Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks, and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media, and Business PDF
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O F F W I T H T H E I R H E A D S TRAITORS, CROOKS & OBSTRUCTIONISTS IN AMERICAN POLITICS, MEDIA & BUSINESS D I C K M O R R I S To the brave men and women who have fallen, and will fall, in defending our nation against terrorism CONTENTS Introduction ix PART I THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS 1 1 The New New York Times:All the News That Fits, They Print 3 2 After Iraq: The Media Credibility Gap 52 3 Après Moi, Le Deluge:How Clinton Left Ticking Terror Time Bombs for Bush to Discover 67 4 The Hollywood Apologists 128 5 France: From Great to Ingrate 170 PART II OUR OTHER ASSAILANTS 193 6 The Attack on Our Economy: How Two Senators—Christopher Dodd and Phil Gramm—Passed Laws That Helped Enron Defraud Its Investors with Impunity 195 7 The Attack on Our Democracy: How Incumbent Congressmen and Their Political Bosses Took Away Our Power to Choose Our House of Representatives 215 8 The Attack on Our Kids: How the Governors Swiped the Antitobacco Money and Endangered Our Health 236 9 The Attack on the Elderly: Nursing Home Nazis 259 Epilogue 283 Acknowledgments 287 Notes 289 About the Author Also by Dick Morris Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher INTRODUCTION 9/11 should have changed everything. On 9/12, all—or almost all—Americans joined to fight terror and ban this appalling species of warfare from our planet. But as the Bush administration proceeded to act on this mandate, more and more peo- ple dragged their feet, attempting to slow the process down or hinder it from achieving its vital goals. What happened to the unity that so blessed America after 9/11? Where did our sense of determination go? When did our focus on bat- tling terrorism become blurred? In the days and weeks immediately after 9/11, there was notably lit- tle dissent. As we invaded Afghanistan to take down the evil Taliban regime, virtually the entire nation supported our troops and hailed their every difficult, treacherous step through the mountains in search of those who had scarred our souls. But then, it seemed, some of us began to lose our way. They became convinced that President Bush had “hijacked our grief,” that he had “manipulated” us for his own political ends. Some began to feel that the weekly vicissitudes of the economy, and the scandals that gripped Wall Street, should be treated more urgently than stopping future acts of terror. Many demanded a miraculous settlement of the intractable Arab-Israeli conflict, even when becoming mired in yet another round of shuttle diplomacy was likely to erode the impetus for fighting the war on terror. When a settlement of the West Bank dispute proved elusive, tens of millions of Americans dissented from President Bush’s decision to disarm and remove Iraq’s dictator from power. Peace marches started, as if our current troubles were somehow comparable to Vietnam. In some quarters, George W. Bush was more reviled than Saddam Hussein. We became a nation divided. Demonstrators, who might have better spent their time outside the
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