{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  There is an unbearable irony in George W. Bush\u0026rsquo;s cry that one is \u0026lsquo;either with America or with the terrorists\u0026rsquo;: the Bushes and the Cheneys have built their power on the back of oil profits made by  companies who have long-standing relationships with such people. Robert Bryce gives chapter and verse on the corporate and foreign relationships that stand behind the Bush presidency in \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003ECronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America\u0026rsquo;s Superstate\u003C\/em\u003E (Public Affairs, 327 pp., \u0026pound;16.99, August, 1 58648 188 6).\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}