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Summary: "A President has to be the calcium in the backbone."
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This is an excellent book.It is a detailed A to Z coverage on what and who the Terrorists are. Since war was officially declared on America, by the Terrorists on 9/11,America has no option but to engage in the fight and eventually win;regardless.
President Bush understood his responsibility to protect the safety of the people and the Nation that gave him that responsibility.It is clear from this book why he will do everything necessary to fulfill that obligation.He is aware that he alone can't do and know everything;but is determined to get all the help possible from government bodies and the military to win.He has made the case of this threat at the UN as well as other countries that it is in their interest to join and support him.Though many countries have turned their backs on America,Canada included,President Bush will pursue the course as the leader of the country attacked.He would tell you that there is no other choice.His choice is made;other countries and organizations have to make theirs.
President is well aware of the futility of appeasement resolving anything except giving the enemy time to strengthening themselves and making the problem worse.This was amply demonstrated in the years leaning up to WWII,and more recently after the first attack on The World Trade Towers and other Terrorist attacks on America.
It's worth remembering:
"The price of doing nothing exceeds the price of taking action"
God Bless America.
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Summary: hahahahahahaha!
Review: "Mylroie describes how the C.I.A. and the State Department have systematically discredited critical intelligence about Saddam's regime, including indisputable evidence of its possession of weapons of mass destruction."This is a rippin' good yarn.
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Summary: Propagandists hoist...
Review: ...on their own petard. If you lie long enough and loud enough and thoroughly enough, sooner or later you will find yourself in the position Laurie Mylroie's Bush administration sources find themselves: caught in their own web. Mylroie's protagonists (whom she portrays as "heroes" for standing up to the CIA when they said there might not be much threat from Iraq) are now desperately trying to blame the CIA for their missteps. Their problem: Mylroie has documented their earlier attempts to spin in the other direction in this book, which argues they didn't accept overwhelming evidence Iraq had WMD and ties to 9/11. Now that the evidence is really in we know Mylroie, Bush and their fellow-travellers were wrong. The CIA was right. The State Department was right. And the snivelling cowards are trying to blame those who tried to help them get it right in the first place. Fortunately we have books like this to document their veniality. Borrow this book from your local library to give you ammunition to fight the good fight. Try not to spend money on it that would go into the pockets of this pseudo-patriot who would line her coffers by selling out the true patriots who fight for their country with truth instead of lies.
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Summary: mandatory reading for serious people
Review: Chapter Seven is the crucible brief which Ms. Mylroie lays out for those of us who maintain an open mind on state sponsored terrorism by Iraq. It becomes understandable in these Byzantine times how and why a terrorist state such as Iraq would and could create a double blind strategy using willing mercenaries most likely from that terrorist cauldron of Baluchastan with "legends" created during the Kuwaiti occupation; who could wreak havoc on a lulled America preoccupied with limp wristed political leadership - and to have the finger of blame pointed at vacuous Saudi identities of the perpetrators to achieve the dual purpose of wrecking the U.S. economy and imploding the Saudi Kingdom;
brilliantly removing "the scales from the eyes" revelations.
bob hardy, vergennes, vt
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Summary: mandatory reading for serious people
Review: Chapter Seven is the crucible brief which Ms. Mylroie lays out for those of us who maintain an open mind on state sponsored terrorism by Iraq. It becomes understandable in these Byzantine times how and why a terrorist state such as Iraq would and could create a double blind strategy using willing mercenaries most likely from that terrorist cauldron of Baluchastan with "legends" created during the Kuwaiti occupation; who could wreak havoc on a lulled America preoccupied with limp wristed political leadership - and to have the finger of blame pointed at vacuous Saudi identities of the perpetrators to achieve the dual purpose of wrecking the U.S. economy and imploding the Saudi Kingdom;
brilliantly removing "the scales from the eyes" revelations.
bob hardy, vergennes, vt
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Summary: What will the neocons say six months from now?
Review: Gee, when this book was published, all you neocons were BLAMING the CIA and State Department for undermining the Bush administration's efforts to prove to the world that WMD's existed and Saddam Hussien was an imminent threat to the US. Now, a little more than six months later, the CIA is to blame for providing faulty intelligence to the Bush administration and creating the false impression that there were WMD's and that Hussein was an imminent threat. Which is it? The CIA understated or overstated the threat? You can't have it both ways. Oh, I forgot, this is the Bush administration, where hypocrites and ideologues thrive provided they pursue the narrow Bush agenda, facts be damned. What will your story be next year, and the year after, that the Democracts forced Bush to cut taxes and send the deficit through the roof?
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Summary: Bureaucratic Bungling and the Damage Done.
Review: Holy Smokes you would think that this book would be getting lots more press due to the sheer explosive content. Its almost like no one wants to address the facts this book raise. Why not? Is the conventional wisdom so sure of itself about Iraq's involvement in terrorist attacks against this country? I dont see any conservative websites covering this book, no libetarian sites covering this book, no liberal websites (well ok that would destroy their attacks on the President so I understand) but sheesh. Are we in an alternate universe? James Woolsey, Richard Perle and others write high praise of the book, its released and then drops off the scope? It doesnt deserve this anonymity, it deserves to be debated and talked about on the news and either debunked, unlikely, or a major fuss made about the type of Bureaucratic bungling outlined in the book. This book isnt written by some tinfoil beenie cap wearing nutcase but the expert that President Clinton called on during his campaign to advise him on Iraq, she has taught at Harvard and the Navy War College....she needs to be listened to and debated. Buy this book and you will see why. Its obvious from her passion on the subject that she is driven to make herself heard and to help her country avoid another 9/11. Pierre
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Summary: WOW
Review: I thought this was a really good book. It is the second book by this author that I have read since 9/11. Much of what she has discovered and shares in her books she gathered from the public record, especially the trial of the first World Trade Center bombing. This book is timely, especially with the problems in our intelligence agencies. The author tried to share information with the spies, but they aren't interested unless they discover it themselves. And many times they don't even know what is available already in the public record. The book also reveals how the lifetime employees of the CIA and State Department often promote their own self interests over those of the U.S. Scary. Most revealing is the relationship between Iraq and Saddam and 9/11. I fully believe that Saddam was involved. Book also reveals that many of the worst bad guys may be from a very small part area of the world. Revealing book, which I highly recommend.
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Summary: Six Stars
Review: I'd give this book six stars if I could. Fantastic summary of the evidence that Saddam's Iraq underwrote the 9/11 attacks and was ready to attack again. Despite the somewhat lurid subtitle, it also deals responsibly with the disturbing conclusion that the U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence establishment (CIA, FBI, State Department) utterly failed in their task of protecting America from its enemies. Buy this book if you have an open mind and want to better understand why the liberation of Iraq was absolutely necessary for America's national security. If it weren't for Laurie Mylroie, there wouldn't be anyone else doing the hard investigative work and pulling all the strands together for the non-specialist reader.
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Summary: Excellent Study
Review: It is a credit to Laurie Mylroie that, using relatively open sources, she has written a study of Islamist terrorism and its state sponsors that--if not treading new ground--provides a thorough and well reasoned post-bellum case for the righteousness of the Iraq War. Critical to this is her understanding of the key nature of state sponsorship to "spectacular" acts of terror. Even those who agreed with the war but, in the words of NY Times scribe Tom Friedman, thought it a "war of choice" as opposed to a "war of necessity" should read this book. Mylroie makes an excellent case that wars do not come more necessary than the one fought and won in March-April 2003. Equally important, Mylroie shines a light on the masochistically bureaucratic habits of life-time politicos in the US State Dept. and CIA. It is this section that proves most informative. Definitely a valuable read.
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