Generalissimo el Busho: Essays and Cartoons of the Bush Years
Ted Rall is best known for saying today what will become conventional wisdom tomorrow. His GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO is the ultimate chronicle of the most polarizing presidency in modern American history, a brilliantly tragicomic week-by-week dissection of the Bush Administration's follies and crimes as seen by America's most courageous editorial cartoonist and political writer.\ Ted Rall, who has traveled and reported from the world's hottest trouble spots, recognizes a dictator when he sees...
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In time for the election campaign, Rall compiles his most scathing cartoons and commentary aimed at what he portrays as our first non-elected president, one of the most hawkish and mean-spiritedly incompetent in U.S. history. Publishers Weekly Even when the country was rallying around President Bush, syndicated cartoonist and columnist Rall remained in a state of outrage-one he effectively maintains throughout this book, a set of essay-like meditations on a Pinochetesque figure he calls "Generalissimo El Busho." Each of 60 or so short salvos is typically accompanied by one to three cartoons (at most four to six panels). Bush's election ("The Seizure of Power") is followed by a post-9/11 cartoon on the president's attitudes toward civil liberties violations titled "Martin Niemoller Now"-referring to the priest who said, in part, "When they came for Jews, I did not speak up, because I wasn't a Jew." A prescient cartoon imagines the prison at Guant namo as the reality show Gitmo House. A "Canyon of Heroes" cartoon cites a 9/11 victim: "My death helped create the political climate that allowed tax cuts for rich folks during a recession." Love him or hate him, Rall is never less than provocative. The material is current through March 2004, and much of it still stings. A specialist on Central Asia, Rall actually went to Afghanistan and wrote, "We won the war but we lost the peace. Will we do the same thing in Iraq? Count on it." Agent, NBM. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Introduction7Preface11Part ISeizure of PowerThe Trivializing of American Politics17George W. Bush: The Churamanian Dandicate?20One Scam, One Vote23The Jeb Factor26The Resistance Begins Now29Uncle Tom's Cabinet32Tie Presidential Pay to Performance35Erasing Bush From History38The Results Are In: Gore Won Florida41Part II9/11The Triumph of Entropy47After 9/11, a Right-Wing Power Grab50Drop the Bomb53The New McCarthyism56I Can See Clearly Now the Pain is Gone59A Government of Gangsters62Everybody Must Get Stoned: The Kinder, Gentler Afghanistan66Afghanistan's New Agony689/11 Changed Nothing71From Little Boy to Big Brother: Bush's Perpetual Warfare74The Ugly American Botches a Venezuelan Coup77Bush Turns Assassin80Liars, Morons or Both?83George W. Kafka86It's the Economy Again89George and Adolf's Permanent Revolution94Part IIIWar Without Justification, War Without EndThe Empire Strikes Back Again, Redux, Part 2101Impossible Promises on Iraq105After Saddam, the Deluge108Droit du Seigneur: Bush as God111Iraq: Another War, Still Zero Proof114A Dog of a War117The Case For the French126Home Invasion129How We Lost Iraq132The Moron Majority135Corporate Vultures Swoop into the Killing Fields138The Fictional War on Terrorism141Slaughtergate144Bush's Willing Executioners147A Crack in Bush's Facade150Bush's Cover-Up Precedes the Scandal153Liberation of the Unwilling156Bring Home the Troops159Time to Get Real in Iraq162Iraq: What Went Wrong165Anatomy of a Lie168Part IVYear of the Long KnivesThe Necropublican National Convention175A Cold Draft178Get Out of Iraq While the Getting's Good181Weasels of Crass Deception192Pipe Dreams: An Update on the Real Reason We Invaded Afghanistan195Finally, The Truth198Suffer the French Schoolchildren201Don't Stop Bereaving204Final Word207
\ Publishers WeeklyEven when the country was rallying around President Bush, syndicated cartoonist and columnist Rall remained in a state of outrage-one he effectively maintains throughout this book, a set of essay-like meditations on a Pinochetesque figure he calls "Generalissimo El Busho." Each of 60 or so short salvos is typically accompanied by one to three cartoons (at most four to six panels). Bush's election ("The Seizure of Power") is followed by a post-9/11 cartoon on the president's attitudes toward civil liberties violations titled "Martin Niemoller Now"-referring to the priest who said, in part, "When they came for Jews, I did not speak up, because I wasn't a Jew." A prescient cartoon imagines the prison at Guant namo as the reality show Gitmo House. A "Canyon of Heroes" cartoon cites a 9/11 victim: "My death helped create the political climate that allowed tax cuts for rich folks during a recession." Love him or hate him, Rall is never less than provocative. The material is current through March 2004, and much of it still stings. A specialist on Central Asia, Rall actually went to Afghanistan and wrote, "We won the war but we lost the peace. Will we do the same thing in Iraq? Count on it." Agent, NBM. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
