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eye22004 (482 posts) Wed Mar-24-04 01:14 PM Response to Original message

18. Did CNN just confirm this? They are having a ball over at FReeperville with this.

For once, I agree with a DUer.

Third, partisans who still believe in the process are the only people that bother to watch network television and they like everything to be quaint Rs and Ds.

To which "process" do you refer to? You've been asked several times already, but I'll ask again. Clarke has made serious allegations. They have since been countered by tapes and letters. What would you have the administration do? Let the allegations stand as they were?

The only real question for Dick Clarke is: Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

ROTFL. Now the DU'ers are claiming that this article from Time Magazine "proves" that everything coming out today is BS.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,333835,00.html

The funny thing is, it was posted on FR yesterday as validating that Clarke was full of it! For example:

"Clarke told Time that the review moved "as fast as could be expected." And Administration officials insist that by the time the review was endorsed by the Bush principals on Sept. 4, it was more aggressive than anything contemplated the previous winter. The final plan, they say, was designed not to "roll back" al-Qaeda but to "eliminate" it."

The article -does- try to make it sound like a travesty that, before 9/11, his plan didn't get a hearing until April.... when he had just come into office three months earlier after having his entire transition repeatedly delayed over the Florida mess!!! And never mind that Clarke was utterly blown off by Clinton not for 4 months but for -2 years- since 1998, by his own words.

This is just too funny. Unfortunately, since they utterly control the media, their spin is likely what will get aired.

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