[Quilla]

Mr. Clinton wrote in the preface, "We are blessed to be citizens of a country enjoying record prosperity with no deep divisions at home, no overriding external threats abroad, and history's most powerful military ready to defend our interests around the world."

You know that list we used to see on many threads describing the divisions/fleets/etc. cut from the military by Clinton? Well, imagine it here. I wish I could find it.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

..."His [Mr. Clarke] credibility is pretty much shot," Mr. Black said. "I'm sure Dr. Rice will finish off what is left of it when she testifies."...

Amen.

[bondjamesbond]

This is all really pointless. Nobody was aggressive enough to stop bin Laden before 9/11. The country was just not in the right place for that kind of action back then. We were in our fat-dumb-and-happy phase, right up until the second plane hit the other tower. At that instant, everything changed.

To apply our post-9/11 sensibilities to what happened before that day is grossly unfair to everybody. I do not hold the Clinton Administration responsible for 9/11, and I do not hold the Bush Administration responsible either. I hold the Islamic terrorists who did the deed, and those who aided and abetted them, responsible.

It is bad strategery for the Republicans to try to cast blame on the Clinton Administration. If Clinton could have done something in his eight years, Bush could have done something in his eight months. But the simple fact of the matter is that the country was not ready for any drastic action until we had been attacked at home.

From a strategerological point of view, any report that concludes that Clinton was responsible will have to apportion some measure of blame to Bush. The final report could be titled "How Clinton Blew It", and have a picture on the cover of Bubba with a hand grenade in one hand and a box cutter in the other, and the message the public will receive is that 9/11 was preventable and it's all George W. Bush's fault.

[johnny7]

Yea... sounds good but wait till Thursday. Wait till perky Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, gets her free shots in. Gorelick served as deputy attorney general under Janet Reno. Bob Kerry wanted to be Algores VP after being shoved around by Gore's thugs in the New Hampshire Primary in 2000. He confessed to the atrocities that John F'n Kerry made up... a million and-a-half from 1965-1972. Think he wouldn't love to be Kerry's VP?! Fair and impartial my ass.

This is do-or-die for the 'Rats'... make no mistake!

[mtbopfuyn]

Reconsider? How about a public flogging?

[VRWC_minion]

Sunday, Sept. 30, 2001 10:49 p.m. EDT

Barr to NewsMax: Condit Security Appointment 'a Joke'

When he heard the news that scandal-scarred congressman Gary Condit had been picked to serve on the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Terrorism, Rep. Bob Barr couldn't believe his ears.

"This is somebody's idea of a bad joke," he told NewsMax.com exclusively, while attending a convention Sunday of National Rifle Association supporters in Melville, N.Y.

"As a matter of fact, about a week or so ago when this was announced, ... I actually thought it was a joke," the Georgia Republican added.

Barr was the first member of Congress to call for a House Ethics Committee investigation into Condit after charges surfaced that he tried to obstruct the investigation into the disappearance of his mistress Chandra Levy.

In August, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt threatened to bounce Condit from his seat on the House Intelligence Committee after national security experts fingered him as a blackmail risk.

But not only hasn't that happened, a day after terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon prompted President Bush to announce the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, Gephardt quietly sanctioned Condit's appointment to the companion House committee.

Once Rep. Barr realized that Condit's new assignment was no prank, he was concerned the move showed a blatant disregard for national security concerns at a time when they should be paramount.

"It's a shame that this was done," he said. "It's thumbing your nose at all of those things that we ought to be doing."

Barr said he has yet to hear from the House Ethics Committee about his complaint against Condit.

"Given the amount of time that's gone by, I sort of doubt that I'll hear anything. They just don't seem to be interested," he told NewsMax.com.

[mass55th]

"   Mr. Clinton wrote in the preface, "We are blessed to be citizens of a country enjoying...no overriding external threats abroad..."

HUH?

[Cold Heat]

Ha!

That is all I have to say........................

[cyncooper]

Good.

I posted yesterday when I learned the commission asked the WH for a transcript of the speech Rice was scheduled to give on 9/11---but never gave, (they refused), that I hoped they would consider documents that are in fact in the public record like this Clinton report.

Very good, indeed.

[Lady Jag]

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