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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals | 
| Author: Jane Mayer
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
Buy New: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.7
ISBN: 0385526393
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9780385526395
ASIN: 0385526393
Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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Condition: brand new, never read, no marks etc
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 Astonishing August 19, 2008
This was my first kindle book and it was very hard to put down. Clear facts. Timelines. Public and private records.
Beautiful and fluid storytelling about the most horrible thing imagineable...The US sacrificing all of its most cherished values to defeat the evil of terrorism.
As a veteran, I wrote letters to the President and my representatives when the Abu Gharib torture photos were released. In the Air Force we were made to memorize the Geneva Conventions...the activities described in this book would have been interpreted by any military individual I served with as an unlawful order under the Constitution as well as the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The Decision Makers may have thought they were doing what was necessary...but in the end their tragic choices have created a legacy that will haunt the country...especially our currently serving soldiers...now at even greater risk for torture and humiliation at the hands of any potential captors.
I have been recommending this book to everyone I know. It is a book that one does not really want to read...but should.
Solid documenation of one Bush policy August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Of the many critical books about the administration this one is among the most solidly documented treatments of one Bush policy--definition of and handling of terrorist suspects. The most realistic Americans, those who understand that even good people do evil things, if they read this book will have to admit that under Bush & Co. leadership we joined the ranks of the most evil.
IMPORTANT READ August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I HAVE READ ALMOST ALL THE BOOKS ABOUT THE BUSH LOT OVER THESE PAST 8 YEARS AND THIS ONE IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST - IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYONE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR COUNTRY AND THE UPCOMING ELECTION. IN FACT, IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR ALL HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS, TO SAY NOTHING OF THEIR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS. A REALLY IMPORTANT BOOK
Necessary Book August 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This thoroughly researched, carefully annotated, and deeply depressing account of the process by which torture was instituted from the White House down as an acceptable practice provides multiple grounds for both impeachment of the perpetrators and eventual pursuit of them as war criminals--including Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, and perhaps Tenet. (Of course, either outcome is unlikely.) All of this is presented in clear and sober prose. It would be difficult to imagine that anyone could provide a clearer representation of why the last eight years have been such an unmitigated disaster for the country. Jane Mayer should win every possible award, and we are all in her debt for her heroic efforts.
CJP August 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent book, well-researched and thorough. Explains in more detail than I had been aware the process by which torture became the unspoken policy of the US as against detainees in the "war on terror," calling it a war rather than treating the detainees as potential criminals, subject to the criminal justice system, and detaining and torturing to prevent future attacks rather than based on something that was done in the past, turning our criminal justice system on its head.
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