15. The Bush Administration underfunded Nunn-Lugar--the program intended to keep the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states--by $45.5 million.
16. The Bush Administration has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money
47. As major corporate scandals rocked the nation's economy, the Bush Administration reduced the enforcement of corporate tax law--conducting fewer audits, imposing fewer penalties, pursuing fewer prosecutions and making virtually no effort to prosecute corporate tax crimes.
48. The Bush Administration increased tax audits for the working poor.
62. At the behest of the french fry ["Freedom fry" --ed.] industry, the Bush Administration USDA changed their definition of fresh vegetables to include frozen french fries.
Then again, it must be said that John Howard is a step or two on the evolutionary ladder above George W. Bush. For one, the Tories haven't wrecked the economy and dropped the country into its biggest deficit in history to fight a dubious war. (Though, when the FTA kicks in and software patents kill the independent Australian tech industry, the long-term consequences are likely to be dismal.)
"Cuban embargo violations"
Most likely this is talking about the FBI. The Cuban embargo is US domestic law, and so the violators are Americans and therefore within the FBI's purview. Osama and Saddam's money is not in the USA, so it's more CIA than FBI.
"Osama and Saddam's money is not in the USA"
I'm not sure how true that would be for Osama; (a) there's a lot of Saudi money in the US, and (b) there's also the matter of some unknown party shorting airline stocks on September 10. (Could it be the Saudis, the sheer gravity of whose wealth renders them untouchable?)
The 9/11 Report says "Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation." Search on 'stocks' at: http://www.vivisomo.com/911
Al Qaeda's Western money seems to mostly have been in Europe, e.g. "Al Taqwa" bank in Switzerland, run by the neo-Nazi Muslim convert Ahmed Huber. ("Taqwa" means fear of God; when they say Osama fears no-one but Allah, they would be talking about taqwa, and the flipside is that you have things in perspective, you don't fear the tyrants or the general tribulations of this mortal life. I *think* that's the point.) I suppose the real question is where the money in such accounts comes from. Does al Qaeda have portfolio managers? Or is it all coming directly from donors and front corporations? To be sure, some of the *donors* must have American investments.
All this and I'm sure that he will still be reelected. Just look at our own dismal preformance in Australia. On the other hand, if he is booted than where does that leave us in the basic intelligence scale?