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Summary: Boxing Helena, Chasing Amy and now - Losing Bin Laden
Review: In this latest volume of "Anti-Clinton" lit-ra-chir , Richard Miniter (whoever he is) posits that Clinton is to blame for all the terror in the world, as well as being responsible for the high rate of diabetes and the increased membership fees at the wholesale club stores around the country. Miniter takes us into the secret Oval Office discussions in which Clinton clearly directs the nation's military leaders to engage in activities that (in Clinton's own words, as told by Miniter, whoever he is)..."will invite those crazy terrorists to come here and commit terrorism, so everyone can stop talking about stained dresses and cigars." It's right there, in this accurate, objective, thoroughly researched and unbiased account of the depraved and corrupt goings-on in the Clinton White House. Richard Miniter, whoever you are and whatever it is you do for a living and whatever your qualifications are, you go girl!!!
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Summary: Disgraceful Politicizing of Tragedy
Review: As a friend of a 9/11 victim, I find this book utterly disgraceful. I am a centrist, I vote for both parties. If I was a partisan democrat who wanted to list off facts about the Bush families role, and GW Bush's specific failures concerning Bin Laden & 9/11, it could be very damning (like the fact GWB was told, specifically, one month before 9/11 that there was very credible information the Al Queda would use airplanes as missles OR the fact that outgoing Clinton officials went out of their way to brief and warn incoming Bush officials, including Condeleeza Rice, about the Bin Laden threat and they were basically ingnored).I wonder, where are these quotes, Mr. Miniter?
"Overall, I give them very high marks, the only criticism I have is the obsession with Osama, which made him stronger"- " Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism Robert Oakley on Clintons effort on terrorism. Paul Bremer, Oakley's successor and now the US civilian administrator in Iraq said to the Washington Post:
"(the Clinton administration) correctly focused in bin Laden" Shame on you. This book is [stuff] that exploits the pain and suffering of our country for political partisanship. Shame.
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Summary: Do we believe the Sudanese or the Americans?
Review: In a desparate attempt to avoid pinning the blame for 9/11 on George "Dubya" Bush, the author has decided to resort to the tactics of the loony fringe Jerry Falwell right and blame Clinton. And what he has done is simply patch together some crackpot testimonies from other journalists looking to settle scores. The book is going to be syndicated in Reverend Moon's paper, The Washington Times. It has also featured on the far right website, the Drudge Report, which is also linked to Reverend Moon. Obviously, the Moonies like the author. He has made elaborate conjectures to prove many of his points. Miniter relies heavily on Sudanese intelligence to back up his theories, and we all know how reliable the Sudanese spooks are. The truth is that the last thing that Republicans would want to do is assign blame to the person who was actually responsible - our present incumbent, Mr. George Walker Bush.
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Summary: Right-Wing "Blame Clinton" Rag by Regnery Press
Review: Read first two chapters and couldn't stomach anymore. This is the worst piece of garbage and a complete lie. Read "Clinton Wars" to learn the truth: Clinton caught and jailed many terrorists (e.g., first WTC attack); The Republican Congress shot down legislation to increase funding to fight terrorism; and Bush and Rice were fully apprised of bin Laden's threat, including an August 6th, 2001 memo that Bush received which told him of Al Qaeda's plans to stage a large-scale attack. This book isn't fit for wrapping fish.
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Summary: Ground-breaking History as Action Novel
Review: In a journalistic feat, Miniter answers the one question haunting us all since the watershed moment of 9/11 launched the 21st century. The author masterfully leads real players to the microphone from their posts behind the scenes, often for the first time, and manages to reveal how bin Laden roamed free to savage a city, our nation, the world. A master of history and current affairs, Miniter colors his ground-breaking tale with exhaustive research into the lifestyles and idiocyncracies of the personalities behind the drama and creates animated history that unfolds as artfully as a mystery novel.
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Summary: Dubious Source, Wearying Spin
Review: Now from Regnery Publishing, leaders in the anti-Clinton Industry, comes another weary example of spin over substance. Using unrelated facts with the skill of a "Kennedy was killed by LBJ" conspiracy theorist, Richard Miniter presents a smoke and mirrors case against Bill Clinton aimed at a credulous audience who need read no further than the title (and most won't) to be convinced once again that Bubba is the Anti-Christ.
Miniter himself has written for the WSJ and other fine publications, usually about tort reform, or the, in his mind, questionable practice of siezing drug dealer's property after they've been busted with crack on the playground. Is Mr. Miniter an expert on the subject? Was he on top of this menace before it came crashing down on us? Well, no, not exactly. Prior to 9-11 he wrote one fascinationg piece about the Cuban nuclear menace - I am still waiting for Key West to be transformed into a pile of radioactive glass -, a rather fatuous business book aimed at the hopelessly aquisitive, and an article on the Sudan full of basic errors and sloppy reportage.
Not one to miss a wave, immediately after the tragic events of September 2001, Mr. Miniter began publishing startling hints, and purported facts -since discredited - about Sadaam Hussein's direct links to Al Queda and the attacks on America, the U.S.S.Cole and various other Bin Laden atrocities. Mr. Miniter was a funnel for the hawks who wanted Hussein's scalp at any cost. The truth was worth tossing away, and Mr. Miniter contributed to the startling fact that 64% of Americans still believe Iraq was behind 9-11, despite the inconvenient reality that no evidence whatsoever has been produced that any such link existed.
This book is more of the same. Reinforcing myths, ideological humbug, and the "ones born every minute" school of modern American political discourse.
A friend, not a Clinton fan, said, "If it ain't true, it oughta' be."
That's the essence of this dishonest bit of sophistry from a writer driven from opinion to fact rather than vice versa.
A new nadir that belongs on the bookshelf next to "Treason" (Gee that McCarthy guy was a great ventriloquist!)
If there is any "here" here, it will take a journalist, not a mouthpiece, such as Mr. Miniter, to reveal. Those seeking germaine information should look elsewhere.
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Summary: Another stupid book blaming Clinton
Review: Another lying idiot trying to lay the blame on President Clinton. When are these Neandrathals going to get a life? Please, everyone knows that the only reason this book is number 4 on Amazon's list is because Scaife had enough small change to counter a genuine author like Al Franken. Clinton is not responsibe for 9/11. Can this bimbo author answer about the missing pages of the government report? Can right wing authors try to write a book that is truthful? What a shame that Amazon is being used as a shill for this kind of trash.Amazon is a respected organization, unlike Faux and Drudge.
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Summary: This like the liberals blaiming Reagon: pure BS
Review: I didn't vote for Bill C. and I don't really care for him, but he acted like every US president before him and like GWB was before Sept 11th. We only attacked terrorist targets we were certain about and only after they had attacked American targets. It seemed reasonable at the time. The rules changed after Sept 11th, and our President has done a great job of dealing with this radically changed mission. But on the far right and on the far left, the fruitcakes are coming out of the woodwork trying to gain political capital and personal profit out of this tragic attack on the US. Maybe Reagan shouldn't have provided Bin Laden with money. Maybe G. Bush senior should have taken out Sadam when he had the chance. Maybe Clinton should have taken a harder line with the Taliban. But this is because we know now where this all was heading. We didn't know that then, and our Presidents for better or worse did what they felt was right. And frankly I don't have major problems with how they dealt with our enemies (would you really have had Clinton give official recognition to the Taliban in exchange for Bin Laden? That was the demand he refused. Would you have had Reagon leave the Afghans to the Soviets? My guess is no to both.) To the left wing and right wing nuts that are trying to trash our past Presidents like arm chair quarterbacks explaining how they would win the Super Bowl: get a life. Do something helpful for this nation and stop trying to divide it. You're giving comfort to our enemies by directing our gaze backwards with bitter hindsight, rather than forward with the sure hope of our victory over terror. Stop trying to profit on tragedy, it is a most despicable trade.
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Summary: Sad
Review: What a load of tasteless papp!
To blame Clinton's administration for what happened in 2001 is pathetic. Sure, more could have been done in avoiding this catastrophy during Clinton's and the Bushes' time, but it's all very easy to point fingers in hindsight.
Maybe the author needs to address this current foreign policy and where it is going wrong still. When an attack happens again perhaps he can write another book only swapping 'Clinton' for 'Bush' hmmmm?
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Summary: This book is horrible.
Review: I thought this would be a good book, but it is based on lies and distortions and glosses over important details. It is a biased book by an extremist right winger, not an objective look at the facts. It fails on all levels.
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