Though we know the story of Tartuffe, written by Moliere, to be one concerning a holy, presumably pious, man, we also know it to be a story that depicts a man of great hypocrisy. He is a man who tells people what they wish to hear, for the most part, and then does just as he sees fit to enable him to gain what it is he desires. We see this throughout the entire play. Now, throughout time there have always been men in power who are incredibly hypocritical all in the name of obtaining what they desire. It matters not what the desire is, they simply do what is necessary to obtain their wants. In the following paper we illustrate how ex-President Bush is not at all unlike Tartuffe in that he often told the public one thing, and yet secretly endeavored to do something else. He was, in many ways, a man of inconsistencies who fooled much of the country into thinking he was someone he was not, just like Tartuffe.

We see Tartuffe first, through the eyes of those around him. For several acts we do not hear him or see him at all. But, what we see and hear gives us information which illustrates him to be a powerful and pious man. He is seen as desirable and seen as someone

Now, we ask, what does this have to do with Bush? Bush was not a man to go after women, as far as we know. He was not necessarily a man of great faith and enduring morals. But, he was a man who often presented himself as fighting for righteous causes, but secretly was very involved in the things he openly fought against, just like Tartuffe. It maybe that the best place to illustrate this with Bush is in his involvement with the supposed war on drugs. We know that beginning in the Reagan Administration the war on drugs was a very big deal. And we understand that Bush was equally a part of this supposed war. But, according to many, Bush was partly to blame for the war on drugs not being effective The following has been stated: "To interdict the drug flows and to prosecute the drug money launderers at the top of the banking community would have represented a real public service. But Bush had no intention of seriously pursuing such goals....the war on drugs was a cruel hoax, a cynical exercise in demagogic self-promotion, designed in large part to camouflage activities by himself and his networks that promoted drug trafficking". Bush claimed many things that he really never stood for, and drugs were by far the most obvious of these involvements. His war on drugs was a rhetorical and publics relations success for quite some time, much like Tartuffe's success at presenting himself as pious. At one point, Bush promised to "use sophisticated military aircraft to track the airplanes used by smugglers". Several days later, Bush ordered the US Navy to send in its E2C surveillance aircraft for this purpose. And despite the fact that much went wrong with this endeavor, Bush still claimed that his efforts had essentially eliminated the marijuana trade in south Florida. Of course, such a claim was incredibly absurd and when Francis Mullen Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)criticized Bush for making this wildly inaccurate statement, he was soon ousted from his post at the DEA. What is more astounding, however, is how far Bush went in presenting himself as a man against drugs, yet maintained a relationship with powerful drug de

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