Wow! Is Rush on a roll this morning!

1 posted on 03/22/2004 9:31:54 AM PST by BJungNan

I purposely didn't watch it. But I WILL watch this thread!

2 posted on 03/22/2004 9:33:52 AM PST by EggsAckley (....."I see the idiot is here"............)

Democrap infomercial bump!

3 posted on 03/22/2004 9:34:06 AM PST by talleyman (John Kerry won the Al Quaeda primary.)

4 posted on 03/22/2004 9:34:13 AM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)

Please elaborate for the cubically challenged. Thanks.

5 posted on 03/22/2004 9:36:05 AM PST by Quilla

Went to RL's site. You now have to be a paying member to stream his show from the internet?

6 posted on 03/22/2004 9:36:07 AM PST by sauropod (Life is too short to drink cheap beer!)

I don't know about streaming. It won't work on my archaic dialup phone line. (life in the boondocks)

7 posted on 03/22/2004 9:38:07 AM PST by EggsAckley (....."I see the idiot is here"............)

http://www.wgst.com/stream.html
For one...

8 posted on 03/22/2004 9:38:40 AM PST by grobdriver

Please elaborate for the cubically challenged. Thanks

I'm sure (and hope) others will chim in with better detail but here is a short snipet.

Clark's book is published by CBS/Viacom. They have a stake in it. This was not an interview, it was an infomercial.

9 posted on 03/22/2004 9:41:04 AM PST by BJungNan

I really dislike posts where people say:

"WoW! Look At That!"....and don't tell us a bloody thing.

10 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:18 AM PST by SkyPilot

11 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)

Clark is a piece of dog excrement. How can such people live with themselves?

12 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:18 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrack of news.)

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 Clinton

13 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:29 AM PST by Peach

14 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:41 AM PST by jokar (After all, they're not Americans, they're only journalists)

I use WLS AM Chicago........Works great

15 posted on 03/22/2004 9:42:49 AM PST by CMailBag

16 posted on 03/22/2004 9:43:05 AM PST by Peach

This is going to be "one for the archives of broadcasting excellence". Rush is refuting the allegations,making the connections, dotting the i's and crossing the t's regarding Richard Clark, AND he will interview VP Dick Cheney at 1PM! I'm gonna be listening!

17 posted on 03/22/2004 9:43:05 AM PST by LucyJo

The FCC should look at this as a program-length commercial. If CBS logged it as "news" they should be fined.

18 posted on 03/22/2004 9:43:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks

( pnem et circnss, translating; Bill and Janet )

At The Movies with the Clinton Administration: Popcorn shrimp, popcorn chicken, Popcorn Presidency

[ film courtesy of Clinton- Kleenex Littlerock Library Videodata Archives and FBI File and Film Studios ]

19 posted on 03/22/2004 9:44:32 AM PST by Helms

The Clarke allegations have been broadsided all morning. I doubt they get much traction and won't have much steam after today.

Condi hit on several networks this morning.

Mansoor Ijaz hit on FoxNews and on Tony Snow's radio program.

Alexander Haag

Even David Gergin was sort of saying the issue was empty.

It is difficult for the Clintonites to keep rolling these guys out every few months and having them try to spin and rewrite history. It is still about the Clinton legacy. Trouble is, that legacy is set in stone. The Clinton Machine is still running behind the scenes.

20 posted on 03/22/2004 9:44:33 AM PST by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hindsight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)

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