Memo To MadeleineAlNotbright:
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Posted on 09/27/2006 1:48:35 PM PDT by oxcart
LOL...very apropos.
Bingo!!
Memo To MadeleineAlNotbright:
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So does Zarkawi--ooops, he's dead, he ain't sayin' nothin'.
With all due respect, Ms Albright, I do believe that the scope of Bush foreign policy is far broader than Clinton's foreign policy, which rarely if ever rose in importance above the kinky cravings of Klinton and his kooky kronie broad, ever ready beneath his Oval office desk, to kiss away his bent and perverted stress.
This is an obvious scam to make it Maddie v. Condi.
Condi might want to come out and say that Maddie is looking very well these days, and move on.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
And Condi, will, take the high ground. She's one Classy Lady.
Albright: Bush Planning Bin Laden October Surprise
Also said in 1998:
"This is, unfortunately, the war of the future," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said. "The Osama bin Laden organization has basically declared war on Americans and has made very clear that these are all Americans, anywhere."
The national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said: "This is an evil that is directed at the United States. It's going to persist." And Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering said, "We are in this for the long haul."
"You, senator, I know, were the only person that I know of who suggested declaring war. In retrospect, you were probably right." Madeleine Albright, on the first day of the 9/11-commission hearings, after being questioned by commissioner and former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D., Neb.) about the Clinton administration's tepid response to the terrorist attacks that occurred from 1993 to 2000.
The Clinton/Albright War of Words
Backing up a little bit, now, to Kosovo.... Why did you and the president, at the beginning of the air campaign, decide to at least publicly leave a ground war off the table?
Well, I think that what we wanted to do was to make clear there was a way to deal with it through bombing. Frankly, I wish that we had left all the options on the table early on, as you look upon it. But I think at the time there was the sense that we had to deal with American public opinion, with the Congress, and also with the Europeans. I think if one looks back -- I personally wish that we had left that option on the table more clearly....
Did President Clinton fear that by leaving a ground war on the table early public opinion would sink any mission in Kosovo, especially with the concerns coming out of Congress at the time?
Well, I think if you remember there was always a lot of discussion about what we were doing in the Balkans anyway. Why did we have forces in Bosnia? Why did we care? And the president systematically made the argument that the Balkans were important to what we were trying to do in Europe generally.
When the president came in he felt that it was very important to have a Europe that was undivided and free, democratic. And a lot of the things that we did directly were part of that and understanding what the mission of NATO was to be in the 21st century. Enlargement of NATO is one of the really important landmarks and credits to President Clinton, [and] dealing with the Balkans as the missing piece of a Europe that could claim that it was undivided and free was an essential aspect of what we were doing.
And yet there are a lot of people [who thought] why bother? Let the Europeans do it. And it was very evident that without American leadership nothing would have happened. But it did take a systematic education of the American public and Congress to try to deal with the issue... I think, frankly, we were concerned about undoing what we had been able to accomplish in Bosnia, and it was a systematic effort to try to do it with as little as possible American ground involvement.
2000 Interview of Madeline Albright
Maybe she can explain the difference. I don't see it, other than Bush's Foreign Policy is working.
I like the picture of the milk carton with the spine on the side of the carton. But if the head of the Republican party (that would be Mr.Bush) is pictured you might want to hang 2 large testiles made of pure and refined brass hanging from the spine. He has taken more crap from feckless critics and remained essentially reserved about it than anyone should be asked to take. So the Senate Republicans have been fairly spinesless....the House Republicans ...a little better,....Bush has been steady. Lets give him credit where it is due. He has not always been right,...but he is steady.
"Bush should have relied on Clinton"
Why should he? Even Hillary cannot rely on Clinton.
sure...we relied on clinton appointee George Tenet to lead the CIA.....how'd that workout madman Albright???
THIS IS SPOT ON!
I give our President tremendous kudos. It's the most of the rest of the party that are spineless, uninformed, or just plain stupid. There are a slew of folks here on FR infinitely more capable of being Senators or Confressmen than half the dopes in DC.
If there's one thing Ms. Albright knows, it's being a mess.
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