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Summary: Clark Terrorizes Fox and Rush, Sean, and the dittoheads
Review: The book is just incredabily revealing to read. As a now former Republican, I now realize the brain-washing and spinning that FOX news and the rest of the Republican mouthpieces had done on me and millions of others who actually believed what they were hearing as truth. This book and Clark's testimony, as well as the reaction of the familiy's of the 911 victems to his testamony, has solidified that the Bush administration is totally untruthful, cowardly, and only out for the welfare of themselves and millionairs. The book, causes you to seath with anger toword Bush, Condi and the rest of the neocons who are taking our country, and recklessly making it the most hated country, as reguarded by the rest of the world.
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Summary: Puleeze...
Review: Richard Clarke is a sniveling fool pointing fingers because he isn't man enough to stand up to the criticism of his own inactions. In his testimony to the commission investigating the September 11 attacks, it's clear that Clarke was no more convincing to the Clinton and Bush administrations as he is now during his "I-told-you-so" interviews with the likes of Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes." As for Stahl, radio host Don Imus put it succinctly when he called her a "gutless, lying weasel" and "one of the more dishonest members of the media" for essentially giving Clarke a free book promotion in front of 16 million viewers. As for Clarke, this book comes at an opportune time for someone looking for a job in the would-be Kerry Administration.
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Summary: An Important Piece of the Puzzle
Review: I feel like I have been on an overdose of these books just having read House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger (excellent book), Disarming Iraq, by Hans Blix, Noam Chomsky's Hegemony of Survival, Thirty Days (about Tony Blair) by Peter Stothard, and Price of Loyalty, Paul O'Neill (excellent book), Why America Slept by Gerald Posner, and the Rise of the Vulcans by Mann and Mann. Also I thought Bush at War by Bob Woodward was also excellent but now getting a few years old.There is certainly a wide variety of views and all of these books are excellent. I have read and for the most part digested the views and ideas and I would strongly recommend any or all of these books to get a diverse view. One cannot begin to give these books justice in book reviews. I like the present book but one of the weaknesses in the present book to be fair to the current Bush administration for all their weaknesses is that when the terrorists struck on 9-11 Bush had been in office only for eight months. So one cannot put too much blame on Bush since the previous administration for which Rich Clarke worked had eight years. When Bin Laden planned the attacks on three important US targets all at the same time he knew that most people would never expect such an audacious attack and he counted on that element of surprise, so it is difficult to now second guess what was done before. Not only that the support for the Afghan fighters can be traced right back to Jimmy Carter in the late seventies and continued through to the end of the Afghan war against the USSR. We might say that 1970's support of the Afghan mujahideen (Oxford spelling) planted the seed for 9-11. So there can be a lot of speculation in hindsight. Excellent book and highly recommend. Five stars. Jack in Toronto
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Summary: Worse Than Dingleberries
Review: What could be worse than another Clinton holdover trying to earn some boodle writing a hysterical book after getting booted for being a nincompoop? Dingleberries! There are few things worse when out hunting for Bambis deep in the wilderness than dingleberries! But in this case, this book is worse. You can't even scratch away the dingleberries with pages from this book because it will surely agitate your who-ha even more. Avoid this book. It is foul.
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Summary: fantastic; a must-read
Review: From the first word, we are plunged into the chaos of September 11. Huddled in an evacuated White House, apparently targeted by a hijacked plane less than 10 minutes away, Clarke leads the crisis team trying to sort through what is happening and formulate a response. The first chapter is riveting, and it solidifies Clarke's legitimacy as someone who served his country with honor and courage on that dark day. In subsequent chapeters, Clarke leads us through the previous three administrations and their experience with terrorism. Clarke calls it like he sees it, in an appealing, no-nonsense style. His policy recommendations are insightful and well-argued. This book is a must-read.
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Summary: It's an excellent book.
Review: The first chapter is riveting. It is the only 9/11 inside the White House account that I have read. The rest of the book gives me a view inside our defense structure I never imagined. The book confirmed for me that the Iraq war was an unnecessary distraction and that the Bush administration ignored terrorism.
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Summary: RICHARD CLARKE IS A TRUE PATRIOT
Review: LOYALTY TO YOUR NATION COMES BEFORE LOYALTY TO YOUR PARTY. CLARKE DESERVES PRAISE.
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Summary: This is an important book to all Americans.
Review: The neocons are on the run, the Bush Administration is hysterical, all because of one man armed with the simple truth. "One shudders to think what additional errors (Bush) will make in the next four years..."--Richard Clarke Counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke managed to escape the Bush Whitehouse with his integrity still intact, and has written a book about the failure of that administration to deal with terrorism and their obsession with going to war against Iraq. Clarke gave an interview to Leslie Stahl, which aired on 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004-a date that may forever be remembered as "Black Sunday" on the NeoCon calendar. These statements are from Mr. Clarke's interview, unless noted otherwise: • "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11." • " [At a meeting in April, 2001] I began saying, 'We have to deal with bin Laden; we have to deal with al Qaeda.' Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, said, 'No, no, no. We don't have to deal with al Qaeda. Why are we talking about that little guy? We have to talk about Iraqi terrorism against the United States.'"- • "The alerts of the early and mid-summer[2001] -- described by two career counterterrorist officials as the most urgent in decades -- had faded to secondary concern by the time of Bush's extended Crawford vacation. As late as Sept. 9, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld threatened a presidential veto when the Senate proposed to divert $600 million to counterterrorism from ballistic missile defense."-- Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 5/17/02 Even if you give the Bush Administration the benefit of the doubt and concede that any arrogant, incompetent administration could have failed to take the terrorist threat seriously enough to stop the attacks; it still doesn't explain what they did AFTER 9/11. • "They were talking about Iraq on 9/11. They were talking about it on 9/12." • "I think they had a plan from day one they wanted to do something about Iraq. While the World Trade Center was still smoldering, while they were still digging bodies out, people in the White House were thinking: 'Ah! This gives us the opportunity we have been looking for to go after Iraq.'" • "Now [Bush] never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this." • "Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq....We all said, 'but no, no. Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan, and Rumsfeld said, 'There aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.' ...I thought he was joking." • "In the early days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism funds by the FBI ...The papers show that Ashcroft ranked counterterrorism efforts as a lower priority than his predecessor did, and that he resisted FBI requests for more counterterrorism funding before and immediately after the attacks."-- Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 3/22/04 • "The facts are that within six months of the first bombs falling on Afghanistan, this administration was diverting military and intelligence resources to its planned war in Iraq, which allowed Al Qaeda to regenerate." --US Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), 3/21/04 • "Nothing America could have done would have provided al-Qaida and its new generation of cloned groups a better recruitment device than our unprovoked invasion of an oil-rich Arab country.... One shudders to think what additional errors (Bush) will make in the next four years to strengthen the al-Qaida follow-ons: attacking Syria or Iran, undermining the Saudi regime without a plan for a successor state?"-- from Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies" By the time you read this, Clarke's book will be out, and he will have testified before the 9/11 Commission. The Bush machine will be in full spin-cycle, trying to make it appear that Richard Clarke is personally responsible for all the terrorist attacks during the past 15 years, and that he performs abortions in his spare bedroom. Bush's defense is, "If only the terrorists would have let me know the date, time, and place of the attacks; I would have done everything in my power to stop them." So remember as you watch the parade of Whitehouse minions attack Clarke's character, and you hear Limbaugh and Hannity and O'Reilly tell lie after lie about him. Remember-it was Richard Clarke, who stayed behind in the evacuated Whitehouse to run the government's crisis response operations while Bush, Cheney, and Rice sat out the attack in their respective spider holes. This is an important book to all Americans.
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Summary: G.W.Bush Exposed
Review: Former Bush White House Terrorism aide Richard (Dick) Clarke has written a book that makes the Emperor Bush look like a character in the old fairie tale whose new suit actually leaves him naked. I'm sorry to say that events have forced me to rethink my position on G.W. First the questionable war in Iraq,(I'm still hopeful that some good can come out of that) then, former Treasury Secretary dropped one shoe with his new book and now with the revelations of the Terrorist Czar, Richard Clarke, in his new book Against All Enemies the other shoe just hit the floor. With the release of this very revealing book, Bush and the White House Staff have been left naked. Clarke has stripped away their cover and exposed them all for us to see. Oh yes, they're screaming bloody murder and designated hit man, Vice President Cheney is trying to put a spin on it, but the damage is done. There could be nothing more damning for President Bush than the White House Counter-terrorism co-ordinator, in the aftermath of the most destructive terrorist event in the history of the world, saying in his new book that among other things, Bush and his National Security Advisor did not seem to have a handle on or as least underestimated how dangerous an adversary Al Queda and Bin Laden was and in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, Bush and his staff perseverated upon Iraq as co-conspirator, even to the point of trying to get subordinates to find (or invent) evidence of Saddam's complicity. It seems the smarmy Rumsfield was fascinated by the concept of attacking the target rich Iraqis. Ultimately Bush did the right thing and went to Afghanistan but he obviously never forgot Iraq. Clarke also thinks the invasion of Iraq was a mistake as well, taking valuable resources from Afghanistan, squandering the post 9-11 good will of the world and creating a whole new generation of terrorists by generally infuriating numerous Muslims around the world. Now Clarke's focus was not entirely on Bush. He also was not totally happy with the policies or responses to terrorist related events in his previous eight years with the Clinton administration, though just as previous events paled in comparison to the shock of 9-11, the damage to the sitting president is certainly greater, especially in the heat of his re-election campaign. I find what Mr Clarke has to say both convincing and compelling. What he says about his former employers apparent ineptitude, though not criminally negligent, makes the Bush team look very bad. In all honesty it seems to me that Clarke had an axe to grind. He was retained by the incoming administration, though his position was downgraded a staff instead of a Cabinet level position. There also seems to be an underlying acrimony between Dr. Rice (his boss) and himself and finally I believe Clarke was unhappy at not being considered for the new Homeland Security Czar. Conclusion All this does not diminish from Clarke's insightful revelations in Against All Enemies, especially when backed up by former Secretary O'Neil and it seems to answer some of the nagging unresolved questions I had about this administration. It is certainly true that there are enormous synergies between Against All Enemies and The Price of Loyalty. They describe the same bemused, indecisive, out of their league, White House.
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Summary: The Truth Hurts
Review: An excellent read. Finally a White House person comes out with the truth. This is written well, encompassing more than just George W. Bush. If the war on terrorism cannot be made honestly and truthfully, what can? How can we ever trust Bush again? I am one Republican that had a rude awakening after reading this book, Thank you Mr. Clarke for being bold enought to write the truth.
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