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The Immaculate Deception: Bush Crime Family Exposed
by: Russell S. Bowen |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780922356805 ISBN: 0922356807 Label: Bridger House Publishers Inc Manufacturer: Bridger House Publishers Inc Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 236 Publication Date: September 05, 2000 Publisher: Bridger House Publishers Inc Studio: Bridger House Publishers Inc
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  - Where there is Smoke there must be fire, but here there is just more SmokeThe broad outlines of this book appear to have a certain amount of coherence and inexorable historical logic even though the facts upon which they are based is often the same thin conspiratorial gruel - i.e., character assassination by name association - with which we are already all too familiar. The good news is that if one can avoid getting stuck in these inessential conspiratorial cul de sacs; stand back and look at the larger forest, there is a great deal new here to be learned about the Bush dynasty that was not already been revealed in Kitty Kelly's gossipy book "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Buried in the subtext beneath the scull and bones and Nazi nonsense, is an important but ugly story to be told about the Bush dynasty: That its rise to, and continuing hold on power in the U.S., has indeed been earned the old fashion way. In the modern system of American power it does seem that the Bushes have broken the code that leads pass "Go" directly to elite deviance: use obsequious and fawning behavior to worm ones way into the trust of those higher up the unsavory food chain, and then with calculated and ruthless moral blindness, always using guiltless pragmatism over principles, scraping and sacrificing the Constitution and the rule of law along the way if necessary, and a single-mindedness to accumulate wealth for ones self, the political world and American democracy can be colonized without ever looking back. As one Florida Republicans put it "GHW Bush has no center. He stands for nothing. He is a political opportunist in the truest sense of the word." Sadly, this same description would fit to a tee almost any contemporary run-of-the-mill American politician - especially the present crop of candidates -- on either side of the political divide -- running for the 2008 presidency. The bad news is that the author makes clear only the outlines of Bush's involvement in many unsavory activities of which he repeatedly has been accused. But, these outlines were already clear without this book. What we needed here was closure on the details, not more hand waving, not more smoke. However, hand waving and more smoke is all we get here. When the time comes to "pin the tail" on this donkey, the author repeatedly comes up short. We are left with FIOA revelations and the weak testimonies of those convicted as Bush underlings and even sparser and weaker citations. In the end, we know less than we did at the beginning? For instance, we still do not know why J. Edgar Hoover was sending "George Bush of the CIA" an FYI memo with updates on JFK's assassination a week after the President's murder? This happened at a time of course when Bush denied that he was even in the CIA, and when only he and E. Howard Hunt among 250 million Americans, failed to recall where they were on November 22, 1963. Likewise, without this book, and based solely on news reports and Senate Hearings, we already know that Bush and his trusted underlings were knee-deep in the Iran Contra scandal. But after reading this book, we still do not know whether or not Bush actually was in Paris on October 18-20, 1980 helping to stall the release of the Iran-held hostages until after Reagan was elected? It is one thing to hurl broad-based accusations against the wall hoping some will stick. We know very well that the shadows of the demi-world of intelligence was GHW Bush's preferred milieu. Yet, it is quite another to prove that those shadows reflect light on the real person. In the details presented here, those shadows remain just as unexplained as before cracking the covers of this book. When read and thought about carefully, there is a lot less here than meets the eye. What we needed was to finally pin the tail on this donkey. We needed "a smoking gun," but what we got instead was more high-level gossip and more chasing of the tail. Where there is smoke there usually is fire, but here there is just more and more smoke. Three stars Rating:  - So bad, so paranoid, so illogical.Of all the irrational political books on the market, this ranks among the worst. It's worse than Michael Moore as far as innacuracy and lack of evidence of mental strength. It would seem that Bowen has just enough functioning neural connection to write, gather random unverified stories and maintain a paranoid outlook, beyond that I guess he must at least have a functioning brain stem. Nearly everything in this book can (or has been) easily refuted. Nothing more than a middle school students efforts at critical thinking can refute his claims. The fact that idiots are out there buying this and believing it is both scary and disappointing. Nothing new I guess. Rating:  - The Truth Will Set You FreeThe people that gave this book a low rating have either not read the book or are just looking to discredit truth about the Axis of Evil - Jeb,Dubya and Daddy ! Rating: - a waste of paper and ink.I can't believe I was duped into buying this crap. Bowen's next book should be about the people living on Mars. Rating: - Unmasking the BushesRussell Bowen's account of the Bush family serves as a roadmap illustrating how contacts coupled with opportunism produced a pattern of corruption which continues as George II rules in a position achieved through vote theft and a hypocritical one vote Supreme Court majority which cut against the grain of state rights cession these justices generally embrace. Bowen was one of the first authors, along with historian John Loftus, to reveal how the Bush economic empire received a major boost in the pre-World War Two period with loans from banker Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current officeholder, to Adolf Hitler. This valuable money enabled the Nazi dictator to gain more pig iron and develop his weapons potential. A former intelligence operative himself, the knowledgeable Bowen traces Bush I's links as CIA Director to drug activity, culminating with his bombing of Panama and the civilian casualties that resulted. Bowen exposes the fraudulent claims of Bush to "get Noriega" after the CIA Director had used the Panamanian dictator as a valuable intelligence source. The claim that George I was a self-made man in the West Texas oil business is also exposed as a sham by Bowen. The public relations myth perpetrated by Bush cronies was that the Ivy Leaguer drove into West Texas in a dusty old jalopy and, through proper application, made a fortune. In reality he flew into West Texas in his father's private jet and used contacts to achieve a fortune. He emerged as a man of privilege from the beginning who used patrimonious affirmative action to gain fame and fortune. He emerges, as humorist Jim Hightower quipped, as "a man who was born on third base and believed he had hit a triple." Bowen displays prescience in dealing with the Bush sons in one perceptive chapter. He links all of them to shady dealings and corporate corruption, notably George II and his swift bailout before the roof fell on Harken Energy Corporation, the oil company he headed. His father, then president, squelched the investigation into Bush II's Harken activities. |
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