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 FutureSimon and Schuster, 2007 M11 13 - 368 pages The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until now this story has never been fully told. From Craig Unger, the author of the bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud, comes a comprehensive, deeply sourced, and chilling account of the secret relationship between neoconservative policy makers and the Christian Right, and how they assaulted the most vital safeguards of America's constitutional democracy while pushing the country into the catastrophic quagmire in the Middle East that is getting worse day by day. Among the powerful revelations in this book:
A seasoned, award-winning investigative reporter connected to many back-channel political and intelligence sources, Craig Unger knows how to get the big story -- and this one is his most explosive yet. Through scores of interviews with figures in the Christian Right, the neoconservative movement, the Bush administration, and sources close to the Bush family, as well as intelligence agents in the CIA, the Pentagon, and Israel, Unger shows how the Bush administration's certainty that it could bend history to its will has carried America into the disastrous war in Iraq, dooming Bush's presidency to failure and costing America thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Far from ensuring our security, the Iraq War will be seen as a great strategic pivot point in history that could ignite wider war in the Middle East, particularly in Iran. Provocative, timely, and disturbing, The Fall of the House of Bush stands as the most comprehensive and dramatic account of how and why George W. Bush took America to war in Iraq. |
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... later, former secretary of state James Baker, who had carefully assembled the massive coalition for the Gulf War in 1991, joined in, warning the Bush administration that if it were to attack Saddam, it should not go it alone.16 On one ...
... later, former secretary of state James Baker, who had carefully assembled the massive coalition for the Gulf War in 1991, joined in, warning the Bush administration that if it were to attack Saddam, it should not go it alone.16 On one ...
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... later, there were signs from the State. *Another high-level Bush 41 appointee, former CIA director Robert Gates, served on the panel until he was nominated to be secretary of defense in 2006. Eagleburger replaced him. *In testimony ...
... later, there were signs from the State. *Another high-level Bush 41 appointee, former CIA director Robert Gates, served on the panel until he was nominated to be secretary of defense in 2006. Eagleburger replaced him. *In testimony ...
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... later, English theologians espoused similar messianic ideals and set about to fulfill them. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation and the first English-language Bibles came the early stirrings of Christian Zionism, the belief ...
... later, English theologians espoused similar messianic ideals and set about to fulfill them. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation and the first English-language Bibles came the early stirrings of Christian Zionism, the belief ...
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... later Salem, Oregon, Illinois, and more than twenty other states, was the New World name for Jerusalem.† There were Goshens, Canaans, and New Canaans, not to mention various Bethlehems, Zions, and Hebrons. *The passage to which Winthrop ...
... later Salem, Oregon, Illinois, and more than twenty other states, was the New World name for Jerusalem.† There were Goshens, Canaans, and New Canaans, not to mention various Bethlehems, Zions, and Hebrons. *The passage to which Winthrop ...
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... later, The Descent of Man, seemed to say that humans were just like animals and were not created by God. Liberal theologians in America and historians in Germany challenged the dogma that the Bible was divinely inspired.43 In 1882 ...
... later, The Descent of Man, seemed to say that humans were just like animals and were not created by God. Liberal theologians in America and historians in Germany challenged the dogma that the Bible was divinely inspired.43 In 1882 ...
Contents
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Into the Fray | 63 |
The Prodigal Son | 79 |
The Age of Unreason | 99 |
First Son | 119 |
Cheneys Gambit | 195 |
In the Shadows | 215 |
Fear The Marketing Campaign | 245 |
The Good Soldier | 273 |
Season of Mirth | 297 |
An Angel Directs the Storm | 325 |
The Obama Factor | 353 |
Acknowledgments | 373 |
The Righteous Assassin | 131 |
Ripe for the Plucking | 145 |
Dog Whistle Politics | 159 |
Grandmaster Cheney | 181 |
Notes | 377 |
Bibliography | 429 |
Index | 439 |
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Page 218 - I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen.
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