{"id":3890,"date":"2007-09-21T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/bush-betrayal-on-the-road-to-damascus\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:52:35","slug":"bush-betrayal-on-the-road-to-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/bush-betrayal-on-the-road-to-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bush Betrayal&#8221; on the Road to Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian government-owned newspaper reviewed the Arabic version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/140396727X\/ref=cm_arms_pdp_dp\/002-5017116-7536046\">Bush Betrayal<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the summary of the September 17 review, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. Middle East wire:<\/p>\n<p>Al-Thawrah carries a 400-word article by Khalaf al-Jarrad entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe World President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Betrayal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which the writer reviews \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bush Betrayal Book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by James Bovard, saying that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153since being published four years ago, the book has aroused and continues to arouse a wide-scale, strong controversy among the US political and intellectual quarters, not because of its bold, shocking, and unusual title, but because the writer succeeded in gathering hundreds of pieces of evidence to prove the soundness of his theory, which is based on accusing the president of the superpower of treason.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [Damascus Al-Thawrah (Internet Version-WWW) Arabic. URL: http:\/\/thawra.alwehda.gov.sy ]<\/p>\n<p>Not to be petty here, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recall the Voice of America ever doing a review of <em>Bush Betrayal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how the phrase from the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final chapter -\u00e2\u20ac\u009dTorturer-in-Chief\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; translated into Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody out there can read Arabic and can find &amp; decipher the full review, I would be much obliged. Also, if people have seen other Arabic reviews, I would appreciate hearing about them. Email me at <a href=\"mailto:jim@jimbovard.com\">jim@jimbovard.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian government-owned newspaper reviewed the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal this week. Here is the summary of the September 17 review, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. Middle East wire: Al-Thawrah carries a 400-word article by Khalaf al-Jarrad entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe World President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Betrayal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which the writer reviews \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Bush Betrayal Book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}