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Facts ma'am, just the facts.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Myths and Facts About the Real Bush Record

Myths and Facts About the Real Bush Record

By Ed Gillespie

As the year draws to an end and President Bush enters his final month in office, there is much commentary about the Administration's record over the past eight years. Unsurprisingly, many of these stories assail and distort the President's record and recycle myths and unfounded allegations that have been leveled for the better part of his two terms. Historical accuracy requires a response to the litany of attacks leveled against President Bush, and while there's not enough space to respond to all of them, here are five of the most egregious:

Lawrence Di Rita - Gen. Shinseki's Silence - washingtonpost.com

Facts continue to be persistent little things:

Lawrence Di Rita - Gen. Shinseki's Silence - washingtonpost.com

Gen. Shinseki's Silence

By Lawrence Di Rita

Monday, December 15, 2008; Page A21

The announcement that retired Army chief of staff Eric Shinseki will be President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of veterans affairs has energized one of the most enduring myths of the Bush presidency. Among the media coverage in recent days: Gen. Shinseki "clashed with the Bush administration on its Iraq war strategy" (Associated Press). In "questioning the Pentagon's Iraq war strategy" (The Post), Shinseki "warn[ed] that far more troops would be needed than the Pentagon had committed" (New York Times). For his candor, he was "vilified" (Boston Globe) by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Oil Companies Voting With Their Feet

Do you think the Democrats will find it suprising that a company will choose survival over location??

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Oil Companies Voting With Their Feet

Oil Companies Voting With Their Feet

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Energy: Another day, another oil company fleeing the country. No, this isn't Ecuador, the banana republic that just defaulted on its debt after chasing out investors. It's the United States, and what we're seeing is self-defense.

PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1992

Food for thought.

PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1992

UAW Workers Actually Cost the Big Three Automakers $70 an Hour

Tell me again how the US auto workers are a competitive work force??

UAW Workers Actually Cost the Big Three Automakers $70 an Hour

by James Sherk

The United Auto Workers (UAW) wants Congress to bail out General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler to prevent their undergoing restructuring in bankruptcy proceedings. In bankruptcy, a judge could order union contracts to be renegotiated to reflect competitive realities. Many analysts have objected that hourly autoworkers at the Big Three are some of the most highly paid workers in America, costing the Big Three over $70 an hour in wages and current and future benefits. All taxpayers should not be taxed to preserve the affluence of a few.