A damning indictment of the current administration's record...

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....can be found here.

Selected items from a list of 100:

• The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.  (Source: PBS)
• Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11."  The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.  (Source: MSNBC, 9-11 Commission)
• The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.  (Source: armscontrol.org)
• According to Congressional Research Service data, the Bush Administration has underfunded security at the nation's ports by more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2005.  (Source: American Progress)
• Despite repeated calls for reinforcements, there are fewer experienced CIA agents assigned to the unit dealing with Osama bin Laden now than there were before 9/11.  (Source: New York Times)
• The Bush Administration has spent $7 billion this year--and plans to spend $10 billion next year--for a missile defense system that has never worked in a test that wasn't rigged.  (Sources: www.gao.gov/new.items/d04409.pdf, Los Angeles Times)
• The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton--a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options).  The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.  (Sources: The Washington Post, The Tapei Times, BBC News)
• The Bush Administration paid Iraqi-exile and neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi $400,000 a month for intelligence, including fabricated claims about Iraqi WMD.  It continued to pay him for months after discovering that he was providing inaccurate information.  (Source: MSNBC)
• The Bush Administration has crippled state budgets by underfunding federal mandates by $175 billion.  (Source: cbpp.org)
• The Bush Administration gave Accenture a multibillion-dollar border control contract even though the company moved its operations to Bermuda to avoid paying taxes.  (Sources: The New York Times, cantonrep.com)
• As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.  (Source: iht.com)
• The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill.  Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.  (Source: Washington Post, realcities.com)
• The nonpartisan GAO concluded the Bush Administration created illegal, covert propaganda--in the form of fake news reports--to promote its industry-backed Medicare bill.  (Source: General Accounting Office)
• The Bush Administration went to court to block lawsuits by patients who were injured by defective prescription drugs and medical devices.  (Source: Washington Post)
• The Bush Administration blocked a proposal to ban the use of arsenic-treated lumber in playground equipment, even though it conceded it posed a danger to children.  (Source: Miami Herald)
• Since 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft has detained 5,000 foreign nationals in antiterrorism sweeps; none have been convicted of a terrorist crime.  (Source: hrwatch.org)
• In violation of international law, the Bush Administration hid prisoners from the Red Cross so the organization couldn't monitor their treatment.  (Source: hrwatch.org)
• The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force.  (Source: Washington Post)
• The Bush Administration--reversing years of bipartisan tradition--refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.  (Source: Washington Post)

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...makes me wanna move to Chicago and vote as many times as possible.