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Summary: THIS MAN HAS PROVEN TO BE A LIAR.
Review: Don't buy this book if you want the truth about the war on terror, i haven't read the book, but i have heard much about the lies he has told to the 9/11 commission today (3/24/04). Today Jim Angle on the Foxs News Channel played a tape recorded by Richard Clarke in February 2002 saying that Bush did do the right thing right after he was elected. He said on the tape that the Clinton Administration did not have a plan and that Bush understood that the plan had to be changed to fight terrorism and had a 7 point plan to fight terrorism. He said totally different things in this book. He lied to the 9/11 commission and was told by them that his "credibility was compromised" because of the tape released by Jim Angle on Fox News today singing Bush's praises when he thought he was getting a promotion from the Bush Administration. He resigned after he was not promoted and is telling these lies as part of his six figure book deal. He is nothing but a bitter old man with delusions of granduer and is a pathetic liar. Also when the book was being promoted on CBS's "60 Minutes" by Leslie Stahl, they neglected to disclose that "Viacom", CBS's parent company is also the owner of this book's publisher. CBS has a liberal agenda to promote this book and make money. That is all. Also, Dick Clarke admitted that he works with a Kerry advisor now but says he did not write the book to promote Kerry's campaign. He also said under oath to the 9/11 commission that he would not accept a position in the Kerry Administration if Kerry is elected. Talk about a conflict of interest, this man is a proven liar.
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Summary: lying in 2002 ,or now, you decide!
Review: Funny,that the only way to attack President Bush,is to lie!Are we to believe this account, or the interview Mr. Clarke gave to Jim Angle of Fox News in 2002? I hope for his sake that his latest rants are the truth,because I believe that they were given under oath!Mr. Clarke is the "poster boy" for "disgruntled employee." He should be ashamed of himself!
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Summary: Clarke's private 9/11 testimony criticized Clinton
Review: 9/11 Commission member, former Navy Secretary John Lehman blasted ex-terrorism czar Richard Clarke Wednesday (03/24/04) afternoon for cashing in on this week's public hearings into America's worst disaster by using the forum to peddle his book.
Of Clarke's private testimony before the Commission, Lehman said, "I thought you let the chips fall where they may . . . Certainly the greater weight of [your criticism of the U.S. war on terrorism] fell during the Clinton years."
"But now we have the book," Lehman noted. "I've published books before and I must must say that I am green with envy at the promotion department of your publisher."
Lehman: "I never got [Commission member] Jim Thompson to stand before 50 photographers reading your book. And I certainly never got '60 Minutes' to coordinate the showing of its interview with you with 15 network news broadcasts, the selling of the movie rights and your appearance here today."
Lehman said that when he started to read press accounts of Clarke's book, "I said to myself, this can't be the same Dick Clarke that testified before us, because all of the promotional material and all of the spin in the networks was that this is a roundly, devastating attack - this book - on President Bush.
"That's not what I heard in the [private Commission] interviews.
"And I hope you're going to tell me, as you apologize to all the families for all of us who were involved in national security, that this tremendous difference - and not just in nuance but in the stories you choose to tell - is really the result of your editors and your promoters rather than your studied judgment."
[Your book] is so different from the whole thrust of your testimony to us. And similarly, when you add to it, the inconsistencies between what your promoters are putting out and what you yourself said as late as [last] August 5, you've got a real credibility problem."
"Because of my real, genuine, longtime admiration for you, I hope you'll resolve that credibility problem because I'd hate to see you become totally shoved to one side during the presidential campaign as an active partisan selling a book."
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Summary: Excellent book about what really happens in the Bush govt.
Review: This should be mandatory reading for all scholars and interested parties about what's wrong with the powers vested in the President. I shocked and appalled at the way the current govt. manages the Bush agenda without any regard for the facts.
It reads very well and full of facts supporting each claim. I think it's fair and balanced. Very illuminating.
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Summary: finding out why Bush is a disgrace for all Americans
Review: This was a fabulous book on finding the truth about how far your government will go to do a cover up. I have to admit I'm not high on the Bush administration, but I read this book with open eyes. The insight and truth this book unveils on how the Bush administration not only lied about what they knew of Osama Bin Laden, but how the USA could have stopped the attacks on 9/11 and simply did not want to.(...)
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Summary: What an awful book
Review: Heres the deal. Richard Clarke is an unemployed loser who is trying to rake in money and he realizes the only way he can do it is by muck raking. Hes mad at the people who fired him, down sized his "importance" and distrusted him. It is like George of Seinfeld slipping a "mickey" into his bosses drink, the boss that fired him. Clarke needs to jsut sit down and shut up because he is no longer a player in the game.
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Summary: Documentation at Last
Review: Well backed up, well written, hard hitting account of the spin the Bush administration has put on one of America's biggest tragedies for thier own gain. Clarke is an insider Republican who knows what he's talking about, and he doesnt shrink from the facts. Clarke holds the truth more valuable than his party affiliation and puts his career on the line in order to tell it. History will bear witness to the veracity of this information, long silenced by a government steeped in secrecy.
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Summary: Another con man revealed
Review: The credit for any success that this book has goes to the gullible public who choose to ignore or are too lazy to objectively discern the truth. We are not yet trained to overcome our emotional feelings with unbiased questions that reveal the true story. This book proves that anyone can write a book about anything if the publishers think it will sell. Truth or not, they will market it to those who will believe anything that supports their agenda. (...)
For those of you who think that this book is based on fact, Osama Bin Laden has a cave for you to share with him.
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Summary: This book is PROVEN rubbish
Review: Clarke is on tape contridicting the main point that he sets out in his book. Namely that Bush did nothing on terrorism until after 911. BUT, he is on tape saying just the opposite in 2002. Namely that Bush increased the counter-terrorism budget 5 fold and had plans drawn up to eliminate Al Qaeda in his FIRST MONTH after taking office. I guess the DNC promised Clarke to buy this book if he said what they wanted.
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Summary: Accomplishments
Review: Under the Bush administration, the Taliban is all but eliminated, the Afghanistan al Qaeda terrorism training camps have been destroyed, al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Ladan is hiding in some hole just like Saddam Hussein was. Add to that, Libya has voluntarily handed over tons of WMDs and Iran is now under the microscope for their very-real nuclear weapons program. Under the Clinton Administration nothing was accomplished - which was under your watch as the terrorism czar.
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