The Bush betrayal
By: James Bovard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Bush, George W. 1946-; Bush, George W. 1946- -- Ethics; Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Civil rights -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-
Description: "In January 2001, George W. Bush assumed the presidency of the United States promising peace, prosperity, and a renewed sense of integrity. In The Bush Betrayal, James Bovard illustrates how the president abandoned both his campaign promises and his oath to uphold the Constitution, giving us instead a nation at war, in massive debt, and in service to the special interests of big business and the religious right. Unlike the partisan - mostly liberal - attacks on the Bush administration, Bovard presents a detailed analysis from a conservative and libertarian perspective. This makes The Bush Betrayal's conclusions even more damning." "In detail, Bovard covers more ground than any other book about the Bush presidency. He outlines Bush's lies before, during, and after the invasion of Iraq and shows how, far from being an anomaly, a profound and perennial dishonesty characterizes almost every aspect of his presidency. The Bush Betrayal exposes how the No Child Left Behind Act is "dumbing down" education standards across the country, how Bush's wasteful drug war is punishing millions of innocent Americans with unnecessary pain, and how despite being the most profligate spender ever inflicted upon the American people George Bush has not made America a safer place to live and now every American is paying for it." "From the dismal failure of the USA Patriot Act and the gradual loss of our civil liberties to the floundering war on terror and the current quagmire and expense of Iraq, Bovard catalogues an endless series of dissembling, spin, and outright lies that has brought America to the brink."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 9/11 : canonization and coverup; title: A war on dissent?; title: Hollow steel : Bush vs. free trade; title: Ed fraud 101; title: AmeriCorps and moral reformation; title: Bush's farm fiasco; title: Spending as caring; title: The political profits of pointless punishment; title: Government by stealth : the new Iron Curtain; title: Airport antics : the TSA attitude police; title: John Ashcroft, king of "Ordered Liberty"; title: Antiterrorism abuses and frauds; title: Protecting democracy from freedom; title: Afghan absurdities; title: Iraq : the iron fist of freedom.