[Enduring Freedom]

Clarke committed perjury.

A review of the facts and other testimony surrounding events means:

There is no other possibility - hang him out to dry.

[OldFriend]

Has anyone commented on Clarke's irrational animus towards the President?

Guess the media is too busy talking up his so called republican credentials.

[NYCVirago]

Has anyone checked voter registration records to see if Clarke is actually a registered Republican, as he claims to be?

[Mo1]

Looks like Cyberman caught a virus and is about to crash hard

[Positive]

"In his 2002 briefing, Clarke said that the Bush administration decided in "mid-January" 2001 to continue with existing Clinton policy..."

Not to pick nits, but President Bush didn't take office until January 20th 2001 - so how was Clarke privy to the "Bush administration's" decisions in "mid-January" 2001...or was that Lowry's point?

[The Raven]

The worst thing is EVERYONE in the media is siding with CLARKE as being correct since he is anti-Bush. Neither Clinton nor Bush thought al Q would hit us at home and our defenses reflected that.

Turns out - Clarke thought the same thing.

[The Raven]

[kcvl]

Criticism From Kerry

The Kerry campaign has made similar criticisms of Bush as Clarke. The organization yesterday sent out a fund-raising letter signed by retired General Wesley Clark, 59, who ended his campaign for the Democratic nomination on Feb. 11.

Bush, the letter says, ``took us to a war we didn't have to fight and distracted us from our focus on the most dangerous threat -- al-Qaeda.''

Kerry, who is in his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, hasn't commented on Clarke's book. He got a copy while on vacation in Idaho and said yesterday he was still reading.

``It's very interesting,'' Kerry told reporters traveling with him. ``I have to finish it before I say anything.''

The independent political group MoveOn.org, which says it is working to defeat Bush Nov. 2, sent out an e-mailed statement yesterday that it plans to use Clarke's testimony in ads.

Clarke told the commission that he voted in the Republican primary in Virginia in 2000. He also noted that he was giving public testimony under oath and said, ``I will not accept any position in a Kerry administration, should there be one.''

Republican lawmakers said they aren't worried about Clarke's statements or the publicity over his book.

``It's political bottom-feeding,'' U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told reporters on Tuesday. Bush's ``credibility has not been impugned.''

[GailA]

hanoi john has kept quiet waiting to see if this grows legs then he'll jump on the ban waggon..dickie is fast loosing credibility as we FReepers dig up more counterdictions.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[eeriegeno]

Assume that GW Bush attacked al-quada on Jan 20, 2001 and killed binLaden. Would that have stopped the 9/11 attacks? I think not. The scenario for catastrophe was set up for 8 years prior to that and could not have been stopped. IMHO, Clinton's INS, FBI, CIA, and security groups failed to do what they were charged to do. To place blame at the feet of GW Bush, and his administration, for the 9/11 catastrophe is the heigth of hypocrisy. But then again, the democrats are good at that, now aren't they??????

[nathanbedford]

Regretably, this fight is probably already lost and the stakes can be the election itself.

Republicans must win this issue of Bush's performance leading up to 9/11 or lose his main claim to re-election.

The Democrats need only a tie. That is, if Bush was no better than Clinton than Kerry would be no worse than Bush. If you watch the Dem talking heads, this seems to be right out of their talking points: Plenty of blame to go around and isn't a shame that Condi Rice is afraid to come clean with the American people.

The whole of the media is acting as if the Dems have already won by assuring at least a tie.

I believe they are right and Kerry didn't even have to come down off the hill.

[Mamzelle]

re: Rarely has a former public servant with such a sterling reputation)))

??? Who knew or cared about this bench-wamer?

[petercooper]

Larry King lobbed Clarke softball questions last night and Chuck Hagel (R) France, was on, and he was not refuting a damn thing the lying sob said.

[Yaelle]

People, what does any of this matter, if the average American is hearing in every other (nonconservative) medium that Clarke is great, brings some common sense into the hearings, a Republican that is not afraid to say the truth, and all the other stuff I have been hearing on TV and radio for the last 24?

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[piasa]

And Clarke claimed he had been in a meeting that Rumsfeld also attended and claimed he made observations of his expressions that are impossible- Rumsfeld was not at that meeting, even assuming the alleged meeting took place.