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haven't been able to keep up with the rap sheet lately, and obviously it's getting drowned out by the election noise, but fwiw here's MoveOn's version from an email they sent recently soliciting donations for Democratic party evangelism (donation links removed...):

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Dear MoveOn member,

Republicans are hoping that when Americans watch this week's Republican
convention, we'll forget about the last eight years.

So we've put together this list of the Bush administration's
"accomplishments."

It's actually shocking, even when you've lived through it. Take a moment
to read it and pass it along:

* Misleading about Iraq's WMD
* Implying a connection between Saddam and 9/11
* 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
* Failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina
* Hiring unqualified crony to run FEMA
* Praising crony's performance: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"
* Neglecting reconstruction of New Orleans' homes and levees

We can't survive another four years of this. Can you chip in $50 to
defeat John McCain?

[link removed]

More highlights of the Bush record:

* 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

John McCain supported this president from the start. We have a plan to
beat McCain by registering half a million young voters in swing states.
We're ready to jump into action--we just need to pay for it. Can you
contribute to help elect Barack Obama?

[link removed]

Here are more of the Bush administration's failures:

* Fighting to privatize Social Security
* Stealing the 2000 election (remember Katherine Harris, voter purges,
and the Supreme Court?)
* Concealing the pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin
Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
* Ignoring security at nuclear plants after 9/11
* Battling the wall between church and state
* Enforcing abstinence-only programs in public schools
* Doing too little to halt genocide in Darfur
* Trying to slash funding for PBS and NPR

A lot of folks think McCain will be better than Bush. But don't count on
it. His foreign policy advisers are to the right of Bush. And 90% of the
time, McCain has stood with Bush. Please help beat McCain. Just click here
to contribute:

[link removed]

The list goes on:

* Rejecting the Kyoto Treaty to stop climate change
* Giving tax cuts to the rich in a time of war
* Failing seniors with the costly Medicare prescription drug benefit
* Suppressing the vote in the 2004 elections (remember Diebold and long
lines in Ohio?)
* Swiftboating John Kerry
* Outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to retaliate for truth about Iraq's
WMDs
* Telling the 45 million uninsured Americans to just go to the emergency
room

John McCain would be four more years of the same. Can you donate $50
to elect Obama instead?

[link removed]

Still more:

* Spending $341 million a day in Iraq
* Neglecting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center
* Allowing Afghanistan to fall into chaos, with the Taliban and al Qaeda
regaining control
* Pressuring PBS to carry pro-government propaganda
* Paying columnists like Armstrong Williams to promote government
policies
* Creating fake news reels to promote the controversial Medicare law
* Holding prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay

Can you pitch in?

[link removed]

Bush failures, continued:

* Covering up torture at Abu Ghraib
* Breaking the Geneva Conventions
* Appointing extreme right-wing Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and
Samuel Alito
* Forcing the Patriot Act into law
* Firing federal prosecutors who failed to accuse Democrats of voting
fraud
* Turning a budget surplus into massive budget deficit
* Letting more than a million homes go into foreclosure--the highest
rate ever recorded
* Watching as bank failures surge
* Setting the record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S.
history
* Losing 2.7 million manufacturing jobs
* Presiding over Enron scandal--the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history
* Increasing nuclear threat by withdrawing from Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty with Russia
* Appointing John Bolton as U.N. ambassador despite his promise to
dismantle the U.N.
* 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
* Pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off our
coasts

Had enough? Donate $50 to elect Obama.

[link removed]

Then forward this email to your friends. We don't have to live through
four more years of this. We have a choice.

Thanks for all you do.

--Noah, Adam G., Nita, Eli and the rest of the team

Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 3.5 million
members--no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny
staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

passing on billion dollar war contracts to their buddies, who are evading US taxes

a specific example of BushCo politics subverting sound science...

NY Times article about the testimony of a former surgeon general, saying that "top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations". the reports covered topics such as sex education and contraception, to the health effect of tobacco, to global warming.

BushCo's continued fanatical secrecy, and usurping of more and more power for the executive branch...

* Gutting the Presidential Records Act (by Dan Rather at jamaica-gleaner.com)

* Cheney's office is explicitly outside the law (by Aziz Huq at thenation.com)

i haven't posted in a while (a wild summer is winding down), but wow lots has happened. on the BushCO-supremacy-over-the-law front, it was really neat that they recently acknowledged the Geneva Conventions. they even recently rebanned torture in the army field manual -- yeah! too bad they're still seeking exemptions and loopholes to ignore these details.

Amnesty International has a petition urging congress to stand up to BushCO.

how about just being an all-around hypocrite?

although that may hit too close to home with a lot of democrats to ever have much traction.