We have wasted $44 Billion in Iraq to rebuild their infrastructure and do nothing to deal with identical problems in America. We spend $12 Billion each month on a lost cause in Iraq. Last month it was the steam line in New York. Let’s keep burying our heads in the sand!

The Democrats have been attempting to curtail the huge payments under the farm subsidy program and Bush has threatened to Veto that bill. Between 2003-2005 the GAO documented payments to wealthy farmers who do not need the subsidy, dead farmers and people who are not farmers but who receive farm subsidy payments from the U.S. taxpayers. 70% of the total farm subsidies are being paid to large farmers who have annual income as high as $2.5 Million dollars. The concept of this program wa...

The Sunni members of the Maliki government have pulled out of the government which means the Iraqi government is unable to function. This insures the inability of the Iraqi Government to resolve the issues that are the reason for the sectarian fighting. No matter what the military situation may be in September, the situation in Iraq is getting worse. Today there were four terrorist attacks in which 70 Iraqis were killed. So much for the Surge controlling the violence. At best the...

That is a question that Oxfam International’s report about Iraq helped answer. They had not issued a report on the conditions in Iraq since early 2003 because of the invasion and the fighting. This group is not political but examines the real conditions that face the Iraqi People. Under Saddam you could be killed just for disagreeing with him. Today you can be killed just by going out of you house to do the most basic function of living. The overall security situation today compare...

Stewart Bowen Jr. from GAO submitted the latest quarterly report to Congress on the progress to rebuild the infrastructure in Iraq. The U.S. has given Iraq $44 Billion dollars to help rebuild things like the oil production, water and electricity. The report, like earlier reports, is not good. The Iraqi Government continues to refuse to take responsibility for over 2000 reconstruction projects. A major electric generation plant at Dora that we rebuilt at a cost of tens of millions of doll...

CNN is reporting that PM Maliki has asked President Bush to replace the American Military Commander in Iraq. At issue are the deals that General Petraeus has been making with the Sunni Militias to obtain their support to fight al-Qaeda. Below is just one of many stories about this growing problem: PM Maliki Wants General Petraeus Out of Iraq Conservative Thoughts By Kathywms on Jul 27, 2007 in Nouri al-Maliki, Shia, WOT, General Petraeus, Sunni, Iraq General Petraeus must be doing...

Thursday the Director of the FBI Robert Mueller contradicted the sworn testimony of Attorney General Gonzales. Muller testified that the subject of the hospital meeting at the bedside of the ailing Attorney General Ashcroft was about the disagreement within the Justice Department of the Warrant less Surveillance program. Gonzales testified the subject of that meeting was NOT about the surveillance program. Someone in NOT telling the truth. It is a sad day for our country when we hav...

President Bush is out of Control. He is under the delusion that he has the power of the purse. For years the Farm Subsidy has strayed from the original intent which was to help the small farmers. The Democrats have made some badly needed changes and now Bush threatens another veto. Here are the changes to the new Farm Bill: Limit aid to farmers with annual incomes up to $1 Million Dollars. Bush and he GOP had allowed farm aid to farmers with incomes of up to $2.5 Million per year...

There is a very disturbing trend from the White House - VETO VETO VETO. President Bush has threatened to veto the Defense appropriations, the money our troops need, if it contains an added ½% pay increase for our military which the Democrats proposed. He has also said he will veto a Defense appropriations bill that contains any language to begin ending the Iraq war. Bush has threatened to veto the bill that would add over 3 million children under the health care plan known as SCH...

The problem with unsafe food coming into the United States is growing. Recently there has been a flurry of health alerts from tainted food much of which is coming from China. The Bush trade policy is more interested in boosting foreign imports then in the safety of the American consumer. For the past several years Bush has been CUTTING the funding for food inspections which has resulted in a reduction in the number of inspectors at a time when there is an increased level of imported...

Yesterday President Bush released what he claims was formerly classified information that proves that al-Qaeda in Iraq is linked to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He then made his old argument that we can not leave Iraq until al-Qaeda in Iraq has been destroyed. As usual Bush choose to make his assertions at a military base before a captive audience. Most intelligence and military leaders accept the link between al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan/Pakistan. It is also t...

Now the Bush Spin Doctors have developed a new rational to keep our troops in Iraq. The story that developed about six weeks ago was that we would not have a complete picture by September and the Surge would require MORE time to show how effective it would be in controlling the fighting in Iraq. Now we have a NEW twist. If the results show a reduction in the violence in some areas where we have employed additional U.S. Forces, we must keep those increased force levels in place to pre...

Now the President’s security advisor, Fran Thompson admitted yesterday that the Bush agreement to support Musharraf plan to allow the tribal leaders along the border regions of Pakistan alone has allowed al-Qaeda to establish a stronghold in the region in conjunction with Afghanistan. The NIE said the same thing and we now have an expanded al-Qaeda. As I suggested we need to more aggressively attack the real enemy which are the foreign terrorists and get our forces out of the Civil W...

The rupture of the 150 year old steam pipe in New York is an example of our failure to address the replacement of the aging infrastructure in our country. This is an issue I raised in my book where I sighted one survey that believes we have over a Trillion Dollars of needed repair or replacement of the major infrastructure in America. YES, before someone tells me that this issue has existed long before GWB became President I will stipulate to that fact. The issue is Bush has wasted ...

I wish every person who voted for GWB in 2000 or 2004 could have been taken on a trip into the future in a Time Machine so they would be able to see just what their support for him would do to our beloved country. Only those that place there precious tax cuts above all else would have supported Bush if they could have looked at what he has done to our nation. Today I read an article about a bill working its way through the Senate to expand the SCHIP program which would add over 3 mi...