2001, ISBN: 9781403968517

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Palgrave MacMillan], In January 2001, George W. Bush assumed the Presidency of the United States promising peace, prosperity, and a renewed sense of integrity. In Th… mais…

[ED: Softcover], [PU: Palgrave MacMillan], 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 vividly illustrates how Bush abandoned both his campaign promises and his oath to uphold the Constitution, leaving instead a nation at war, in massive debt and in service to the special interests of big business. The Bush Betrayal is a seething indictment of a presidency far removed from the will of the people and is destined to be another classic from Washington's most outspoken critic. Table of contents: Introduction PART I: DOMESTIC DEBACLES AND DECEITS Education Alchemy: Federal Control for Local Freedom The Mechanics of Bush-Style Education Freedom Dumbing Down Standards The Texas Model Scam Abolishing Racial Test Gaps Hollow Promises, Real Dangers Political Profiteering From Pointless Punishment: The Drug War Freedom from Bongs Politically-Mandated Pain: The War on Doctors Drugs & Bush Family Values Foreign Debacles of the U.S. War on Drugs U.S.-Approved Mass Murder Bush's Farm Fiasco Bush's Generosity, Taxpayers' Disaster Milk Madness Cotton: Exporting Death and Misery Torpedoing Trade: Fishing for Votes by Closing the Borders Eternal Republican Hypocrisy on Trade Steel Shaft Trade Negotiations as Racketeering Faith-Based Flim Flams: Enrolling God in the Re-election Campaign AmeriCorps: Volunteering to Boondoggle Social Work with Messianic Delusions Losing Count: 20,000 'Volunteers' More or Less Compassionate Conservatism = Airport Cheerleaders for Bush Entitlement Explosion: Medicare, Housing, etc. Free Drugs: A $2 Trillion Contribution to Bush's Re-election Giving Free Home Down Payments to Worthy Voters Spreading the Culture of Dependency Government-by-Stealth: The New Iron Curtain Ashcroft Guts the Freedom of Information Act The Nullification of the Presidential Papers Act Cover-ups as Standard Operating Procedure PART 2: THE FLOUNDERING WAR ON TERRORISM The Continuing Cover-up of 9/11 Bush's Efforts to Stonewall the 9/11 Commission New Revelations about Federal Failures Before & on 9/11 The Changing Meaning of 9/11 A War on Dissent? 'Free Speech Zones' FBI Surveillance of Protestors A Master Plan to Recreate 'COINTELPRO'? Ashcroft: A Study in the Abuse of Power The Patriot Act Salvation Tour The Detroit Tainted Trial Debacle Beating Detainees For Fun and Profit Ashcroft as the Epitome of Antiterrorism Exploitation TSA: Pratfalls as Public Safety Seizing Fingernail Clippers, Missing Guns & Bombs Keystone Kops: Shutting Down Airports for No Good Reason CAPPS 2: 100 Million Dossiers on America Homeland Security Hoaxes Continuing Failure to Create a Unified Terrorism Watch List Still Missing the Tainted Dollars: Money Laundering Misfires Bureaucratic Amalgamation as False Deliverance Enemy Combatants: The President's Word as the Highest Law PART 3: FOREIGN FOLLIES Iraq: Bush's Greatest Debacle 'Close Enough for Government Work': Changing Rationales for War Winning Hearts and Minds with an Iron Fist The Coming Iraqi Civil War Neo-Conservatives & Bus ... (Please see the catalogue page for more information) 352 pages Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 1403968519

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ISBN: 1403968519

[PU: Palgrave Macmillan]