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Monday, May 19, 2008

Bushit!




Bushit! An A-Z guide to the Bush Attack on Truth, Justice, Equality, and the American Way
by
Jack Huberman

excerpt from back cover:

Bushit! catalogs the scandals and outrages of an administration that appears determined to "stay the course" of blunders, corruption, and deceit established in its first term....

excerpts from a section "We love war." (p. 274):

...right wing guru Michael Ledeen -- holder of the Freedom Chair at the right-wing American Enterprize Institute and a figure often quoted by Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Rumsfeld -- told a forum in March, 2003, "the level of casualties is secondary" because "we are a warlike people.. we love war." Previously he had written that "the only way to achieve peace is through total war", "the sparing of civilian lives cannot be the total war's first priority"; and, "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." Ledeen's daughter was appointed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance...