Condi Smacks Clarke on Fox'N Friends

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[ReleaseTheHounds]

Condi Rice was just interviewed on Fox'N Friends and she did a slam-dunk on Richard Clarke.

She properly noted that he had been Counter-Terrorism Czar for a number of years in the Clinton Administration and had plenty of opportunity to develop strategies to confront Al Qaeda which he (and that Administration) never pursued.

She acknowledged that Clarke had a number of "ideas" about confronting and combatting terrorism -- many of which the Bush Administration adopted. But they were a set of "ideas" not a comprehensive strategy which President Bush was looking for.

Typical Condi performance: flawless.

[BibChr]

<< Ms. Condoleezza Rice
President 2008 >>

What is her position on killing children for being inconvenient or imperfect?

Dan

[OXENinFLA]

From amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743260244/qid=1079961623/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6702919-5646254?v=glance&s=books#product-details

Publisher: Free Press; (March 22, 2004)

[Catspaw]

I note that his book is #5 on the Amazon.com list.

[MEG33]

This morning Condi on Today!

[OXENinFLA]

Funny how they don't put S&S on the book.

I wonder if they don't want people to put the CLINTON connection together.


http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=500887

[Carolinamom]

As per FN Richard Clarke tried to get a job w/Homeland Security but did not get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peach]

Bob Woodward in his book Bush at War was given unprecedented access to the president and his administration, including Clarke. Clarke did not mention his concerns about a "focus on Iraq."

The Bush administration was continuing the Clinton administration's foreign policy which called for regime change in Iraq.

Iraq's involvement in supporting terrorists is longer than I can post her but some of the more obvious: Abdul Rahman Yasin, the one conspirator from the 1993 WTC bombing, had fled to Iraq and was harbored by Saddam Hussein for years. Paying Palestinian bomber's families. Salmon Pak where terrorists used a real airplane to learn how to hijack OUR planes.

Clarke claims that Condi Rice didn't even know who Al Qaeda was. I'm nearly falling on the floor laughing. The entire world knew UBL was a threat when he was interviewed in a world exclusive interview, by CNN's Nic Robertson in August of 1998, televised in it's entirety to the world via CNN and CNN International and when he famously repeated his jihad against America.

Just a year ago Clarke was singing a different tune, telling reporter Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," that it was the Clinton administration - not team Bush - that had dropped the ball on bin Laden.

Clarke, who was a primary source for Miniter's book, detailed a meeting of top Clinton officials in the wake of al Qaeda's attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.

He urged them to take immediate military action. But his advice found no takers.

Reporting on Miniter's book, the National Review summarized the episode:

"At a meeting with Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and other staffers, Clarke was the only one in favor of retaliation against bin Laden."

The list of excuses seemed endless:

"Reno thought retaliation might violate international law and was therefore against it.

"Tenet wanted to more definitive proof that bin Laden was behind the attack, although he personally thought he was.

"Albright was concerned about the reaction of world opinion to a retaliation against Muslims, and the impact it would have in the final days of the Clinton Middle East peace process.

"Cohen, according to Clarke, did not consider the Cole attack 'sufficient provocation' for a military retaliation."

And what about President Clinton? According to what Clarke told Miniter, he rejected the attack plan. Instead Clinton twice phoned the president of Yemen demanding better cooperation between the FBI and the Yemeni security services.

Clarke offered a chillingly prescient quote from one aide who agreed with him about Clinton administration inaction. "What's it going to take to get them to hit al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon?" said the dismayed Clintonista

[Mo1]

Simon & Schuster published the book??

You're right it is funny they don't want their name on the book

[captbarney]

Author Rowan Scarbourough "Rumsfeld War" BASHING Clarke ,Whom he interviewed

[MEG33]

It's been a full morning!I think Clarke is not going to be the darling the dems hoped for.!

[OXENinFLA]

(Check my post#65)


I wonder if he got an "advance"?

[Peach]

The DNC has their talking points.

And we have ours!

[OXENinFLA]

Also in Scarborough's(sp) new book 'Rumsfled's war' he talks about Pres. Bush wanting to find out IF Iraq was involved.

[pogo101]

Actually, if she was both "good" or better substantively, AND PISSED, then she has improved: in the past, Condi's only real flaw was coming off like a Vulcan in the face of leftist lies. Good to hear she busted a verbal cap in his a$$.

[OXENinFLA]

Ahhhhhhhhh I missed that!

[captbarney]

Rice, Ijaz, Haig, Podhoretz, Scarborough during the same hour,GREAT. Fox and the White House PREPARED TO FIGHT BACK

[Brandon]

Free Press is a division of Simon and Schuster:

http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=33&feature_id=1625

[ShandaLear]

But this was the book that interview that was supposed to take the Bush administrations down. Kerry's studying it closely and everything. What happened?

[roses of sharon]

It matters not, since "60 min" already smeared Bush in their promos during hours of Basketball yesterday and last nite.

Our fight is with the elite liberal media.

Anyone have the phone # of "60 min"?

[OXENinFLA]

Laura Ingraham is ripping into clark right now.(on her raido show)