"Accomplishments" of the Bush-Cheney Administration

I received an email today that does a great job of compiling a list of the "accomplishments" of the Bush-Cheney administration. I want to share them with you.

· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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