Richard Clarke on GMA: With Zarqawi Dead, Iraq No Safer, War's End No Closer

GMA/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[FlipWilson]

Got to move move move those goalposts!!! Got to root root for American retreat. Your political fortunes are tied to it, so down with America if it means George Bush's defeat!!!

And now, a tick tock of the goalposts:

-We will never get to Baghdad and are bogged down,
-Ok, we got to Baghdad, but will never stop the looting,
-Ok, we stopped the looting, but what about Saddam, we will never get him or his sons.
-Oh, and where are those WMDs?
-They were moved? Saddam still had capacity!?! Sorry, nothing less than a nuclear bomb will do.
-Ok, we got Saddam's sons, but not Saddam.
-Fine, we got Saddam, but did not have a suitcase nuke in his possession (see no WMD's) and Iraq is no safer. What about an Iraqi government, we will never form that.
-Ok, we formed a provisional government, but it wasn't elected and elections will be a disaster, a slaughter.
-Ok, there were elections, but the Sunnis didn't vote this government is not legitimate. Oh and where are those WMDs?
-What, audio tapes of Saddam discussing WMD's, Saddam's generals talking about WMD's, sorry, we hit the ignore button.
-Ok, you can't stop the insurgency. It has widespread support amongst the Iraqi's. Zarqawi is free and will never be caught or killed.
-Ok, so you had another election and the Sunnis participated, but the Iraqis will never be able to form a government.
-See, we told you so and now there is wide spread civil war. Civil War, we told you Iraq was a failure!!!!
-Ok, they formed a government, but it will not be able to appoint key members and stop the widespread civil war.
-Who said anything about a civil war, its the violence caused by the insurgency and the unstoppable Zarqawi.
-See, we told you our soldiers are baby killers, just look at the Haditha massacre where we are making up our own official report based on anonymous sources who may have seen the official report.
-Ok, So you killed Zarqawi, but nothing will change, Iraq is Vietnam. Our marines are baby killers. DOWN WITH THE EVIL GREAT SATAN AMERICAN DOGS!!!

Sincerely yours,

The democrat party, the MSM, Kristin Notsobreitweiser, Cindy Sheehan, Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, Hollywood, and a whole host of kooks.

[massgopguy]

They'll get around to it right after they go after Clinton holdover George Tenent for saying the WMD's in Iraq was "A slam dunk", based on the intel his CIA had gathered over his tenure.

[Mo1]

Yes .. we need to keep track of this

I am just flabbergasted at their reaction of this news

I know I shouldn't be ... but I am

[Grampa Dave]

The responses of the MSM and the rats like Clark need to be saved to bash them with their own words until they just fade away.

[DCPatriot]

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

Are you suggesting he was incorrect regarding the capture of Saddam?

IOW, Clarke's a scumbag, but if you're going to discredit him, using his predictions regarding Saddam is a poor approach to the argument.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm not absolutely sure....but I think Clarke said the al Zarqawi was the big hit to go for. It would change the equation.

[dirtboy]

"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." Funny, Clarke used to sing a different tune about Zarqawi - he said he was responsible for the insurgency in the first place:

Richard A. Clarke’s address to participants in the Watson Institute Dialogue among Americans, Russians, and European (DARE) Project, Yale Club, New York, November 28, 2005

The fourth phase, the growth of the insurgency. It took a year, and we now tend to forget that fact. The first year that the United States was in Iraq, there wasn’t much of an insurgency problem. Many people in Iraq accepted the American presence, they expected the United States to deliver a reasonably different circumstance, an improved circumstance from the Saddam Hussein regime. But by phase four, the growth of the insurgency, it became clear to many that the United States was not going to do that. This fellow Zarqarwi from Jordan, had previously been arrested, tried by the Jordanians, and released after a period of imprisonment. Zarqarwi emerged as a significant figure...Zarqarwi was important during this period of growth in the insurgency because of his ability to organize the so-called foreign fighter element. His ability to reach into Saudi Arabia, and recruit using the old al-Qaeda network. Recruit Saudis to come and fight in Iraq, and eventually, his ability to tie in to the old al-Qaeda network, and recruit hundreds of Europeans—a number perhaps somewhere between, 400 and 800 European Muslims to come to Iraq.

Why do liberals always forget that the pajamadeen can do Google searches?

[Grampa Dave]

I'm sure they had focus groups of who to have trot out when the Z pig was finally killed.

Berg and Clarke, are two vile pos who should be tried for sedition.

[gaspar]

Unfortunately, no one has ever asked Clarke why Secy of State Baker fired him from the State Department. Or, for that matter, why that simp Scowcroft found him a job at the NSC.

[Grampa Dave]

Great find.

Again we thank Global Warming Goron for inventing the internet.

[Mo1]

I just made a bookmark for my files and called it Media in mourning over Zarqawi

[in hoc signo vinces]

Exactly, Red.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks. From your reply I came up with a new key word:

"MSMMOURNINGZARQAWI"

[Fenris6]

Are you suggesting he was incorrect regarding the capture of Saddam?

Yes. Are you suggesting that Saddam's capture did not make Iraq safer? Do you really think the natives would have given us intel on Zarqawi's location if Saddam was still "out there somewhere" waiting to be restored to power?

[mrsparkle]

When Harold caught an arrow in his eye his army ran and William went on to become king. Not saying that that will happen but you just know that Al Quaida is demoralized and that is a good thing!

[hosepipe]

[ Richard Clarke on GMA: With Zarqawi Dead, Iraq No Safer, War's End No Closer ]

BUT; there WILL BE a distraction from the Mexican Border for a couple of weeks..
After a couple of weeks there will be something else...

[Christian4Bush]

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

Don't know about Dickie, but Howard Dean certainly said it.

[Libertina]

Liberal taking points: "Lefties lost, but here's how that's a good thing..."

[river rat]

Only in America, are there enough "liberal" assholes that incompetent feckless imbeciles like Clark, Halfbright, Clinton, Murtha, Biden, Kennedy, Durbin, etc, etc., get rated as "sources" for any "intelligent" comment...

In a sane world -- the bastards would be unemployed, incarcerated or taking their eternal dirt nap.

Semper Fi

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Richard Clarke is dead???