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AA. 11/1/04 (Fortune) The latest corporate tax bill—passed by Congress in early October and stuffed with $137 billion in tax breaks—will bring the business community's share of the national tax burden to its lowest level in decades. People I hope you'll read this article. If you do you'll see just how much the well connected are paying to cover our countries expanses.

A. 10/29/04 (CNN) Osama bin Laden delivered a new videotaped message in which he told Americans their security does not depend on the president they elect, but on U.S. policy. And he said al Qaeda remains motivated to strike the U.S. again. Why is this guy still alive & free over three years after 9/11. I have not idea why he released this tape at this time. He could be trying to effect the election but if he is, I don't know who he wants to win. Has he researched our psyche? Does he think we will vote for George Bush because we think, wrongly, that he's the stronger leader against terrorism? or does he think we are weak and will vote for Kerry because we think, wrongly again, that he will give in to bin Laden's threats? Does he want George Bush defeated? Or does he want him to win? George Bush hasn't caught him in over three years, he invaded Iraq, giving bin Laden a great recruiting tool. He hasn't reinforced our homeland defenses. He (bin Ladin) may want things to stay the same. I don't know, but I feel we would be safer & bin Laden would be in more danger if John Kerry is our next president.

The more I think about it the more I think that Osama bin Laden may be trying to effect our election. Let's look at some facts. With George Bush in the Whitehouse 1. He was allowed to escape from Tora Bora. 2. Our homeland security under funded. 3. The people in the streets, around the world, have lost respect for the United States because of George Bush's war in Iraq. 4. we're tied up in the war in Iraq & can't use our military where we need it in the hunt for terrorists. 5. bin Laden has had a great recruiting tool given to him on a silver Iraq. He (bin Laden) has accomplished what he wanted, He has made the U. S. economy weaker, He can use his propaganda machine anytime he wants to, he has polarized America & the world, he has solidified his base, & even though he's lost a major portion of his organization al-Quada has grown. He wants George Bush in the Whitehouse.

l. George Bush has been claiming that John Kerry is weak on terrorism because he has voted to cut spending on weapons & intelligence. He hasn't given you all the facts. Kerry has in fact voted for quite a few increases in the same categories but George Bush is right he did vote to cut some of the spending. He (George Bush) doesn't explain why Kerry voted the way he did. He also doesn't tell you that while Dick Chaney was Secretary of Defense he cut some of the systems that Kerry had voted against. He also neglects to tell you that Porter Goss his new director of the C.I.A. had, as Representative of the Fourteenth Congressional District of Florida, voted again and again against increases in homeland security & had in the past voted against many intelligence bills.

1a. Neither does George Bush explain that he himself, either by threat of veto or direct pressure on the House & Senate kept homeland security at under-funded levels. In his book (Losing America) Senator Robert C. Byrd, who is a ranking member on the Committee of Appropriations, lists on pages 112 - 115 that under pressure from the White House on 11 different occasions from 11/14/01 - 9/17/03 where spending bills were dropped because the White House thought they had to much funding for homeland security. These bills were modest when compared to the amount needed. George Bush just recently signed a 33 billion dollar spending bill. To little to late. By the way John Kerry voted for almost all of those bills.

2. We just heard about the loss of the 380 tons of explosives in Iraq. The administration's defense is as I heard Dick Chaney say "We're not even sure they were there when we got to the site." & George Bush says about John Kerry's complaint "He (Kerry) is Monday morning quarterbacking. He has no ideas just complaints." Well I for I would like to know why we don't know if they were there or not. We were told they were, so we should have found out. Then if they weren't we would know it & if they were we could (Should) have protected or destroyed them. I'd also like to know why John Kerry had the opportunity to Monday morning quarterback. I think Kerry has the right to point out the mistakes of the administration.

2a. I just heard that a senior military official say that when they got to Al Qaqaa they didn't see any weapons but they weren't under orders to search the site and were on their way to Baghdad. I want to know why, since the Pentagon had been warned of this site before our invasion of Iraq, there was no order given to search the site. People, it's not our military that is screwing up, they're doing a great job, it's the leadership of the Bush administration. Just open your eyes and follow the news. Those who refuse to see their errors are doomed to repeat them.

2b. George Bush just made a statement, at a rally, that John Kerry didn't wait for all the facts before complaining about his (George Bush's) incompetence. I've already mentioned the fact that, the mere fact that George Bush didn't know if they were there or not, is incompetence in itself. It means that the order wasn't given to find out. However the more important point we have to take into consideration is that George Bush is questioning Kerry's fitness to be President on the fact that he jumped to conclusions (He didn't). George Bush shouldn't talk about jumping to conclusions, didn't he go to war in Iraq by jumping to conclusions. He didn't even let the U.N. inspectors finish their job.

2c. Rudy Giuliani, in a rally speech made a statement that you can't blame George Bush because the troops on the ground didn't search the area. To him I'd like to say that they had received no orders to search the site as the pentagon didn't pass on the information that they had & why is a Republican downgrading our troops, this is something that the administration is claiming, unjustly, that John Kerry has done. John Kerry has never belittled our troops. He has belittled George Bush. (No! George Bush has belittled George Bush, John Kerry has only pointed out the times George Bush has done that.)

2d. Here's what Sen. Joe Biden said on Larry King Live "Here's what it comes down to. I say to Bill Safire, Bill, we know we knew about this site. It was a prime site that we had targeted as the place where maybe nuclear weapons were being made, and yet nobody knew whether or not these weapons were missing according to the White House until October of this year. That's what the White House is saying. That's what Scott McClellan said. Now, I ask you, why did we not know? Is not that incompetence that we didn't go immediately to that site knowing it was a nuclear facility, knowing this stuff is the stuff of which you can detonate nuclear weapons, that is, a conventional explosive to ram together two pieces of highly enriched uranium to cause a thermo-nuclear explosion, and we knew there were over 300 tons of it, why did someone not go and see if it was still there?" The important questions are highlighted in blue. It doesn't matter if it was there or not. The point is George Bush's administration didn't let the troops in the field know about the danger, that's where the incompetence comes in.

2e. It's 10/29/04 and they still don't get it. The Pentagon states that they had destroyed a large cash of weapons from Al-Qaqaa but when asked if they were the weapons in question they replied "I did not see any IAEA seals at any of the locations we went into. I was not looking for that," Pearson said. The problem is the last part of his answer. "I was not looking for that." Had he been told by the Bush pentagon that they were there he would have been.

3. We also just find out that the administration called off an attack that may have killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the terrorist responsible for most of the attacks on our troops in Iraq & all of the beheadings. We apparently had him in our sites in Northern Iraq in an area controlled by, not Saddam, the Kurds. Military officials have said that the administration feared destroying the camp could undermine their case for the war. I can't see how refusing to kill a terrorist leader is intelligently fighting terrorism. After all George Bush has been saying we'll hunt them down & kill them where ever they are. I just heard a Republican governor say, on Larry King Live, that we were better off fighting al-Zarqawi in Iraq rather then fighting him here. I'd like to tell him that if we had killed him when we should have, before the war started, we wouldn't have to fight him at all.

4. We also find ourselves short of the Flu Vaccine. The administration has come up with excuse after excuse. What they should have done when they were warned that the danger existed, over a year ago, is called a top level meeting and tried to figure out a solution. See the bottom of the page on health care.

5. We also find out that the administration is going to ask for $75 billion more for the war in Iraq. What ever happened to the revenues from the Iraqi oil fields that was suppose to help pay for the reconstruction.

6. Speaking of reconstruction wouldn't it help us convince the people of Iraq that we were there to help them if we started to spend some of the money that has been appropriated by Congress for that purpose. We would be putting Iraqis to work, getting the infrastructure up and running, helping the Iraq economy, and basically showing the people that we are caring compassionate people who they can trust. Maybe just maybe the Iraqis would start to help us save their country.

7. Ayad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister is now blaming us for the attack that killed 44 Iraqi soldiers a couple days ago. Even our friends in Iraq are starting to see how incompetent this administration is. We have to get rid of Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz and the only way we can do that is to put in a new administration.

8. George Bush said he would unite the country, yet his vice president, as president of the senate, only meets with the Republican members when he goes to the senate. That's no way to unite.

9. All we hear from this administration is excuses. On the economy we hear we were attacked on 9/11 and it hurt our economy. I'd like to say we were attacked at Pearl Harbor and we recovered. They say "We're at war." Well what the hell do they think we were at during the First World War, World War II the Korean War or Vietnam. We didn't have economic problems during those wars. Then we hear that job growth was slow because we were hit by hurricanes, People it's not the first time we were hit by hurricanes, it never hurt us before. When are they going to take responsibility for their own actions & policies. They remind me if my sister, when I was growing up. She always found a way to blame me for the things she did.

10. I just took this off of the presidents web site: In December 2001, During Fighting At Tora Bora, Kerry Said: “I Think We Have Been Doing This Pretty Effectively And We Should Continue To Do It That Way.” CALLER: “Hello. Yes, I would like to ask the panel why they don't use napalm or flamethrowers on those tunnels and caves up there in Afghanistan?” KING: “Senator Kerry?” CALLER: “My golly, I think they could smoke him out.” KING: “Senator Kerry?” KERRY: “Well, I think it depends on where you are tactically. They may well be doing that at some point in time. But for the moment, what we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 12/14/01) It shows me that John Kerry was being fair. Kerry said that they were doing the right thing and should continue to do it. He didn't say that they should pull those troops back to get ready for Iraq and allow the war lords to take over the operation. Had they continued as Kerry said to keep the pressure on they may have gotten Ben Ladin. At the least they would have cut deeply into the numbers of terrorists that were with Osama bin Laden. Again the President, by taking things out of context or as this time using timing to change peoples prospective, is misleading the American People. let me give you an example.

I see a crack in a dam over looking a field where sheep are grazing so I go to the farmer and say "You had better get your sheep out of that valley. If that dam breaks you'll lose them." Two years later I go back and find that the sheep are crowded into a small area on a hill overlooking the valley. The valley is lush and the hill is sparse. I go to the farmer and say "Why don't you let your sheep graze in that lovely lush valley?" He says to me. "But you're the one who told me that I should get them out of the valley." I say "That was before the dam was repaired." The farmer goes on T.V. and tells the people that I was the reason that his sheep died of starvation.

I keep hearing that General Tommy Franks is saying that "We weren't sure that bin Laden was even in Tora Bora." Then what I'd like to know is why we have been hunting for him there for the past three years. I keep hearing that he's probably is crossing back and forth from Tora Bora and Northern Pakistan & being protected by the war lords just east of Tora Bora. Plus it doesn't matter if he was there or not. If we thought he might have been, but weren't sure, we should have made sure. We shouldn't have just told Afghan war lords to "Get him." We should have done that ourselves. All I hear from the Bush administration is excuses.

11. I had to laugh when I heard George Bush say that John Kerry didn't deserve to be Commander in Chief because he jumped to conclusion when he found out about the missing explosives at Al Qaqaa. It's not funny but first George Bush doesn't understand the charges that John Kerry is making about the administration. First it's not the fact that the munitions are missing, it's the fact that nobody was informed that they were there and should be located & guarded or destroyed and second and more important is the fact that George Bush as our Commander in Chief led our country into a war by jumping to conclusions. George Bush is acting like a dog chasing his tail. He can't stop misleading us even when if he looked in a mirror he'd see himself.

12. I keep hearing that John Kerry won't be able to bring France & Germany into the coalition. He probably won't but how about: Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Greece, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, and the many other countries of the world that aren't there now? Has Bush even tried to contact them?

13. We recently learned that the F.B.I. is investigating The Army Corps of Engineers about Hilliburton contracts: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI has made a formal request to interview the Army Corps of Engineers chief contracting officer who has alleged her agency unfairly awarded no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to a Halliburton subsidiary for work in Iraq, law enforcement sources said Thursday. If you've read my site you'll know that I've been complaining about this from the time I started this site. Here's more information on the Investigation WASHINGTON - The Army extended a Halliburton Co. troop support contract over the objections of a top contracting officer, even contending _ and then withdrawing _ a claim that U.S. forces faced an emergency if the company didn't get the extra work.

14. Ask yourself why the administration requested a updated war plan for Iraq shortly after the Bush administration took office and long before 9/11. I know, I've heard the administration's excuse. They say you have to stay on top of the situation and that, just in case we had to go to war we should be prepared. It's a good point but if that's the case, why didn't we also update battle plans for places like Iran, North Korea, Syria, or all of the other countries we may have had to attack? How come only Iraq?

I have been giving you reason after reason why we should get rid of the present administration. I should give you reasons to vote for John Kerry.

l.. He has, ever since he was a boy, dedicated his life to public service. He went to Viet Nam because he felt his country needed him & served a full tour of duty on a navy vessel off shore then reenlisted and asked for a more dangerous assignment (The Swift Boats) he could have came home but he felt he could help his country, so he stayed.

2. During his stint on the Swift Boats he showed heroism, leadership, intelligence and decisiveness.

3. He then came home, after being disillusioned with the war, and fought to end it. Political suicide, but strong beliefs. How many more American boys may have died in those rice paddies had it not been for the antiwar movement & leaders like John Kerry.

4. He is Compassionate and cares deeply about issues that affect middleclass Americans. He, with his wealth, could do anything he wanted to do. He wanted to serve the people of our country, to lift all Americans not just the wealthy.

5. He has outlined an agenda of intelligence on almost all issues, from the war in Iraq to health care, the economy to international diplomacy. the environment to energy. All you had to do was watch the debates to see the reasons we should put him in the White House.

6. I really feel that with John Kerry & John Edwards in the White House we can again return to Camelot.

7. He will be honest with the American people, something George Bush and his administration have found almost impossible.

I put the below article on because of an ad that the Republicans have been running. In their ad they they have Ronald Reagan talking in front of the Berlin Wall. His tear down this wall speech. Then say in times like this we need a Republican in the White House, as if Democrats are weak. I'd like to ask them if they thought that Kennedy, Roosevelt, Johnson, Wilson and other democratic presidents who presided over times of war were weak.

In this radio speech, to the American public, on the Berlin Crisis, John F. Kennedy, gave us a good demonstration of how the Bully Pulpit should be used & also explained to the people about Fiscal Responsibility:

"This improved business outlook means improved revenues; and I intend to submit to the Congress in January a budget for the next fiscal year which will be strictly in balance. Nevertheless, should an increase in taxes be needed--because of events in the next few months--to achieve that balance, or because of subsequent defense rises, those increased taxes will be requested in January.
Meanwhile, to help make certain that the current deficit is held to a safe level, we must keep down all expenditures not thoroughly justified in budget requests. The luxury of our current post-office deficit must be ended. Costs in military procurement will be closely scrutinized--and in this effort I welcome the cooperation of the Congress. The tax loopholes I have specified--on expense accounts, overseas income, dividends, interest, cooperatives and others--must be closed.
I realize that no public revenue measure is welcomed by everyone. But I am certain that every American wants to pay his fair share, and not leave the burden of defending freedom entirely to those who bear arms. For we have mortgaged our very future on this defense--and we cannot fail to meet our responsibilities."

Read the full transcript of the speech & you'll see the difference between Strength & Stubbornness, Intelligence & Ineptitude, Compassion & Arrogance.