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Summary: Read it for yourself
Review: I would caution readers to ignore, among the reviews, the harangues against Mr. Clarke that are obviously based not on a reading of his book but on allegiance to partisan politics. Ignore those who claim that Mr. Clarke's public and secret testimony is inconsistent -- when, chances are, they are not privy to the secret notes of the Joint Intelligence Committee and, therefore, have no reliable basis on which to make that judgment.It's also important to note that Mr. Clarke's criticism of Mr. Bush isn't so much in the policies of the president as in his priorities. Could anything policy-wise have been done to stop the tragedy? Probably not. But, attacks similar in scale to 9/11 were stopped by the Clinton administration -- because that president understood the stakes. 9/11 was not stopped by the Bush administration -- because this president had other priorities. Clarke's second major criticism is that the war against Iraq was unnecessary -- and damaging to American national security. It has been an excellent recruitment tool for terrorists. And, the removal of pressure from al Qaeda has allowed the group to transform itself into a more effective organization that no longer needs Osama bin Laden or Ayman Al-Zawahiri to lead the charge. Mr. Clarke has been both courageous and absolutely credible in his writings and in his testimony. He knew from the examples of Paul O'Neill and John DiIulio that those who speak in unflattering tones against the Bush machine have the whole power of government (and the right wing media) thrown against them in an effort to destroy their reputations and their lives. It is highly unlikely that Mr. Clarke would have written this book were it not out of a deep need to serve the public interest by having the truth finally come out. It is highly unlikely that he would publish anything he belives to be untrue when the stakes are so high and the consequences for doing so are so grave.
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Summary: Judging a Book by Its Cover
Review: I wasn't going to bother with this book, since I'm pretty busy with my business. But when the White House started squealing like a stuck pig loud enough to be heard around the world, I figured Clark must have hit a nerve. Anyway, everyone knows the White House focused on Iraq over Al Queda. I mean, we're in deep in Iraq now, not Pakistan. So no surprise there. Hopefully the book will shed more light than that.
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Summary: More Democrat Garbage
Review: You guys just don't get it. Look at how quickly books like The Price Of Loyalty and American Dynasty came and dropped off to oblivion. Anti-Bush books seem to be popular for awhile, untill the truth comes out and then they disappear. Our local Costco and Sam's clubs have gotten rid of all their unbought copies (hundreds that were inventoried over 2 months ago) of The Price of Loyalty and American Dynasty and have replaced them with Suzanne Summers newest book (good choice) This book, Against All Enemies in my opinion, is only rated h ere at Amazon due to manipulation not actual book sales. I have seen the book. It is not based on fact, only opinion by yet another frustrated Bush basher. Where was this guy 2 years ago? Why write this drivel now? Oh, I know why...It's an election year and this is Clarke's way of getting back at the party for whatever devious reasons he deems practical. Clarke is a very bitter man. Skip this book.
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Summary: read the book judge for yourself
Review: It is incredible that anyone takes this book seriously. The star of the book is the author who takes charge 0n 9/11. This is a real ripping yarn of ordering four star generals etc around as planes crash into the pentagon. How lucky for the nation that (...) Clarke was there that day or who knows what other disasters might have occurred. Of course if only they had listened to (...) Clarke 9/11 wouldn't have happened in the first place!!! It is said that the Whitehouse is working overtime to discredit (...) Clarke and his allegations. They don't need to this book is so implausible it should discredits itself and the author.
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Summary: The truth Hurts
Review: Incredible read. How much more proof do we need that Bush was asleep at the wheel when it came to preventing 9/11 than this book by the White House Policy Coordinator on Terrorism, Richard Clarke? Not only did Bush and his National Security apparatus ignore warnings about an impending al-Qaeda attack, when 9/11 occurred Bush was singularly obsessed with attacking Iraq not Osama bin Laden, as were Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Clarke joins a growing list of former Bush staffers that have documented how Bush failed to take steps to protect America against 9/11. But Clarke, as the senior anti-terrorism expert in the White House, speaks with unassailable authority and credibility about a White House that betrayed America with both laziness and Neo-con obsession. We don't need a 9/11 Commission to tell us what is now plainly visible, as recounted by Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke -- and basically corroborated by pieces of information that some journalists have stitched together from other sources. Bush failed to take the steps necessary to protect America from the 9/11 terrorist attack. No one knows that better than Richard Clarke -- and this is his story. Read it and weep. Karl Rove will come up with some new distraction to make Clarke's truthful account of Bush's inadequacies and obsession with Iraq disappear from the headlines. If the Democrats -- besides Ted Kennedy, Henry Waxman, John Conyers and a few others -- don't start telling it like it is about the incompetent handling of anti-terrorism by the Bush administration pre 9/11, he will get away with coming off as the hero, when he is the man who let a nation down -- and more than 3,000 people died as a result in a terrorist attack. Hundreds more of Americans have died in Iraq, thousands wounded, and thousands of Iraqis have died. Bush failed America. Clarke is calling him to justice by simply telling the truth.
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Summary: A breathtaking book at a pivotal point in history!
Review: After reading some of the reviews of Clarke's book on Amazon, I'm convinced that there is an orchestrated attempt to smear this candid and patriotic American. When will Amazon put an end to publishing book reviews that do nothing but spew out all the right wing talking points from chat-room fanatics? Most of the reviews being published here are written by people who obviously never read this book and who have no intention of doing so. Clarke's book is a riveting first person account by a counter-terrorism expert that worked for Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Clarke recognized early on that terrorism was the greatest threat facing our country and the world. Clarke, a lifetime Republican, dares to reveal what really happened in the months leading up to 911 as well as failure of vision and leadership that lead to the invasion of Iraq. He starts the book with a fast-paced and fascinating account of what went on in the White House on 9/11/01. He then turns his attention to a play-by-play of the failings of 4 administrations to prepare for this inevitable attack. President Reagan gave birth to the present day al Qaeda by refusing to retaliate for the murder of US Marines in Beirut and through the arms-for-hostages disaster. George H. W. Bush did not recognize a threat from terrorists and as a result failed to retaliate for Pan Am 103. President Clinton failed to retaliate against the terrorist attack on the U.S.S. Cole. These failings, while serious, were just a warm-up for the total incompetence and breathtaking ignorance of the George W. Bush Administration. Clarke's book is highly readable and holds one's attention from the preface to the end on page 291. Clarke raises important issues of systemic problems in the U.S. intelligence apparatus and the manner in which decisions are made in the Bush White House. It's not a pretty picture. If you don't read another book this year, please read this one.
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Summary: Who says that Clarke is not credible?
Review: I get a kick out of reviews like the one from "the reader from Ct" who bashes Clarke, claims that Clarke's work is "no Profiles in Courage" and that Clarke doesn't know what he is talking about. The book was given great praise on CBS 60 Minutes, a very impartial and credible show. Amazon readers have excalated Against All Enemies to the #1 spot here at Amazon and evryone knows that Amazon readers are highly sophisticated, impartial and highly credible. You Bush-ites need to wake up. Even if you worship the gound that G.W.Bush walks on, you need to get all of the information available before you pass judgement. An educated guess would be that all of the 1 star reviewers wrote erviews without even reading Against All Enemies. Let me give you a clue: Read the book, then come back and post. Okay? Oh, reader from Ct., good to see that you at least know how to use a dictionary, even if you don't know what those words mean. Nice try. Just not good enough.
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Summary: THE TRUTH HURTS!!
Review: Release the attack jackals -- the people who can't read and refuse to believe anything other than what they're told by the Bush Flight Suit's Ministry of Official Propaganda. So get in there quick and give it a one star and claim you've read it. No wonder Condi Rice is squirming and finally talking about leaving government. She, among others, screwed it up. Richard Clarke had the decency to say he had made mistakes. In fact, the book is a balanced and reasonably objective (more than that from a Washington insider you cannot ask) view from a real insider's perspective of what went wrong. And what is still going wrong, the reason we have thousands of young dedicated American soldiers coming home legless or worse and hundreds of others coming home in boxes. It is more than just Bush's obsession with Iraq -- or his shameless use of this war as the essential core of his re-election campaign along with his trying to capitalize on the World Trade Center. In fact, Clarke is critical of many people, including Clinton, himself and others. The problem is - that Bush is the one who's blown it in Mr. Clarke's opinion. And that's something the new American [hardliners] don't want to hear in their obsession. Pound down anyone who dares to speak out against this travesty. We should have nailed Bin Laden in Afghanistan before we even considered doing anything else. And then, then we should have been damn sure. Instead, we're pouring out our treasure and our tax money to do in Iraq what the Bushes refuse to do in this country.
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Summary: Against All Enemies
Review: This is the most riveting and honest account of the events of 9/11...I also was very interested in why the president Bush and his co-horts were outwardly lying about the reasons that president Bush insisted on a war of HIS CHOOSING...that has cost almost 600 American deaths in the field and another 1188 american deaths from injuries incurred plus 2 - 3 thousand injuries, including limbs lost, blindness and etc....Plus tens of thousand of Iraqi's dead....there is absoulty NO -9-11 connection to Iraq....they, the BUSHES went to war for their own personal reasons....they should be ready to Pay the Price of their abusive Actions.
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Summary: Forget Janet--Clarke Books [Exposure]
Review: Reagan-appointee Republican counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke pulls no punches with this excellent--but chilling--account of the Bush administration's failures. From deliberately ignoring the advice of counterterrorism experts to deliberately waging war on the wrong country (well, it had better targets!), he lays forth a candid account of spin, stonewalling, bumbling, arrogance, greed, pigheadedness, and just plain blindness. A must-read for all those alerted by the hysteria of the Rove Republican smear machine: there's a reason the attack dogs are howling. Writing this book Clarke outs the perps, and then really rubs their noses in it. Big-time.
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