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The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, Richard Clarke has devoted two decades of his professional life to combating terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11. He knows, better than anyone, how President Bush reacted to the attack and what happened behind the scenes in the days that followed. He knows whether or not Iraq presented a terrorist threat to the United States and whether there were hidden costs to the invasion of that country." Clarke was the nation's crisis manager on 9/11, running the Situation Room - a scene described here for the first time - and then watched in dismay at what followed. After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Coming from a man known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Against All Enemies is both a powerful history of our two-decades-long confrontation with terrorism and a searing indictment of the current administration.

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Sharply aimed at President George W. Bush and the strategies of his administration in the war on terror, this blistering attack comes not, as expected, from the liberal left -- rather it comes from White House insider Richard A. Clarke, former counterterrorism czar, national security counselor to three presidents (including Democrat Bill Clinton), and a trusted member of Bush's own advisory staff until May 2003. Sending seismic waves through political circles, Clarke paints an alarming picture of a newly minted administration of right-wing ideologues caught in an eight-year-time warp and utterly fixated on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. He describes how, prior to 9/11, the Bush White House turned a blind eye to repeated warnings about the threats posed by al Qaeda, choosing instead to focus on imagined Iraqi-sponsored terrorism. He recounts how, in the aftermath of the attacks, he was urged by the president to find a connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, even though such a link had been thoroughly investigated and discredited. And he chronicles a series of post-9/11 blunders, culminating in the abandonment of the hunt for bin Laden in order to pursue regime change in Iraq.

Although Clarke documents serious mistakes made by previous presidents -- notably Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton -- it is the younger Bush who gets the lion's share of blame for the breakdown of counterterrorism efforts. It is clear that Clarke believes the missteps of Bush's administration contributed, unwittingly, to the attacks of September 11th and that their continued Machiavellian manipulation has seriously endangered America's national security. Unlike so many left- and right-wing bestsellers written by and for converts, this book's incendiary power lies in the fact that its author's allegiance is not to a party -- although Clarke is a Republican -- but to the nation itself. It's a stance that makes this indictment all the more compelling.

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Clarke's book turned out to be one of the first shots in the gradual undermining of President Bush's reputation as a war leader-especially since many of Clarke's more damaging accusations have been corroborated elsewhere, including in the investigations undertaken by the 9/11 Commission. The opening sequence, as Clarke describes his efforts as "counterterrorism czar" to respond to the incoming news of the September 11 attacks, is gripping, and his description of the development of policy during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations is useful, if unavoidably self-centered. The big story, of course, lies in his depiction of the current Bush administration's failing to take seriously the al Qaeda threat and then going off on its Iraq tangent.

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The explosive details about President Bush's obsession with Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks captured the headlines in the days after the book's release, but Against All Enemies offers more. It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs - it's a thumping good read.

The first - and by far the best - chapter is a heart-stopping account of the turmoil inside the White House on the morning of Sept. 11, when Washington suddenly came blinking into a bloody new world. I hope Clarke has sold the rights to Hollywood, at least for his opening chapter, because I would pay to see this movie.
—(James Risen)

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ISBN-13: 9780743260244
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 3/22/2004
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.36 (w) x 9.34 (h) x 1.06 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard A. Clarke was appointed by President Clinton as the first National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism in May 1998, and continued in that position under George W. Bush. Until March 2003 he was a career member of the Senior Executive Service, having begun his federal service in 1973 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as an analyst on nuclear weapons and European security issues. In the Reagan Administration, Mr. Clarke was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence. In the first Bush Administration, he was the Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs and then a member of his NSC Staff. He served for eight years as a Special Assistant to President Clinton and served as National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism for both President Clinton and President George W. Bush. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. He is now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting.

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Wolfowitz fidgeted and scowled.... "Well, I just don't understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man bin Laden."

"We are talking about a network of terrorist organizations called al Qaeda, that happens to be led by bin Laden, and we are talking about that network because it and it alone poses an immediate and serious threat to the United States," I answered....

Wolfowitz turned to me. "You give bin Laden too much credit. He could not do all these things like the 1993 attack on New York, not without a state sponsor. Just because FBI and CIA have failed to find the linkages does not mean they don't exist." I could hardly believe it, but Wolfowitz was actually spouting the totally discredited Laurie Mylroie theory that Iraq was behind the 1993 truck bomb at the World Trade Center, a theory that had been investigated for years and found to be totally untrue.

1	Evacuate the White House	1
2	Stumbling into the Islamic world	35
3	Unfinished mission, unintended consequences	55
4	Terror returns (1993-1996)	73
5	The almost war, 1996	101
6	Al Qaeda revealed	133
7	Beginning homeland protection	155
8	Delenda est	181
9	Millennium alert	205
10	Before and after September 11	227
11	Right war, wrong war	247
App. A	Excerpts from public testimony to the 9/11 commission, delivered by Richard Clarke on March 24, 2004	293
App. B	Excerpts from the 9/11 commission report	299

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Carlcheated

Posted April 7, 2011

This book makes you wonder...

The book is pretty good. If you think it is all fact based, it gives a lot of inside information in the workings of the US Government.

It is simply appalling what Bush and his croonies got away with. They declared war on Irak for no reason, other than distract americans from the real dangers of terrorism. Irak had nothing to do with 9-11 nor with al Qaeda.
Where is all this nonsense going to?

I recommend this book if you want background info into the reasons for 9-11.
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SighKoBlahGrr-Blogspot

Posted September 20, 2009

NOT a Bedtime Story

It is 1990. Bush 41 is President. Mikhail Gorbachev is Premier of the Soviet Union. A group of Islamic fundamentalists have just defeated the world's No. 2 superpower in a ten-year war in Afghanistan. A year later, the Soviet Union collapses. The same Islamic fundamentalists figure they can accomplish the same thing with the No. =1= superpower.

In a hair-raising 300 pages that read like a Tom Clancy novel, but which in fact are the pages of =history= book, 30-year National Security Council veteran and National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism for Presidents Clinton and Bush 43, Richard Clarke, details why - and shows us =how= - Osama bin Laden and the rest are doing so.

Published in 2004, =Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror= is the single most compelling and disturbing spellbinder I have encountered since Morris and Denton's =The Money and The Power=. While the implications of the latter book are =very= disturbing; the implications of the former are downright horrifying.

Clarke is no ideologue. He is a can-do pragmatist. He ran the entire United States government from the command center in a nearly empty White House for 30 hours on September 11 and 12, 2001. He is no blamer. His orientation is simply, "Here's what happened; and here's what resulted from it, for better or for worse." Republican and Democratic administrations, the CIA, the FBI, the Departments of Defense and State are all praised and blamed equally.

The reader - if he can put the book down every now and again to get some sleep - will almost surely come away with a detailed grasp of the entire epic that has transpired since the Shah of Iran was deposed by the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini in 1979. Worse, that reader will come away realizing that the vision Clarke laid out in 2003 and 2004 is almost exactly what the Islamic fundamentalists have managed to accomplish.

The Middle East is =not= Vietnam redux. It is much, =much= worse.

The reader may also come away with a bad case of anxiety. This is not a work of fiction. And it is not for the squeamish. Read it at your own risk. But for your sake as an informed voter, do =read= it.
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Anonymous

Posted May 9, 2009

Eye opening

The attack on 9/11 was decades in the making. It was the result of opportunities taken and opportunities missed, both on the parts of the terrorists and of our foreign policies. This was an excellent 30- year look into national security.
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Anonymous

Posted February 24, 2009

Against All Enemies

Absolutly enlightening.
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Beirut768

Posted November 17, 2008

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Continuity is Key.........,

Either fight or scuttle.
It is not (and should not be) `Business as usual' anymore.

Those who advocate resignation in the face of the different facets of ` international threats - disguised as promotion of science and technology' tend to exaggerate.
If you give up as The World Power (bound to play an important role) you will, in that case, be abdicating your responsibilities.
Then you will lack a sense of measure and will lose to some demented and screaming `gangsters' labelling themselves as `leaders'.
Panic can give way to submissive fatalism as happened to you in many countries in the Middle East and even in Somalia and Kenya wherefrom unfortunate events sounded like a work of fiction but indeed they led to real-life drama in which there were `many heroes'.
It was your fault to let the gathering clouds coming from small countries to herald worldwide storms that overtook (because they misinterpreted) your delay in taking immediate action.
Now you are acting differently.
But, would countries in Asia learn the lesson and take heed that America is now more serious than before; at least you've wiped-out the sense of defeatism.

Perhaps the scenario of deliberations between your two main `rival' parties should be tightly knit to become acceptable to the world ears so that future course of action can `pass' without qualms.

Continuity is Key....
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Anonymous

Posted September 30, 2006

RICHARD CLARK IS A HERO FOR SPEAKING OUT

Mr. Clark gave his all and caveat's to try to alert the people that should no better about the pending doom. I just finished reading The Looming Tower subtitle 'Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11' Written by Lawrence Wright. According to his fine research there was two very vocal people in the country in 1998 who were screaming about the threat of terrorist. Richard Clark and John O'Neill, former FBI Agent who died at the World Trade Center. They were acutely aware of the pending danger and Alqaeda and Osma Bin Laden. President Clinton did what he could but the subsequent administration closed the door on any pending threats. That threat is worst today then it was before we went into Iraq. We could have won this war if we had stayed in Afganistan, but this little cabal of civilians thought they knew best and as a consequence, were in dire trouble. Just today I heard three General's testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was ugly, they all have been or have been involved with the Iraq Theater. And yet, the people of this country are not being told the truth and as Richard Clark so predicted, we are in harms way. This did not have to be and as the General's so pointed out, Rumsfeld has to go. And now we have Bob Woodward's book, State of Denial. I fear many Americans' have their head in the sand and we need to move forward and save not only this country, but our Democracy. Thank you Richard Clark for being one of the first to bring this to our attention and your courage.
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Anonymous

Posted August 26, 2006

Is Clarke Credible? Richard Miniter Thought So.

In AAE's, Richard Clarke paints a portrait of the GW Bus Administration as being so preoccupied with Saddam Hussein that they ignored the threat posed by Al Qaeda, until 9/11 forced them to finally sit up and take notice. If you question Clarke's credibility, consider this: Clarke was one of the main sources in conservative author Richard Miniter's own book, Losing Bin Laden. Miniter NEVER Questoned Clarke's Crediblity in LBL-Not Once. Consider also that, while the Bush Adminstration made a lot of GENERAL criticisms of Clarke, not a single participant has personally denied the SPECIFICS of his recollections of the events in question. Consider finally that Clarke served in the administrations of three Presidents, both Republican and Democrat. Whether or not Clarke's memory is 100% accurate on every detail-which he himself admits it may not be-his many years of public service has earned him the right to tell his story.
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Anonymous

Posted April 12, 2006

Mixed review

I gave it a 4 star rating because I think that the book well illustrates the level of incompetence that our elected officials can show in the spirit of competition between departments. It also illustrates the level of naivete' the government and the rest of us felt and seem to be feeling again with repsect to our vulnerabilities and thoughts that we are invincible as a nation. However, it seemed the author was often tooting his own horn. It almost read like it was written by a certain national cyndicated talk radio personality that claims to be 'all knowing'. This author comes from the left, rather than the right wing. Its political, obviously biased towards the previous administration, and at times self agrandizing, but I think the author's indignation is, at times, righteous. It must have been extremely frustrating to deal with the weak commitment and half &^%ed attempts to address terrorism that, if properly dealt with, could have prevented 3500 dead on 9-11.
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Anonymous

Posted August 20, 2005

I Learned A Lot

Clarke has written an excellent chronological history of our terrorist efforts. Learned a great deal about behind the scenes preparation & reaction to terrorist events. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the United States reacts to terrorism.
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Anonymous

Posted July 27, 2005

Richard Clarke writes a phenomenal book, that depicts President Bush and his faction's thrist for war in Iraq.

Richard Clarke writes a extraordinary book. It stupefies the reader, by explaining how Bush and his cronies perceived the 9/11 attack. How Bush and his faction wanted to connect the attacks on the World Trade Center with Iraq, detailing how this administration pushed for a war in Iraq. Furthermore, he writes of the mendacities by the entire Bush administration for their plan to invade and occupy a foreign country under the guise of democracy. Clark also illuminates his discussions with President Bush how Bush was completely uninterested in the truth he wanted only associations to Iraq, so there could be an invasion. Moreover, he writes that Bush and his faction looked for ways to manipulate or lie about the facts to justify a war and an invasion to the American people and more important Congress. In addition, Clarke had information that he tried to give to Bush almost a year in advance, but this was to no avail.
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Anonymous

Posted October 27, 2004

We have met the enemy and they are us!

This is a very well told story of Richard Clarke's experiences working in Washington D. C. during four presidencies (Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush). Except for having to wade through all the acronyms (and I often had to go back and remind myself what they stood for), Richard Clarke tells of his experiences, thoughts, frustrations, and finally, disillusionment with Washington bureaucrats and the apparent lack of priority and understanding that 'terrorism in America' is present. And this was long before 911. Richard Clarke pulls no punches. I couldn't put it down. It was like reading a suspense novel -- except it actually happened and is continuing to happen.
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Anonymous

Posted July 3, 2004

Take notice

It is the responsibility of every American to pay attention to elected officials. When people like Richard Clarke, who has devoted his career to national security issues, feels strong enough about the direction the Bush administration has taken to speak out, people need to pay attention. Read this book but don't stop there. Read all you can on this administration and the big picture will become clearer.
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Anonymous

Posted May 22, 2004

Very informative but also very inadequate

Against All Enemies has two themes: (A) Al Qaeda, how US security agencies gradually became aware of it, bin Laden¿s role in it, and the Bush administration¿s disregard of Al Qaeda before 9/11; and (B) Iraq, particularly the Bush Administration¿s obsession with deposing Saddam Hussein. Clarke discusses (A) extensively and provides wonderful insights into how the security agencies dealt with terrorism during the Clinton years, but for all the venom he expends criticizing Bush for focussing on (B), he really says very little about how he personally would have handled Iraq. His bitterness about the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks is unmistakable, and rightly so, but this is no substitute for an adequate plan of how Iraq should have been dealt with. Against All Enemies is a godsend for people who like to hate President Bush and don¿t want to exert themselves by thinking realistically about Iraq. If you read only this and other books of a similar bent, you will have no choice but to hate Bush even more than you already do. It is only by reading books that seriously discuss Iraq that you become aware of how grossly inadequate Clarke¿s book is. I would recommend Kenneth Pollack¿s book The Threatening Storm, written before the invasion of Iraq, and his article in Jan 2004 issue of The Atlantic. Clarke asserts, correctly I think, that Al Qaeda was the more immediate threat before 9/11 and remained the more immediate threat up to the invasion of March 2003. But Al Qaeda will probably never have the means to produce a nuclear bomb itself. It can only obtain one from another source. Clarke says nothing to justify his belief that Bush could have let Saddam off the hook in 2003 and still have kept Iraq under control via sanctions and inspections. All the evidence points the other way. The sanctions regime was crumbling because of increasing Iraqi trade and smuggling with Iran, Jordan, Turkey, Russia and France. I have yet to read an analysis that discusses that trend on a serious adult level and still conclude that Saddam would not become a far greater security threat to the US than Al Qaeda over time.
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Anonymous

Posted April 15, 2004

wonderful and fun!!!

I just loved this book. I feel like I just understand so much more and it was an easy book to understand.
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Anonymous

Posted April 10, 2004

Inside Story From Counterterrorism Professional

Clarke does excellent job of a concise and readable history of rise of terrorism from the 80s to now. He analyzes every president since Reagan on their actons that effected terrorism. He focuses on Clinton and Bush II. This is not an attack book on Bush II. He criticizes Clinton as well and most of the book is about Clinton's counter-terrorism efforts. I thought it was very telling his description of Clinton with his drive to understand issues staying up to 2 or 3 AM with Bush in bed by 10pm looking for the bumper sticker solution. Also very telling about his consideration of airplane attack for 96 Olympics. Another good lesson was Clinton's difficulty in getting Dept of Defense or CIA to get bin Ladin. He could not make the beaucracy move. For those of you who are rational analtical people who are not blindly partisan this is a must read prior to November.
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Anonymous

Posted April 7, 2004

BOOK THAT WILL BRING BUSH ADMINISTRATION DOWN

Sad but true.
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Anonymous

Posted April 25, 2004

Excellent

Wealth of information. Althought the author admits that the writing is influenced by events as he saw them, it's easy to identify the facts from his opinions and you can't argue with the facts he presents. Highly recommend this book as an indication of why it is so important to pay attention to the people we elect to run our country.
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Anonymous

Posted April 20, 2004

Newly educated U.S. Citizen

I loved this book, it was not only easy to read but highy educational. This is not only about politics but one of great courage. It took a real person to write this story. Kudos to Richard Clarke for being the one to educate and let America know what is going on with the war on terror. Our president's take an oath to defend us aganist all enemies both foreign and domestic, the current President is one of our fiercest domestic enemies, time to vote him out of office.
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Anonymous

Posted May 20, 2004

Fine expose of Bush's failings in the war against Al Qa'ida

Richard Clarke has 30 years¿ experience in security and was the US National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism from 1998 until he resigned in March 2003. Many of his colleagues have also resigned, sickened by the Bush administration¿s failure to focus on getting Al Qa¿ida. On 25 January 2001, Clarke proposed `urgently¿ a plan to eliminate Al Qa¿ida, but the Bush government took no notice because it was fixated on Iraq. Clarke consistently pointed out to them that there had been no Iraqi-sponsored terrorism against the USA since 1993. (Last September, Bush at last admitted that there was `no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11 attacks¿.) Clarke¿s first Cabinet-level meeting on terrorism was on 4 September 2002, just seven days before the attacks on the USA; he first briefed the President on terrorism on the day of the attack. The day after, Clarke went to the White House expecting ¿ to go back to a round of meetings examining what the next attacks could be, what our vulnerabilities were, what we could do about them in the short term. Instead, I walked into a series of discussions about Iraq. At first I was incredulous that we were talking about something other than getting al Qaeda. Then I realized with almost a sharp physical pain that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to try to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq. Since the beginning of the administration, indeed well before, they had been pressing for a war with Iraq.¿ He writes, ¿Many thought that the Bush administration was doing a good job of fighting terrorism when, actually, the administration had squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda and instead strengthened our enemies by going off on a completely unnecessary tangent, the invasion of Iraq. A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11 and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safer from that threat.¿ The war in Afghanistan should have been a rapid search-and-destroy mission by US troops on the ground against the terrorists. Instead, bin Laden, his deputy Ayman Zawahiri and Mullah Omar, the Taliban¿s leader, all escaped. The Taliban was not eliminated; they are rebuilding their forces. Attacking Iraq made us all less secure and strengthened the radical Islamic terrorist movement. There were far more terrorist attacks in the thirty months since 9/11 than in the thirty months before it: there have been jihadist atrocities in Russia, Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey and other countries. The US Army War College¿s Strategic Studies Institute concluded that the attack on Iraq was `a strategic error of the first magnitude¿. Clarke concludes, ¿Nothing America could have done would have provided al Qaeda and its new generation of cloned groups a better recruitment device than our unprovoked invasion of an oil-rich Arab country.¿ Bush and Blair attacked the wrong target when they attacked Iraq not Al Qa¿ida. Similarly now, the `left¿, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, are all attacking the wrong target when they downplay the terrorist threat and tell us that the BNP is the greatest threat to us. But the BNP, whatever else it does, does not blow up large numbers of workers across the world. Al Qa¿ida is an immediate and serious threat to Britain and other countries. Its supporters run websites recruiting jihadists in Britain for training; they solicit money from British fundamentalists for terrorist front groups, and they are organising cells in Britain. Clarke¿s fascinating and revealing book alerts us to real dangers, which Bush and Blair are making worse.
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Anonymous

Posted April 3, 2004

There never was and is any link between terrorism and Iraq

We all knew right from the beginning that there never was any connection between terrorism and Iraq. Even today Bushies talk of Iraq and terrorism in the same breath drilling into the minds of naive Americans justification for war. Richard Clark's book provides an insight into the Bush obsession with Iraq at the cost of safeguards against real terrorists.
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This book makes you wonder...

NOT a Bedtime Story

Eye opening

Against All Enemies

Continuity is Key.........,

RICHARD CLARK IS A HERO FOR SPEAKING OUT

Is Clarke Credible? Richard Miniter Thought So.

Mixed review

I Learned A Lot

Richard Clarke writes a phenomenal book, that depicts President Bush and his faction's thrist for war in Iraq.

We have met the enemy and they are us!

Take notice

Very informative but also very inadequate

wonderful and fun!!!

Inside Story From Counterterrorism Professional

BOOK THAT WILL BRING BUSH ADMINISTRATION DOWN

Excellent

Newly educated U.S. Citizen

Fine expose of Bush's failings in the war against Al Qa'ida

There never was and is any link between terrorism and Iraq