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Richard Clarke on GMA: With Zarqawi Dead, Iraq No Safer, War's End No Closer
GMA/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/08/2006 7:57:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

June 8, 2006 - 10:37.

Interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America this morning, Richard Clarke - former White House advisor, turned author and bitter Bush-administration critic - scoffed at the significance of the killing of Zarqawi.

GMA: "First question has to be this morning, is it any safer in Iraq and will the war end any sooner?"

Clarke: "Well, unfortunately the answer is no. The man was a terrible man. He was a symbol of terrorism. He was the face of terrorism, the only real name we knew of a [terrorist] leader in Iraq. But he commanded only a few hundred people out of tens of thousands involved in the insurgency. So, unfortunately for the loved ones of troops over in Iraq, this is not going to mean a big difference."

GMA was only too happy to run with Clarke's lead: "He was not the one targeting the most american troops. Those are the I.E.D.'S by other terrorists, right?"

Clarke: "That's right. What we can say about Zarqawi is he was responsible for many of the big attacks on things like the U.N. Headquarters, the Red Cross headquarters, the hotels in Jordan and he personally was involved in beheadings. But in terms of what is making life difficult for American troops, these improvised explosive devices by the side of the road, that really wasn't Zarqawi."

Yet more negative spin from GMA: "For the Iraqi people, as we pointed out earlier, just this morning there was another car bombing in a marketplace in iraq, 19 people dead, more than 40 wounded."

And in perhaps the most negative MSM spin yet, GMA added this: "So for overall terrorism against the U.S., again, it's not a major effect."

A real Clarke-MSM love in, with one mutual goal - downplaying the importance of Zarqawi's death.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bittertwink; ciaversionofmorford; dontaskdonttell; gma; iraq; mediabias; msmmourningzaqwi; msmmourningzarqawi; pancakemakeup; richardclarke; wot; zarqawi; zarqawikilled
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1 posted on 06/08/2006 7:57:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

GMA/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/08/2006 7:57:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Didn't Clarke say the same thing when we got Saddam?


3 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:10 AM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We heard this same rap when Saddam Hussein was captured.....


4 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:12 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Let's all leave the US and return as undocumented trespassers....uh, immigrants)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You cover GMA too? You may need an extra dose of antacid today! :O)


5 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:16 AM PDT by jdm
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

To the froward, everything is negative.


6 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:54 AM PDT by RoadTest (For the love of money is the root of all evil - I Timothy 6:10)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

To the froward, everything is negative.


7 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:58 AM PDT by RoadTest (For the love of money is the root of all evil - I Timothy 6:10)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm too busy celebrating to notice such doomsayers.


8 posted on 06/08/2006 7:59:58 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Richard Clarke, a Clinton holdover, coined the phrase; "Boogie to Baghdad", where he advised the Bush Administration that Osamam Bin Laden would leave Afghanistan and move operations to Iraq.


9 posted on 06/08/2006 8:00:11 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clarke is, as always 100 percent wrong. Only in America can someone so useless - get additional airtime.

Just what was his job before 9-11 -- forget - better not, it was his job to protect us and failed along with everyone he worked with, for and around.


10 posted on 06/08/2006 8:00:13 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As much as it's a good that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now getting gang raped by eunuchs with sharp daggers in hell, it's probably a dead on assessment that violence won't taper off. It's a nice kill but Clark is most likely right regardless of how much of a jerk he is.


11 posted on 06/08/2006 8:00:51 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

General Strange strikes again.


12 posted on 06/08/2006 8:01:10 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It sure didn't take Bin Laden long to get an e-mail out to Clarke.
13 posted on 06/08/2006 8:01:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
From Novmeber 2005:

"I think we have to consider the possibility that Zarqawi will attack the coalition in other countries, perhaps in Europe, Australia or even the United States," said Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.

Zarqawi's bold and brazen acts of terror, including personal involvement in the beheading of Western hostages and the hundreds of Iraqi bomb attacks, have catapulted him into a dominant leadership role in al Qaeda worldwide.

"He has a following now that is much, much larger than it was before the war," Clarke said.

Clarke is a real tool!

14 posted on 06/08/2006 8:01:22 AM PDT by SamAdams_Lite
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Richard Clarke = It is too laugh. Of course Iraq is safer, the world is safer and the war is closer to being ended. He has taken a page out of Baghdad Bob's book.


15 posted on 06/08/2006 8:01:42 AM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I hope he gets 24/7 coverage.


16 posted on 06/08/2006 8:01:59 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I was expecting to see Katy Couric wearing a black dress with pearls again today.

The MSM is trying to downplay this success as fast as they can.


17 posted on 06/08/2006 8:02:55 AM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: massgopguy
Richard Clarke, a Clinton holdover, coined the phrase; "Boogie to Baghdad", where he advised the Bush Administration that Osamam Bin Laden would leave Afghanistan and move operations to Iraq.

Clarke also stated in his book the reason the Clinton administration attacked the Sudanese aspirin factory: Because it was owned by an al Qaeda associate and employed Iraqi scientists with knowledge about WMD programs. Isn't it interesting that Clarke, in his own book, said that al Qaeda and Iraq were cooperating in 1998? Wonder why the mainstream press didn't pick up on that

18 posted on 06/08/2006 8:03:07 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: SamAdams_Lite
Clarke is a real tool!

You got that right. Time to trot out the rest of the toolbox...Joe Wilson..., Wesley Clark...

19 posted on 06/08/2006 8:03:11 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: edcoil
Only in America can someone so useless - get additional airtime.

He parrots their (RAT & MSM) agenda, what more do you need to know?

20 posted on 06/08/2006 8:03:41 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
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