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To: Mo1

Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror

By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003; Page A01

Five days before the war began in Iraq, as President Bush prepared to raise the terrorism threat level to orange, a top White House counterterrorism adviser unlocked the steel door to his office, an intelligence vault secured by an electronic keypad, a combination lock and an alarm. He sat down and turned to his inbox.

"Things were dicey," said Rand Beers, recalling the stack of classified reports about plots to shoot, bomb, burn and poison Americans. He stared at the color-coded threats for five minutes. Then he called his wife: I'm quitting.



"Counterterrorism is like a team sport. . . . There has to be offense and defense," says Rand Beers. "The Bush administration is primarily offense."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer


809 posted on 04/21/2006 5:26:46 PM PDT by onyx (Today is GOOD FRIDAY and MARY MC CHRISTMAS)
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To: onyx

My brain is on overload. Life is good.


817 posted on 04/21/2006 5:30:23 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: onyx

WOW...Beers is a quitter when ACTION is going to be taken to PROTECT AMERICA!!! It is NEVER safe for DEMS to be in power...NEVER!


822 posted on 04/21/2006 5:32:14 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: onyx; Mo1
"Waaaaaah .... I HATE to win..."

He HAD TO HAVE BEEN a Clintonista .. whatta pathetic wimp.

831 posted on 04/21/2006 5:34:38 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author:)
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