Mr. Bush writes a "pop up" book

Sadly enough, the WSJournal ran a 10th grade book review of Mr. Bush's Magnum Opus.  I guess the writer was sincere in effort.  Ms. Strassel appears to have had a meteoric career at the journal and her breakthrough pieces (on how government regulation unfairly helps women and that one on Ms. Palin -whoooboy) fall neatly into the Murdoch world view.  I get the feeling that when she wrote the review she was stopping about every other sentence and saying to herself "OMG give me strength to gloss over one more line of this nitwit's limited memory".

We do, however, have a Pulitzer nomination here for "Rather Sickening Fiction" but I am not sure that is a category yet.  It should be after this.

One telling quote she sticks in (presumably to prove she read the book is:

"The world is better off and more secure without Saddam Hussein in power. But so much of the case—and so much of the focus—was on WMD, that the failure to find it made the task of convincing the American people to hang in there harder."

This sentence, this one sentence, I think sums up the book and Mr. Bush.  He has conveniently forgotten (or perhaps was never aware) that the WMD argument was trotted out BEFORE as the pretext to war and the failure to find them, a mission undertaken by weapons inspectors was reported to Mr. Bush BEFORE we invaded to find them....or has he forgotten dispatching Colin Powell to the UN to lie? and Condi to the Rose Garden to talk about "mushroom clouds"?  Mr. Bush wrote "convincing to hang in there".  He didn't write "convincing the people to go in the first place".  That, along with his "should have landed Louisiana (after Katrina) and given a speech" ...well you get the idea of the goop that lines the pages.

What gives that we can let this fella off with lying to our face then and now?

Comments

  1. I'm halfway through it. Get back to me when you read it, and not just glean bits from the WSJ.
    And yes, I did read Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope.
    Reading................it's a wonderful thing.

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  2. Well said. What ever we think of Mr. Bush is, unfortunately, deserved.

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  3. hello Joaquin

    Yes reading is a wonderful thing. I see you like fiction or did you prefer Mr. Obama's writing?

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  4. Liking an author's writing is irrelevant. The content is what counts...........in my book.
    And no, I find fiction a total waste of time.

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  5. I don't care what pov your book is from, you can't rewrite history.
    You lied, you started war, depression, deficit and now pass the buck.
    This is what is wrong with politics, its not a fucking sports team, if you are wrong, take responsibility. Don't twist around the truth till you have enough assholes to back you up.
    He started the wars, the depression, the deficit, opps, sorry, you guys only wanna hear that there is a black president and what you can do to change that.

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