- "Burning Bush," The Nation, March 8, 1980, p. 261.
- Washington Post, July 1, 1987.
- Washington Post, June 26, 1987.
- Eleanor Randolph, "Bus1988. h Rumor Created Dilemma for Media," Washington Post, October 22,
- See Webster G. Tarpley, "Is Dukakis the New Senator Eagleton?", in Dukakis's Mental Health:
An Objective Assessment," Executive Intelligence Review Reprint, August 15, 1988, p. 8. - See Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor, (New York, 1990), p. 215; Facts on File,,
November 11, 1988; and Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, and David W. Rohde, Change and
Continuity in the 1988 Elections (Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1991).
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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -XXIII- The End of History Der Staat ist als die Wirklichkeit des substantiellen Willens, die er in dem zu seiner Allgemeinheit
erhobenen besonderen Selbstbewusstseyn hat, das an und fuer sich Vernuenftige. Diese
substantielle Einheit ist absoluter unbewegter Selbstzweck, in welchem die Freiheit zu ihrem
hoechsten Recht kommt, so wie dieser Endzweck das hoechste Recht gegen die Einzelnen hat,
deren hoechste Pflicht es ist, Mitglieder des Staats zu seyn.
G.W.F. Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.
George Bush's inaugural address of January 21, 1989, was on the whole an eminently colorless and
forgettable oration. The speech was for the most part a rehash of the tired demagogy of Buselection campaign, with the ritual references to "a thousand points of light" and the hollow pledgeh's (^)
that when it came to the drug inundation which Bush had supposedly been fighting for most of the
decade, "This scourge will stop." Bush talked of "stewardship" being passed on from one generation
to another. There was almost nothing about the state of the US economy. Bush was preoccupied
with the "divisiveness" left over from the Vietnam era, and this he pledged to end in favor of areturn to bipartisan consensus between the president and the Congress, since "the statute of
limitations has been reached. This is a fact: The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can
long afford to be sundered by a memory." There is good reason to believe that Bush was already
contemplating the new round of foreign military adventures which were not long in coming.
One thing is certain: Bush's inaugural address contained no promise to keep the peace of the sort
that had figured in his New Orleans acceptance speech back in August.
The characteristic note of Bush's remarks came at the outset, in the passages in which he celebrated
the triumph of the American variant of the bureaucratic-authoritarian police state, based on usury,which chooses to characterize itself as "freedom:"
We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to
secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth- through free markets, free speech, free
elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.