Set up federal grants to states to provide money to help those with disabilities to work from home;
Created a fund to encourage technologies that aid those with disabilities;
Created the President’s Plan for AIDs relief, the largest contribution ever to combat a single disease;
The President’s Malaria Initiative, goal of cutting malaria in half, currently saves about 15 million lives per year;
Medicare Prescription Drug initiative, helped cut the cost of prescription drugs for seniors by 40%
Launched a global threat reduction program that removed enough fissionable material to produce 30 bombs;
Persuaded Libya to give up its WMD and advanced missile programs;
Cut in half the US stockpile of nuclear weapons;
Increased funding for National Endowment for Democracy by 150%;
Provided more than 1.5 billion for aid to Darfur;
Added preventative screening to Medicare funding, saving untold number of lives;
Provided funding to open 1200 community health centers;
Funded Supplemental Education Services which provides after school tutoring to move than half a million kids;
Pushed the US to commit more than $22 billion for climate change technologies;
Created the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, the largest in American history;
Created Project Safe Neighborhoods, helping bring crime down to a 30 year low;
Greatly increased budgets of National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health;
Greatly expanded the roles of LGBT and other minorities in his cabinet;
Signed the Great Lakes Legacy Act to begin cleaning contaminated sediment in the great lakes;
Signed Brownfields legislation to speed up the clean up of abandoned industrial sites.
These are just a few of the things that GW Bush accomplished as president. Still we do not give him a pass on being a war criminal. So why are we giving Obama a pass?
Anyone but Obama 2012! Get on the train, let’s put this war criminal in Guantanamo.
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