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Books On Why Bush SucksBooks are available at local bookstores or online through Barnes and Noble or Amazon.comSome books are now available in paperback editions.Rajiv spent time in and around the 'Green Zone' in Baghdad reporting for the Washington Post. The book chronicals the right wing neo-con facsist corporate types that filled the former compound of Sadam Hussein. The young neocons that populated the city were more involved in making money and getting Dubya re-elected than knowing how to build a nation. These Republican operatives were more worried about conservative philosophy than helping the people of Iraq. The few people who could have made a difference where ignored or sent back to America because thay didn't promote the neocon way of life. Stupidity compounded stupidity as the neocons failed to protect important ministries, keep people working, maintaining hospitals, repairing the water and electrical systems and fired the military. U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer made one stupid decision after another.
Wonder why things kept getting worse in Iraq from 2003 to today? Read this book.
The title is a tipoff to the theme of this book. Unfortunately Bob Woodward preceded this book with two books that lauded the Dubya administration's war making ability. AT least Bob fianlly gets to the facts that stupid decision after stupid decision was made following the lying that took America into war in Iraq. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele
George Bush, President of the United States (POTUS) sits on his butt while three planes slam into the WTC and the Pentagon over a 42 minute period of time. Global thermo nuclear war could have occured and Bush was sitting there listening to people read The Pet Goat. Bush doesn't ask for information, or a cell phone, or takes action like going to Air Force One and getting on the secure line to the White House command center. Instead he sits there looking like a baby who is working on filling their diaper. Meanwhile, back at the White House command center, Richard Clark and forty or fifty of America's top security personnel are wondering where the #%^&*! is POTUS!? Decisions have to be made and Dick Cheney keeps hanging up on Richard Clark.
Bush ignores the intel on Al Qaeda. He cuts funding on tracking terrorist groups. Bush doesn't read anything longer than a page, triple spaced, with drawings.
Before dubya began to tear apart American government and society he practiced by destroying Texas. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele
Economist, educator and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman analyses Bush's economic vision. It's a deep, dark and distressing exploration of trickle down economics, lies, shifting tax burdens to the poor and lower middle class, selling off America, sleeping with the major companies like Enron, lies, Bush's recession, destroying the heart of the American economic engine. And those are the upbeat parts. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele
Dubya, Dumbsfeld, Condi, Rove, Cheney amd a cast of hundreds delve into finding some excuse to go to war with Iraq. Cheney and Dumbsfeld share the secret plan for attacking Saddam with Saudi Prince Bandar (Bush). Condi shares secret war plans with British press attache. Dubya keeps talking about taking on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan all the while having Tommy Franks build up the troops surrounding Iraq. Funniest bit in the book involves what happens when U.S. spies dump millions of dollars in $100 bills in northern Iraq. Never thought that Bob Woodward could write something funny. I think he was striving for irony but I actually laughed out loud at the twisted humor of the disruption that dumping millions in $100 bills in a country where $100 is anywhere from a couple weeks to a month's wages for 99.9% of the population. Close second in irony, when Cheney sends the neocon bastards to the pentagon to stir up something on Saddam to make war more likely. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele
At the first cabinate meeting the week of Bush's inauguration in January, 2001, discussion turned to starting a war with Iraq. Things kind of go down hill from there. You see Paul O'Neill had been involved in government since the Nixon administration, and his bullshit detector is finely tuned. So when he goes to Africa with Bono, the singer from U2, and discovers that good clean water is a basic need and an affordable one he thinks he has something that might be good for the president to promote. Problem is, Bush is too busy planning his Iraq war to even care about water in Africa. In fact Bush gives the impression that he is jealous of the brilliance and intelligence of O'Neill. Then O'Neill discovers that Bush is twisting economic policy for political supporters and not the good of the nation. By that point Bush is ready to have Rove or Cheney kick O'Neill to the curb. But O'Neill knows an A-Hole and attempts to make a final grandstand play before leaving Washington. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele
Molly Ivins writes about dubya as governor of Texas. And his worthless family.
John Dean knows a rotten dishonorable bastard president better than most. In this book he outlines a series of actions, not all of which involves Iraq, that are impeachable offenses that dubya has commited over the course of his administration. This book really got my blood boiling. The talking heads said that Dean was out to rehabilitate Nixon and his own reputation by making Bush sound bad. This book outlines that Bush is truely bad. In a league by himself. If there was justice in America Bush and Cheney would have been impeached, convicted and right now we'd be talking about Dennis Hastart or Colin Powell as president. Mini-Review by Terry Aichele |