Clarke’s criticism should provoke debate (The Washington establishment is out to get Bush)

winfieldcourier.com ^ | March 22, 2004 | winfieldcourier.com

[Fledermaus]

Yep, if true, all he asked Clarke to do was to look! Isn't that the "connecting of the dots" the libs DEMANDED after 9/11?

I find it interesting that today it was reported Libya again was way ahead of where our "intelligence" thought they were. They have 20 TONS of mustard gas.

But when Bush concluded Iraq was a danger with all kinds of intelligence from every source on the planet, he's wrong because we haven't found "stockpiles".

I heard a true IDIOT on the Hannity radio show today say "how could those stockpiles be moved to Syria without our knowledge". DUH! Probably because those stockpiles could have fit into Saddam's spider hole.

Idiots on the left just can't fathom reality and facts and physics. Just ask one if the Earth is closer or farther from the Sun during winter in North America and have fun laughing at their total stupidity of basic fact.

[MEG33]

I heard someone interviewed today that worked under Clarke.I can't recall which cable program,He heard the question Bush asked(I did not know of the timeline discrepancy) and declined to answer if Clarke was unduly "pressured" though pressured to do so.

The President asking the question was a responsible thing to do,Clarke's framing it as an unspoken command is quite another.I don't believe Clarke's underling thought undue pressure was implied by the President just by reading the man's demeanor.

[meenie]

Kiss and tell makes interesting tv viewing to most people. The issues involved mean nothing.

[MEG33]

I believe the information gleaned from the 911 investigation is important,though coming during an election year,I fear it will be more fingerpointing and CYA than a way to discover how we can help prevent such an attack in the future.

Mr Clarke's publishing a book at this moment just before his 911 commission testimony and doing the "circuit" doesn't add to his credibility.Larry King will have him on right after his testimony and we all know how tough Larry is on his guests/sarcasm.

[Enduring Freedom]

Clarke is a sniveling ineffectual bureaucrat who was demoted during a time of great import to our country.

It is like being the parking lot attendant at the wedding of your boss after telling everyone you were one of the in-crowd.

[Elkiejg]

The story behind Clark's claims should be FOLLOW THE MONEY! His claims against Bush's WOT don't make sense.....he spent 8 yrs. in the Clinton WH swamp where NOTHING of value was done about the terrorist threat. Now he's blaming a President who IS fighting the terrorists??? I smell money somewhere in this picture - and not just from book sales.

[kcvl]

Joe Wilson, Rand Beers and Richard Clarke leave the Bush camp. All supposedly having some type of "experience" in counter terrorism. Rand Beers and Joe Wilson are now working for the Kerry campaign as "advisers". Do we see a pattern here? /sarcasm. How long will it be before we hear that Richard Clarke has joined the Kerry camp.

[Enduring Freedom]

Clarke has the look and feel of a weasel.

He rarely looked his interviewer in the eye.

If someone was a classic Traitor to America, he would be in Richard Clarke's position and act like Clarke.

[wgeorge2001]

"The best mechanism for democracy, whether at the level of the multinational state or that of the planet as a whole, is not an all-powerful Leviathan or centralized superstate, but a federation, a union of separate states that allocate certain powers to a central government while retaining many others for themselves."


Do you believe that a One World Central government will be good for all the people of the earth? Perhaps this one world leader will be a deceptive man with a hunger for power and a lust for the souls of men; perhaps the corruption of this one world leader would lead him to believe that he is better than other men and eventually seduce him and he would destroy and kill his own people as many despots do. A union of nations with a sovereign central government could be responsible for the deaths of more people than abortion has killed and much crueler than you could ever imagine. What if the leader were a communist or cruel despot, history has proved over and over again the woes of centralized government; America's federal government is worse than the state governments in most cases except for exceptions like California and New Jersey and some other churlish democrat run states.
Good intentions pave the road to hell, sovereign nations are much better than centralized government; such a government would cause the people to groan and die early deaths if you did not agree with the lies they espoused. Look at North Korea or China or Russia or the arab nations to see what would be the result of this foolishness.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Well, I agree with that. There was nothing inappropriate about the question, and I thought the suggestion that it was intended as a subtle order was a major, major stretch.

There is actually a problem with the timeline, according to Michael Medved. There is no record of the President being where Clarke said he was when Clarke said he was there.