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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (484415)	10/31/2003 11:15:21 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

from the congress.org website, I suggest Bush supporters check it out... millions of letters just like this Subject: You're a LIAR and a THIEF To: President George Bush October 30, 2003 The economy grew at 7%???? NO. The military industrial complex contributed OVER HALF, MAYBE 3/4 OF THAT. You keep killing our troops for what? To payback your corporate cronies. To make cheney a bundle on his halliburton options. To make mega money for your daddy. YOU ARE A THIEF AND A HABITUAL LIAR. YOU HAVE NOT CREATED ONE JOB. 366,000 NEW APPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT HAVE BEEN FILED. AND YOU LOST 4 MILLION JOBS TO FOREIGN INTERESTS. AND 12 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE NO JOBS, NO HEALTHCARE, AND THEIR CHILDREN HAVE NO FUTURE EXCEPT TO PAY BACK YOUR DEFICIT... YOUR CHARGE CARD ECONOMY IS AS PHONEY AS YOU. YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR AMERICA BUT TRASH MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES AND VETERANS. And now your corporate cronies will get even RICHER on taxpayer funded reconstruction in Iraq. And our troops still die. SEE YOU IN 2004...... YOU ARE A THIEF AND A DISGRACE. Top Stories - Reuters- Report Says Iraq Contracts Reek of Cronyism Thu Oct 30, 2:41 PM ET By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many of the U.S. firms doing billions of dollars of work in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) have been big donors to President Bush (news - web sites) and his Republican Party and fill their boards with political and military heavyweights, a report on Thursday said. The report by the watchdog group, the Center for Public Integrity, said most of the 70 firms and individuals getting up to $8 billion in contracts for post-war Iraq and Afghanistan donated more to Bush's presidential campaign -- a little over $500,000 -- than any other candidate in the past decade. "There is a stench of political favoritism and cronyism surrounding the contracting process in both Iraq and Afghanistan," said Charles Lewis, executive director of the group, which investigates public service and ethics issues. The report said 60 percent of the firms with contracts had employees or board members who served in previous administrations, for members of Congress and at the highest level of the military. Winning companies were major political players overall and the group traced about $49 million in donations since 1990 from these companies to political parties, committees and candidates. The Republican Party committee got $12.7 million while Democrats got $7.1 million. The report found that 14 of the 70 contractors got work both in Iraq and Afghanistan and that combined these companies gave nearly $23 million in political contributions and 13 of those firms employed former government officials with close ties to agencies and departments. " SP , FL