🚀 go-pugleaf

bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> Who wouldn't be pissed off after all this:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNCLbsBIfM&eurl=>
>
> It is a 10-minute-long MSNBC investigative report examining Condoleeza
> Rice's claim that the incoming Bush administration did not receive any
> plan or details from Clinton regarding Al Quaeda and Osama bin Laden.
> Its sources are: declassified intelligence reports, the 9/11 Commission
> Report, and reports from people who were there at the time.
>
> Warning: don't bother watching this if you are determined to ignore the
> unprincipled depths Condi must plumb to serve President Bush. For her
> to lie to us the way she did just days ago is nothing less than...
> well, whorish.
>
> The Bush administration got urgent top secret reports about Al Quaeda
> and OBL on January 25th, 2001-- five days after taking the Oath of
> Office.
>
> Bush's response? He downgraded counter-terrorism from a Cabinet-level
> policy concern,handing it over to deputy secretaries.
>
> This means that briefs on counter-terrorism and strategies to defeat
> such organisms as Al Quaeda never reached the Executive Office, delayed
> by months and sometimes permanently, in favor of such issues as
> "missile defense shields", tax reduction and other such expensive
> purely political strategies.
>
> (You gotta hand it to Bush, though: he sure likes to spend money that
> isn't his.)
>
> Bush continued on in this vein, even when in February, 2001, he found
> out definitively that the Cole had been attacked by Al Quaeda. By then
> though, when he wasn't on vacation, he was deep into his plan for
> convincing the nation to invade Iraq. Counter-terrorism grew ever more
> obscure as a national policy concern, right up to 9/11.
>
> I don't know why this stuff still surprises me. I've hated Bush and his
> cohorts for a long time for what they've done to the nation. You would
> think I would be too jaded to be surprised anymore.
>
> Yet somehow, I still can't believe any President could be this
> shamefully bad and continue in office.

It's possible Wallace and Clinton conspired to ham it up for the
audience to make them both look good. Stranger things have happened.

W : )