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A Legacy Review: My Original 40 Know Bush Facts from 2004, Part IV - THE FINALE

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Bush’s accompanying mislead is "torte reform." Given the mercury poisoning in 48 states and the thousands of children asthmatically gasping – for starters – perhaps Bush’s push to put caps on damage awards isn’t really about the cost of health insurance. It’s a lot more likely that he is seeking to nip-in-the-bud the trillions of dollars the polluting companies should pay if their disdain for their victims is revealed.

Perhaps the entire country should be suing Bush himself, for the destructive poisons he’s unleashed upon us.

There’d be nothing frivolous about such lawsuits. Not if we have to witness our children and grandchildren struggling to breathe, struggling to think, struggling to live.

Clearly, this has nothing to do with Republican vs. Democrat. Quite the contrary. RFK, Jr. laments:

"While claiming to embrace its values, the Bush administration has stolen the soul of the Republican party. The president and his cronies have taken the conserve out of the conservative."

Again, so much for Homeland Security and the Bush Cheney motto – "Building Safety." Take a few minutes to explain this to a Security Mom you know.

To verify/research, Google "Bush +New Source Review" or "Bush +Kennedy, Jr."

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KNOW BUSH FACT #40 (A Good Number for Knowledge)

"What do you expect from a president who believes in Creationism?" – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

During the 2000 campaign, Bush said:

"I feel that God wants me to run for President. I can’t explain it; … I know it won’t be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."

Bush’s religiosity, his faith, came to him around the time of his 40th birthday when his parents called in Billy Graham after another embarrassing evening with the younger Bush’s drinking and abusive language. Suddenly, he was born again, and from that moment on, Bush has supposedly never had another drink.

That change has probably made life easier on his family in many ways, but just stopping the behavior does not mean an alcoholic is cured. Those who are knowledgeable about addictive personalities know that it’s not easy to face one’s demons, and that there is a strong tendency to replace one addiction for another.

Dr. Justin Frank, in his daring book, Bush on the Couch, points out that Bush’\pard plain s religion has both given him his sense of purpose, and eased the anxiety he had earlier numbed with alcohol.

So Bush spent years developing a new spiritual life with the Christian right, whose members conveniently, in turn, were deeply moved by the hope for a President who would cater to their ways.

Then, as we know, in Bush’s first year in the White House, there was 9/11, and theologians recognized immediately that his Christianity shifted gears. It was no longer about personal salvation. It was about Biblical prophecy, the fight between good and evil.

"Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil."

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