[Eva]

I reposted the article and some idiot ( OXENinFLA ) complained to the moderator and had the thread pulled.

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[My2Cents]

Bears repeating:

There is other evidence of a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda that Mr. Clarke should have felt obliged to address. Just days before Mr. Clarke resigned, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that bin Laden had met at least eight times with officers of Iraq's Special Security Organization. In 1998, an aide to Saddam's son Uday defected and repeatedly told reporters that Iraq funded al Qaeda. South of Baghdad, satellite photos pinpointed a Boeing 707 parked at a camp where terrorists learned to take over planes. When U.S. forces captured the camp, its commander confirmed that al Qaeda had trained there as early as 1997. Mr. Clarke does not take up any of this.

At some point (hopefully before the election, and sooner rather than later), the Bush Administration must issue a comprehensive report, interim if necessary, on what we know about Saddam's links to al-Qaeda. The virtual silence of the Administration on this question is understandable considering that investigations and the pouring through of Iraqi intelligence papers are still under way. But what isn't understandable is why the Administration continues to take a pounding from the naysaying left, and its lapdog mainstream media, that "there were no links between Saddam and terror!" Because of the incessant naysaying, many impressionable Americans believe there were no links.

It's hard defending the Administration's policies when they aren't doing a good job defending those policies themselves.

[VadeRetro]

In 1998, the Clinton administration alerted Pakistan to our imminent missile strikes in Afghanistan, despite the links between Pakistan's intelligence service and al Qaeda. Mr. Clarke excuses this decision--bin Laden managed to flee just before the strikes--as a diplomatic necessity.

This kind of thing needs to be better known before the Democrats sneak another one into the White House.

[neverdem]

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[Ann Archy]

Clinton probably has Clarke's FBI files and THAT'S why he's flipped.

[Lancey Howard]

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[Lancey Howard]

Every time I read another article like this one, my view of the so-called "9/11 Commission" grows more and more suspect. What are those fools doing? Why aren't these important questions asked; these important points raised?

In my opinion, Bush had a choice to make over the past week: He could either offer up Condi Rice, thereby elevating the credibility of the Commission and it's alleged investigation, or, he could finally rail against the Commission and dismiss it for what it now clearly is - -a political farce designed to pander to some victims' families and pretend that somebody will get to the bottom of the government's failure to prevent 9/11.

The Commission is now engaged in a blame game and a political witch-hunt, and after Clarke's lying testimony, the defensive (and idiotic) comments by Bob Kerrey, and the leaks by that scumbag Benvenista, Bush had all the ammo he needed to dismiss the Commission as a waste of time and taxpayer money. He could then have announced that the Commission had lost its way and that he, Bush, would no longer allow anyone in his Administration to testify, in public or otherwise.

Bush could have followed this up by announcing the formation of a new (anonymous) panel of military and intelligence experts who would conduct a full and thorough investigation, completely outside of the public eye, and report its findings and recommendations back to him in April.

[Mia T]

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Lib Author Regrets Voting (TWICE!) for clinton
"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism

MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)

The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)

UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."

 

hillary talks: ON TERROR

(viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)

 

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history.

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
MANSOOR IJAZ
December 5, 2001

 

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[PGalt]

Thanks for the post, ping.