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Big Bush Lies: 20 Essays and a List of the 50 Most Telling Lies of George W. Bush

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For Americans who think George W. Bush may be the worst president we will ever have had in our history, this book will provide all the ammunition they could ask for. This book of twenty essays and a list of fifty lies are irrefutable. Readers may remember things they forgot already that made them detest Mr. Bush in the first place.

Detractors will make rationalizations that the lies are only the opinions of the authors, or that Clinton lied too. In no case will they be able to refute what Bush has said and done, which were deliberate attempts to deceive or misinform. The other point here is that Bush is the president, not Clinton, and no one died when Clinton lied.

They may add it demonstrates a pathological hatred for Bush, but it is also true that people have a rational hatred for him because he is a liar of the worst magnitude. This book documents them, and this is only about his first term. In fact, it may beg the question of how people could support a man whose lies have been so well documented yet ignored or discounted.

Bush's lies, mischaracterizations, omissions, have been raised (or lowered) to an art form:

While running for the republican nomination, Bush stated that as governor, Texas had the most comprehensive health care plan in the United States. What he failed to mention was that he vetoed the bill twice. His second veto was overridden and he left it on his desk, unsigned. He lied.

When asked point blank about a drunk driving conviction, he refused to answer the question and used a deflection about who might have let the information slip so close to election day. He lied.

He sold company stock which he knew was going to tank. It did within the next two months. He violated the several insider trading laws. He said that he was found to have done nothing wrong. That was true. What he didn't mention was that the head of the SEC, the one who would have investigated him, was appointed by his father. In other words, he lied.

He has attempted to deceive the public on Iraq, tax relief, medical care, support for veterans, the economy, the debt, and the environment, to name a few.

Lies big and small are documented in this book and provide a powerful indictment of a man who not only appears to lie completely, but appears to do it without conscience.

The tone of this book is not vociferous. It lays out Bush's recorded words, and respected sources that are frequently cited.

If you need ammunition against his admirers, this is a good book to have. It should not be just read, but kept. It should remind us that we should be on our guard should anyone so loathsome aspire to the highest office in the land ever again.

"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.

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.

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!

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.

This book is a synopsis of all the other anti-Bush books on the market. The chapter "Ranch Dressing" shows the importance of the "Hair, Wardrobe and Set Design" of the Bush Administration. The chapter on religion "President Bush: False Prophet of the Christian Right" is a pre-cursor to David Kuo's new book "Tempting Faith." A must read.

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.

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.

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--