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.
Usually not, but it's a special day. I'm stocking up on Prilosec and Mylanta!
Thanks, Dick! You've been so helpful.
Now--somebody--pin a note on his lapel and drop him off down at the dogtracks.
ABC already has the interview with Clarke on the Internet. What a pack of stinkin' poltroons!
Richard Clarke, Michael Berg, any other kooks the MSM can dredge up? Their purpose is to say what the MSM anchors and reporters don't want to say, but believe.
If CBS had a news channel, I'm sure they'd have Dan Rather on this morning to hand-wring the "slaying" of Zawaqawi.
Richard Clarke is someone with an ax to grind.
So many of them have harped on the fact that bin A$$#@# has not been captured or killed. Yet, when that happens you can bet your bottom dollar that they will come out with the same pathetic crap.
"Dick" Clark = DC Bob (Bagdad Bob..... :) )
What a Dick Clarke.
Clarke and others would join Al Quaeda if they thought it would get Bush out of the White house. Crap like him and a lot more of them have been giving aid and comfort to the enemy for almost 6 years now.
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Interesting but not expected how the MSM is in overdrive to put on those willing to dwonplay or outright attack the news.
As Tommy Franks said of Dick Clarke."That man never gave me one ounce of actionable intelligence, and I have very little respect for him."
Richard Clarke, should be marginalized, he's a dunce and only important in his own mind.
Dick who?
Richard Clark is a classic Benedict Arnold. He disgusts me.
If we got OBL and Mullah Omar and Zawahiri and whoever else is out there, he'd say the same thing. Negative, all the time, 24/7-365..............
is this any surprise? the MSM started digging the naysayers out of the woodwork and from under the rocks as soon as that ugly dead face started appearing.....
Cheer up, Clarke, maybe we'll "allow" one of Ahab's underlings nail you in the future.
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