[faithincowboys]

It would have been great to have surrogates do it. The Kerry campaign is using surrogates--Clarke, Roemer, Ben-Veniste and Gorelick and the mainstream media. This resigned, passive, and defensive approach is useless.

Clarke needs to be challenged on the Sudan--that is his Waterloo. Mansoor Ijaz should hav been encouraged to go to that hearing and blow the roof off of it--that is what must be done. Also, Clarke was the guy who would have been in the position to know that the Islamists wanted to hijack planes and use them as missiles (not Condi or W) and yet when he warned the FAA he just gave a generic hijack warning. He should have been instrumental in working with the Gore Commission in 96 (the possibility of it was known by then) to force the airlines to fortify the cockpit doors and adopt mandatory security measures. That needed to happen. Mr. Clarke allowed Gore to take campaign dough in exchange for not forcing the airlines to do anything re: security. Clarke should have been questioned about letting that happen without speaking out publicly.

This is totally sick how the RINOS let this hearing absolve Clinton-Gore-Clarke and implicate Bush.

[brydic1]

Indeed, it is sick that the RINOs, all appointed to the commission by Bush to make this commission bi-partisan, for the most part, do little or nothing to point out the obvious discrepancies in the testimony of Clarke, Cohen, Albright,Berger, et al. This is just one more example of naivete of the President and his advisors in handling their own defense, while the media and the Rats make hay in subjecting the administration to a full court press, w/o a response from the so-called republican members of the commission.