[Mb-civic] Bush lies during last debate

[ean at sbcglobal.net]

Lies Bush Told During Wednesday's Debate
Democrats.com, 10/14/04

BUSH LIE - 'As a result of ...ridding the Taliban out of Afghanistan, the 
Afghan people had elections...'
FACT - The US has NOT rid Afghanistan of the Taliban. They are very much 
still in Afghanistan, and have posed a major threat both to the Afghanistan 
government and to the recent elections:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=731&e=2&u=/
afp/20040916/wl_afp/afghanistan_vote_attacks

BUSH LIE - 'Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about 
Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.'
FACT - Transcript of Bush press conference, March 13, 2003: Q: Mr. 
President, in your speeches now, you rarely talk or mention Osama bin 
Laden. Why is that? [...] BUSH: ... I don't know where he is. Nor -- you know, 
I just don't spend that much time on him really... I truly am not that concerned 
about him. "
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/10/con04436.html

BUSH LIE - 'Most of the tax cuts went to low- and middle-income '
FACT - Tables of US tax data compiled by the Tax Policy Center shows that 
the smallest proportion or the tax cuts, in terms of after tax change in 
income, went to Americans making less than $75,000 per year, while the 
lions share went to those making over $500,000 per year.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxModel/tmdb/TMTemplate.cfm?DocID=458
&topic2ID=40&topic3ID=57

BUSH LIE - ''You've got more money in your pocket as a result of the 
tax relief we passed. A family of four making $40,000 received about 
$1,700 in tax relief.'
FACT - Since 2001, because infation has risen faster than salaries, the 
average "spending power" income for American workers fell by 1.7%. So 
take off $680 per year for your family of 4's $40,000.
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/pr_2004_0614.pdf

BUSH LIE - 'Vaccine manufacturers are worried about getting sued, 
and therefore they have backed off from providing this kind of vaccine.'
FACT - Vaccine makers are protected from all vaccine lawsuits except those 
in which fraud and intentional wrongdoing are shown. ."Vaccine 
manufacturers and others are sheltered from product liability lawsuits by a 
special 1986 act of Congress. (See the US Code 42 USC 300aa for details.)
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=vaccine
%20liability%20&url=/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00000300--aa023-
.html

BUSH LIE - 'Three-quarters of Al Qaida leaders have been brought to 
justice.'
FACT - The absence of any explanation [for this estimate] as well as the 
timing, prompted some counterterrorism experts to deride the figure as 
"meaningless" and predict the revision could fuel allegations that the 
administration is massaging terrorism data for political purposes.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5945061/site/newsweek

BUSH LIE - 'Veterans are getting very good health care under my 
administration.'
FACT - In an hour-long "Primetime Thursday" investigation, Diane Sawyer 
uncovers disturbing new information about quality of care and questionable 
management practices at some of America's veterans' hospitals.
http://www.vvaindiana.org/News/hidden04-07-04.html

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