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Summary: Just the facts, Maam.
Review: "Big Bush Lies" is essential reading for any political junky who is in the mood to bash Bush, and who wants to have the facts to back up their anti-Bush arguments. Editor Jerry Bartlett was documenting online press accounts of Bush beginning almost with the announcement of his candidacy. Four years later, that treasure trove of research is now evident on each and every page of this impressive volume. Well researched, well sourced, and well written, this expose covers a multitude of lies told by Bush and the Bush administration and may well prove to the the definitive catalogue of Bush Lies, simply because it is so comprehensive, and so well sourced. A must have resource for anyone interested in analyzing the Bush presidency.
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Summary: Comprehensive view of the way the Bush Administration works
Review: Big Bush Lies really covers the bases. It covers virtually all aspects of policy domestic and foreign and covers the years before Bush was elected while he was still governor of Texas.The theme of the book is the central role that lying plays in corporate ethics [sic] and the self-proclaimed vision of Bush as CEO of the country in which the citizenry are consumers of government products. The essays are well researched and extensive citations support the authors' positions.
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Summary: Pointless exercise in partisan demonizing
Review: I suppose this book is informative, so long as you accept the premise that any statement with which the author disagrees or which doesn't match the assumptions of his picked experts is a deliberate lie. The problem is that an actual lie is a deliberate falsehood, not a difference of opinion. When you call every opinion which you don't agree with a lie you expose yourself as a partisan hack, which is basically what this book is - partisan hackery. For Jerry Barrett another definition of evil is George W. Bush and anything he says is by nature a lie or an attempt to spread hate. The problem is that this premise is just not true, anymore than it would be true to believe that Bush is perfect and always right about everything. In addition, many of the 'well documented' articles in this book are documented with self-referential material or sources which are themselves basically opinion pieces and which cannot be called evidence by even the most generous definition. Saying something is true and then citing yourself saying it is true doesn't make it true.
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Summary: Just the facts, Maam.
Review: Lots of detailed info about Dubya's pathological distortion of the truth. This book is not for the small-minded. The essay's are well researched. This book lays out the facts (with backup documentation) and will inform the reader. This book will surely tick off the radical right, and once again they will react by demonstrating that they are a bunch of bullies and babies. This book will spur lots of discussion with those on the right who are capable of engaging in proper debate!
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Summary: hmmm...
Review: Only 20 lies, that's not that bad. I know a lot more people worse than that. The point is that Americans, no matter what Bush's agendas are, we are trying to bring peace and stability to chaotic place. Saddam was killing his own people to live; has Bush ever done that. Bush has stuck to his word and is following it out. War has been an issue with the starting of time. Ever heard of the Holy Roman Empire? Or Alexander the great's conquests; or The hundred years war, the Thirty years war? War is a fact of life; it brings control, which equals stability. Peace would come if the human race, involving criminals, racists, ect. would stop being ignorant. The world would be such a better place if everyone worked together and left their differences aside. My father was in the military for 20 years. People in the military fight for a place that doesnt't exist, but in the future hopefully it will come. I know when I am old enough, I will join the military and fight for my country and for everbodys right to love EQUALLY. God bless.
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Summary: Very well-sourced expose of the Bush administration
Review: This book is unique among the blasts of the Bush regime in that it is extremely well-sourced with footnotes, bibliography, etc. - in fact, to the point of overkill, as I doubt many people will wade through the exhaustive array of studies, reports, etc that document each and every lie. But, the fact remains, the documentation of the outrages of this administration are there. And they are solid. I mean, it is hard to refute the findings of the American Lung Association on the bad effects of air pollution, or argue with 60 Nobel prize winning scientists' assertions on Bush's misuse of science.
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Summary: War
Review: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--
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