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INTRODUCTION
This book is written for you, a busy person, as a useful compilation of political information and opinion drawn from diverse published sources.
PREFACE
The Bush administration has been running on lies in the belief that we are too stupid to figure it out. The business of exaggeration in politics has gone beyond the usual. It has become a culture of nastiness and downright lies. Is this acceptable?
WHO'S BUSH?
How much do we really know about our president’s life, his background and his character? To understand George W. Bush’s administration better, it helps to become better acquainted with the well-smoothed path he has followed to the top.
THE PREVARICATOR I: THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Republican Senator McCain was tortured for five years in Vietnam as a POW. Democrat Vice President Gore was a man of vision and integrity. Yet Bush managed to destroy the character of each of these men using twisted lies, setting himself up to become president by judicial appointment.
THE THEFT OF THE PRESIDENCY
Beyond the philosophical question of whether George W. Bush represents the voters, there are very real questions that linger about the legitimacy, the constitutionality, even the legality of his election.
A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Once having been established as president, no matter how questionably, Bush set about thanking the corporate wealthy, his peers who paid the contributions that elected (or selected) him, by putting “his” executive branch at their service.
NO CHILD LEFT UNTESTED
Bush claims a successful record on education both as governor of Texas and as president, but a closer examination reveals it to be largely a public relations smokescreen. His policies, once the smoke has been blown aside, are revealed to be hostile to public education and to the democratic values on which it rests.
HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU
It’s been observed that to find who has the most power in a society, you need only look to see who does not pay taxes. The touted Bush tax breaks, once the window dressing is removed, are exposed as a public giveaway to those who already have the most.
9/11: WHO KNEW WHAT AND WHEN, AND WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID HE DO?
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, shocked the nation. But what may be nearly as shocking is how much information the government had beforehand, and how stupendous were the incompetence and chicanery that attended its failure to prevent that catastrophe.
THE PREVARICATOR II: THE MIDTERM CAMPAIGN
The saga of the midterm elections in 2002 is not a shining hour for American politics. Rather, it’s a tale of new lows in dirty tricks and a corrupt politicization of the war on terrorism.
BUSH'S WAR
Blood for oil? A closer look at the history of Iraqi-American relations can tell what is really at stake. Just how much have the interests of U.S. oil corporations influenced the government’s policies and actions, including the invasion of Iraq? To whose benefit are we risking our soldiers, our national treasury, and our traditional alliances with other nations?
THE CRIMES OF GEORGE W. BUSH
International law establishes standards for national self defense and the treatment of POWs, who are accorded certain rights, but the Bush administration seems to be ignoring the law for political reasons. In the name of national security, is the United States becoming an outlaw state?
JUSTICE IN AMERICA
Superpatriots claiming that our nation is great because of personal freedom say in the next breath that national security demands less of it. America’s top cop, while engaged in a wholesale attack on constitutional rights, has turned a blind eye to administration friends who break the law.
BUSH ON DRUGS
Senior citizens must often depend upon prescription drugs to stay alive. Although Bush tells them they have a drug benefit coming from Medicare, the overwhelming benefit will go to the hugely profitable pharmaceutical corporations who contribute so generously to politicians.
THE MEDIA IS NOT LIBERAL, AND IT DOES NOT TELL YOU THE TRUTH!
For the last 30 years, right-wing millionaires have funded and led an organized rout of liberal political expression while convincing us that the media are too liberal. In fact, they’ve convinced us that liberal is a dirty word.
THE PREVARICATOR III: THE CAMPAIGN FOR REELECTION
Get ready. In the next election, Bush will use every dirty trick in Rove’s book to win. The ballyhoo of his nominating convention in September 2004 will be an insult to the thousands who died, perhaps unnecessarily, on September 11, 2001.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
Who is the real George W. Bush? Is he the compassionate conservative, policy-involved politician, and world leader he plays on TV? Or behind the benevolent smile, is he an ignoramus just as cold-blooded, ruthless and paranoid as his personal political Machiavelli, Karl Rove?
NO END IN SIGHT
The Iraqi resistance to our occupation is intensifying, we are losing control of the cities and supply lines, more soldiers are
dying every day, and our allies are abandoning us. What happened?
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