
A Pretext for War
9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
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Robertson Dean
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James Bamford
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"Much of the information and many of the theories in Mr. Bamford's book will be familiar to readers from earlier magazine and newspaper articles, and other books....But Mr. Bamford unearths new details about everything from the identity of one of the disclosed locations used by Vice President Dick Cheney after 9/11...to the failures of a special CIA unit charged with tracking Osama bin Laden, and he connects the many dots, both old and new, to create a vivid, unsettling narrative." (The New York Times)
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Listen to ?Sleeping with the Devil? too. This is not Fox News!
A must read before you vote
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Good to hear the truth
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Truly Disturbing
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This book tells all about how this happened. It tells precisely and dispassionately about the lies and where they came from and who cooked them up. The author tells ahead of time, what the memos now corroborate. Details about what brought Colin Powell to the table at the UN, how he fought it and what happened and why. It tells why after fighting and killing and being killed in the name of waging war on terror nobody is safer or better off.
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I read it twice, back to back. I highly recommend the education it affords.
Hair raising, Disturbing. Critical
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Good Reporting and account of our lead up to war.
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Again in this book Bamford seems to have the facts at his fingertips - many many dots floating in outer political space for me since 9/11 and the war that just never made any sense are now connected by this book. No emotion no agenda no deck of cards - just lots of interesting facts that are easy to check. This is not a political book in fact it is equally critical of both sides. In the end the facts are both interesting and explain how we got ourselves into 9/11 and the war - it makes it understandable. The Dots are connected.
He does ramble a bit from topic to topic, but so do the dots - just fascinated by backup details on history of people and why it all came together the way it did. In the end no answers but important to understand whats happend to start.
I have never written a review and listen to and read hundreds of books feel compelled to say this book is a must listen.
My dots are connected
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A Pretext for War was a captivating and often chilling presentation of the facts surrounding the events leading up to and of the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War. At times throughout the middle and late stages of the book you can become lost in the details. There are so many dates, names, departments and acronyms that you can get quite lost in the maze. In saying that though, if you're into the nitty-gritty facts surrounding this topic you'll love this book. It makes the book readable (listenable) over and over.
Captivating!
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A pretext for war
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