I find it amazing that the Democrats are making such a fuss over this one little book. You would think there were 100 books criticizing Kerry.
Just to be fair, let’s take a look at some of the books that are critical of Bush and Bush Administration policies. Some of these authors have valid points; others are slimy hatchet jobs. You decide.
This list is based on a thread posted on swiftvets.com.
The ThreadThe Three Little Pigs Buy the White House (Dan Piraro; ISBN 031233074X)
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (John W. Dean; ISBN 031600023X)
The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (David Corn; ISBN 1400050669)
Is Our Children Learning? : The Case Against George W. Bush (Paul Begala; ISBN 0743214781)
Big Bush Lies: The 20 Most Telling Lies of President George W. Bush (Jerry 'Politex' Barrett; ISBN 1883991943)
Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush (John Bonifaz; ISBN 1560256060)
The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Clint Willis; ISBN 1560255897)
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (Kevin Phillips; ISBN 0670032646)
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Anonymous; ISBN 1574888498)
Obliviously On He Sails : The Bush Administration in Rhyme (Calvin Trillin; ISBN 1400062888)
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (Ron Suskind; ISBN 5551291812)
Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America (Molly Ivins and Lou DuBose; ISBN 0375507523)
The Dirty Truth, The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush (Rick Abraham; ISBN 0970519001)
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Peter Singer; ISBN 0525948139)
Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; ISBN 0060746874)
Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (Mark Crispin Miller; ISBN 0393059170)
The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (Eric Alterman and Mark Green; ISBN 0670032735)
The Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years (Jack Huberman; ISBN 1560255692)
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Al Franken; ISBN 0452285216)
Dude, Where's My Country? (Michael Moore; ISBN 0446532231)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Gore Vidal; ISBN 1560255021)
Why Are We at War? (Norman Mailer; ISBN 0812971116)
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (Richard A. Clarke; ISBN 0743260244)
Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Arianna Huffington; ISBN 1401352138)
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Christopher Scheer, Lakshmi Chaudhry, and Robert Scheer; ISBN 1583226443)
Bushworld: Enter at your own risk (Maureen Dowd; ISBN 039915258X)
Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy (Lewis Lapham; ISBN 1594200173)
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Noam Chomsky; ISBN 0805074007)
Had Enough? : A Handbook for Fighting Back (James Carville; ISBN 0743255755)
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth (Joe Conason; ISBN 0312315600)
Casualty of War: The Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press (David Dadge; ISBN 1591021472)
The W Effect : Bush's War on Women (Laura Flanders; ISBN 1558614710)
Bush Must Go: The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn't Deserve a Second Term (Bill Press; ISBN 0525948406)
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back (Jim Hightower; ISBN 0670031410)
Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush (Jim Hightower; ISBN 0670033545)
Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq (Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber; ISBN 1585422762)
Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose; ISBN 0375757147)
The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms : The First Term, in His Own Special Words (Jacob Weisberg (Author) and Molly Ivins; ISBN 0743262522)
It's Still the Economy, Stupid : George W. Bush, The GOP's CEO (Paul Begala; 0743246470)
Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency? (John Nichols and David Deschamps; ISBN 1565847172)
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (Joseph Wilson; ISBN 078671378X)
Stop Bush in 2004: How Every Citizen Can Help (Michael John Dobbins; ISBN 0595316441)
Stop Bush Now (Paul J. Landis; ISBN 1412031605)
Imperial Overstretch : George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire (Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell; ISBN 1842774972)
Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency (Robert C. Byrd; ISBN 0393059421)
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties (Craig Unger; ISBN 074325337X)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters (Greg Palast; ISBN 0452283914)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (Gore Vidal; ISBN 156025405X)
Imperial America : Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Gore Vidal; ISBN 1560255854)
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Laura Flanders; ISBN 1859845878)
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (Paul Krugman; ISBN 0393058506)
The I Hate Republicans Reader: Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything (Clint Willis; ISBN 1560255080)
The I Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . . Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America (The "I Hate" Series) (Clint Willis; ISBN 1560256206)
The I Hate Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity. . . Reader: The Hideous Truth About America's Ugliest Conservatives (Clint Willis; ISBN 1560256141)
Plan of Attack (Bob Woodward; ISBN 074325547X)
My, that's quite a list.
Yet, we don't hear many conservatives crying, do we?