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Summary: Discredited book from a sad partisan hack
Review: Yes, a US president DID drop the ball when it came to fighting Al Qaeda. That president, sadly, is Bush. As is clear now from the record, and the unimpeachable testimony of Richard Clarke, it was Clinton who implored Bush to focus on Bin Laden during the transition. Bush, who had never heard of Bin Laden, chose to ignore this advice, ignore Richard Clarke's furtive recommendations to attack Bin Laden, and reduce the role of the US counterterrorism czar to near obscurity.
Bush then inexplicably repeated this mistake AFTER Bin Laden had unleashed the most horrifying attack in our nation's history. Bush has again forgotten Bin Laden, and is ignoring him entirely even today. This book's absurd revisionism is actually harmful to the security of the nation, and puts America at greater risk by ignoring obvious truths, besmearching the only US president to take Bin Laden seriously as a threat.
If only Bush were half as strong a president as Clinton. America would be so much stronger, both militarily, economically, and morally.
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