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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 04:54 PM
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Poll question: What's *'s biggest crime so far?
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 04:56 PM by XemaSab
What's the worst atrocity of the Bush administration? The one that prompts the most wailing and gnashing of teeth?
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 04:56 PM
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1. So many crimes, so little time.....
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 04:57 PM
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2. Impersonating the position of President
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 04:57 PM by ck4829
I think that would encompass everything
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TwentyFive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 04:58 PM
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3. Election Stealing. All the others are garden variety social pathologies
Without stealing the election, * would be just another obnoxious, privileged, born lucky, wastrel who bankrupted companies and laughed at poor people.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:00 PM
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4. Murder.
Lying to get us in a war where more than 1500 Americans have been murdered, in a so-called war for "democracy"..
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Leilani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:02 PM
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5. Voted other
It's the lying...it's behind all the crimes...lying us into the war.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:02 PM
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6. Other
Simply existing.
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Lori Price CLG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:02 PM
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7. OMG, where is the choice, 'All of the Above?'
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 05:03 PM by Lori Price CLG
Never before, in the history of humanity, has a poll question cried out for such an option! :)

Cheers,
Lori R. Price
http://www.legitgov.org/
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Generic Guy Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:10 PM
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8. I voted Other for all of the above.
I just can't make up my mind which one is the worse.
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:17 PM
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9. GRRR
All of the above.. so true.....

Not all options are proven yet... so I had to chose tax cuts.... its so damn obvious... that begs the next option....

Even though I totally believe in the fact that the election was stolen, there is no evidence that * himself had a hand in it, but it defintely happened.

My second choice would be the Patriot Act.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:24 PM
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10. WTC
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:28 PM
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11. Stealing the Election because
THAT one act enabled him to do all those others.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 05:30 PM
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12. Stealing TWO elections
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 05:39 PM by smoogatz
Because doing so is not just an unlawful usurpation of power, it does grave damage to the very foundations of democracy.
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Selteri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:10 PM
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13. Voted war in Iraq - Addition - Include advocating torture.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:38 PM
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14. I only voted Iraq war because there wasn't an attacked an
innocent country on the list nor all of the above + 9/11.

Thanks for the poll, maybe the NYT should have a similar one!!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:46 PM
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15. You're welcome
Yeah, so many choices.

I left 9-11 out because it's too questionable whether shrub had a hand in it, but I got to say, I think trying to put Kissinger in charge of the commission is about the lowest of the low. That's the only thing that really makes me suspect that there was some Bush involvement in it. Why put Kissinger in there unless there's something to cover up?

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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:46 PM
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16. Causing stomach ruptures to 55 million Americans
when we see him on TV.
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rniel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:47 PM
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17. The election with Gore stolen
Was like the first domino in a mile long list of crimes. It's the most important and biggest crime.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:47 PM
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18. Probably stealing the election because it kicked off this whole nightmare
But pulling off 9-11 was pretty heinous. Invading Iraq and Afghanistan are enough for corporal punishment for treason and war crimes.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:48 PM
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19. 9-11-01
There's no question of his guilt, only the question of to what degree he and his Fraudministration were involved.
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 06:49 PM
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20. i no longer trust in our elections process
what can be worse than that?
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:22 PM
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21. I'd say stealing the 2000 election, only because without having done
that he never would have gotten his sorry ass in the catbird seat to do the rest of the criminal stuff he's done for the past four years and counting.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:04 PM
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23. Yeah, thats kind of my take....
...without the original sin, this national nightmare wouldn't have started...
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emdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:01 PM
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22. I voted "other".....
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 08:03 PM by emdee
because I couldn't choose between many of those --- *and* when they are added together, it's just unbearable! To think that he was able to carry out off of those atrocities and still be in office is appalling to me!
emdee
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:37 PM
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24. I mention the Koch Industries scandal because no one ever mentions it
although the Iraq War lie and cover-up is to me the greatest crime ever committed by a US President.

Koch Industries is known to be the largest privately-owned energy company in the United States. The Koch Family which wholly owns Koch Industries has had long ties to the John Birch Society, the Cato Institute, and other far right organizations. During the time that George Bush was Governor of Texas, the Clinton Administration brought 97 felony counts against Koch Industries for violating the Clean Air Act when they released 97 metric tons of carcinogens into the air in Texas. If found guilty, Koch executives could have potentially faced up to a total of 100 years in prison and fines of nearly one-half billion dollars.

Koch had contributed $60,000 to George Bush during his political career and a total of $800,000 to Republicans in general. There have been zippo, nada, 0 contributions by Koch to Democrats.

In the weeks after George Bush came into office, he ended all prosecution against Koch in exchange for their pleading guilt to lesser charges, no prison time, and he reduced the near half-billion in fines to only $20 million ... not even a slap on the wrist.

In May, 2001, when Ari Fleischer was asked whether George Bush would return the campaign money he had received from Koch, as they were now a convicted felon, he danced for two straight days around reporters' questions, claiming that the Koch Company was the felon, whereas the campaign money was given to Bush by the Koch Executives (whose last names happened to be Koch). It was pointed out to Ari that the PACs to which the money had been contributed were regulated by the company itself. Furthermore, the Koch Company is owned by the Koch family and they are virtually one and the same.

I just thought I would ramble on about this, because the scandals and crimes have now become so numerous that some of us are beginning to forget some of them.
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suegeo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:45 PM
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25. At best, criminal incompetence
The best I can say about the junta is that they were criminally incompetent before on after 9.11.

At medium worst, they knew an attack was coming and they let people get killed.

At worst, they were complicit with their CIA trainee bin Laden in carrying out the attack.

I believe the worst about the Bush killers.

Oh, and stealing 2 elections is right up there. Along with lying us into an invasion of Iraq. Outing a CIA agent. Locking up poppy's papers, snooping on people, detaining people without charging them. The list is too long to pick just one.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:52 PM
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26. To me..this is a no brainer..
going to "war" in IRaq..has brought the result of murdering tens of thousands of innocent people.

How anyone besides a sociopath can live with that one..I'll never know! Psycho Nut Freak!
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 09:56 PM
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27. 9/11 changed everything
First the crime was against our own people by those that are sworn defenders of their own people, and thus, if nothing else ever, absolute criminal negligence.

Second, the propaganda that is the using of the fear of that day, the terror and grief of that crime to foster unecessary war, and the reversal of basic human rights and liberties.

Which has led to Iraq, which had led to Valerie Plame, which has led to someone being tortured right this minute in your name for crimes they couldn't have committed because those people are in places and countries that will never be touched because 9/11 changed everything.


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knight_of_the_star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 10:05 PM
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28. Valerie Plame
No crime is worse than treason, for in doing so you show you have no honour to speak of, no respect for your duty to do unto your nation as it has done unto you, and no truth in your words or actions.

Traitors hang, no ifs ands or buts about it.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 10:06 PM
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29. Orchestrating 9-11
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Is It Fascism Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 12:34 AM
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30. Other, colusion in 911 and obstructing the 911 congressional investigation
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Democrat Dragon Donating Member (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 12:45 AM
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31. 9/11
and the whole agenda to take over and eventually destroy the world.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 01:28 AM
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Tactical Progressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 03:13 AM
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33. 9/11 - Letting America get attacked by terrorists
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 03:16 AM by Tactical Progressive
in 2001.

If Democrats had only been able to understand this, instead of either going off into MIHOP conspiracies on the one hand, or being just too scared to see and talk about the obvious truth of BushCo's intentional negligence on the other, Bush would have never won re-selection in 2004.

But Dems always seem to be either too timid or too off-the-wall. Too bad for us.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 06:14 AM
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34. Genocide... and it's going to get a lot worse.
:(

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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 09:20 AM
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35. The war in Iraq. n/t
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freestyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 09:57 AM
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36. Stealing the election enabled the other crimes
Including the crime against humanity that is the Iraq war. Unfortunately, bush was already a murderer when he was selected (unless you really believe all those executed in Texas were guilty). Occupying the White House has allowed him to take the pathology to a disgustingly broader level.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 08:57 PM
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37. Kick my own thread
:-)
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DemGirl7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 09:54 PM
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38. Hey, we need a "everything" category
I mean Everything Bush has done for the part has been his biggest crime..from stealing the elections to the Patriot Act, to anything you can think of.
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despairing optimist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:59 PM
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39. Not eating enough pretzels
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