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CLARKE IN 92: BUSH WAS LAX ON IRAQ
The Washington Post (BRIEF EXCERPT ONLY, IN COMPLIANCE WITH COPYRIGHT LAW AND LAT/WP VS FR]
| JUNE 5, 1992
| R. Jeffrey Smith
Posted on 03/22/2004 4:59:03 PM PST by Wallaby
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To: cyncooper
He was insisting that Clarke would have to be a big fat liar to write this book and be disagreed with. Why Dan Abrams has a television show, I will never understand. Gosh Dan, just because it's in print doesn't make it true!
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:31:53 PM PST
by
Spotsy
(Bush-Cheney '04)
To: cyncooper
He was insisting that Clarke would have to be a big fat liar to write this book and be disagreed with. Why Dan Abrams has a television show, I will never understand. Gosh Dan, just because it's in print doesn't make it true!
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:32:02 PM PST
by
Spotsy
(Bush-Cheney '04)
To: A Citizen Reporter
Don't forget that in December 2000, the presidential transition process was in chaos due to the Florida selective vote recount by the dams.There is no question that this distraction hurt the presdient's ability to govern
and hampered the administration's ability to get up to speed- and then- 09-11-01 happened. Thank god we had a leader with strong executive and delegating ability. I wonder why nobody is exploring the possibility that bill clinton may have known 9-11 was coming? that is far more credible to me than Bush having prior knowledge. Think about it: it would be the ultimate symbolic tearing out of the "W" keys throughout the whitehouse.
To: Howlin
Thanks for the heads up .. will check out the 2nd airing
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:32:44 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: Will_Zurmacht
I agree that the dems are making a mistake by keeping terror on the front burners. I can just see one of the Bush/Kerry debates. Kerry will bring this issue up. Bush will say, yea several presidents, including Clinton, didn't do anything before 9-11. That is old news. Let me tell you what I have done since 9-11. Kerry will wilt under the pressure...
To: gimmebackmyconstitution
Well, that would explain why he was in AUSTRALIA on 9/11.
To: Miss Marple
Bush put the whole Clinton MO in regard to terrorist attacks when he told Rice he was "tired of swatting flies."
To: Howlin
"Richard Clarke's Legacy of Miscalculation", SecurityFocus.com, Feb. 17, 2003
Excerpts: "(Clarke) will be remembered for his steadfast belief in the danger of Internet attacks, even while genuine threats developed elsewhere. Years ago, Clarke bet his national security career on the idea that electronic war was going to be real war. He lost...Saddam will not be brought down by people stealing his e-mail or his generals being spammed with exhortations to surrender.
After being part of the NSC, Clarke was dismissed to Special Advisor for Cyberspace Security on October 9 (2002) in a ceremony led by National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and new homeland security guru Tom Ridge. If it was an advance, it was one to the rear -- a pure demotion.
In 1986, as a State Department bureaucrat with pull, he came up with a plan to battle terrorism and subvert Muammar Qaddafi by having SR-71s produce sonic booms over Libya. This was to be accompanied by rafts washing onto the sands of Tripoli, the aim of which was to create the illusion of a coming attack. When this nonsense was revealed, it created embarrassment for the Reagan administration and was buried."--George Smith
To: Wallaby
John 'Effin' Kerry Beautiful!
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:39:37 PM PST
by
RedWing9
(No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
To: prairiebreeze
Heard it on Fox. Clarke was the only Clintoon rep who gave any advice to Bush team and it was a 30 slide Power Point presentation in which supposedly one slide dealt with AQ. I think it was Rice that Clarke gave the presentation to. I've also heard that Clark refused to attend many of the meetings
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:40:09 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: Howlin
Lol.
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:40:19 PM PST
by
softengine
(Life is like a roll of toilet paper.....The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.)
To: Howlin
Here's my feeling on the subject.
Rand Beers, a registered Dem and Kerry supporter, recognising Clarkes deep disappointment and animosity toward Bush passing him over for a Homeland Security Post co-opted Clarke and pushed him in the direction he is currently pointed in.
In other words, Clarke has become a useful idiot for the left because of his ego.
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:40:25 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
(We're bringing it on John but you can't handle the truth!)
To: Howlin
LOL ..
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:40:57 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: arasina
To: yeswecan
![](http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v65/section9/FR%20Images/MotokoRifle.jpg)
Anyone see a pattern here?
I sure as hell do.
This guy is trying to curry favor with the "out" party.
So he can become one of the "in" guys. Clarke, as an Assistant SOS, might have been concerned about his tenure under the incoming Bubba Team.
Covered his bets nicely, I see.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:41:48 PM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "John Kerry: all John F., no Kennedy..." Click on my pic!)
To: Miss Marple
See above. It took place in Al Franken's place.
To: BlueAngel
That someone's apartment was Al Franken's. See above.
To: gimmebackmyconstitution
KERRY KNEW ABOUT 9/11 BOSTON HIJACKING PLAN YET DID NOTHING
Speaking of Kerrys apathy concerning the war on terror, according to Washington investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Kerry often boasts how he sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11, referring to his 1997 book, The New War.
But Kerry didnt blast it when it really counted, Sperry wrote four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them:
"Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his states main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings, Sperry wrote in the March 15 edition of the New York Post.
Again, as Kerry continues to accuse Bush of misleading America into the war in Iraq, the Kerry media cabal has flatly refused to expose Kerrys treasonous dereliction of duty in responding to a tip that could have prevented the hijackings at Logan International Airport. Much like Clintons fear of racial profiling, Kerry did nothing as well. Source:
http://25thaviation.org/johnkerry/
To: Howlin
See also ABC News, Oct. 9, 2001 -- "Clarke became well-known for his use of the phrase "electronic Pearl Harbor," when predicting the implications of a cyber-terrorist attack. Critics say he overstates the threat, perhaps as a tactic to win greater attention, support and resources for government computer defense capabilities."
To: William McKinley; Miss Marple
What is the story about that meeting?
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posted on
03/22/2004 6:46:11 PM PST
by
Howlin
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