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Interview Of A Former White House Advisor
Posted on March 21st, 2004 4 commentsRichard Clarke is a former White House advisor and cabinet member who covered terrorism for the Reagan administration and every president after. He gave a rather interesting interview for the venerable TV news show 60 Minutes. A summary of the interview can be found here.
The interview is a must read and is one small part of the growing and undeniable pool of evidence that the Bush administration actively lied to US citizens and the world. Instead of going after those responsible for 9/11 as soon as possible they tried to link 9/11 to Iraq even though no such link existed. I’m not going to quote any specific part of it here because it’s really worth reading the entire thing.
Am I the only one who is getting really disgusted with the right wing whoring out 9/11 as a reason for their continued lying, bullying, and as ad campaign fodder?
4 responses to “Interview Of A Former White House Advisor”
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Deranged Fencer March 21st, 2004 at 22:25
If you don’t vote for Bush… then the Terrorists win!
Every time someone votes for Kerry, God kills a kitten
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insane in the Creekside brain March 22nd, 2004 at 08:42
lol !
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“The interview is a must read and is one small part of the growing and undeniable pool of evidence that the Bush administration actively lied to US citizens and the world”
This is one guy’s word against another. I don’t see how this is “evidence” one way or another. Maybe Clarke has an ax to grind… maybe he is telling the truth. God only knows. You’ll believe the person who says what you want to hear. To me, it doesn’t matter who is lying.. the US did the right thing.
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It is all “one guy’s word against another”.
Whose word am I going to believe more? The word of something with years of experience dealing with terrorism and foreign policy whose “story” and “evidence” matches what has already been floating around from multiple credible sources? Or a presidental administration whose reelection fate is tied to voters having a positive view of his actions in Iraq. An administration that is now in full PR mode and has started launching negative attacks against the opposing candidate months before any other election during my life time?
The Bush camp desperately needs for this story to “go away” as it comes at a time when they are desperately trying to defend the decision making process behind Iraq. Iraq is the only thing they have to present to voters because their idea of a domestic agenda is to bring up constiutional amendments they know have no real chance of winning.
(Are the people responsible for 9/11 caught yet? Is the world really a safer place? How is the job creation rate and economy doing? Have schools improved or has yet another level of federal oversight been added for nothing? What happened to all the environmental initatives he promised, etc?)
As you said “You’ll believe the person who says what you want to hear” is appropriate. A large bulk of voters have not heard of these Iraq related issues before and the Clark interview is a highly visible summary of the complaints against the administrations handling of Iraq. The 9/11 investigation panel was carefully arranged and limited to limit the amount of noise the average voter sees. (And besides… “Today some panel announced that… blah blah” is a snore to some people). The Bush camp has already been in the press using conflicting information and character assassination to knock this down as fast as they can.
As for if the US did the right thing… I’m not weeping for Saddam. I’m weeping because the people responsible for the attacks on the US and its “allies” are still out and about and free and the people who funded it are still rich and in Saudia Arabia and other countries.
Our obsession with Iraq gave al-Qaeda plenty of time to decentralize it’s structure and allowed local cells to grow much like the one in Spain. Instead of taking out the head of the snake and its financial resources and try to kill it we let the snake evolve into many efficient little snakes.
Of course this is my view…
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