TEXT OF DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE OPENING REMARKS THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS

US Air Force E-mail | 8 Apr 2004 | Condi Rice

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump!

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Partisan crowd applauds when Democrat questioner insinuates that President Bush and his team were asleep at the switch and silent otherwise!! This garbage makes nobody safer.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

 

And now in new and improved spell checked form....

The applause is from a small chorus of "families of 9/11". We've all seen this before. People who are aggrieved and who manage to focus on the wrong cause/party to take out vengeance upon. The 9/11 attacks had specific victims - but it was an attack on the entire country. These misguided folks are trying to focus blame where it does not belong. It's really quite pathetic. And they're trying to articulate a special role or privilege in the process. I had a former colleague who was killed at the WTC - does that give me special position to determine the architecture of the rebuilt WTC or some memorial? No. And the families more direct connection to the crime of 9/11 does not give them a privileged position to act as a peanut gallery for the Democratic partisans who want to turn the Bush Administration into a punching bag.

And let me say this about Jamie Gorelick who is questioning  Rice as I write. In George Stephanopoulos' book about his time in the White House he wrote about the scene as the verdict in the O.J. criminal trial was coming down. President Clinton, Stephanopoulos and Gorelick were at the White House watching it on television. Stephanopoulos point out that Gorelick had in her hands a statement to be read to the press at the White House which was a contingency plan for the event that O.J. had been convicted. It would have indicated that an investigation in Mark Fuhrman was to begin at the Justice Department and was intended to diffuse what the White House was expecting to be a race riot in L.A. over a conviction. How do you like that - they prepare for the political consequences of a conviction, but cannot find the time to direct the Justice Department to investigate the federal basis for a prosecution of O.J. on federal conspiracy to commit murder charges. These slimy, ass-covering folks wanted to make sure they kept Maxine Waters happy but couldn't lift a finger to do justice. And Gorelick was right there as Deputy AG.

[Redbob]

"Do the Dems also have a Representative named Clintonservicer?"

Nope.
"Pelosi" comes pretty close, though!

[Enterprise]

Who are the ass-clowns in the background who keep clapping? They should be removed from the hearing.

[cardinal4]

Bob Kerry just made my enemy list..

[Redbob]

"The applause is from a small chorus of "families of 9/11"."

And haven't I read that the most of vocal of these "victims" groups is financed in large part by one of Teresa Heinz KERRY's foundations?

[Enterprise]

"And Gorelick was right there as Deputy AG."

I guess she's lucky her name isn't Clintonlick or Renolick.

[Eire1916]

Yeah Condi, you go girl!!!

[bolobaby]

I would have liked to see more focus given to the WTC attack in 1993. The *only* difference between the 1993 attacks and 9/11 was the fact that 9/11 was successful. The intent in 1993 was to bring the towers down. The terrorists' failure in 1993 wasn't because of anything the United States did - only because they didn't plan effectively.

So in 1993 we dodged a 9/11 bullet. What was done about the root of the problem then? What questions were raised about our intelligence failures THEN? We got lucky and the Clinton administration's answer was non-existant.

[Enterprise]

He's another ass-clown.

[Eire1916]

What a jerk, I used to think this guy was a reasonable Dem. He is trying to make a name for himself to get back into politics. This is criminal behavior.

[cardinal4]

Calling him an ass clown is an insult to clowns and rears everywhere. Not one comment about the 8 year Clinton admin, but are hammering the 233 day old Bush admin. Bob Kerry is an enemy, I could give two sh*ts about his Vietnam service. He is an assh**e now.

[roylene]

I would love to see Dr. Rice as GW's VP. Would it not be great to see her debate Hillary?

[Bush Cheney]

Don't worry about the crowd in the audience. Condi kept her cool and was very professional about it...something that Kerry never seems to be able to do. Kerry would have been firing off insulting remarks to the people who disagreed with him.

[cardinal4]

It boggles the mind that Clinton STILL hasnt been brought up!!!

[Enterprise]

True. No matter how hard Rice drives home the point that the administration was concerned, and that there were systemic problems with the FBI and CIA which should have been resolved a long time ago, and that airline cockpits should have been hardened, jerk-offs like Kerry don't care. The Bush Administration was supposed to solve these things immediately. Kerry sucks.

[RetiredArmy]

I told you all in a post yesterday, one of these socialist would be appointed as the front man to be a smart ass and try to make a name for himself by acting a complete asshole. Said it yesterday.

[RdhseRat]

Dr. Rice is more than holding her own with the FOB's on the panel. She certainly put Ben-Veniste is his place by refusing to answer a lengthy question with a simple yes or no. She did the same thing with Kerrey.

[Ganndy]

Why does this Kerry guy keep calling here Dr. Clark??