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Summary: Oops!
Review: It's funny that as the Bush Administration is trying to blame the Iraq mess on the CIA, saying the CIA hyped up the intelligence and misled the White House, we have this book, written by someone supposedly trying to support Bush, but inadvertently laying out exactly how wrong the White House was about Iraq's WMD, and how the CIA (while not exactly correct in its estimates either) was more tempered in its evaluation of the threat and was trying to act as the emergency brake on the war plans.
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Summary: The truth behind the "mainstream media" story on Iraq
Review: Laurie Milroie writes a very convincing book on the truth behind the conflict between the CIA and the White House. This is a very insightful book on what goes on behind the scenes in Washington. The CIA and the State Dept had evidence of the complicity between Al Queada and Saddam Hussien. Laurie clearly details why the itelligence was not and is not still the Public knowledge norm for the war in Iraq. It seems clear that the CIA to avoid embarrasment and for fear of losing power inside of Washington is continously discrediting such information to this day. Not only did the CIA endanger our national security before 9/11 it is till doing so in a power struugle in our intelligence community today. Laurie also detail meetings between Iraqi intelligence and Muhammed Atta in the Chec Repuclic before the 9/11 attacks. The Checks still very much say this meeting took place. Yet this report is discredited by anoynomous leaks coming from sources inside the CIA. Also very important links show how Iraqi intelligence altered records of terrorists in Kuwati intelligence files during their occupation of Kuwait during the first Gulf War. There same terrorists are the very ones behind attacks on the USS Cole, The First World Trade Center Bombing, The Sept 11 attacks. Laurie also sheds light on Saddams revenge tactics on Egypt for participation in the first Gulf War. Saddam was complicit in a major terrorist attack on the tourists at Luxor in 1997. Saddam and his regimes evil is very much a subject of Ms Mylroies book which makes the most important humanitarian reason for the war in Iraq. Saddam was funneling money from the oil for food program and using it for his own weapons programs and funding of terrorist camps inside of Iraq. Which the main stream media refuses to admit Al Queada members trained in to hijack airplanes. All this while his people starved. Or if you openly dissented you where killed or tortured, or your family was tortured in front of you. And the U.N. and the world community did nothing. Read this book. You will learn alot of the inner workings inside the beltway. And Praise G.W. Bush for fighting a just war in Iraq. Thank You Laurie Mylroie
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Summary: The truth behind the "mainstream media" story on Iraq
Review: Laurie Milroie writes a very convincing book on the truth behind the conflict between the CIA and the White House. This is a very insightful book on what goes on behind the scenes in Washington. The CIA and the State Dept had evidence of the complicity between Al Queada and Saddam Hussien. Laurie clearly details why the itelligence was not and is not still the Public knowledge norm for the war in Iraq. It seems clear that the CIA to avoid embarrasment and for fear of losing power inside of Washington is continously discrediting such information to this day. Not only did the CIA endanger our national security before 9/11 it is till doing so in a power struugle in our intelligence community today. Laurie also detail meetings between Iraqi intelligence and Muhammed Atta in the Chec Repuclic before the 9/11 attacks. The Checks still very much say this meeting took place. Yet this report is discredited by anoynomous leaks coming from sources inside the CIA. Also very important links show how Iraqi intelligence altered records of terrorists in Kuwati intelligence files during their occupation of Kuwait during the first Gulf War. There same terrorists are the very ones behind attacks on the USS Cole, The First World Trade Center Bombing, The Sept 11 attacks. Laurie also sheds light on Saddams revenge tactics on Egypt for participation in the first Gulf War. Saddam was complicit in a major terrorist attack on the tourists at Luxor in 1997. Saddam and his regimes evil is very much a subject of Ms Mylroies book which makes the most important humanitarian reason for the war in Iraq. Saddam was funneling money from the oil for food program and using it for his own weapons programs and funding of terrorist camps inside of Iraq. Which the main stream media refuses to admit Al Queada members trained in to hijack airplanes. All this while his people starved. Or if you openly dissented you where killed or tortured, or your family was tortured in front of you. And the U.N. and the world community did nothing. Read this book. You will learn alot of the inner workings inside the beltway. And Praise G.W. Bush for fighting a just war in Iraq. Thank You Laurie Mylroie
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Summary: How career centered analysts ignored the obvious
Review: Laurie Mylroie worked for Bill Clinton as an Iraq adivsor during his 92 campaign so Republicans can rejoice that a former agent of the left brings forth evidence that not only vindicates the necessity to bring down the Saddam regime because of what the rest of the world, and indeed the UN security council, knew to be direct ties to terrorists, which include Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden, but also shows the remnants of State Department and CIA bureaucratic conformity to 8 years of Clinton foreign policy and beyond that its employees refused to shed and endangered the US. This is compounded by evidence of "Annonymous Sources" going out and trying to discredit reports and press releases that were properly vetted by their superiors.The final chapter, guest authored by Professor Robert Turner (cofounder of Center for National Security Law, professor of International Law at the naval war college, and former chair of the American Bar Association's Standing committee on Law and National Security) even offers explicit proof that the claims that Iraqi freedom was an Illegal engagement are groundless and in fact was probably more legal then engagements in Bosnia and most other military conflicts in the last half century. He even offers an endictment of the UN for fail to meet its Charter responsibility of using prevention to address aggression and human rights violations rather than responding to them after the fact. In the end, this book shows a frightening connection between Iraq and Terrorists that was overlooked and even dismissed in the face of overwhelming evidence from around the globe. Some of this evidence dates back to 1993 from the chief FBI investegator of the first World Trade Center bombing.
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Summary: More Tribble
Review: Miss mylorie continues her quest to rewrite history to justify her view of a neo-imperialistic america. It is very hard for her to come up with anything new, if you have have read a couple of articles you have read all her books. save your money.
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Summary: Important & troubling questions backed up by facts
Review: Mylroie's book could be brushed off by just yet another apology on behalf of the White House by a neo-con. But that would not be a totally fair assessment because Mylroie poses many important (and some pretty jarring) questions to support her main thesis that Saddam Hussein's Iraq has skillfully used Al Qaeda as a cover for its attack on America and both the CIA and the State Department failed to see through the ploy. The most fascinating chapter in this thrilling book was Chapter 7, "Know The Enemy" in which Mylroie argues a pretty good case that to this day we still do not know who really are some of the top Al Qaeda operatives caught by the US forces, including the notorious Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed! The implication is that these supposedly-Kuwaiti-born terrorists are actually Iraqi agents working under fake identities cooked up by Iraqi intelligence during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. There are other eye-opener specifics highlighted throughout the book like the fact that many of these terrorists actually are blood relatives, that is, they belong to the same family, and most of them are ethnic Blauchis. If you are asking yourself now "what the heck is a Baluch?" not only you have to read this provocative volume but you also have to think the whole post 9-11 era from a different perspective as laid out by Mylroie. At the end you may not agree with her but this certainly is a book that deserves a public debate of the many specific clues and facts cited and a thoughtful consideration of her overall argument. Things in our world are a lot more complicated than what they seem to be at first blush and this book makes that clear. A fantastic read.
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Summary: Prophetic
Review: O'Brien and Arrington give it "Two thumbs all the way up". I concur. This chilling exposé prophetically echoes the eternal truth of the Bhagavad-Gita: "When the elephants fight, the ants get squished."
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Summary: Who's Correct, Mylroie Or Bush?
Review: Somebody is going to have to clear this up for me. Is the CIA, as portrayed in Ms. Mylroie's book, a bunch of timid wimps unwilling to lay the finger on Saddam? Or, as the Bush Administration now claims, is the CIA a bunch of overbearing hawks who oversold the threat of Saddam to the hapless, innocent White House? Which CIA is it? It seems that conservatives have a bipolar, contradictory perception of the CIA, while always carefully avoiding taking responsibility for their own claims. The core thesis of this book seems to be in direct conflict with the Bush Administration version of events.
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Summary: Discursive regime¿s attempt to re write history.
Review: This book by Laurie Mylroie attempts to re write and recreate the recent past by ignoring counter evidence and even making it up. This, of course, is nothing new. What is revolting about her stance is how destructive it was and is to our democracy. With a build in hubris, the Bush Admin has systematically ignored countering evidence and gone gung-ho into Iraq without a plan, thinking "they will rush into the streets and hail us as heroes." How wrong they were. But you won't read anything of the sort in this one-sided partisan re creation of history. Books of this sort will be of interest to future scholars as they attempt to disentangle the multitude of lies of the Bush Admin. and its failed attempt at empire.
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Summary: The precise thesis may be wrong, but important facts are her
Review: This book probably contains important pieces of the puzzle. It could probably make for very intensive reading. This book probably needs to be read and re-read over and over again, and consulted every time your memory is jogged, and thus should take up much more of your time, much more so than a book that had it all right (if any existed) would be. So on that basis, this is actually more worth buying than, say, a straightforward history of the Double Cross system of
World War II. If you read this right, you'll spend more hours with it. I heard the tail end of a Laurie Mylroie interview on Steve Malzburg's show on WABC radio today April 4, 2004, so she is still apparently backing this book. And I would not write it off as nonsense. Possibly it has a lot of wriong conclusions, but what "everybody knows:" is also wrong. I know the major media seems to be unaware of her, because they also treat as it as some kind of a mystery why Bush wanted to know on Sept 11, 12 or 13 2001, if Iraq was behind the Sept. 11 attacks. There were a number of people who thought Iraq could be behind Al Qaeda. I think that's all wrong, but what cause dthem to come to that conclusions is important and what's more, the basis for that must mean something - maybe niot that Iraq was behind Al Qaeda, but something about Al Qaeda and terrorism that teh CIA, the State Department etc, do not know or realize. There are genuine pieces of the puzzle that probably need some explanation (My own feeling is that this may be sort of disinformation by the people behind Al Qaeda that managed to get through to some people in the United States. I believe actually some of the fingerpointing at Iraq came from Saudi Arabia - I think there were even some public leaks shortly after Sept. 11th.) Laurie Mylroie has believed for many years that Iraq was behind the World Trade Center bombing. I do not think so. I think it was Pakistan's riogue military intelligence agency, the ISI, which was also - and this part is universally acknowledged today - behind the Taliban. Basically in fact Pakistan strived to insure that only extreme Islamic fundamentalists could take over Afghanistan. Laurie Mylroie's basis for believing that Iraq was behind the WTC bombing in 1993, is that Ramzi Youssef may be - in fact almost certainly is, a false identity, and that false identity was constructed using data obtained by Iraq during its occupation of Kuwait. But Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency may very well have done this favor for someone, without knowing very much about the reason. Possession of Iraqi passports etc doesn't indicate control. It may indicate some connection - and it is very hard for anytone to doubt a connection seeing what happened in Iraq AFTEr the fall of Saddam Hussein's giovernment in baghdad and mostly ONLY AFTER that. Saddam Hussein in one captured document warned his Baath loyalisits not to get too close to these people. But that of course obviously indicates some conenction. Of course, besides Pakistan, there is a Saudi and United Arab Emirates connection (they were all linked in the BCCI scandal - and BCCI by the way, was involved in suporting the Afghan resistance in the 1980's) And the obvious thought also is China, which has links to Pakistani intelligence. That China also supposedly has trouble from Al Qaeda does not exclude them - and in fact anyway, I read somewhere that they are accusing the wrong kind of people in western China of being terrorists This book comntains clues. The only thing is, the evidence may point to somethinbg very original. By the way, the fact the CIA was "right" doesn't mean it was honest. In fact it may not have been right. What is in this book (and other data) has to be read very carefully, and the evidence put together in an entirely new way. There may not be that much in this book, but there might be a few little clues found here, especially after something else. now unknown or obscure, that may not actually seem to tell you very much by itself, becomes public. If you get enough information, maybe the penny will drop, to borrow a British expression.
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