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Summary: A Very Heavy Book
Review: There is a TON of information packed into these 200 pages. Event after event, lie after lie, flip flop after flip flop, covert actions after covert action, and lie after lie, this book weighs in on Bush's historical record. Is Bush to blame for the escalation of the drug trade? Read this book for some info on the subject. Read how he hid deals and ownerships of companies that he knew violated Mexican laws. How he supported Saddam Hussien, how he partnered with Hussein and Saudi Arabia to keep oil prices high so his family could make more money. How he was involved with the CIA (although he denied it) back in the late 50s and early 60s. What does he know about the Kennedy assassination? He gave a briefy the day after to government officials. He denied being in the Iran-contra loop but he set up the connections for it. He continued to pay Noriega over $100,000 a year while Noriega was stealing U.S. intelligence and running drugs to the United States with CIA cover. What was his role in the delaying of the Iran Hostages release? A national black mark that folks have not heard enough of. He gave Hussein the go-ahead to invade Kuwait and then attacked him. How he had to be ordered by the Supreme Court to stop lobbying the IRS on behalf of drug companies when he was VP. The list goes on and on and on and one. Read this book and have your eyes opened. It will entice you to read more on the sad subject of the life or priveledge and abuse of power. And everyone thought Clinton was the worst, when the facts come out on Bush it would be hard to decide who was the worst.
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Summary: One star too many- WHAT A JOKE
Review: This book is RIDICULOUS. I can't believe there are people who actually believe this nonsense- obviously the uneducated people the left wing have failed to educate (for obvious tactical reasons)are the only ones who will take this drivel as fact. I am disturbed at the other reviews here- someone questioned why the media doesn't run with this information?? Are you kidding?? The mainstream media is sooooooo liberal and so favorable to Democrats that if this book had ANY SHRED OF TRUTH OR PROOF TO IT- you bet your life on it that they would report it! Over and over, I might add. The tactics of the left wing know no limits. This book is for the gullible and the people who love fantasy stories. UNBELIEVABLE - the author should thank his lucky stars that he isn't being sued for slander!
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Summary: We will not get the truth from the media
Review: This book should be read by every American, even if they doubt most of it and are forced to get off their butts and do a little research for themselves. William Colby, former Director of the CIA, once admitted:
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." Democracy fails if the citizens are kept ignorant. We are lied to daily. Wake up people - this book is a good place to start.
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Summary: All hail to the chief !
Review: This book should be required reading for anyone who blindly follows their leaders. It is not a sensationalist work as some of the reviews imply. It is just an eye opener about a family that is very powerful in a banal sort of way. It is very detailed and full of names that you will never remember, but it gives a broad outline of how the Bush family became so powerful and how they will stop at nothing to stay that way. However, it is a chore to read and it's only 210 pages long.
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Summary: The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed
Review: This is a documented and well-researched book which details a number of Bush's activities, primarily prior to becoming America's President. Most of this information I have found in other documents written about the Bush family (by journalists and by others). It is fascinating stuff, and difficult to put the book down. However, there are two fatal flaws in Bowen's style. First, there is so much information jammed into the text, that it does not read easily. There are other authors who have written histories so well that they read like novels. I can just imagine how much MORE fascinating this book would have been, had it not been slightly convoluted due to the huge amounts of information. Secondly, while Bowen lists the references at the end of the book, and there are footnotes throughout the book, there is not enough notation for the many sources cited throughout the text. Unfortunately, this failing gives naysayers the justification to ask, "Where's the proof?" The editors of this publishing company should have known that if a statement or meeting or paper has documentation to back it up, then notations must be made. It is a terrible shame that after all the obvious time (probably years) Bowen spent writing this, that due to the lack of notations, this book might not be considered valid...
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Summary: A significant part of the larger mosaic of corruption.
Review: This is a valuable book for those who want a glimpse of the darker side of government. Though the author focuses on former President George H. W. Bush and his ingenuity in furthering his interests while maintaining a façade of oblivion and good intentions, the reader is ultimately exposed to a larger context where arms dealers, intelligence agents, and high-ranking officials mingle along ill-defined lines. Don't misunderstand; this is not a conspiracy book with random assertions. More accurately, it's a taste of the machinations that are hidden from the ordinary citizen. Interests, of course, don't always coincide, but this is not the point. The lack of ethics conveyed in this book is alarming and sadly deplorable. In this regard, however, Bush seems like the rule rather than the exception. He along with so many others have efficiently played their games before the nation's eyes, often hiding behind the convenient blanket of "national security."
At times, the author's narrative contains notable gaps and scanty development, particularly in the early entries, but the later arguments--especially those dealing with Iran-Contra--are better supported. One of his best chapters is on the "October Surprise," for it is thoroughly documented with reputable sources. One wishes he would have been as consistent in all chapters, but if readers are clever enough, they can find corroboration in other books. A bibliography is not provided, but the footnotes are useful for verification purposes.
Overall, it's a directly written exposé that should at the very least enrage us, and though the research might occasionally suffer from redundancy and murky conclusions, its central thesis remains painfully substantiated.
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Summary: Why are you shocked
Review: When George Bush, was the head of the CIA if anyone remembers, those years were when crack cocaine flooded the United states. It was also during those years that the great Gary Webb, the award winning investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, began to put his thoughts on paper and the results in later years duringis presidency were/are *Dark Alliance* which can also be purchased here at Amazon. In the book as in this one Gary Webb,lays out the documentation and the facts about, who, what, when, how, and why drugs have been able to reach into the fourcorners of Amerika, with such blatant disregard for the law. One need not ask any questions because how can the cat call the kettle black? My answer is easy ..when your part of the problem. ie iRAN-cONTRA.
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Summary: Tired of Being Bush-Whacked?
Review: When you read "The Immaculate Deception" subtitled "The Bush Crime Family Exposed", you will have to keep reminding yourself that you are NOT reading about George W. Bush, our current President. But, the information in this book about George H.W. Bush and his father Prescott Bush will make you look at today's "war on terrorism" and relationship with Iraq in an entirely different light, despite the fact that this book was written in the late 1980s--seemingly long before today's post 9/11 conflict(s). You remember George Bush (Sr.) of "Read my lips! No new taxes!" fame. He was the Head of the CIA before he was President of the United States and a member of the Skull & Bones Club at Yale before that. He was also the Director of the U.S. "War on Terrorism" and "War on Drugs" at the same time, the only person to ever hold both jobs simultaneously. This book describes senior George Bush's career and aspirations through the U.S. efforts in 1982-83 to BUILD UP IRAQ by supplying Saddam Hussein with weapons including chemicals needed to manufacture chemical weapons of mass destruction and how Hussein's power has been kept in place by U.S. policies "in order to be a perceived threat to Israel" (p. 92). It also describes George senior's role in the Bay of Pigs, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, the Martin Luther King assassination, the Iran hostages trade for weapons "deal", and the near assassination of Ronald Reagan. In short, if you want to understand today's "War on Terrorism" and dealings with Iraq, Israel, the PLO, and Afghanistan, simply "follow the money". You'll find, as this book outlines, that most of it leads to the Bush family, in one form or another.
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Summary: GOT OIL?
Review: Written long before Dubya, Governor Jeb and Enron, this book does not discuss the boys and their ascent to power. It's about how George Sr. and his dad, Prescott have been climbing the slippery slope to power and favor over the last century.
As a result of a lot of well documented sleazy deals, the Bushes have made themselves into the ultimate insiders and power brokers.
Some interesting names pop up when you least expect it, Rudolph Guiliani is one of them, making the web even more tangled. This book made me a little sad and a little more cynical, but I'm glad I read it.
A real eye opener.
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