Table of Contents
Part One: Bush 101

“It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.” -- Andre Gide

1) The Viet Nam War Years
The making of a Chicken Hawk

“I can just tell you, from my perspective, I never asked for, I don’t believe I received special treatment.” -- George W. Bush commenting on his National Guard service.

2) The Texas Oilman
Black gold, repeated bailouts… and the next thing you know ol’ Dubya’s a millionaire

“To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.” -- Ben Franklin

3) The Bush Rangers
1994: A Major League Baseball Odyssey

“My biggest liability in Texas is the question… “What’s the boy ever done? He could be riding on Daddy’s name.” -- George W. Bush

4) The “Green” Governor of Texas
The pollution cartel smokes the opposition

“You know I could run for governor but I’m basically a media creation. I’ve never done anything. I’ve worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that’s not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.” -- George W. Bush

5) Bush Brothers Inc.
Congenital crookedness in the land of cognitive dissonance

“What you’ve got with Bush [George senior] is absolutely the largest number of siblings and children involved in what looks like a never-ending hustle.” -- Kevin Philips, former Republican strategist turned author and pundit

Part Two: What You Don’t Know May Kill You

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier… just so long as I’m the dictator.” -- George W. Bush on CNN, December 2000

6) Election 2000
The Empire Strikes Blacks

“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery.” -- Thomas Paine

7) Bush & Enron
True friends are there when you need them… unless somebody gets caught

“I’m running to restore dignity and honor to the White House, the people’s house.”
--Then Governor George Bush on the campaign trail leading up the Y2K election — standing in front of his private, Enron owned jet.

8) 9/11: Family Ties and The Bush-Saudi-bin Laden Connection
Oil is forgiven – oil is forgotten

“Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.” -- Bush

9) The Neo-Conning of America
A right-wing revolution gone hog-wild

“The President of the United States, on issue after issue, has reflected the thinking of neo-conservatives.” -- Richard Perle

10) Evidence of Mass Distortion
Fearmongering, deception and sweetheart deals in the name of God and country

“Delay, indecision and inaction can lead to a massive sudden horror. Time is not on our side.”-- George W. Bush

“If you tell a lie often enough people will believe it.” -- Joseph Göbbels, Nazi propaganda minister

Epilogue
Inspired leadership vs. hired leadership

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -- Plato