I’ve never posted a political blog / bulletin, and I wouldn’t do so now if I didn’t feel it was important – so hopefully, you’ll all forgive me for doing so and read this.
This book was recently published…
…and it’s basically been banned by the mainstream media.
Why has it been banned, you ask?
Because it explains, with irrefutable facts and logic, how George W. Bush deliberately deceived America into going to war with Iraq - and lays out the legal architecture how he could be prosecuted for murder when his term as president ends.
But no one is reviewing it - and no one is talking to its esteemed author, Vincent Bugliosi.
Who? How esteemed?
Vincent Bugliosi is one of America’s finest prosecutors. He’s the man who put Charles Manson and his “family” of creeps in jail for life. He’s won an astonishing 125 out of 126 murder trials. He’s written a number of books, including Helter Skelter (of course) and more recently, a massive 1648-page tome entitled Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in which he debunks virtually all of the conspiracy theories surrounding JFK’s assassination.
I don’t consider myself the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I try a lot harder than most to keep my brain percolating. I may sometimes envy someone their achievements, their money, their good looks, their girlfriend – but rarely do I envy someone’s mind. Vincent Buglisosi is one of the few.
Vincent Bugliosi is one of our finest intellectuals, and a master at argument – he can build an argument piece by piece, stacking one fragment of undeniable logic on top of another until you simply cannot deny what he is saying. His clarity of mind and common sense are incredibly rare - when he puts out a book, I read it.
So when The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder was released, I picked it up from Amazon. A few days later, I was finished, and sought reviews to confirm my opinion – that it’s absolutely brilliant.
No reviews – none, nada, zip.
In one of the few interviews I was able to find online, Mr. Bugliosi states that he had tremendous difficulty publishing the book, despite his standing as a best-selling author - and is astonished that Time, Newsweek, and every other publication / media outlet in America refuses to even review the book, much less interview its author.
This is America…
Attack it - hate it - write the most excoriating review possible - but you cannot figuratively burn the book, which is exactly what the mainstream press is doing by ignoring its existence.
Yes, the title is melodramatic, and is meant to incite people. Yes, the author cannot disguise his politics, and sometimes undercuts his own argument by attacking President Bush on a personal level.
But Bugliosi’s uncommon clarity of mind is also on display. A few examples…
-As we all know, Iraq never had WMD’s. Sixteen departments of the CIA confirmed this. Bush claimed Saddam Hussein had them anyway.
-Iraq never bought uranium from Nigeria – the CIA also confirmed this. Bush claimed Saddam Hussein did it anyway.
-Bush claimed Hussein was involved in 9/11 - no proof has ever been found. On top of that, Hussein was secular, and Osama Bin Laden is a religious fanatic – how exactly were they supposed to work together?
-If Hussein was involved in 9/11… why wasn’t he brought back to the U.S. for trial? Why was he quickly convicted for other crimes and executed overseas?
-Haliburton was quietly given a 2.3 billion dollar contract in Iraq without any bidding whatsoever– which is illegal. Then they overcharged the U.S. government by 100 million dollars. Bush merely said they must repay the money - no legal consequences whatsoever for what is inarguably a criminal act.
-Our soldiers have been poorly equipped from the get-go – their vehicles are so poorly armored they scavenge for pieces of metal and bolt them onto them!
-And throughout all of this, Bush goes to sleep every night at 9:30, and has spend one-third – yes, one-third – of his eight years in office on vacation, usually five weeks at a shot. An astonishing 908 days and counting!
I’m stunned that our nation was turned upside down by President Clinton getting oral from a dumpy intern, but we stand by idly like a flock of mindless sheep when Bush deliberately mislead the American people into going to war.
What happened in the scant thirty years since Vietnam? Are we really this sedentary, this apathetic?
Part of the problem is that the level of deception we’re dealing with – the level of inhumanity – is simply incomprehensible.
Part of the problem is that we turn a blind eye as long as it doesn’t affect us directly.
And part of the problem - perhaps the most important part - is our unwillingness to bring further shame upon ourselves. The idea of punishing the president means admitting that we elected a man I now believe is, in every sense of the word, a sociopath.
And so much for democracy – the Democrats have done nothing to counter this man, and the supposedly liberal media has quietly condoned all of his crimes, from agreeing not to show footage of flag-draped coffins on television to essentially banning Vincent Bugliosi’s book.
I highly recommend that you seek out a copy and read it. You may not agree with everything in it – I certainly did not - but it will definitely make you think.
If anyone out there wants to borrow my copy, you need only ask…
