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Wordsmith <wordsmith@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Mindless conspiracy theory.

It isnt the first time Slick has done something like that. He
got completely rabid when they were more interested in him
getting his dick sucked than the world events at that time.

> Stranger things have happened.

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.