Savage Mules The Democrats and Endless War

Name: Savage Mules The Democrats and Endless War
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ISBN: 9781844672653

ISBN-10: 1844672654

ISBN-13: 9781844672653

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dennis Perrin

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Renowned satirist with a mordant dissection of the Democrats' record on war. Americans see the Democratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flip-floppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restrained, measured wagers of war as "last resort." In November 2006, voters put the Democrats into Congress to bring an end to the Iraq war. Yet the Democrats supported the "surge," giving Bush more money than he himself requested, and voted through the next $459.6 billion defense budget. In this hard-hitting examination of their role in the War on Terror, political analyst and satirist Dennis Perrin shatters the myth of the reluctant-warrior Democrats. He explores Democrat…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 118
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Dennis Perrin is the author of Mr Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue , The Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous and American Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It . His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune , The Realist, Huffington Post, Mother Jones ,at MSNBC, and in numerous independent weeklies and newspapers. He was ajokewriter for Bill Maher, and has blogged under the name Red State Son.