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Yeah, when I read about the Congressional GOP plot to declassify the testimony in an effort the attack Clarke, I had to chuckle. They bust be REALLY scared of him to be practicing these slash-and-burn tactics. Funny how they seem so intent on attacking the man instead of what he has said.
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Maybe they get a cut of his book sales.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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So would I, but hey, if this makes them look deperate.Originally posted by DinoDoc
I'd rather they take your other advice and move on.
I wonder when Fox will start to organize boycotts of the book? Will the GOP send letters to bookstores trying to stop them from selling it? Certainly the right-wing talk-jocks will be calling for boycotts soon enough.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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From washingtonpost.com:
White House targets ClarkeAs his advisers tell it, President Bush had tired of the White House playing defense on issue after issue. So this week, his aides turned the full power of the executive branch on Richard A. Clarke, formerly the administration's top counterterrorism official, who charges in his new book that Bush responded lackadaisically in 2001 to repeated warnings of an impending terrorist attack.
Bush's aides unleashed a two-pronged strategy that called for preemptive strikes on Clarke before most people could have seen his book, coupled with saturation media appearances by administration aides. They questioned the truthfulness of Clarke's claims, his competence as an employee, the motives behind the book's timing, and even the sincerity of the pleasantries in his resignation letter and farewell photo session with Bush.
The barrage was unusual for a White House that typically tries to ignore its critics, and it was driven by White House calculations that Clarke would appear credible to average viewers. Bush's advisers are concerned that Clarke's assertions are capable of inflicting political damage on a president who is staking his claim for reelection in large measure on his fight against terrorism.
This isn't going to play out the way the Bushies want it. Putting the entire administration against one man (a retiree!) is going to appear as exactly what it is -- desperation. Of course, it also displays them as the bullies that they basically are."When all else fails, a pigheaded refusal to look facts in the face will see us through." -- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay MelchettComment
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Not just the entire administration-the entire republican party machine.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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exactlyOriginally posted by Boris Godunov
Funny how they seem so intent on attacking the man instead of what he has said.
A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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And here's an CNN-link from April 30, 2001, which could confirm Clarke:
And this only three months after entering the WH. So much about it was all Clintons fault...WASHINGTON (CNN) -- For the second year in a row, the State Department warned that South Asia "remained a focal point for terrorism directed against the United States" and said trends in terrorism continue to shift from the Middle East to South Asia.
The State Department's "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000" cites Afghanistan's ruling Taleban as a major reason for South Asia's role as a hub of terrorism, as it "continued to provide safe haven for intentional terrorists, particularly Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and his network."
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It added that the Taleban provided logistics support to members of various terrorist organizations in Central Asia, Chechnya and Kashmir.
Unlike last year's report, bin Laden's al Qaeda organization is mentioned, but the 2000 report does not contain a photograph of bin Laden or a lengthy description of him and the group. A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts of the elephant and not the whole beast."
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He lied under oath. That simple.Originally posted by GePap
Seems the republicans are trully scared about this guy-they might even take my advice and attempt to charge him for perjury-if they can.
"And this only three months after entering the WH. So much about it was all Clintons fault..."
Actually I don't see how that confirms anything.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Give it up Fez. Bush will be lucky if he doesn't spend the rest of his life behind bars.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Why don't you go jump in front of a moving bus? Bush spending the rest of his life behind bars? WHAT THE **** ARE YOU ON? DRUGS?Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Give it up Fez. Bush will be lucky if he doesn't spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Last edited by Giancarlo; March 26, 2004, 20:29.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Figures. Ogie posts a relevent and on point article and it gets ignored by everyone.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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Heh.. the article (speech) I posted was a bunch of crap..
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Any proof of that?Originally posted by Giancarlo
He lied under oath. That simple.
If you're referring to Bill Frist's request that certain transcripts be de-classified, well, Frist doesn't even know what is in them. So he can claim that Clarke may have lied and we'll never know because the transcript will probably never be declassified.the good reverendComment
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Fine. So why not prosecuting him?Originally posted by Giancarlo
He lied under oath. That simple.justice is mightComment
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Soon enough. As soon as his testimony gets declassified.Originally posted by oedo
Fine. So why not prosecuting him?For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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