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USA: The Village Voice gives the RNC a great big welcome with a top 10 list of all the ways W screwed New York City:

1. Will any convention speaker dare mention the name of Osama bin Laden? What ever happened to Bush’s cowboy threat to “smoke ‘em” out?
2. Why was Bush so afraid of a 9-11 investigation?
3. Was the Bush team awake in the nine months before the attack?
4. Iraq plus tax cuts adds up to a deficit that will force a second-term squeeze on social programs vital to NYC.
5. Bush did OK on the $20 billion, but he’s still shortchanging us on the edges of the minimal pledge he made to a city whose economy took an $80 billion hit.
6. Senator Schumer says NY doesn’t expect a share of Idaho’s farm subsidies, so why does Idaho take a chunk of NY’s security subsidies?
7. What could be worse than lying to GZ workers and residents about the air they were breathing?
8. Bush has left most New York children behind.
9. Ten thousand NY families are in jeopardy of losing their housing subsidies and homes.
10. With NYC the No. 1 target of bio and nuclear terrorists, the go-it-alone Bush administration has torpedoed international treaties that would make us more secure.

Don’t forget that W won’t stay overnight in New York City next week. He gives his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention next Thursday and then runs like a little girly man to Pennsylvania after the balloons drop.