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 enlarge | Authors: Christopher Cerf, Victor S. Navasky
Creator: Robert Grossman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 121177
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1416569936
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9781416569930
ASIN: 1416569936
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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 Invaluable -- a library's must have June 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is a page turner of quotes by people who knew or should have known what a mess was being created in Iraq. To this day, our politicians say they want to pull out of Iraq when possible so as to stop the suffering of Americans and their families -- never a mention of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who were killed and maimed and the 3 million Iraqi refugees who fled the violence to other countries. The extreme arrogance of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the duping of Condi Rice and Gen. Powell is breathtaking. Even an author who I favored reading, Thomas Friedman, carried the administration's water with the continuous (every 6 months) "just 6 more months". If any administration deserved to be impeached, it was this one. But no peep out of the legislature? Because so many of them deserve to be impeached as well. I hate to quote Bill OReilly, but what Kool Aid do these people drink that they think they know so much they can spend trillions in taxes and new debt and interfere or destroy so many lives? This book is an invaluable reference book for the lies told by Bush and his delusional minions.
Won what war?? June 4, 2008
Think he got it about right. Maybe we'll get some straight talk when Obama takes over!!
 Mission Accomplished June 4, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a somewhat amusing book, but not really worth a purchase. Anyone who is a political junkie will know most of the things said in it--it has nothing original. I put it in the catagory of something to keep on the bathroom bookshelf.
A goodbye salute for King George June 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future
 A little funny but a lot wrong May 29, 2008
0 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've only skimmed through this book while sitting in the local B&N...so this isn't a comprehensive review of the book. What I noticed in a short period, however, was that this is not an indictment of 'expert-ology' (and the Bush Admin), as the authors intend; but rather a clinical case of 'meme-ology'. The authors apparently want us to believe that demonstrably true statements and predictions about the war are/were in fact false, thus proving the experts wrong. According to my quick count, however, all but one of the statements and predictions are true. For instance, according to any measuring stick the war was indeed a cake walk. We won it even more quickly than the first gulf war, and with fewer casualties than even the administration predicted. The mission to overthrow Hussein was accomplished in less than two weeks. Hussein was torturing his people. Hussein was funding terrorists. Hussein was refusing to cooperate with inspectors and was hiding his WMD program. Hussein was attempting to acquire nuclear technology and did have the intent to produce WMDs. Perhaps the weirdest claim the authors make is that our soldiers weren't greeted as liberators, when in fact the video of such a greeting ran on CNN for days.
These things are utterly factual.
And yet somehow some folks have convinced themselves that these
Weird.
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