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Re: Clinton's TV Rage

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From: Wordsmith
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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