I wonder about the Amazon reader reviews for Bush's book, DECISION POINTS.

[raccoon]

I heard a day or two ago most of them were very negative.

Strangely enough, this is how the reviews go now--I just checked as of 10:10 AM EST 11/12/10:

123 Reviews
5 star: (78)
4 star: (9)
3 star: (7)
2 star: (2)
1 star: (27)

I wonder how many are plants? I mean put there by Republicans just to outnumber the less laudatory reviews? :tinfoilhat:

[Kolesar]

1. Seventy-eight Republicans have theirheadsuptheirass

Sixteen Libertarians aren't far behind.

(musical spoof)

[ejpoeta]

2. i posted a review and you should have seen the attack on me!!

ooh boy!! i quit even reading them. you didn't even read the book, how can you review it.... because i said something about even if he didn't have a great childhood... which, btw, i would say of anyone who does bad things regardless of their childhood saying that there is no excuse for his actions and his attitudes towards things. i didn't actually read the book. perhaps i should have just said he should be at the hague on trial for war crimes and not writing books.

[ejpoeta]

3. oh and i would guess that many of the readers of this book don't read much...

i only say that because my brother is not a reader but was reading a book beck suggested, so i am going to bet that some of the readers of these kinds of books don't read much so don't necessarily have much to compare it to.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Babs has been busy.

She probably bought the first 220,000, anyway. Support your kid kinda thingy.

[Posteritatis]

5. I actually always assume Amazon book reviews are by people who haven't read the book. (nt)

[Hamlette]

6. it's also doing well on audible where you can't review it unless you buy it

but then I figure, the only people who would buy it are people who still like him.

I hope history completely trashes him. I wish I could be here to see it. And Reagan too (although looking back, Reagan who I hate with a passion was not nearly as bad as Bush)

[Demstud]

7. I doubt most are plants

I think Republicans are just more likely to be enthusiastic enough to jump online and give a good review. Democrats and liberals are probably more likely to just ignore the thing entirely. A number of people who gave the book good reviews though seem to have simply found it to be an intriguing read. How many times did you ask yourself,"What the hell is that guy thinking?!" during his presidency?

[rschop]

8. What does this book say about the super secret Augusr 24, 2001 meeting in Crawford, Texas

So in his new book, what did Bush say about the meeting he had with George Tenet Director of the CIA on August 24.2001 in Crawford, Texas? Tenet flew down from Washington DC to Crawford for a super secret meeting with President Bush on this date.

At the time of this meeting Tenet knew, that two al Qaeda terrorist, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were inside of the US, and knew they were in the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans. Tenet even knew that Zacarias Moussaoui had just been arrested by the INS, from information given to them by the Minneapolis FBI who thought Moussaoui was a terrorist who wanted to hijack a large aircraft and fly it into the World Trade Center Towers.

So what did Tenet tell Bush on August 24, 2001. We don’t know because Tenet lied at the 9/11 public hearings on April 14, 2004, and told the 9/11 Commissioners that he had not talked to Bush in August 2001, even though he admitted he knew about this huge attack, and even knew this attack would kill thousands of Americans. The memoirs from both Bush and Tenet later admitted to this meeting in Crawford.

It is inconceivable that Tenet did not give Bush this information at this August 24, 2001 meeting.

So what did Bush do with this information. It looks like he did nothing but allow the CIA to continue to shut down all FBI criminal investigations of al Qaeda terrorists found inside of the US, even when Bush and the CIA knew this would allow the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks that occurred on 9/11.

[rschop]

9. re:What does this book say about the super secret Augusr 24, 2001 meeting in Crawford, Texas

It looks like Bush was told about Midhar and Hazmi and the fact that they were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that Tenet and Bush knew would kill thousands of American, and even knew that the CIA was shutting down the FBI criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi and that this would allow these attacks to take place.

It is also clear that Bush must have known that this would result in the murder of thousands of Americans by therse terrorists and then did nothing.

In view of the fact that it is inconceivable that Tenet did not give Bush this information at thge August 24, 2001 meeting in Crawford, then what does this make Bush.