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Summary: More info than 9/11 report Caution: NOT P/C
Review: Bossie has written a well documented, well organized inclusive chronology of events of massive intelligence/national security emasculation by Clinton. A this is a 'what happened' book, not analysis, opinion or qualitative verbiage. Example: Marvin Cetron, professional futurists, wrote scenarios for Dep of State in 1992 forecasting crashing planes into buildings naming World Trade Center...multiple simultaneous attacks. Marvin is not in 9/11 report. Why listen to Marvin? He is the guy who forecast that Saddam would invade Kuwait...three years before the fact. Thank you Bossie for a complete record. Would be better if jacket cover did NOT have pejorative picture of Clinton on it...Bossie's book is not a personal attack on Clinton...just the facts, Mam, the sad murderous facts.
Rene
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Summary: Who Was President On 09/11/01?
Review: "Tell Lies, Destroy Lives, And Blame Everything On Clinton." -- Republican Motto
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Summary: A revealing look
Review: 1. This is *not* at all a "conspiracy book." It is an evaluation of Clinton's policies and practices. There is no conspiracy suggested. Just utter mismanagement and blindness.
2. What if Bush Sr. would have beat Clinton in 1992, and then Bush Jr. run four years earlier before getting a second term in 2000? Would anyone simply concentrate on the policies of the previous eight months and forget about the rest? Would anyone claim worrying about the previous eight years was a distraction? How fast was it reasonable for Bush to reverse the previous eight years?
3. It is true that we now all have hindsight, but were Clinton's blindnesses limited to that? Or was there egregious mishandling? It's worth asking. Bossie is unquestionably a partisan, but even mathematicians can name some true benefits from math. Being partisan doesn't rule out the possibility he is right.
4. What pushes this book above and beyond the others is Bossie's insight into the opportunity we lost in 2000 when we intercepted the explosives coming from Canada into Washington state. The material about the millennium bomber is worth the price of the book.
5. I think there is a more threatening question raised by Bossie's research--is the real power in this country in the elected officials, or are they simply scapegoats for ensconced bureacrats who are never held accountable? Bossie didn't say this but I get the feeling the FBI and CIA are largely empires of their own.
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Summary: Rebuttal to the character assasin's review
Review: In response to the previous, many-paragraphed review of the Bossie's book.....which is not a review at all. It is, from beginning, to the very last word, a discrediting and attack on the writer, Bossie. As usual a liberal responds to charges against Clinton with an attack on the charge-leveler....and NOT by responding to the charges themselves. Just answer and rebut the CHARGEs or at least some of the charges made by Bossie with facts and you may earn some respect. Simply smearing someone doesn't really rebut what they say......especially when smearing is the over-used (indeed ONLY-used) strategy of the left. That is, they don't answer the charges - they simply tomahawk the message-bringer. Well, let me, in the spirit of non-hypocrisy, rebut at least one or so of the reviewer's chages. First of all, Citizen's United nor the RNC nor ANY Republican "invented" Willie Horton. Willie Horton was the "invention" of one Al Gore. Yes, it's true - do the research, the first time Wille Horton was ever used in any public political ad was against Dukakis in an ad constructed by Gore.
True that BUSH I used the Willie Horton ad at a later time when running against Dukakis. Truth be known, I fault neither Bush nor Gore for using Willie Horton. Why should I or any American fault a Dukakis opponent for bringing such a HUGE mistake by a political official to light. That mistake, of course being, Dukakis released Horton, a convicted killer, on the furlough program, and Horton then proceeded to commit murder when he was released. This is a huge mistake and shows extremely faulty judgement by Dukakis and it SHOULD have been trumpeted to the public so they would know what kind of liberal-minded politician was running. No, I don't fault Bush or Gore for using Horton. IT was good he was used in ads......I do, however, fault people, like the reviewer, and many others , who have incorrecty claimed Horton was first used by Bush.....or 'invented' by Bossie.
As for the book itself; it is rather well written. Most importantly, it seems to be very well researched. The author provides tedious footnoting and referening to his many references. Moreover, the references are from a wide spectrum of sources - from what could be considered 'left-leaning' to 'right-leaning' sources. Examples are 60 minutes, CBS news and Time to name a few. The book brings many important documented occurences to light and is an important contribution detailing domestic federal intelligence throughout the last decade or so.
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Summary: Truth in Print at last
Review: They obviously never get tired of it. The umpteenth book with the same legends copied from all the other conspiracy theorists - I guess Bossie thought, he'd get his share of the bucks. That's understandable. The sad thing is not the illectual disingenuity of Bossie, Coulter, Morris & co. Sad are all these people who'll buy this wish-wash, too. Not recognizing that they now own about seventy versions of the same book.
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Summary: lies
Review: This book is full of logiacal falicies and other right wing propaganda. Why linger on the past and try to blame all the problems you can on Clinton. Is someone trying to take focus off one president and put it on another. If the republicans were so concerned about the 9/11 attacts they would stop trying to place blame and work to prevent another from happening. this book is on a Moot subject and is a complete waste of time
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Summary: pure distraction
Review: This book seemed to be a lame attempt to distract readers from the real problems of government. Bossie seems to believe the troubles of our foreign policy are all Clinton's fault. He and his right wing cronies do nothing to solve our current terror problems, rather they try to assign blame to Democrats. This partisanship has no place for Americans in helping fix our current problems. I am ashamed of the "fixing of blame" tactics on both sides, and I'm looking for someone to put it all aside and look toward a prosperous future. I don't care how often Bill Clinton met with his CIA or FBI director!
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Summary: Truth in Print at last
Review: This is such an important book, and you should ignore the previous ad hominem reviews in which the writer is attacked rather than his assertions.Clinton cannot escape blame for endless carelessness in tending to our national security. As President, he never once took the bully pulpit to convince Americans of the danger; had he done so he could have declared war on our enemies, and taken the problem out of the hands of the Justice Department. He could have insisted upon implementation of the CIPRIS project to track foreign students (which would have flagged Mohamed Atta), he would have fully implemented the recommendations of the White House Commission on Airline Safety. He would not have cut the budget of the Department of Defense in order to balance the budget. He would have strenthened the intelligence forces rather than ignoring and weakening them! Reducing the Deficit became such a compulsion with him that he did this on the backs of our military. He will suffer in history for these mistakes; and if we had a fairer press the details outlined in this book would be known by all.
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