I don’t get to read every book whose author I interview. I read every word of this one. It should be required reading for anyone who is thinking about voting Republican in November.

In “The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism” Ron Suskind provides insight into the real world that George W. Bush has created, as well as the real world Bush does not understand, the Muslim world.

Ron demonstrates through the lives of real people, one of them a baker from Iraq, how the Republicans, in concert with Bush, have sacrificed our moral leadership in the world in return for a war we can’t win, torture we can’t reveal and lies we can’t admit. The baker is sick and dying in Guatanamo, having been there years without any semblance of justice. If you can’t appreciate the hypocrisy of Bush’s hollow and deceitful concept of justice at Guantanamo, then I just don’t know whether there is any hope for you.

In addition to the injustice done to a baker, the book reveals how Bush intentionally (through his dirty, little helper, Cheney) torpedoes a British anti-terrorist sting operation in order to get a headline about terrorist activity just before the 2006 elections. Why? To scare the American people with a revelation about terrorism and influence their vote.

Read about how Bush, months before invading Iraq, ignores two reliable Iraqi sources of intelligence developed by the British that said without qualification that Saddam had no WMD’s. He just didn’t want to admit it for fear of what Iran might do. These sources were ignored by Bush, not because of credibilty problems, but solely because Bush and his cronies did not want to hear anything, even the truth, that might interfere with their intention to invade Iraq, no matter what.

Read about how the Bush Administration, months after the invasion, fabricated a letter in order to justify what they had done. The President of the United States having to stoop to the level of a petty criminal is just infuriating. Talk about serious mental problems, these guys have it.

Most importantly, read how the rest of the world, not just Arabs and Muslims, view an America that is morally corrupt, hypocritical and which has abandoned its founding principles of equality and freedom.

I can’t begin to summarize the revelations in this book. It is an easy read. If it doesn’t change your view of the Bush Administration, then all I can say is that I hope you live long enough to see the truth.