Experience - Bush had NONE

The Republicans are lying yet again, trying to make you believe that Kerry doesn't have enough experience to be president or that Edwards isn't qualified to be VP or take over the presidency.

Well, Mr. Bush says he wants to run on his record, so let's look at his record before he took office:

• Bush had never held a national office.
• Bush had no experience with foreign policy of any kind.
• Bush had no experience with national security.
• Bush had never even been outside the United States! (other than just south of the Texas border to Mexico)

In other words, Bush was grossly unqualified to take any national office, much less the presidency.

And his lack of experience has been painfully obvious in his actions.

• Bush has been unable to work with international leaders. As big and strong as the US is, we cannot do everything in the world all by ourselves. As we can see in Iraq alone, our military and national budget are both stretched to their limits. Had Bush built a true coalition, as his own father did in the first Gulf war, our military and deficit would not be out of control.
• Bush has been dishonest. Lying about weapons of mass destruction got us into that war, but there was no real plan to get us out.
• Bush has been unrealistic. He thought the Iraqi's would welcome us with open arms, then lie down and let us tell them how to run their own country. If another country attacked and occupied the US, our citizens wouldn't act that way--we'd fight for the right to control our own destiny. Why did they not even consider that the Iraqi's would do the same thing we would do?
  
• Bush hasn't planned. His unprovoked attack of Iraq was unnecessary--but worse, unplanned. Our military gets there, ill-equipped for the situation--with no plans for sand storms. This is the desert, the same desert Bush's father lead a war in just over a decade earlier--and no one seemed to remember there was sand?
• Bush hasn't considered consequences. When you're confronted with a rabid dog, you don't kick it in the balls, thinking this will protect you. All that does is anger the dog and cause it to lose any reason and attack you mercilessly. And that's what we've done to the Arab world, we've kicked them in the balls. That doesn't stop them, that just makes them mad. That just makes it easier for them to recruit more terrorists.
  
• Bush has made our country, and the world more dangerous. Though a combination of inexperience, ineptitude, dishonesty and stubbornness, Bush has done the exact opposite of what he said he wanted to do--he has made the world more dangerous. Rather than having most of the world united in the fight against terrorism, he has made the US into an isolated target. We are proving that we cannot fight it alone. We need the entire world on our side. But Bush has no understanding of international relations, because he had no experience in international relations.

So don't buy the lie. Kerry and Edwards have more experience than Bush did.

And Cheney? His experience is all about corporations, money and war--and we can see the direct result of that now. We're in an unnecessary war. Much of our money is being funneled directly to Cheney's Halliburton (which, in turns, avoids paying US taxes by having illegal offshore operations--operations proven by CBS's 60 minutes). Cheney sees the US as a corporation and himself as the chairman of the board. Yet he's forgotten the basics--things like moral responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and the possibility stockholder revolt throwing him off the board.

We need to throw Bush and Cheney off the board, out of office, and out of power. We need to return power to the people, a statement that's only radical in the way Washington, Jefferson and Adams were radical. We need to take back America, and bring back democracy--while we still have the chance.