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shawa
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 Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: RICE BOILS OVER AT BUBBA |
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By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent
September 25, 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.
Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false - and I think the 9/11 commission understood that," Rice said during a wide-ranging meeting with Post editors and reporters.
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.
The secretary of state also sharply disputed Clinton's claim that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for the incoming Bush team during the presidential transition in 2001.
"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice responded during the hourlong session.
Her strong rebuttal was the Bush administration's first response to Clinton's headline-grabbing interview on Fox on Sunday in which he launched into an over-the-top defense of his handling of terrorism - wagging his finger in the air, leaning forward in his chair and getting red-faced, and even attacking Wallace for improper questioning.
The "Fox News Sunday" show had its best ratings since the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research. Two versions of the interview were the two most-watched clips on YouTube yesterday, totaling more than 800,000 views.
After Clinton got angry during the questioning, Wallace said Clinton aide Jay Carson tried to get his producer to stop the interview. Carson said he was concerned that time was running out and that little of the philanthropy efforts of the former president had been addressed.....
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In her pointed rebuttal of Clinton's inflammatory claims about the war on terror, Rice maintained the Bush White House did the best it could to defend against an attack - and expanded on the tools and intelligence it inherited.
"I would just suggest that you go back and read the 9/11 commission report on the efforts of the Bush administration in the eight months - things like working to get an armed Predator [drone] that actually turned out to be extraordinarily important," Rice added.
She also said Clinton's claims that Richard Clarke - the White House anti-terror guru hyped by Clinton as the country's "best guy" - had been demoted by Bush were bogus.
"Richard Clarke was the counterterrorism czar when 9/11 happened. And he left when he did not become deputy director of homeland security, some several months later," she said.
Rice noted that the world changed after 9/11.
"I would make the divide Sept. 11, 2001, when the attack on this country mobilized us to fight the war on terror in a very different way," Rice said.
Rice cited the final 9/11 commission report to substantiate her claims, while Clinton relied on Clarke's book as the basis for many of his rehashing the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
"I think this is not a very fruitful discussion. We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said," she added.
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What I am laughing at over this is that the left, after heavily condemning the movie, The Path to 9/11, are using the one scene, showing Condi's character "demoting" Clarke as proof Bush didn't take it serious.
Clarke's "demotion" didn't come about until AFTER 9/11 when it ws realized his main area of concern was cyber terrorism, not physical terrorism. He then chose to resign because he didn't receive the post under Department of Homeland Security he desired.
Clarke was the Counterterrorism Czar at the time of 9/11.
The politicization of all this is out of control and counter-productive to any efforts at winning the war on terror.
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| LewWaters wrote: | | The politicization of all this is out of control and counter-productive to any efforts at winning the war on terror. |
Well said. Again the left twists the truth and facts of the situation to fuel their anti-Bush crusade.
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noyesj
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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And now the RED QUEEN is stating that Condi is lying about her
precious little BillyBooy.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| LewWaters wrote: | | The politicization of all this is out of control and counter-productive to any efforts at winning the war on terror. |
Just when did the Red Queen every worry about anything being counter productive to the war effort if it could advance her agenda?
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LewWaters
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| Quote: | | Just when did the Red Queen every worry about anything being counter productive to the war effort if it could advance her agenda? |
I wrote that BEFORE her words against Condi were made public.
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| LewWaters wrote: | | Quote: | | Just when did the Red Queen every worry about anything being counter productive to the war effort if it could advance her agenda? |
I wrote that BEFORE her words against Condi were made public. |
My apologies. We are of the same thought, LEW.
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Actually, Bubba did leave "a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda."
Find 1 Lonely camel in an abandoned terrorist training camp.
Shoot 1 cruise missile into the backside of said camel.
The look on Bin Laden's face when he finds out his "ex-girlfriend" got whacked by a cruise missile: priceless! 
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| LewWaters wrote: | What I am laughing at over this is that the left, after heavily condemning the movie, The Path to 9/11, are using the one scene, showing Condi's character "demoting" Clarke as proof Bush didn't take it serious.
Clarke's "demotion" didn't come about until AFTER 9/11 when it ws realized his main area of concern was cyber terrorism, not physical terrorism. He then chose to resign because he didn't receive the post under Department of Homeland Security he desired.
Clarke was the Counterterrorism Czar at the time of 9/11.
The politicization of all this is out of control and counter-productive to any efforts at winning the war on terror. |
Lew I love your perspective on things political. Remember that the Democrats motto is "How can we fool them today." And they way they try to do it is lie early and often with the same distortion so that it becomes fact in some minds. Thanks for reminding us of what is fact. |
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