The Daily Mislead – Bush And Terrorism…

Bu.. Bu.. The terrorists George! What about the terrorists!

One of my recent Daily Misleads:

BUSH REFUSES TO FULLY FUND FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISTS

President Bush has repeatedly said he is committed to doing whatever it
takes to “cut off terrorist finances” in order to win the War on Terror (1).
But according to a new report, the president is trying to kill a desperate
request by his own officials to increase the number of investigators needed
to disrupt the finances of Al Qaeda.

The New York Times reports the president is trying to eliminate a $12
million request by the IRS, which says it needs the small injection of new
money “to increase by 50% the number of criminal financial investigators”
necessary to do its part in the fight against terrorism (2). The president
could easily fund the program by reducing the tax cuts he wants to give to
the 200,000 millionaires in America: instead of giving these millionaires an
average tax cut of $88,326 he could simply reduce that tax cut by $60,
giving them instead $88,266, while using the savings to fully fund the IRS
request (3). Instead, President Bush is pushing more than $1 trillion in new
tax cuts, while ignoring the request (4).

The effort to deny the IRS needed counterterrorism funds is just the latest
example of the president grossly underfunding the protection of America. The
Washington Post reported last week that immediately after 9/11, the White
House “cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism
funds by the FBI” (5).

Sources:
1. President Recaps Historic Week in Domestic and Foreign Affairs,
11/23/2002, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1223511&l=25857.
2. “I.R.S. Request for More Terrorism Investigators Is Denied”, New York
Times, 03/31/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1223511&l=25858.
3. “HOYER ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL: A One Billion Dollar Trade-Off”,
06/24/2003,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1223511&l=25859.
4. “Bush wants tax cuts to stay”, Washington Times, 01/20/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1223511&l=25860.
5. “FBI Budget Squeezed After 9/11″, Washington Post, 03/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1223511&l=25861.

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