Bush regime

The regime, or cartel, of George W. Bush has been, since inception, characterized by blatant disregard for fact, willful deception even of themselves, and a fierce determination to impose their rule, globally and nationally, without regard to law, the U.S. Constitution or the principles contained therein. Examples and evidence can be found in the pages linked hereto. Individuals comprising the regime are indexed in the Bush regime characters article.

Characteristics

 * a culture of corruption
 * war profiteering and cronyism
 * redistribution of income by Socialization of costs and privatization of profits
 * fantasy &amp; delusion, lies and deceptions, charade, groupthink
 * intimidation, secrecy, hypocrisy and double standard
 * a Loose Cannon Pentagon fostering ascendancy of the military-industrial complex and prison-industrial complex
 * Office of Special Plans and "cooked intelligence"
 * reckless escalation of adversity and provocation of terrorism leading to failed security strategy
 * regulatory lapdogs and corporate welfare
 * privatization and globalization in the name of Global democratic revolution
 * pillaging the environment
 * need for media reform
 * junk science and other blatant contempt for fact
 * fear &amp; loathing
 * scandal fatigue and smear campaigns

and a clear intent of the Republican Party extremists to forcefully take over the government rather than to respect the people, the constitution, or the democracy which isn't.

Of course, there are alternate views. He himself has one.

And other observers document his legacy as the Bush Administration, while others dare call it treason.

The regime has earned for itself Le jeu de cartes du régime Bush.

While some within the U.S. make the case for impeachment, and note the similarities with historic instances of other failed democracies, for the most part the rest of the world has declared No to War on the U.S.A!

In a move unprecedented in the 47-year history of Peace Action (the merger of Sane and The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign), its PAC, the Peace Action Political Action Committee, has dis-endorsed, or formally advocated the defeat of, a presidential candidate. 
 * "George W. Bush's foreign policy is counterintuitive, radical and dangerous. Because of Bush's pursuit of security through aggression and unilateralism, its planned building of new U.S. nuclear weapons and its exportation of the weapons around the world, Bush has pushed this country and the world towards a cataclysm rather than towards safety. Bush has been so harmful to progress on the issues of nuclear disarmament, international cooperation, the arms trade and the elimination of war as a means of resolving international conflict that  this country and the world cannot risk another four years of his failed leadership . We feel we have no choice but to issue this unusual 'dis-endorsement'," said Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action PAC.

According to Charles Derber, 12 March 2004, noting the historic oscillation between corporate and progressive regimes: American history is a succession of political regimes, with none lasting more than about a generation. Bush's extremism on both economic and foreign affairs has created a regime crisis, with the U.S. debt and imperial over-extension endangering its ability to manage the very global economic order on which the regime is founded. This is not only creating massive disquiet among blue- and white-collar workers but also among many conservatives who believe Bush is undermining their own patriotic and capitalist bedrock principles.
 * The first corporate regime emerged in the Gilded Age, from 1865 to 1901, brought to us by the robber barons, the country's first great corporate tycoons, and the 10 Republican presidents and one Democrat (President Grover Cleveland) who served them.
 * Eventually, the populists and progressive reformers toppled the rober barons. Thus began the Progressive regime, beginning with trust-buster Teddy Roosevelt, from 1901 to 1921.
 * The Roaring Twenties overturned the Progressive regime and created the second corporate regime of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover that collapsed with the 1929 market crash.
 * Franklin Roosevelt, pushed by unemployed workers in the Depression, presided over the New Deal regime that lasted after Roosevelt's death until the early 1970s,
 * when it was destabilized by the costs of Vietnam and the rise of a corporate-driven New Right social movement leading to the election of Ronald Reagan. Reagan ushered in the third corporate regime that rules us today.

"George Bush tends to make decisions on the basis of hunch and intuition, and then pulls together groups that confirm his decisions," said Paul C. Light, the director of the Center for Public Service at the Brookings Institution, a center-left research center. "The only people who are invited to be on the team are people who agree with him." --Ron Hutcheson, Insiders Offer Unflattering Accounts of Bush's Decision-Making Style, Knight-Ridder, 26 March 2004

"Most people seem not to understand that when we deal with the Bush administration, we are dealing with something unique, and uniquely dangerous: an administration which is fully committed to an ideology—an ideology that is entirely self-contained and completely self-referencing. It is not concerned with facts, evidence, logic and argument. It is concerned only with its own internal vision of the world, and how that world should be constructed and how it should operate." --Arthur Silber, Light of Reason, August 1, 2005.

Affirmations of Insiders
The following individuals, from within or close to, the Bush administration, have expressed views affirmative of the unfortunate characteristics noted above.


 * Rand Beers
 * Robert Baer, CIA field operative
 * John Brown, State Dept. Diplomat
 * Richard A. Clarke
 * Max Cleland
 * John DiIulio
 * Sibel Edmonds
 * Richard S. Foster, top actuary for Medicare, Department of Health and Human Services
 * James E. Hansen, top climate scientist at NASA
 * General Joseph Hoar
 * David Kay, former U.S. chief weapons inspector in Iraq
 * John Brady Kiesling, Ambassador
 * Karen Kwiatkowski, FBI
 * Lawrence Lindsey
 * John McCain
 * Raymond McGovern, CIA
 * Christopher Meyer, former British Ambassador to Washington
 * John P. O'Neill, FBI Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism and National Security
 * Paul O'Neill, Treasury Secretary
 * Ron Paul, U.S. Representative (R-TX)
 * Thomas J. Pickard, FBI
 * Robin Raphel
 * Coleen Rowley, FBI
 * Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft
 * General Eric Shinseki
 * Gregory Thielmann, career diplomat
 * Helen Thomas, Veteran White House Press Corps journalist
 * Christine Todd Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency
 * Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Colin Powell
 * Joseph Wilson
 * Ann Wright, State Dept. Diplomat
 * Robert Wright, Jr., FBI
 * Anthony Zinni, Middle East Envoy
 * Cracks in the Empire, a Compilation of Insiders Who Have Taken Aim at Bush's Iraq Policy

Background Articles

 * National Security State
 * State of national emergency
 * Bush Dynasty