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Summary: Crying Republicans
Review: This book clearly points out how manipulating and truth bending the Bush administration is. While this book deals only on the issues of Iraq and 9/11, it just goes to show that if they can deceive on one issue, they can deceive on all issues. Clarke's book and experience is valuable in today's argument over the justification of the mess in Iraq. Read this book and allow your eyes' to be opened to the Bush Administration behind closed doors.
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Summary: It all depends on your point of view
Review: It's hard to believe that Bush could be due so much more blame for 911 in the 7 1/2 months that he was putting together an administration, than Clinton received for his eight years in office. It's also hard to fault Bush for paying attention to Iraq when he first got into office...they were shooting at our airplanes, they gassed and invaded assorted neighbors, and they tried to assassinate a sitting president, didn't they? Clarkes's prior e-mails and statements contradict this book often. If you hate Bush, you'll love this book. However, if you want to learn something about 9/11, go elsewhere.
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Summary: No shame?
Review: Mr. Clarke seems to have had a memory failure or he is simply delusional. It truly is a shame that Mr. Clarke would sell his soul for a buck.
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Summary: A first hand account that should be read to understand 9/11
Review: This book provides unique insight into the history of the United State's involvement in the Persian Gulf and its efforts to respond to terrorism over the past twenty years. It is a first hand account/perspective of every major foreign policy event that relates to these two topics over this time. Other reviewers argue that you shouldn't read this book or listen to its author. This can be partially explained by two facts, of which only the first is mentioned. Clarke describes how on July 5, 2001 he asked his staff to cancel their vacations and clear their schedules because of the increasing threat of a coming terrorism attack. What Clarke doesn't talk about in his book is the second fact which is that President Bush left on the longest planned vacation in Presidential history the month before 9/11. Clarke's book shows the frustation of someone who was trying to defend this country 24/7. Read the book. It is well written. You actually feel that you were in the room. Clarke writes what he experienced, so to some extent, it is left to the reader to guess which other domsestic/defense issues the Bush Administration was focusing on (missle defense and tax cuts), but you can see its results through Clarke's eyes of an administration who apparently was focused on others issues and unintentionally lost sight of a growing threat.
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Summary: Some Clear Truths Emerge
Review: The important point of this book is not whether Clinton or Bush was more to blame for failing to prevent 9/11. It seems clear that neither administration would have been able to muster the political will from Congress, the American public, or foreign allies, that would have allowed an invasion of Afghanistan or other military measures sufficient to so disrupt Al Qaeda that the attack might have been prevented. What is so important, and so very clear from the book, is that: 1. The Bush Administration was actually less concerned, and devoted substantially less resources and attention, to combating Al Qaeda, than the Clinton Administration. While Clinton's efforts to fight Al Qaeda were not sufficient to prevent 9/11, Bush substantially diminished the government's efforts. 2. The Bush Administration made a catastrophic mistake in launching an unnecessary and counterproductive war against Iraq while failing to complete the job in Afghanistan or otherwise focus sufficiently on Al Qaeda after 9/11. Prior to 9/11, neither administrations did what would have been necessary to prevent the attacks, and neither would have had the political support to do so. After 9/11 however, the Bush administration did have the political support, both domestically and internationally, to do whatever was reasonably necessary, but squandered that support on the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place, for reasons that were preconceived prior to 9/11. These truths are so clear that they are beyond reasonable refutation, which is doubtless why the Bush administration has undertaken personal attacks on Mr. Clarke rather than any refutation of his book on its merits. With the domestic economic policies of the administration so obviously a failure, there is no rationale for the Bush administration except its supposed wisdom and skill in fighting terrorism. This book demolishes that rationale.
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Summary: I don't get it. . .
Review: How can someone with a deplorable record as counter-terrorism expert over the course of 10 years come across as a hero and profit from an atrocity that took the lives of 3,000 fellow citizens? Where's the curiosity about the apparent discrepancy between his book and public testimony vs. the 15 hours he met privately with the 911 commission? How can anyone believe his assertion that the Clinton administration had 'no higher priority' than terrorism when everyone--friend and foe--knows Clinton's impeachment defense took center stage? Maybe I missed something, but how many times did Al Gore mention terrorism as his #1 issue during the course of the 2000 campaign?
Regardless, somehow, some way, Condi Rice bruised this guy's ego, and he's paying it back big time. It's unfortunate he's doing it over the bodies of the 3,000 citizens it was his job to protect.
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Summary: Against Bush
Review: I do feel that this Clarke may be telling the truth and Bush may be lying. I am a great supporter of Republican party because of their certain policies but I feel that this president is not good enough on anything - security or economy. He just wants to win through deception or otherwise. We should have cornered Osama immediately after the afghan war inside pakistan instead of doing it now. It's too little too late. And this president is too dumb to understand or didn't want to understand that by going after saddam, we have increased the terrorists to atleast double the original numbers. And On economy front, his performance is even more pathetic. Even though I get benifitted by tax cuts but getting me $3000 - 4000 won't make much a difference if to go to Europe or to pay for gas, I have to pay twice of what I use to pay earlier. He thought, he did the right thing with Tax cuts and now is too stubborn to admit, he was wrong.
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Summary: Clarke Will Be Crucified
Review: It's pretty clear that Richard Clark's expose of the nature of the Bush regime is too close to the truth for the Right Wing to tolerate. He has gone before the country under oath to confirm the contents of this book. By contrast, our "public servants", such as Condi Rice, try to refute his sworn testimony without taking the oath themselves. This book is a "profile in courage", and we can expect that the right wing will now stop at nothing to hold onto the Presidency they stole in 2000, and their horrible little disaster in Iraq, which Bush now thinks is a big joke. They will crucify Clarke.
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Summary: Thankful for this book
Review: I am thankful for this book and Richard Clarke to have had the courage to write it. For those who have a problem with the timing or the tone (compared to when he was employed by the President), I challenge them to find factual errors in the book. We should be addressing the facts, and I found the book credible, as well as an educational and fascinating read. Of all the political books out there now, this is a "must read."
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Summary: Clarke- an American Patriot
Review: Richard Clarke has done us all a great service with this well written book that thoroughly documents the Bush adminstration's failures in the "War on Terror". This book goes along nicely with "The Price of Loyalty" where Paul O'Neill also documents Bush's obsession with invading Iraq, regardless of the facts about WMDs or the complete lack of connection between 9-11 and Iraq. Bush is a LIAR. Condi Rice is a LIAR and she is proving it by refusing to go in front of the 9-11 commission under oath. Richard Clarke has helped open the eyes of many Americans to the blatant lying that permeates every part of the Bush 43 presidency. Bush will start the draft shortly after the 2004 election if he is successful in stealing this one also. Watch for the "October Surprise" of the capture of Osama bin Laden, or at least someone who looks like him. These lying Bushies will stop at nothing, fortunately we have courageous people like Richard Clarke willing to stand up to them
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