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sarals

05/08/07 2:42 PM

#356 RE: mcenulty #354

The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind

But while those sections are intriguing, other passages are simply revelatory: O'Neill asserts that Saddam Hussein was targeted for removal not in the 9/11 aftermath but soon after Bush took office. Paul O'Neill makes for an interesting protagonist. A vaunted economist from the days of Nixon and Ford, he returns to a Washington that's immeasurably more cutthroat.

http://www.amazon.com/Price-Loyalty-George-Education-ONeill/dp/0743255461/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-0565564-2...

sarals

05/08/07 2:44 PM

#357 RE: mcenulty #354

Against All Enemies

Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in the attacks.

http://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Enemies-Richard-Clarke/dp/0743268237/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0565564-2...

sarals

05/08/07 2:44 PM

#358 RE: mcenulty #354

my point being that it wasn't about "faulty intelligence". it was about an administration that was determined even before 911 to invade Iraq.