An interesting view on the fundamentalist side of Bush

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	• The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, ... Craig Unger Scribner, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

About time

The country is holding it's collective breath until G.W Bush is gone. Good reading for and independent like myself or a liberal. Maybe conservative republicans if they want a good tear jerker.Whacked

Another great book by Unger

A very engrossing book with lots of behind the scenes information and details. Almost like the events leading up to a train wreck that you learn about after the fact and ask, Why was this allowed to happen?
It's sad to see the extent to which the everyday citizen has lost control of government in this country--especially when you consider the groups who have taken over and their motives--but this book documents the process in fine detail. The only thing that has not happened yet is a war with Iran--and that's looming on the horizon now. Don't say he didn't warn us!

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Required Reading

Every voting American citizen should read this book. It presents the facts on how a small group of people have subverted democratic processes and led our country into economic and military foolishness. The author's research is well-documented and unassailable.

An interesting view on the fundamentalist side of Bush

To understand the foundation that led to this failed presidency this book is definitely in my top 5. His faith and his pure fundamentalist perspective shines through in this book.

However, the book fails doesn't include the Bush entourage in its analysis and I think that this is were it falls short. The reborn christian neocon perspective definitely explains the perspective of this presidency. But is not enough to explain how the perspective has been implemented. The entourage of Bush II plays a vital role that hasn't been sufficiently addressed in this book.

At the same time it does provide yet another highly valuable viewpoint on this failed presidency. I recommend adding Utter Incompetents, A Tragic Legacy, Hubris, Fiasco and State of Denial into the mix to complete that picture.

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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:

Why George W. Bush ignored the sage advice of his father, George H.W. Bush, and took America into war.

How Bush was convinced he was doing God's will.

How Vice President Dick Cheney manipulated George W. Bush, disabled his enemies within the administration, and relentlessly pressed for an attack on Iraq.
Which veteran government official, with the assent of the president's father, protested passionately that the Bush administration was making a catastrophic mistake -- and was ignored.

How information from forged documents that had already been discredited fourteen times by various intelligence agencies found its way into President Bush's State of the Union address in which he made the case for war with Iraq.

How Cheney and the neocons assembled a shadow national security apparatus and created a disinformation pipeline to mislead America and start the war.

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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