The Dirty Truth, The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush

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Summary: The Dirty Truth: Stranger than Fiction
Review: About every third page of this book, I would run across something that would make me so angry that I'd have to set the book down and burn off my anger by channeling it into cleaning something: dusting off the bookshelves, filling up the dishwasher, picking up the dirty clothes.

Thanks to Rick Abraham's expose of the slimeball-in-chief currently squatting in the White House, my home is immaculate.

Mr. Abraham details Bush family malfeasance so gross and so blatant as to take one's breath away. Starting with Harken and Arbusto and working his way through the UTIMCO mess, Abraham's book shows the inner workings of a powerful family and its minions, a group that operates with the shamelessness of mafiosi and the arrogance of Louis XIV. He touches on the various recreational chemical indulgences of the Bushes, but most of the book is dedicated to exposing the kleptocratic nature of what independent observers have already tagged "The Bush Crime Family".

This book is a must-read. Just make sure you keep your blood pressure meds handy.

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Summary: A great book that neads proofreading...
Review: As a previous reviewer stated, if edited correctly, this book would have gotten the highest rating possible, and even more. The author successfully shows how GW is an oil-addicted, old-time republican, sort of a fox let loose in the chicken coop. Anyone who doubts that this administration is corrupt should this book. Anybody who does will see through the evil Bush Empire.

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Summary: What a Joke nicknamed a book
Review: Can people really be that misinformed about reality and what really matters? Why waste your time even reading these reviews. This is a Joke, nicknamed a book.

Seek the truth in all matters, not the perception of the truth...this is very likely only someone's false perception of the truth.

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Summary: Should Have Been 9 or 10 Stars!
Review: If only this book had been proofread before printing, it would deserve the top rating. (I know there is no 10-star rating available here, but it could be established.)

Anyone who doubts that the current President-appointee is a disgrace to the Oval Office should read this detailed account of his shameful performance as governor of Texas.

As governor, Dubya consistently did everything he could to protect the interests of companies which polluted the air and water of Texas; he demonstrated that he cared nothing for the rights of the poor or the middle classes. He championed legislation to protect wealthy polluters from being required to pay for cleaning up their messes, leaving toxic wastes to be cleaned up at taxpayers' expense or left to poison those living in the neighborhood where the waste was dumped.

Shrub even fought to have toxic and radioactive wastes from other states brought to Texas, and dumped near the Mexican border, where people of little political clout (Hispanics and Afro-Americans, mostly, and certainly none of the wealthy) are living.

He even had the gall to deny Texans their constitutional right to protest peacefully on the public sidewalk against his outrageous misconduct as governor. Texans who were violating no law, but who were publicly protesting Shrub's wrongdoing, were arrested, strip-searched, and held overnight in jail.

Little wonder that Shrub has pretty well established himself as the worst President in our nation's history. And most likely, the worst is yet to come. If only the facts cited in this book had been widely publicized before and during the election campaign, we might now have a decent President who would not be so eager to lead us into an unwinnable war for the benefit of "defense" contractors that contributed generously to his campaign.

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Summary: Let's roll with the Truth
Review: If you have any doubts about Bush's attitude toward the environment this book will eliminate them once and for all. It never ceases to amaze me, a book written factually with supporting evidence is always maligned as the commie, pinko, or liberal media by corportists, incidentally defined by Mussolini as fascists . I give the book five stars for anyone wanting a clue about who and what is running the country, and the ground they are running it into.

The irony of a President who believes in maintaining a healthy body but has no regard for maintaing the health of our living planet earth is beyond comprehension. We overpopulate the earth, strip and mine out the land, suck the oil up from the ground, only to spew it back into the atmosphere increasing the hole in the ozone, thereby raising the temperature of the planet. We contaminate our water supply and soil by dumping toxic chemicals and nuclear waste. Deforesting the Amazon decreases the earth's ability to produce vital oxygen we need to breathe. I don't exactly see the correlation between exercise and a healthy body as long if we continue to pollute the earth as we do.

A healthy body needs fresh clean air, water, and a proper atmosphere that will effectively filter out harmful radiation from the sun in order to live. Our planet is no different than our bodies. Global warming is akin to a human running a fever, a sign that we are not living on a healthy planet.

Money can't buy a new body anymore than it can buy a new earth to live on. It's probably time to put homo sapiens on the endangered species list. It may just be that the earth we live on will begin to consider man a virus and start fighting to eliminate the virus in order to ensure it's survival as any living organism does. Mother Nature can pack a powerful punch, something to ruminate on.

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Summary: Breathtaking expose
Review: In comprehensive detail, Abrahm builds the case against George W. and his policies. Far from being an independent moderate, Bush is the pawn of big business and big oil and will not embrace any agenda that would remotely conflict with that goal.

Please bear in mind that it is not the oil industry itself that is evil (my father is a geologist and moderate Democrat) but the extent to which Bush has promoted this industy without common sense disregard for laws, ethics or consideration of impact upon others. This book is worth the read for anybody who wants the real truth that has too often been suppressed by the "liberal" media.

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Summary: Details of Shrub's Sorry Performance as Governor of Texas
Review: Shrub wasn't the first corrupt governor of Texas, and he probably won't be the last, but he may well have been the most successful in selling out the interests of the people of Texas to build up his campaign chest. This book details how Shrub rewarded the polluters who gave him money with immunity ledgal responsibility for the pollution they created, leaving the taxpayers of Texas to pay for the cleaning up that Shrub's contributors should have been required to do. It also cites the many lies Shrub told to gain support for his nefarious schemes.

The last chapter recounts how, under Shrub, the traditional right of Texans to hold protests on the sidewalk in front of the Governor's mansion was unlawfully denied. The Governor's "protective Detail" of State Police adopted a policy of arresting and strip searching anyone who used that particular stretch of public sidewalk to protest peacefully against anything Bush had done. Persons so arrested were held in jail for 24 hours, then released (because they had done nothing illegal, no charges could be brought against them, but the experience surely has a chilling effect on those who protested, and on others who might contemplate protesting).

The author, Rick Abraham, has been director of the non-partisan Texans United Education Fund, and before that the Hazardous Waste Project Director for the Texas Center for Policy Studies. He has been arrested twice for participating in protests in front of the Governor's Mansion. Thus he knows whereof he writes.

Despite being badly in need of editing and especially of proofreading, this book is well worth reading.

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Summary: What tripe!
Review: This is a hatchet job... nothing more and nothing less, by the far left wing of the Texas Democratic Party. The editorial comments from such leftie luminaries as Jim "Pinko" Hightower were as bad.

As for the reader comments, I noted that not one actually LIVES in Texas.

Y'all need to get over it. Gore lost. He's not coming back. Liberalism/socialism has gone the way of the dinosaur, except for those who haven't realized that they're already dead. I'm so glad I got this from the library. I wouldn't buy this used from a Poteet garage sale!