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#3  Privatizing Your Money-gate. 

On everything from your health care to fighting terrorists, the Bush administration says private companies do it better and cheaper than, well, than the Bush administration.  But the “Washington Post” reports that every year since 2001, more than 300 employees of private companies have filed claims saying their companies defrauded the government.  The Bush Justice Department has only pursued about 100 cases a year, to the tune of about 13 billion recovered tax dollars.  The current backlog of cases not being pursued is more than 900. 

#2  Only Bush Could Go to China-gate. 

We needed torture to get life-saving intelligence, right?  We needed confessions and intel and if we had to break a few eggs to get that omelet, so be it.  The “New York Times” reports that trainers at Guantanamo based an interrogation lesson there on a chart of coercive techniques, a chart that dated to 1957.  That chart was taken from an article called, “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War.”  This was a study of how the Chinese tortured propaganda fodder out of Americans in the Korean War.  Prolonged standing, exposure to cold, all that enhanced interrogation stuff, we called it torture when the Chinese did it to our guys in Korea and we know it produces false confessions.  Why are we using these techniques? 

#1  Have You Got a Good Lawyer-gate. 

 The Justice Department‘s inspector general found last week that Justice officials made hiring decisions based on politics and ideology, which is a violation of the law, not to mention a violation of justice.  In doing so, the Justice Department illegally rejected the job applications of some of the country‘s best lawyers, possibly hundreds.  Surprise, the jilted lawyers are suing, not only because their rejections violated civil service laws, but because their privacy was violated when the DOJ researched their political views. 

As if that‘s not enough, to defend itself, the Justice Department now has to rely on the legal savvy, the brilliant legal minds of the people it hired instead, like the genius alumni of Jerry Falwell‘s, quote, university, end quote.

Pay special attention to number two.  That’s the one that truly pissed me off.  This evil little man(George W Bush) has the nerve to take heinous torute techniques used against our own people in the past and use them on others.  To take the reputation of our great country and drag it through the mud.  To commit the same cruel acts against others, all in violation of international law.  I do not care what the situation is, this is America.  We DO NOT torture.  We are better than that. 

And spare me the bull crap about “we need the information” because that is a load of crap.  The only thing these forced interrogations produce is false information.  False information that may end up harming Americans rather than helping them.  Thanks, Georgie!!  You look like an even bigger boob for using techniques we know do not work and we look like monsters to the rest of the world.  Torturing just like the enemy.