Supporting Bush is immoral--reason number 9

He has surrounded himself with liars and conspirators.

Let's start with Dick Cheney, who still insists he has severed all financial ties with Halliburton. The fact that he gets a deferred compensation check from the company every month is probably not relevant, but he also continues to have stock options, and that is hardly a severing of ties, no matter how you spin it.

Then there was former Secretary of the Army Thomas White. White, one of the persons suspected of exploiting California's energy crisis on behalf of Enron Corporation, lied under oath to a Senate committee.

And who can forget John Poindexter, former director of the frightening Information Awareness Office. Poindexter, you will recall, was behind the Iran-Contra affair that occurred during the Reagan administration. He was charged and found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and the destruction of evidence. Poindexter's conviction was eventually overturned, but even if he did not commit the crimes for which he was charged (which is highly doubtful to most observers), he was still the admitted architect of a reprehensible scheme.

Then there was Thomas Griffith, whom Bush nominated to be a federal appeals court judge in Washington. The problem was that Griffith had been practicing law for years without a license.

Or how about Christina Beato, nominated to be assistant secretary for health for the Department of Health and Human Resources? Beato's nomination got into trouble when it was discovered that she had never set foot in many of the institutions in which she claimed to have held positions. And the positions on her resume which she really had held were nowhere near as important as she described them.