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Article #271Re: Clinton's TV Rage
From: Wordsmith
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:44
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:44
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Rod Speed wrote: > 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. Still haven't mastered basic reading skills, have you, Rod? To reiterate: I said it was *possible*; I did not say it was so. > > Stranger things have happened. > > Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland. Which drug would that be? W : )
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