Bush-a-nomics

    When will a substantial number of Christians begin to speak more aggressively against economic policies that have these results, instead of remaining enablers for conservatives?

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[DHFabian]

Those who are speaking aren't the ones who have the megaphone (or the media's attention).
When voices are blocked out of the mainstream media---as has been true of the poor for years---do those voices have any power to bring change?

[DB]

Bush and the Pentagon have cost us so much and bent facts to outrageous proportions....
Excerpts from:
Pentagon Disputes Parts of Iraq Report
By MATTHEW LEE and ROBERT BURNS (Associated Press Writers)
From Associated Press
August 30, 2007 2:29 PM EST
WASHINGTON - Stung by the bleak findings of a congressional audit of progress in Iraq, the Pentagon has asked that some of the negative assessments be revised.

Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday that after reviewing a draft of the Government Accountability Office report - which has not yet been made public - policy officials "made some factual corrections" and "offered some suggestions on a few of the actual grades" assigned by the GAO.

The Associated Press has learned that the GAO report was on track to conclude that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks set to judge the Iraqi government's performance in the political and security arenas haven't been met.

Democrats are expected this fall to push for another round of votes on their legislation ordering most troops out by spring. A likely target for the debate will be a $147 billion bill the military needs to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The money covers the 2007 budget year, which begins Oct. 1.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday suggested Bush should not be asking Congress to approve "tens of billions more dollars" when independent voices like GAO find the Iraqis are failing to make progress.

"With the president continuing to stay the course in Iraq, Republicans will have to decide whether they will continue to vote with him or join Democrats and the vast majority of Americans who are demanding a new direction in Iraq and refocusing America's efforts on fighting the real threats of terrorism around the world," she said.

The GAO, the congressional watchdog, is expected to find that the Iraqis have met only modest security goals for Baghdad and none of the major political aims such as passage of an oil law.

The White House declined to comment on the specific findings of the GAO report, which one official said would put the Iraqi government's success rate at about 20 percent.