"Yang AthD (h.c.)" <eacmole@AWOLGWBmail,com> wrote in message
news:D46dncvSFIf0CPLdRVn-iQ@comcast.com...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40798-2004Mar31.html
"When President Bush appeared momentarily on Tuesday afternoon in the
White
House briefing room, he came to announce a surrender. After weeks of
resistance, he had capitulated to the growing political pressure for
national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to give the bipartisan
commission
investigating the Sept. 11 tragedy her sworn public testimony.
Bush's surrender came nine days after his former top counterterrorism
aide,
Richard Clarke, had fired a missile into the heart of Bush's proudest
boast -- and the main plank of his reelection campaign -- by charging the
president with indifference to the threat of terrorism before Sept. 11.
For
nine days the White House and its allies did everything in their power to
discredit Clarke, while trying to shield his old boss, Rice, from the
commission's unanimous request that she give sworn public testimony in
response to Clarke's stunning indictment.
When the effort to shoot the messenger failed to halt the political
erosion,
Bush did what he never should have done: He threw Rice to the commission.
And, worse, he failed to do what he could have done long before: Offer the
American people and the world a clear, coherent and detailed account of
his
own activities and state of mind in the months leading up to the attacks
on
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Instead of acting as the man in
charge and saying to the commission, "No, you may not put my national
security adviser on the mat, but I will answer to the public for what
happened," he did just the opposite. He gave up Rice and then turned on
his
heel and walked out of the briefing room even as reporters were trying to
ask him questions.
At a time when the American people -- and the world -- desperately need
reassurance that the government was not asleep at the switch, Bush has
clenched his jaw and said nothing that would ease those concerns. Instead,
he has arranged that when he answers the commission's questions in a
yet-to-be-scheduled private session, he will not face it alone. He and
Vice
President Cheney will appear together. It will be interesting to learn who
furnishes most of the answers..."
--
Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Socerey Division
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: -602 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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