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Hardball Tonight: Clarke - 9/11 Might Have Been Prevented
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| Updated: 3:35 p.m. ET March 31, 2004
| Alex Johnson
Posted on 03/31/2004 1:03:36 PM PST by ironman
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To: ironman
Acknowledging that he was indulging in 20/20 hindsight, Clarke said
Clarke, read my tagline.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:17:57 PM PST
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: TomGuy
Last night on LKL, Bob Scheiffer from CBS blamed Monica Lewinsky!
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:18:54 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
No, wait the book fits in with the second 9-11 testimony Clarke gave the to the 9-11 commission, no wait, it fits with the first testimony he gave the second commission, no wait, the briefing, no the emails, no wait, the 60 Minutes interview, oh, wait that goes over here... and voila:
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:19:03 PM PST
by
eyespysomething
(To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target)
To: Howlin
This isn't really a change. He admitted that even if all the policy changes he wanted were made, it would have made no difference with respect to 9-11. That's because all his suggestions were aimed at aiding the Northen Alliance, sending special ops into Afghanastan, etc.
What he's saying now is that if every bit of intelligence that can be peiced together nicely with 20/20 hindsight was presented to him prior to 9-11, he could have put it together because he is a master at solving puzzles. Here's a picture of him in the situation room solving riddles
To: ironman
Wow... Dick Clarke for 60 minutes with Chris Matthews... Sounds like a Lewinsky to me.
To: eyespysomething
ROFLMAO! I have another one of those, but it's unpostable on FR!
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:20:16 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: redlipstick
Clarke did tape his Hardball appearance.
I wonder if Chrissy "put the screws to him" as Thompson instructed. Something tells me "no".
lol
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:20:45 PM PST
by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: ironman
This @sshole has a "superman" complex. He needs help.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:21:07 PM PST
by
Danette
(Bush 2004)
To: ironman
This @sshole has a "superman" complex. He needs help.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:21:21 PM PST
by
Danette
(Bush 2004)
To: ironman
This nutter is having delusions of Bond - now he seems to think he's a double-o agent.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:22:22 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
To: ironman
A copy of an email I sent to Hardball:
As a retired Foreign Service Officer, I was angered by Clarke's comments during the hearing that only 35 Americans lost their lives to al-Qaeda during the Clinton administration compared to the number lost during Bush's tenure. There were 36 US employees (American and local) killed in Kenya alone. Clarke and Clinton need to answer for their feckless reaction to the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings, which injured and killed thousands. Clarke's assertion that the Clinton administration placed a higher priority on fighting terrorism is belied by their reaction to the attacks on our embassies.
According to official Kenyan government figures, 213 people were killed in the blast that gutted the U.S. Embassy building in downtown Nairobi. That included 12 American workers and 34 of their Kenyan colleagues, called "foreign service nationals [FSNs]." More than 4,000 Kenyans were also injured in the explosion.
According to Tanzanian government figures, 12 people, all Tanzanians, died as a result of the truck bomb that exploded in the street outside the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Seventy-two Americans and Tanzanians were also injured in the terrorist attack.
The bombings in East Africa should have been the real 9/11 wake-up call for the American public. It was a failure of leadership (read Clinton/Clarke) that did not rally our country to go to war against al-Qaeda. The number of total casualties, wounded and dead, in the East Africa bombings against our embassies approximated those suffered on 9/11. In addition to the bombings, bin Laden had issued a fatwah in 1998 declaring war against the United States. Clarke/Clinton's response was to blow up an aspirin factory in the Sudan and launch some missiles at terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
The bottom line is that the Clinton administration failed to recognize we were at war and took the less controversial stance of treating terrorism as an ad hoc, law enforcement matter. There was a thread that ran through all of these attacks, and attempted attacks and that was al-Qaeda.
When our vital national interests are at stake, I want a President who will take action regardless of how it may affect the polls or our international standing or the personal consequences. One of the functions of leadership is to lead and build a national consensus. Clinton saw foreign policy as an extension of domestic politics and acted accordingly. We are reaping the whirlwind due to Clinton's failures.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:23:39 PM PST
by
kabar
To: commish
At that point it will be time to tie Richard Clarke around Kerry's neck like an albatross.Seems like Clarke and F'ing Kerry have a common problem:
FLIP FLOP!
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:24:09 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Give liberals a rope, and they will hang themselves with it.)
To: TomGuy
This is analogous to questioning what the definition of "is" is.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:24:34 PM PST
by
mwl1
To: Howlin
Last night on LKL, Bob Scheiffer from CBS blamed Monica Lewinsky! He's just jealous because she pushed Sheiffer out of the way right after he got himself a new shiny beret to wear.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:24:42 PM PST
by
Dahoser
(They RATS are waging war on many fronts. That's the big picture.)
To: JulieRNR21
And half the people who watch are probably conservative masochists like me who watch just to be annoyed.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:24:54 PM PST
by
Huck
(In the Soviet Union, the Admin Moderators ruled.)
To: Howlin
I'm starting to think this guy is certifiably insane. No stable person could publicly contradict himself so much and so frequently. I think there is an actual mental problem here.
Maybe we will eventually see the little guys in the white coats escorting Dickie-Poo away, mumbling incoherently and talking back to those "voices".
To: rocklobster11
What he's saying now is that if every bit of intelligence that can be peiced together nicely with 20/20 hindsight was presented to him prior to 9-11, he could have put it together...Well, if we here at FR had known all that, I suspect WE could have "put it together," too.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:25:28 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: ironman
"Clarkes comments, in an hourlong interview on MSNBCs Hardball, were a departure from the testimony he gave last week before the independent commission investigating the attacks, when he answered no to the question of whether there was the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11 even if everything he had called for had been implemented."
This guy is sure all over the map! As Post #2 says, how is it he can stay straight within a week's time, but he has perfect recall of 9/11? (And I would add to that, all the stories about the book are that he paints himself as the Hero in Charge on 9/11, ordering planes shot down, ordering the President to stay out of D.C. ...)
To: Howlin
How come every time I read about Clarke he's talking about the lack of meetings? In my world those that excessively meet persistently fail to make any difference as leaders.
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:26:07 PM PST
by
Dolphy
To: Huck
I know! We're shameless!
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posted on
03/31/2004 1:26:07 PM PST
by
Howlin
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