home in Crawford, Texas, a reporter said to him "There are a lot of people criticizing you saying maybe you're taking too much time off. What are you doing for the rest of the day?" Bush responded by saying "Karen Hughes is comin over we're workin on some things and uh... she'll be over here". An American who had already read this book had this comment to make on this "How can a president be on vacation 42% of the time during the first 8 months of his job? Perhaps the job was too much for him".

During these 8 months when he actually was working, he had a chance to go visit Jeb, his brother, in Florida, and for good reason. If Jeb had not looked the other way during the election, George Bush probably would not have even become president. During a meeting, George Bush received the "Terrorism Security Briefing" (or as I call it, "Responding to Terrorism for Dummies"). This manual had intelligence that stated that Osama Bin Laden (wanted for masterminding the attack on the U.S.S. COLE) was planning to attack America. Condoleeza rice was quoted as saying "I believe the title was 'Bin Laden determined to attack inside United States'". Bush did not read it. He had even previously cut terrorism spending from ,000,000.00 to ,400,000.00. These, as you will see in the next chapter, will prove to be FATAL mistakes.

CHAPTER 3

9/11/01

On September 11th, 2001, the largest foreign terrorist attack on a civilian outpost in America was carried out. 19 Terrorists from a group called "Al-Qaida" (translation- The Base) hijacked 3 American airplanes and flew them into the financial and defense headquarters of the United States. These attacks caused the deaths of 2,973 people. The man responsible for the masterminding of this attack was Osama Bin Laden. After this day, the pentagon, the World Trade Center, the United States, and the whole world were all changed forever.

I bet a lot of Americans even remember where they were when they first heard about the attack. Me? I had just sat down in an Intro to Chemistry class. How about you? Just taken the kids to school? At work in a meeting? At home sick maybe? I certainly know that Americans knew where they were when they heard about it after the first time. They were everywhere. You couldn’t turn on the radio or TV, or go out in public without hearing the words "Osama Bin Laden" or "September the 11th" or something of that nature. You know where I was and you know where you were, but let's find out where some other people were that fateful September morning shall we?

President George W. Bush, on the morning of 9-11-01, had an important date scheduled with a class of school children and (big surprise) the school was in (you guessed it) the same state that his brother Jeb governs, Florida. Before walking into the classroom a member of the secret service had told George Bush that the first tower of the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. Instead of Stopping, Bush continued into the appointment and proceeded to pose for a photo opportunity. He then started to read "My Pet Goat" with the children when suddenly a Secret Service worker came up to him and whispered in his ear that America was under attack. Being the quick thinker that Bush is, he sat there and did, literally, absolutely nothing, until his appointment was over.

What I'm wondering is, when Bush found out that the first tower was hit, why didn't he leave to go assess the damage? Which is more important, over 1,000 dead Americans or a classroom full of children and photographers? I hear a lot of Bush supporters say to me when I make that argument, "Well he didn't want to scare the children". I could think of something to say that would not scare the children and I'm not even a president. You simply say something to the effect of "Kids I'm sorry but I have to go attend to some important presidential business. I'm going to have to cut this meeting a little short but I'll be glad to stop by again sometime." I doubt that would scare the children. Even if the children did get scared, this was a scary event. They should be scared when their nation is under attack by terrorists.

The 2nd thing I was wondering is, If the terrorists were able to do that much damage within the time that Bush heard about the first tower being hit and the time when the second tower was hit, within the time that it took Bush to leave that school and issue orders, think of what other attacks could have taken place. Thank God they didn't, but what if those terrorists had access to nuclear or chemical weapons. These terrorists could've done a lot more damage while our President, "Chief defender of the Constitution", was sitting in a school reading about a goat. I guess a classroom full of photographers was, in Bush's mind, a little more important than a terrorist attack resulting in almost 3,000 dead Americans.

How about someone else? I wonder where George W. Bush's father was on the morning of September the 11th. Both George W. Bush and his father George Herbert Walker Bush were on the board of directors of a business known as The Carlyle Group. They were not the only ones on this elite board. The half brother of Osama Bin Laden (the man responsible for the attacks on this day) was also on the board. The Bin Laden family and the Bush family both had thousands if not millions invested into the Carlyle Group.

On the morning of September 11th, the Carlyle Group held a business meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. They were there to discuss business matters pertaining to, among other things, a business the Carlyle Group owned called "United Defense" which was an international arms dealer. United Defense specialized in selling tanks, rockets, guns, and other weapons for national defense to leaders of nations including the United States of America. So as the World Trade Center towers went down and the Pentagon was in ruins from the attack, defense spending went up worldwide. Nations all over the world started increasing defense spending for fear of a similar attack on their soil. So who did they buy some of these defense materials from? They bought them from United Defense, which made a one day earning figure of ,000,000.00 in stock. Carlyle Group, being this company's owner, stood to gain from this. Even more in particular, the members of the board stood to gain from this. Members of the board like George W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, and the Bin Laden family.

How about them anyway? The Bin Laden family. I wonder where they were. It's unsure to me where they were on September 11th itself but I sure know where they were on September 13th. They were on the only airplane in the United States sky. George W. Bush had given them a one way ticket out of the country. Byron Dorgan, a Democratic senator from North Dakota said "We had some airplanes authorized at the highest level of our government to fly to pick up Osama Bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia and transport them out of the country". I've gotten into debates with many right-wing nut-jobs over this and their answer is always the same. They say the same thing their hero George W. Bush says. Osama Bin Laden and his family were not in contact with each other. The Bin Ladens are good people and they disowned Osama. That is simply not true. In the summer of 2001, one of Osama Bin Laden's sons got married in Afghanistan. The Bin Laden family was present.

That makes me think. Osama Bin Laden and his half brother were at the same place at the same time. A few months later Osama Bin Laden attacked America. Defense spending went up worldwide, therefore putting money in his half brother's wallet. Is it at all possible, that during that wedding ceremony or its festivities, Osama Bin Laden and his half brother, or any other member of the family for that matter, had a conversation in which they struck a deal, that when Osama carries out this attack and the Carlyle Group makes money through United Defense, Osama would get his cut of the profits? Osama Bin Laden, as evil and cruel as he may be, is not, in my opinion, stupid. After all, he was able to kill almost 3,000 Americans in one day. This probably would've occurred to him.

Even if the Bin Laden family is made up of good people isn't it worth a look? Or was Bush in on the deal? Did he know it was going to happen and then he could collect the money? Did he cut terrorism funding only so he could boost it and gain more money through stock? It would'nt be his money buying the weapons from United Defense, it would be the money of the taxpayers. But it would be his money that he would collect from United Defense when its stock went up because it was his money he invested in it. Did he purposely ignore the warnings in the "Terrorism Security Briefing" that stated that Osama Bin Laden was planning on attacking America, that he received while he was on vacation, so when it did happen, he could collect? If he did not know anything about this, why did he fly the Bin Laden's out of the country without questioning a single one of them? Why did he ignore the security briefing? Why didn't he call a meeting with Osama Bin Laden's half brother, to see if he had some kind of deal with Osama? Why is it that he says things like "Pursuing our enemies is a vital commitment in the war on terror" and then quite possibly let the world's number one terrorist slip right through his fingers?

These are questions that need to be asked. They also need to be answered. It bothers me to know that when Congress tried to set up a 9/11 commission to interrogate individuals and get to the bottom of this and other issues, Bush protested as if he had something to hide. "It's important for us to... uh... to not really reveal how we collect information. That's what the enemy wants." It was already too late for that. The enemy had already carried out the attack. As Bush should know, immediately after the Japanese attack on the American military outpost of Pearl Harbor back on December 7th 1941, the (then) president ordered an investigation of exactly what had taken place. I'm not so sure Bush does know about that attack. Especially after hearing him say, on February 18th, 2002 "For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times". A century and a half is equal to 150 years. This attack happened less than 70 years ago.

Bush owes it to America to answer these questions. He owes it to America to let us know just what the hell is going on. He owes it to everybody that died in this attack. All 2,973 of them. Almost 3,000 funerals could've been avoided if he had not have cut terrorism spending from 65 million dollars to 44.4 million dollars. Almost 3,000 burials could have been prevented if he had just read the "Terrorism Security Briefing". Almost 3,000 family lives would not have been destroyed if he had done his job. Bush owes it to the people that were on the top floors of this building and knew there was no way they were going to get down, so they jumped from the window and plummeted to their deaths below on the New York pavement. Damn it, he owes the American people an explanation for his actions. . A reader had this to say "2,973 people killed. Tragic. Bush, where are you? Why is Bin Laden still at large? Why didn't you warn Americans of what was going on?"

Why didn't he answer these questions? Why did he try to stop Congress from setting up the 9/11 commission? What was he trying to hide? Why didn't he come forward and tell the American people what was really going on? Is it that he was too scared to? I'm sure everybody knows the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas", but I think someone needs to write a song about the Yellow Bush of Texas.

CHAPTER 4

Shortly After 9/11

After the Bin Ladens and other Saudi Arabians who may have had contact with Osama Bin Laden were flown out of the country with no questions asked, hundreds of Americans, who happen to be Caldean or Arabic in descent, (just like I am German in descent and like Bush's supporter Ben Stein is Jewish in descent) were discriminated against in not only all of America by their fellow Americans, but also at the airports. Born and Raised in America, hundreds of these Caldean and Arab Americans were, in the worst case scenario, detained for weeks at a time, and in the best case scenario, told to leave the plane. One case I can think of, in particular, was in Dearborn Michigan. An Arab-America used car dealer went into work on the morning of September 12th, 2001, to find all his car's windshields and windows smashed in with some kind of blunt hard object like a bat or a golf club. What was left behind by the vandal(s) were over 25 miniature American flags. Is that how we treat our fellow Americans? Especially when the real culprits are getting away?

The real culprit was Osama Bin Laden who was, at this time, seeking refuge in Afghanistan. Bush said that Osama Bin Laden must be captured dead or alive. A manhunt began. The CIA would find evidence that told them the "exact whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden" which was somewhere on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan as indicated on a map found in the visual representation. They would alert the media right away. The media would go on the air and tell the American people the news. They also, without realizing it, told hundreds of Al-Qaida's agents working in America. These agents in these terrorist cells across America would report back to Bin Laden that he was found out and he had to move. This gave him plenty of time. An American reader had this to say about this... "Every time America knew where Bin Laden was, they would announce it over TV and radio. Duhh! Then Al-Qaida knew we knew so they would move Osama"

Time didn't really seem to be a factor for Osama Bin Laden. He could've gotten away if he had a million years or if he had 5 minutes. Without the troops to catch him there was nothing stopping him. George Bush did send some troops over there but he only put 11,000 troops in Afghanistan to look for him. He was even told by General Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, that he was going to need several hundred thousand troops. They retired General Shinseki for telling him that. There were, at the time, more police in Manhattan NY, than troops looking for the most wanted man in the world. Osama Bin Laden.

After months of searching, there was nothing found. Maybe the reason for this is because George Bush didn't really care enough to capture Osama Bin Laden. After all it was him, in a press conference that said, when asked where Bin Laden was, since Bush had still not found him, "Terror is bigger than 1 person and he’s a person who's now been marginalized so I don't know where he is. Ya know I just don’t spend that much time on it to be honest with you." Of course not remembering that he said this, at a 2004 presidential debate against Democratic senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, Kerry had brought this up to the public's attention, Bush responded by saying, "Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations." No, it's not an exaggeration. It's what Bush was quoted as saying.

Let's take another look at the lives of everyday Americans. Every day Americans were, to say the least, inconvenienced by what Bush did next. The Federal Aviation Administration made a new set of rules to keep America safe. Some of them included pat downs, more security guards, and the fact that you had to take your shoes off before getting on a plane in case you were in possession of a shoe bomb. One woman was told she was not allowed to bring her baby's formula with her on to the plane while every where else in the country, travelers were allowed to bring up to 4 books of matches and 2 butane lighters with them on board the planes.

It's pretty hard to cause an emergency with a bottle of baby formula but is it that hard to cause an emergency with 4 matchbooks and 2 lighters? I could think of a plan to do some damage with those. Anybody could go into the bathroom of the plane, set magazines and toilet paper on fire and throw them out into the passenger area where the aisle way is carpeted. During the struggle of everybody trying to put out the fire, the terrorist could pass by everybody and go into the cock-pit. They could kill the pilots by snapping their necks and damage the controls by pouring liquid (like a pop or water or something) all over the instrument panel, or they could take the plane off course slightly. Like when the pilots are dead they could, oh I don't know... fly it into a building? Or into a mountain? Forest? While everybody is pre-occupied? Even if the other passengers were able to fight the terrorist and the plane was not able to be overtaken by them, in the midst of the fire they could have taken a glass and, after snapping the necks of the pilots, destroyed the instrument panel which I'm guessing can't be good for a plane. Terrorists like Al Qaida spend years planning attacks. I thought that plan up in 2 or 3 minutes. Imagine what terror experts can do in 5 or 6 years.

Luggage was also examined thoroughly. Any suitcase you wanted to bring on board had to be x-rayed and examined, while 95% of the luggage in the cargo bay was NOT examined. John Kerry, in a 2004 presidential debate, was quoted as saying "Look, 95 percent of our containers coming into this country are not inspected today. When you get on an airplane, your bag is X- rayed, but the cargo hold isn't X-rayed. Do you feel safer?" Any terrorist could easily put a bomb on any one of those suitcases and kill everybody on board any U.S. plane or planes. When Bush was asked why this was the way it was, he said "Well, that would be a big tax gap if we did that." As we will see later in the book, Bush's tax plan does NOT make sense and it does not work well for all of America. Only for the rich. I think I can pretty much sum it all up with another statement from John Kerry. "We have bridges and tunnels that aren't being secured, chemical plants, nuclear plants that aren't secured, hospitals that are overcrowded with their emergency rooms. If we had a disaster today, could they handle it? This president chose a tax cut over homeland security. Wrong choice. We didn't need that tax cut. America needed to be safe." In the 90's, Al-Qaida bombed the World Trade Center. They also carried out an attack on the Embassy in Africa. They also attacked the U.S.S. Cole. After all those attacks, they then took to the air. Al-Qaida has ALWAYS attacked us in a way we did not expect. Bush hikes up security at all the airports but what does he do at the nuclear plants? Nothing. What does he do at the water plants of major cities? Nothing. I remember on Halloween of 2001 (a month and a half after 9/11) I was going to a concert in Detroit. On the way there and back I passed the water treatment plant of Detroit. Both times passing it, on Halloween, in pitch black of night, the main gates were not only unlocked, but they were wide open. Anyone could have snuck in and poisoned the water. A reader had this to say... "I cannot understand why all passengers are checked at the airports but te cargo area goes unchecked. This does not make sense."

The Effectiveness of Bush's new F.A.A. (Federal Aviation Administration) regulations were not at all without fault. I can think of two stories I heard on the news right off the top of my head. The first one takes place in September of 2003 and it is about a 25 year old warehouse employee from New York named Charles McKinley. McKinley was arrested after successfully shipping himself to Dallas, Texas in a wooden crate that was stored in the cargo bay. On the way to Dallas Texas the plane even made a stop in Fort Wayne, Indiana. No one knew about him. He was in the cargo bay of the plane for two days and 15 hours. This is proof that John Kerry's statement was 100% accurate. If the cargo bays were x-rayed, this man would have been found. What if, instead of a man inside the wooden crate, it had been a bomb placed there by Al-Qaida? In an interview with Mr. McKinley he was quoted as saying "I'm sitting there thinking 'Oh my God, I don't know why I'm doing this' and the whole time I'm sitting there, I'm thinking like, 'Any minute, somebody will notice there's somebody sitting inside this crate, and they'll just leave the crate alone or they'll step back and ask, 'What's going on?' No one did."

The second story I can think of takes place on October 20th of 2003 and it is about a 20 year old college student named Nathaniel Heatwole . An American who read this book was quoted as saying this "Hey, Mr. Bush, I really don't think your security plans at the airports are really secure. Let's take a look at the Nathaniel Heatwole incident". Yes, ladies and gentlemen, let's take a look at the Nathaniel Heatwole incident. Mr. Heatwole risked his freedom to demonstrate that dangerous weapons can still be brought aboard airplanes and George Bush's security wasn't worth a damn. He even emailed the government letting them know weeks in advance of his plan. He successfully brought aboard banned items including box cutters which were ironically the EXACT same weapons used by the 19 hijackers on September the 11th, to test the nation's security. Once aboard, he hid the banned items in compartments in the bathrooms in the back of the plane. He later came forward and admitted to authorities to doing this. He was arrested for bringing banned weapons on the plane. What is this the honor system? If you can do it without getting caught then you don't have anything to worry about but if you tell on yourself then you go to jail? What does that say to you America? What it says to me is that the terrorists could do it all over again. Al Qaida certainly would not email the government telling them they were going to go on an airplane with banned items. This is why George W. Bush's security plan wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Again I find myself quoting John Kerry . America, "Do you feel safer?"

CHAPTER 5

The War on Iraq

Maybe they didn't find Bin Laden because Bush didn't want to blame Osama Bin Laden or any other Saudis because, as we will see later in this book and as we have already seen, Bush is business associates of the Bin Laden Family and he is Best friends with the Saudi Arabian royal family even though, again as we will see later, Saudi Arabia has been condemned by Amnesty International for several human rights violations. Bush did not want to blame his friends and partners so who did he pass the buck on to? Who else but a man who made no threats to any American, nor attacked any American, except for back in the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein. President of Iraq. In a television interview, Richard Clark had this to say "The president in a very intimidating way left us, me and my staff, with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an iraqi hand behind 9/11, because they have been planning to do something about Iraq before the time they had came into office". They could find no such indication. Nevertheless in March of 2003, George W. Bush invaded the country of Iraq. He was not going to stop the all out war waged on this country, that never once provoked America in any way, until its leader was out of power. His expressed reasons for going to war were few.

The first reason for Bush's invasion of Iraq was something that Americans heard plenty about. Come on everybody say it together. You all know what I'm talking about. Weapons of Mass Destruction. In many press conferences and interviews he has said that Saddam Hussein had, in his possession, stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. He was so sure about it that he even had Donald Rumsfeld go on television and say that he knew the exact whereabouts of these weapons. Bush even had this to say "Saddam Hussein has gone thru elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks, to build and keep weapons of mass destruction". He also said on at least three occasions, when asked about these weapons, "He's got em".

Hmmm. Again that makes me think. If George W. Bush says all this now, then why is it that in early 2001, (February to be exact. Which was before September the 11th) Colin Powell said "He [Saddam] has not developed any significant capabilities with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." Strangely in 2003 Colin Powell was singing a different tune. "Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations was a watershed moment in the run-up to the Iraq war. Powell's reputation as a moderate and credible voice made the evidence he presented about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction seem that much more impressive. But as State Department employee Greg Thielmann reveals, it was nothing but twisted and misleading evidence, trumped up to sell Bush's Iraq war."

If that wasn't enough, the United Nations head weapons inspector Hans Blix and his team of inspectors also found nothing as far as illegal weapons go in Iraq. In fact later on George W. Bush even admitted that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as we see in this text from one of the 2004 presidential debates. "Mr. President, yesterday in a statement you admitted that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, but justified the invasion by stating, I quote, "He retained the knowledge, the materials, the means and the intent to produce weapons of mass destruction and could have passed this knowledge to our terrorist enemies." Hmm. Strange. Especially since in an above quote, (here it is again in case you missed it. "Saddam Hussein has gone thru elaborate lengths spent enormous sums taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction.") he said that Hussein did indeed have these weapons.

One minute Bush says there were such weapons then in the next he says there weren't. Which is it? If Bush were so concerned that these terrorists may have had nuclear weapons, why did he sit in that Florida classroom, while terrorists, for all he knew, may have been up in our sky with Iraq's nuclear weapon, ready to blow any major city to hell and back, reading about some stupid pet goat?

Even if Iraq did indeed have weapons of mass destruction, which I think I have made it pretty clear that they did NOT, so what? What country does not have weapons of mass destruction? The volume in cubic meters of radioactive waste resulting from American weapons activities is 104,000,000. This headline happens to agree with me "A leaked document suggests that Washington is beginning detailed planning for a new generation of smaller nuclear weapons." Here are 10 other facts about America's weapons program

1. Total number of nuclear missiles built, 1951-present: 67,500

2. Total number of nuclear bombers built, 1945-present: 4,680

3. Peak number of nuclear warheads and bombs in the stockpile/year: 193/1966

4. Total number and types of nuclear warheads and bombs built, 1945-1990: more than 70,000/65 types

5. Number of dismantled plutonium "pits" stored at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas: 12,067 (as of May 6, 1999)

6. States with the largest number of nuclear weapons (in 1999): New Mexico (2,450), Georgia (2,000), Washington (1,685), Nevada (1,350), and North Dakota (1,140)

7. Total known land area occupied by U.S. nuclear weapons bases and facilities: 15,654 square miles

8. Legal fees paid by the Department of Energy to fight lawsuits from workers and private citizens concerning nuclear weapons production and testing activities, from October 1990 through March 1995: ,000,000

9. This one, in my opinion, is more frightening than it is anything else. Number of U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11

10. Estimated 1998 spending on all U.S. nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs: ,100,000,000

You could say that even if Iraq did have these weapons, which they did not, all they had to do was disarm and destroy their weapons and this war could have been avoided. First off it's pretty hard to get rid of something you don't have, but let's say, hypothetically, Bush had been right. Iraq is not the only country that is "not cooperating with disarmament rules." In 1985, Congress mandated that the U.S. destroy more than 98 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile. Yet of the original total of 31,496 tons, there remains 24,144 tons to be destroyed. The United States stockpile of unitary lethal chemical warfare munitions consists of various rockets, projectiles, mines, and bulk items containing blister agents (mustard H, HD, HT) and nerve agents (VX, GB). About 60% of this stockpile is in bulk storage containers; 40% is stored in munitions. The stockpile is stored at eight sites throughout the Continental US (Edgewood Chemical Activity, MD; Anniston Chemical Activity, AL; Blue Grass Chemical Activity, KY; Newport Chemical Depot, IN; Pine Bluff Chemical Activity, AR; Pueblo Chemical Depot, CO; Desert Chemical Activity, UT; and Umatilla Chemical Depot, OR) and at one site outside of the Continental US on Johnston Atoll. Even though after 2010 this map will no longer be true, you get the point. (It will not be true because instead of keeping nuclear weapons stored around the nation, Bush thought it would be a good idea to put every nuclear bomb, missile, warhead, etc. we had in one place. Not only that, but the place he chose was a place called Yuka Mountain. This mountain lies in the heart of Nevada. Nevada, as you know, is in the western part of the U.S. The west is not exactly a stranger to earthquakes. What will happen when there is an earthquake and those nuclear items are disturbed. It is nearly impossible to predict an earthquake so there would be no way to prepare for it. All of Nevada would be wiped out. Is this plan safe for America? I don't think so. Do you?) A reader was outraged by this and said, "No weapons in Iraq, but the U.S. can have all they want. I thought most of the countries in the world have them. Who are we to say they can't have them?"

On January 12th 2005, the United States called off all searches for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. After all the speeches and all the lies, After Hans Blix and his crew found nothing, After the American troops found nothing, President Bush finally decided to give up. They found nothing. Yet again I am reminded of something Senator John Kerry said. "The president didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so he's really turned his campaign into a weapon of mass deception". I hope this finally puts the weapons of mass destruction claim to rest.

Let's analyze reason number 2. This is one of the few things Bush did right and even the one thing he does right, lo and behold, he finds a way to botch it up. The people of Iraq were oppressed. The people of Iraq did not have freedom of speech, religion, press, or any other freedoms we Americans love so much. In fact, if I was in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's reign, and I wrote something like this book about him, I would probably be assassinated. I remember a story about a French man who was making a documentary of how Saddam Hussein lived in luxury while his people lived in poverty and he had to lie to the Iraqi government and tell them he was making a movie called "Uncle Saddam". He stated the movie was to give the Iraqi people a more friendly look at their president and to help them connect with him. When the Iraqi government found out, they tried to have the film-maker assassinated. He caught a flight out of the country and back to France just in time.

I was skeptic at first to believe George Bush when he said how much the Iraqi people were oppressed considering how many times he has lied to me and the rest of America before. That all changed when I saw a broadcast of the MSNBC television show "Nachman". The show is no longer on MSNBC but I was amazed at what I saw. Slums everywhere. The only buildings that were not broken and in rubble were buildings with the likeness of Saddam Hussein. What REALLY made me a believer is the fact that on the Iraq election day, Saddam Hussein was running for president un-opposed. I considered it extremely un-likely that every single person in Iraq would agree with everything Hussein was doing. I imagined someone would step up to challenge him so they could leave their ghetto world behind and go live in the president's palace and run their home country that they love. I finally came to the realization that Bush was actually telling the truth. There was a dictatorship going on and the Iraqi people needed to be freed.

After Hussein's sons were killed and Saddam was finally captured there was more fighting and terrorism from the terrorists that have come in to fight the American troops. The majority of them were not Iraqis. The day came when Iraq was to hold free elections. There were over 20 people on the ballot. That is proof alone that the Iraqi people feared Saddam. The nation went out on that day to cast their votes. At the end of the day, 29 people were killed by car bombs and other terrorist attacks. Why were these terrorists there? Where did they come from?

That question has a simple answer. George W. Bush dropped the ball. When George Bush invaded Iraq, he did not guard the borders of the nation. Nor did he guard hospitals, schools, ammunition tents, or anything else. The only thing Bush guarded were the oil fields. This left the borders wide open for an estimated 30,000 foreign terrorists. In a quote by John Kerry in one of the 2004 presidential debates, John Kerry said about the terrorists in Iraq, "They showed up in Afghanistan when they were there, because they tried to beat us and they didn't. And they're showing up in Iraq for the same reason. They're trying to defeat us." These terrorists waged war on America and its "coalition" (if you can call it that... more on that later) and anyone supporting operation Iraqi freedom, including Iraq citizens that went out to cast their vote that day. That is why their are 29 more graves added to over 4,000 Iraqi civilian graves dug already. 4,000 Iraqi civilians is more than 2,973 civilians. George W. Bush has killed more innocent people than Osama Bin Laden. Maybe this is why a wise man was quoted as saying "Osama Bin Laden isn't as big of an ass-hole as George Bush is"

The 3rd reason Bush gave for going to war with a nation that posed no threat to us was, what he called, a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaida. Bush claimed that Iraq was harboring Al-Qaida terrorists and that he was funding them. Bush also stated that Iraq had been supplying weapons to Al-Qaida. If you recall earlier in the book, I mentioned something started by Congress, despite the protest, from Bush called "The 9/11 Commission". The 9/11 Commission did not only investigate why George Bush ignored the "Terrorism Security Briefing" but they also investigated whether or not there was indeed a link between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaida, or any of their affiliates. After interrogations and deliberating, they found that George W. Bush had done it again. There was no such link between Iraq and Al-Qaida. Bush said in an interview "We have given extraordinary cooperation with Chairman Thomas Keen". The Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Keen's response to that was "We haven’t gotten the materials we needed and we certainly haven’t gotten them in a timely fashion. The deadlines we set have passed".

As you can imagine, the rest of the world was not happy about George Bush's lies. Especially after Powell said all the above things to the U.N as if they were true. Maybe that's why more than 10,000,000 people worldwide protested this war. . Even here in America, those people America loves to follow, the celebrities, made their opinions heard. When film-maker and author, Michael Moore went on stage at the Oscars to accept his award for his movie "Bowling for Columbine", he gave a speech that got him booed off the stage. This was his acceptance speech. "Thank you. Thank you very much. On behalf of our producers, Kathleen Glynn, and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to, they are here, they are here in solidarity with me because we like non-fiction. We like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We, we live in a time where we have a president sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war. Mr. Bush, shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much". Mr. Moore wasn't the only person who grabbed the microphone and gave their protest. Even rock bands like "Coldplay" got into the act. When they accepted their Grammy award, at the end of their speech, they said "and we just hope John Kerry wins the election". Bands like Green Day made songs dedicated to this man. Songs like American Idiot that said "Don't want to be an American Idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sounds of hysteria? The subliminal mind 'Fuck America'. Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along to the age of paranoia". Rock bands and film-makers weren't the only ones. As Michael Moore said, even the Dixie Chicks protested against the war , rappers did too. A Detroit rapper named Esham wrote a song called "No war". Here is an excerpt. "You go tell Uncle Sam, No war in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Iran. Many people dyin man. Shots goin off in Bethlehem. Even in Jerusalem. Christians killin Muslims. Tell me what you doin man." An underground rap/rock band called "The Filthee Immigrants" went on tour with the Insane Clown Posse and, for that tour especially, they changed the name of their song "Fuck Everyone" to "Fuck George Bush". Our allies also turned their backs on us when it came to this war. Allies like France.

Let's talk about France for a second. France saw from the beginning that this war was ridiculous. They refused to send troops or help in any way. How did America respond? By boycotting anything having to do with France. There were protests in which French wine was poured down sewers, there were bumper stickers made that had the slogan "First Iraq, then France. Bush/Cheney 04" I saw the protest first hand when I worked as a dishwasher for a Big Boy restaurant. People would not touch the French dressing. When bussing tables, I would hear people say "I'll have a side of freedom fries". I would shake my head in disgust when I'd hear such idiocy coming out of the mouths of my fellow Americans. Even Jay Leno got into the act by saying "Of course I wouldn’t even drink anything French like Perrier let alone wash my car with it." One time, an otherwise very nice and wise woman, said to me, in defense of all the right-wing nut-jobs out there, "I was one of those protesters. After all that money we gave them and they didn't have to pay any of it back, they just turn their backs and say all those mean things about us".

Not many of you readers are leaders of nations so it's hard for you to relate to this case so I'll put it in terms you can understand. Suppose you have a friend that you go out for coffee and dinner with once in a while. Suppose you forget your wallet on more than one occasion. They buy your way. Suppose you get in trouble with the law and you need to be bailed out. Your friend is right there to help. Suppose your wife or husband dies and you can’t afford to make ends meet that month. Your friend helps you out. This friend never asks for a dime of it back. Let's say one day this friend called you on the phone and said he/she had this great idea. He/she was going to jump off a bridge with a rock tied around their leg and they asked you to join them. You, of course, know that this idea is a REALLY bad idea and it could result in not only the death of your friend, but the death of you as well. Your friend however is 100% convinced that this is a good idea. Your friend gets upset with you for trying to talk him/her out of it and calls you an "idiot" or something to that affect. Let's say your friend takes a picture of you and him/her and rips it up and throws the shreds down a sewer and says "You mean to tell me that after all that money I gave you and never asked for a dime of it back, you have the nerve to tell me I'm doing something wrong? This is for my own good and the good of you and everybody else".

Ladies and gentlemen, this was the same scenario with the United States and France. They thought our idea was stupid no matter how much we thought it was right. Lest ye right-wing nut-jobs also forget also that we are not the only gracious gift givers in this world. One of our most beloved American Icons, The beautiful Statue of Liberty, was given to America by a Frenchman named FrÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©dÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â©ric-Auguste Bartholdi on behalf of France as a gift. Also, America probably could not have won its freedom from the British during the American Revolution without the help of the French. France provided arms, ships, money, and men to the American colonies. France could then turn around and say to us "Well so you gave us money. Don't act like we never did anything for you. We saved your ass during your precious little revolution and we gave you that big statue on Ellis Island. How dare you pour our wine down a sewer? We are not the right-wing nut-jobs going off to war after lying to the whole world, you are!"

One thing is for certain though. After Bush's lies have been exposed by our own Congress, I sure don't hear anyone ordering "freedom fries" anymore. Viva la France! They were right all along!

France wasn't the only country that wanted nothing to do with us. Pakistani trade union leader Rubina Jamil, President of the All-Pakistan Trade Union Federation joined the call. Her federation represents over 5 million Pakistani workers who, she emphasized, are already familiar with the cost of US military action in Afghanistan, which they oppose. In a quote from her she stated that "This war is only for oil,". It's no surprise she thinks that considering that the only thing Bush guarded when he first invaded Iraq were the oil fields and that Iraq is the second largest oil reserve in the world.

Altogether there were only 31 countries that gave us troops. As John Kerry explains, that's not that much "If Missouri, just given the number of people from Missouri who are in the military over there today, were a country, it would be the third largest country in the coalition, behind Great Britain and the United States. That’s not a grand coalition. " Here is the rundown of troops supporting the United States from other countries
1. England. Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has sent a total of 12,400 troops to Iraq with us.

2. South Korea coming in second with an astonishing 3,500 troops.

3. Italy is third with 3,169

4.Poland with 2,500 troops

5. Ukraine with 1,589 troops

6. The Netherlands with 1,345 troops

7. Romania with 730 troops

8. Japan with 750 troops

9. Denmark with 496 troops

10. Bulgaria with 485 troops

11. El Salvador with 380 troops

12. Mongolia with 180 troops

13. Australia (the land of the wiggles ) with 520 troops

14. Georgia with 800 troops

15. Azerbaijan with 151 troops

16. Portugal with 128 troops

17. Latvia with 122 troops

18. The Czech Republic with 110 troops

19. Lithuania with 105 troops.

20. Slovakia also with 105 troops.

21. Albania with 71 troops.

22. Estonia with 55 troops

23. Armenia with 46 troops.

24. Tonga with 45 troops.

25. Macedonia with 33 troops.

26. Kazakhstan with 29 troops.

27. Moldova with 12 troops.

28. Norway with a whoppingly huge amount of 10 whole troops. Wow. Better pack the BIG canteen

29. Singapore has made contributions but has not send troops.

30. Hungary in the middle of 2005 will send 150 troops.

31. Fiji with 150 troops.

Altogether 30,133 troops. That is not all that much considering America had 11,000 troops in Afghanistan and there were more police in the city of Manhattan than troops over there. The United States makes up 95% of the casualties in this war. In all fairness, their was something I left out of this list of countries. Morocco offered to send 2,000 monkeys to help blow up land mines.

John Kerry also said at a presidential debate, "Mr. President, countries are leaving the coalition, not joining". Maybe what he meant were these statistics right here.

Countries which had troops in or supported operations in Iraq at one point but have pulled out since: Nicaragua (Feb. 2004); Spain (late-Apr. 2004); Dominican Republic (early-May 2004); Honduras (late-May 2004); Philippines (~Jul. 19, 2004); Thailand (late-Aug. 2004); New Zealand (late Sep. 04); Hungary (end Dec. 04).

Countries planning to withdraw from Iraq: Poland (starting Jan.05 and completed by end.05(?)); the Netherlands (Mar. 05); Bulgaria (end of 2005, depending on circumstances).

Countries which have reduced or are planning to reduce their troop commitment: Ukraine (-200); Moldova (reduced contingent to 12); Norway (reduced from ~150 to 10 late-Jun.04, early Jul.04); Bulgaria (-50, Dec.04); Poland (-700, Feb.05); Ukraine (entire contingent, 1st half of 2005).

Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at that list. Most of the countries have given less than 1,000 troops. A lot of them have given less than 500 troops. Some have even given less than 100 troops. A few have given less than 50 troops. One country (Morocco) offered to send 2,000 monkeys. 2,000 monkeys? Readers, this is NOT a grand coalition.

So why did the president have such a hard time getting nations to join? Well, as if his lies weren’t enough, maybe it can all be attributed to the Kyoto treaty. 160 nations took 10 years out of their busy schedules to write a treaty. It was flawed. It wasn't perfect but Bush did not try to offer any suggestions. He did not try to help. He simply walked away and said "First we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country". He wouldn't want to ratify a treaty that made sense for the country??? Why doesn't that surprise me? Instead of helping out with the hard work of 160 countries for 10 years, he simply said "No way, Jose" and he wonders why no one will join the coalition.

If Bush would've used John Kerry's idea, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. Here is what Senator John Kerry said at one of the debates. "I know I can do a better job in Iraq. I have a plan to have a summit with all of the allies, something this president has not yet achieved, not yet been able to do to bring people to the table."

So what's the real reason we were at war? Why did Bush move the troops so he had 10 times the number of troops in Iraq then you have in Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden, the man who killed almost 3,000 Americans and tried to destroy the United States defense headquarters, was said to be hiding, and where more than 70% of the world's opium comes from? Is going after someone who never attacked us, or even threatened us for that matter, 10 times more important than someone who killed 3,000 of us? Bush said Iraq is the center for the war on terror. That is not true. Before he invaded it, Iraq had an estimated 30,000 fewer terrorists than it did when he got there. I heard Bush when he said "I’m a war president. I make decisions here in the oval office with war on my mind", but it is now 2005. The man who attacked us in the year 2001 is still at large planning God knows what and a man who did absolutely nothing to America is in jail. What's the real reason that, at last count, 1,447 U.S. soldiers had to die? Even though Bush put a gag order on all American media outlets, I was still able to get a picture of the American caskets that were filled with dead rotting carcasses. Carcasses of brothers, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, friends, and most importantly of all Americans that made the biggest, and last, mistake of their lives by trusting Bush as their commander in chief.The British used to talk about "the honor of battle". Where is the honor in this war? What's the real reason that over 4,000 Iraqi civilians are dead right now. Why is it that if you took the number of Iraqi civilians that were killed, it would be greater than the amount of American military casualties and the Iraqi military casualties combined.

I think Bush already answered these questions in a press conference, when he said, "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time" .