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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Is it bush-bashing to point out its illegal for any president to authorize spying on US citizens without a warrant or using torture on persons held in US custody?
Or to point out its immoral for any president to mislead the American people and knowingly and willfully take the country to war based on false premises?
Or to point out its unethical for any president to use more signing statements than nearly every other president combined in order to change the intent of laws enacted by Congress....or to classify more government documents secret than every other president combined in order to keep the country in the dark on some of the more questionable activities of his administration?
Or to point out that it is fiscally irresponsible for any president to double the national debt of his predecessor?
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Or....the giant "fuck you" "sent" to the families of dead and maimed US troops, and to the troops serving multiple extended tours in Iraq, by the president with the distinction of spending more than 900 days of his presidency, at his ranch, Camp David, or in Kennebunkport?
It's a "fuck you", because he had to know that it "was a problem", even before he came to be a failed president:
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...h-vacation.htm
<h3>08/03/2001</h3> - Updated 12:02 PM ET
White House to move to Texas for a while
By Laurence McQuillan, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Six months after taking office, President Bush will begin a month-long vacation Saturday that is significantly longer than the average American's annual getaway. If Bush returns as scheduled on Labor Day, he'll tie the modern record for presidential absence from the White House, held by Richard Nixon at 30 days. Ronald Reagan took trips as long as 28 days.....
....But some Republican loyalists worry about critics who say Bush lets Vice President Cheney and other top officials do most of the work. They're also concerned about the reaction of the average American, who gets 13 vacation days each year....
....President Bush's father was criticized in 1990 for remaining on vacation in Kennebunkport while dealing with the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq......
....Some observers say Bush taking a month off could feed a perception fostered by critics that he is disengaged and does not work hard enough.
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Bush demonstrated that he just doesn't give a shit about what anyone thinks, including the people who have given up everything:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070401025.html
The name of Lance Cpl. Marty G. Mortenson was etched into the stone on the eve of Armed Forces Day in May. A month earlier, on April 20, Mortenson had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Lance Cpl. Marty G. Mortenson of Arizona was killed on his third tour.
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Just a few months before he died, Mortenson sent his mother an e-mail: I am really sorry about [forgetting] your birthday . . . I am so streesed out that it is really bring [ing] me down. . . . I have had so much on my mind . . . going off to war 4 the 3rd time isn't easy.
Mortenson was on his third tour -- his third pump, in Marine jargon -- in Iraq. He had spent his 20th, 21st and 22nd birthdays in Iraq. Before he left on his last tour, he told a friend in California: "It's like three strikes, you're out. I have a feeling I'm not going to come home."....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...pinion/columns
....Mike Allen wrote in The Washington Post in August of 2001, as Bush's first long Crawford vacation wrapped up: "The length of the trip revived old questions about Bush's work ethic." Of course, no one knew at the time that Bush had, during the first week of that vacation, waved off the now-famous memo specifically for the president titled " Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." According to author Ron Suskind, Bush heard his CIA briefer out -- then told him, "All right. You've covered your ass, now." .....
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