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NJ Aquarium Lays Off 200. Thank You Bush! (No, Seriously, We REALLY Turned The Corner) |
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3663591/detail.html
Remember how Bush's "stimulus" package was supposed to lead to massive
jobs growth right about... now?
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AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
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Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -951 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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19 Aug 2004 01:24:35 AM |
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Ann NAILS The LIAR Clarke!
Chair-Warmer On The Hot Seat
The BEAUTIFUL & Brilliant ANN COULTER!
March 24, 2004
(Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual
hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article...
as usual!)
ARE YOU sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or
demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush!
Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book,
"Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because
the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it.
As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why
some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage
for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration?
When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton
wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream
media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in
1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV
producers demanding that
they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book
might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever."
"Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their
scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than
a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release -- many
with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away
From Aldrich's Book."
That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did
before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to
imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's
mouthpiece.")
But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the
author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's
"American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" -- with an
"analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of
its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows.
In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just
a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of
Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release.
Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her
"facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the
term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)
Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to
David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she
discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before
chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had
never heard of the terrorist organization.
But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts
for now. A few months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's
"facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years
before that,
al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact,
al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks
on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher
Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000
alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items
mentioning al-Qaida.
By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida.
It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For
Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida.
Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a
member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and
a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had
written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She
worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national
security positions.
All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida
attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K
emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's
"facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term
"al-Qaida."
Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a
cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a
dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals
could map out the relative intelligence of various black government
officials for us.
Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education?
Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office
Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be
national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial
expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to
confusion or befuddlement -- left the "impression" that she didn't
understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate
crime.
As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of
al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told
about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was
staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight:
Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do
something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke
saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far
enough?"
--
Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
Liberals HATE America!
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19 Aug 2004 05:56:15 AM |
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Ann Coulter is so shrill and wacko she lost her job as an analyst for
one station's DNC coverage.
Jésus Pépé <jpepe@N0SPAM.C0M> wrote in message news:<esh8i05ss7qrcs2vsdvb768465tefdbshl@4ax.com>...
Ann NAILS The LIAR Clarke!
Chair-Warmer On The Hot Seat
The BEAUTIFUL & Brilliant ANN COULTER!
March 24, 2004
(Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual
hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article...
as usual!)
ARE YOU sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or
demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush!
Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book,
"Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because
the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it.
As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why
some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage
for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration?
When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton
wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream
media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in
1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV
producers demanding that
they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book
might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever."
"Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their
scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than
a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release -- many
with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away
From Aldrich's Book."
That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did
before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to
imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's
mouthpiece.")
But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the
author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's
"American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" -- with an
"analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of
its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows.
In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just
a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of
Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release.
Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her
"facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the
term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)
Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to
David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she
discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before
chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had
never heard of the terrorist organization.
But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts
for now. A few months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's
"facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years
before that,
al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact,
al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks
on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher
Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000
alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items
mentioning al-Qaida.
By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida.
It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For
Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida.
Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a
member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and
a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had
written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She
worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national
security positions.
All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida
attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K
emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's
"facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term
"al-Qaida."
Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a
cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a
dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals
could map out the relative intelligence of various black government
officials for us.
Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education?
Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office
Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be
national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial
expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to
confusion or befuddlement -- left the "impression" that she didn't
understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate
crime.
As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of
al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told
about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was
staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight:
Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do
something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke
saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far
enough?"
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19 Aug 2004 01:10:05 PM |
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Is that you, Emu?
"Jésus Pépé" <jpepe@N0SPAM.C0M> wrote in message
news:esh8i05ss7qrcs2vsdvb768465tefdbshl@4ax.com...
Ann NAILS The LIAR Clarke!
Chair-Warmer On The Hot Seat
The BEAUTIFUL & Brilliant ANN COULTER!
March 24, 2004
(Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual
hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article...
as usual!)
ARE YOU sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or
demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush!
Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book,
"Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because
the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it.
As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why
some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage
for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration?
When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton
wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream
media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in
1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV
producers demanding that
they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book
might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever."
"Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their
scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than
a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release -- many
with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away
From Aldrich's Book."
That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did
before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to
imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's
mouthpiece.")
But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the
author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's
"American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" -- with an
"analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of
its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows.
In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just
a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of
Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release.
Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her
"facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the
term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)
Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to
David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she
discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before
chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had
never heard of the terrorist organization.
But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts
for now. A few months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's
"facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years
before that,
al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact,
al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks
on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher
Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000
alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items
mentioning al-Qaida.
By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida.
It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For
Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida.
Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a
member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and
a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had
written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She
worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national
security positions.
All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida
attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K
emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's
"facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term
"al-Qaida."
Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a
cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a
dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals
could map out the relative intelligence of various black government
officials for us.
Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education?
Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office
Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be
national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial
expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to
confusion or befuddlement -- left the "impression" that she didn't
understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate
crime.
As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of
al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told
about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was
staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight:
Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do
something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke
saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far
enough?"
--
Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
Liberals HATE America!
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Jésus Pépé <jpepe@N0SPAM.C0M> wrote in message news:<esh8i05ss7qrcs2vsdvb768465tefdbshl@4ax.com>...
Ann NAILS The LIAR Clarke!
Chair-Warmer On The Hot Seat
The BEAUTIFUL & Brilliant ANN COULTER!
March 24, 2004
(Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual
hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article...
as usual!)
ARE YOU sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or
demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush!
Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book,
"Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because
the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it.
As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why
some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage
for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration?
When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton
wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream
media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in
1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV
producers demanding that
they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book
might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever."
"Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their
scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than
a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release -- many
with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away
From Aldrich's Book."
That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did
before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to
imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's
mouthpiece.")
But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the
author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's
"American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" -- with an
"analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of
its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows.
In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just
a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of
Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release.
Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President
Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her
"facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the
term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)
Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to
David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she
discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before
chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had
never heard of the terrorist organization.
But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts
for now. A few months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's
"facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years
before that,
al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact,
al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks
on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher
Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000
alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items
mentioning al-Qaida.
By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida.
It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For
Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida.
Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a
member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and
a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had
written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She
worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national
security positions.
All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida
attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K
emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's
"facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term
"al-Qaida."
Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a
cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a
dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals
could map out the relative intelligence of various black government
officials for us.
Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education?
Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office
Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be
national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial
expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to
confusion or befuddlement -- left the "impression" that she didn't
understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate
crime.
As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of
al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told
about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was
staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight:
Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do
something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke
saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far
enough?"
So her criticism of Clarke is based on grade-school insults, in-clique
innuendoes, catty asides, and a repeated claim that he misinterpreted
Dr. Rice's facial expression. Perhaps. Was there anythin else in the
book that was off?
Anything?
Could anyone but a racist think that we can build a case for racism
from this possible error in interpretation of her expression? She may
have been looking at him blankly as in "what is this fool babbling
about?" or perhaps "Al-Qaeda? Why should we be thinking about them?".
Curious that MS. Coulter refers to a former FBI field agent as a
chair-warmer. Dr. Rice does gives every indication of being qualified
for her job. She also gives every indication that she follows her
bosses' lead, so it's not unreasonable to wonder how much was being
done about Al-Qaeda before Sept. 11. Dr. Rice was an expert on the
former Soviet Union, and had to be brought up to speed on the Near
East. Not a moral failing in itself, but if the emphasis in the White
House was on other issues, she may not have been as prepared as we
would have liked, in retrospect.
I don't know if Professor Rice would appreciate Ann Coulter defending
her professional honor by referencing Monica Lewinski over and over.
Monica, may, however, still be Mr. Bush's best defense.
Kermit
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19 Aug 2004 01:22:24 AM |
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The Transformation of Richard Clarke
March 29, 2004
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
In the 1990s, hard-line national security experts outside the
government regarded Richard Clarke as a rare kindred soul inside the
Clinton administration. That's mainly why he alone of Bill Clinton's
senior team was kept on by George W. Bush. So, how did Clarke become
President Bush's scourge, taken very seriously at the White House as a
threat to the re-election campaign?
The answer lies with personality rather than ideology, with personal
relations rather than political strategy. Clarke is now painted as a
miscreant by Republicans and as a martyr by Democrats, but he really
is a
super-bureaucrat accustomed to working behind closed doors who has
been thrust into the public arena. Downgraded and disrespected at the
Bush White House, he became an anti-Bush activist with his testimony
last week.
Clarke had complained to friends about the Clinton administration's
weakness on terrorism, and probably expected to prosper in a
Republican environment. Instead, he has become a leading witness for
the Democratic prosecution. His past frustration with Clinton is
minimized in his book Against All Enemies,
which excoriates Bush.
Until the past week, Clarke was best known inside Washington as one of
the most skilled manipulators ever of the national security
bureaucracy. He is the hero of journalist Richard Miniter's 2003 book,
Losing Bin Laden, a scathing exposure of Clinton's anti-terrorism
failings. Clarke was described as ''blunt, tough and unrelenting'' in
pursuing terrorist Ramzi Yousef, sought in the first World Trade
Centre bombing. ''Imagine what he could have accomplished if Clinton
had publicly endorsed his efforts,'' Miniter wrote.
Clarke was not only the hero but also obviously a prime source of
Losing Bin Laden. Miniter for the first time revealed, directly
quoting Clarke, the meeting of Cabinet-level officials on Oct. 12,
2000, after the terrorist attack on the USS Cole. The vote was 7-1
against an attack on Osama bin Laden. Only Clarke wanted action.
In his own book, Clarke quickly brushes off the Cole meeting that he
described in detail to Miniter. Instead of complaining about Clinton's
failure to come to grips with al-Qaida and bin Laden, Clarke recites
what
sounds like Democratic talking points. He even interprets U.S.
intervention in Bosnia as having ''defeated al-Qaida,'' adding that
Clinton ''had seen earlier than anyone that terrorism would be the
major new threat facing America.''
Clarke's experience with the Bush administration appeared to heighten
his appreciation of Clinton. Whereas he had briefed Clinton, Bush was
briefed by CIA Director George Tenet. Clarke found himself at
''deputies'' rather than ''principals'' meetings. The final indignity
was his rejection by Secretary Tom Ridge for a high-ranking Homeland
Security post.
While Clarke had worked closely with Clinton National Security Adviser
Sandy Berger in bureaucratic manoeuvres to further Clarke's
anti-terrorist agenda, Condoleezza Rice as Berger's successor was not
engaged. Clarke described her to close associates as ''shallow.''
Beyond Rice, friends say, Clarke felt uncomfortable with the
conservatives brought in by George W. Bush as he had not felt with
George H.W. Bush's or certainly Clinton's team. The White House team
is not hospitable to outsiders, and Clarke was surely an outsider.
Clarke since he left the government is described by friends as
becoming much closer to Rand Beers, who succeeded him as chief
terrorist official in the Bush administration. Beers quit his
high-ranking post to become Sen. John Kerry's foreign policy adviser.
Since then, Clarke and Beers have been collaborating.
That Beers is a registered Democrat and Clarke says he is a registered
(but never an active) Republican is inconsequential. Clarke's only
political contributions in 2002 and 2004 were to two former colleagues
on the Clinton National Security Council staff who are running for
Congress as Democrats.
While Clarke testified under oath last week that he would not join a
Kerry administration, he is now, in effect, part of the Kerry
campaign. His book's publication was timed to coincide with his
testimony, and his transformed posture is one of political partisan.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
Liberals HATE America!
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