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A Syrian government-owned newspaper reviewed the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal<\/a><\/strong> this week.<\/p>\n

Here is the summary of the review, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. Middle East wire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [[[[ UPDATE: Full text of the review is posted here<\/a><\/strong>.]]]]<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Al-Thawrah<\/em><\/strong> carries a 400-word article by Khalaf al-Jarrad entitled “‘The World President’ Betrayal,” in which the writer reviews “The Bush Betrayal Book” by\u00a0 James Bovard,\u00a0 saying that “since being published four years ago, the\u00a0 book has aroused and continues to arouse a wide-scale, strong controversy among\u00a0 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.”\u00a0 [Damascus Al-Thawrah (Internet Version-WWW) Arabic. URL: http:\/\/thawra.alwehda.gov.sy<\/a>\u00a0 ]<\/p>\n

Not to be petty here, but I don’t recall the Voice of America ever doing a review of Bush Betrayal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I wonder how the phrase from the book’s final chapter -“Torturer-in-Chief” – translated into Arabic.<\/p>\n

If anybody out there can read Arabic and can find & decipher the full review, I would be much obliged.\u00a0Also, if people have seen other Arabic reviews, I would appreciate hearing about them. \u00a0\u00a0 Email at\u00a0\u00a0 jim@jimbovard.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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