The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush

by Rick Abraham

THE DIRTY TRUTH unmasks a presidential hopeful who fails to walk his talk of "local control," "partnership," and "personal responsibility." It documents the abysmal environmental record of Texas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970519001
• ISBN13: 9780970519009
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Bush's actions speak louder than his (deceptive) words

It's really extraordinary how the Bush supporters who review the book have no specific points to make, at all. They just call it a "hatchet job" or a "false perception of the truth" (hey, how can you have a "false perception" - if you simply describe something that's true, where does "perception" come in?). Wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't read it, just taking umbrage at the tone of the favorable reviews. The real value of this book is for those who are uncertain whether to accept Bush as a person who is simply misinformed but honest (in issues such as Iraq WMD, etc.) or whether he is someone who deliberately sets out to mislead, using lies, distortions and secrecy to achieve his ends. Once you've read this account of his tenure as Governor of Texas, you will be in no doubt. It's a truly shameful catalog of dishonesty and sleaze. Is it factual? Well, there are 222 (count'em, 222) endnotes giving sources for everything in the book. If the righties can show where these are all wrong, I might be able to pay them some attention. Until then I thank the well-respected writer Rick Abraham for helping us to "perceive" some important truths.

Breathtaking expose

In comprehensive detail, Abrahm builds the case against George W. and his policies. Far from being an independent moderate, Bush is the pawn of big business and big oil and will not embrace any agenda that would remotely conflict with that goal. Please bear in mind that it is not the oil industry itself that is evil (my father is a geologist and moderate Democrat) but the extent to which Bush has promoted this industy without common sense disregard for laws, ethics or consideration of impact upon others. This book is worth the read for anybody who wants the real truth that has too often been suppressed by the "liberal" media.

The Dirty Truth: Stranger than Fiction

About every third page of this book, I would run across something that would make me so angry that I'd have to set the book down and burn off my anger by channeling it into cleaning something: dusting off the bookshelves, filling up the dishwasher, picking up the dirty clothes.Thanks to Rick Abraham's expose of the slimeball-in-chief currently squatting in the White House, my home is immaculate.Mr. Abraham details Bush family malfeasance so gross and so blatant as to take one's breath away. Starting with Harken and Arbusto and working his way through the UTIMCO mess, Abraham's book shows the inner workings of a powerful family and its minions, a group that operates with the shamelessness of mafiosi and the arrogance of Louis XIV. He touches on the various recreational chemical indulgences of the Bushes, but most of the book is dedicated to exposing the kleptocratic nature of what independent observers have already tagged "The Bush Crime Family".This book is a must-read. Just make sure you keep your blood pressure meds handy.