Posted on 06/08/2006 7:57:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 8, 2006 - 10:37.
Interviewed on ABC's Good Morning America this morning, Richard Clarke - former White House advisor, turned author and bitter Bush-administration critic - scoffed at the significance of the killing of Zarqawi.
GMA: "First question has to be this morning, is it any safer in Iraq and will the war end any sooner?"
Clarke: "Well, unfortunately the answer is no. The man was a terrible man. He was a symbol of terrorism. He was the face of terrorism, the only real name we knew of a [terrorist] leader in Iraq. But he commanded only a few hundred people out of tens of thousands involved in the insurgency. So, unfortunately for the loved ones of troops over in Iraq, this is not going to mean a big difference."
GMA was only too happy to run with Clarke's lead: "He was not the one targeting the most american troops. Those are the I.E.D.'S by other terrorists, right?"
Clarke: "That's right. What we can say about Zarqawi is he was responsible for many of the big attacks on things like the U.N. Headquarters, the Red Cross headquarters, the hotels in Jordan and he personally was involved in beheadings. But in terms of what is making life difficult for American troops, these improvised explosive devices by the side of the road, that really wasn't Zarqawi."
Yet more negative spin from GMA: "For the Iraqi people, as we pointed out earlier, just this morning there was another car bombing in a marketplace in iraq, 19 people dead, more than 40 wounded."
And in perhaps the most negative MSM spin yet, GMA added this: "So for overall terrorism against the U.S., again, it's not a major effect."
A real Clarke-MSM love in, with one mutual goal - downplaying the importance of Zarqawi's death.
GMA/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
Didn't Clarke say the same thing when we got Saddam?
We heard this same rap when Saddam Hussein was captured.....
You cover GMA too? You may need an extra dose of antacid today! :O)
To the froward, everything is negative.
To the froward, everything is negative.
I'm too busy celebrating to notice such doomsayers.
Richard Clarke, a Clinton holdover, coined the phrase; "Boogie to Baghdad", where he advised the Bush Administration that Osamam Bin Laden would leave Afghanistan and move operations to Iraq.
Clarke is, as always 100 percent wrong. Only in America can someone so useless - get additional airtime.
Just what was his job before 9-11 -- forget - better not, it was his job to protect us and failed along with everyone he worked with, for and around.
As much as it's a good that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now getting gang raped by eunuchs with sharp daggers in hell, it's probably a dead on assessment that violence won't taper off. It's a nice kill but Clark is most likely right regardless of how much of a jerk he is.
General Strange strikes again.
"I think we have to consider the possibility that Zarqawi will attack the coalition in other countries, perhaps in Europe, Australia or even the United States," said Richard Clarke, a former White House counter-terrorism advisor who is now an ABC News consultant.
Zarqawi's bold and brazen acts of terror, including personal involvement in the beheading of Western hostages and the hundreds of Iraqi bomb attacks, have catapulted him into a dominant leadership role in al Qaeda worldwide.
"He has a following now that is much, much larger than it was before the war," Clarke said.
Clarke is a real tool!
Richard Clarke = It is too laugh. Of course Iraq is safer, the world is safer and the war is closer to being ended. He has taken a page out of Baghdad Bob's book.
I hope he gets 24/7 coverage.
I was expecting to see Katy Couric wearing a black dress with pearls again today.
The MSM is trying to downplay this success as fast as they can.
Clarke also stated in his book the reason the Clinton administration attacked the Sudanese aspirin factory: Because it was owned by an al Qaeda associate and employed Iraqi scientists with knowledge about WMD programs. Isn't it interesting that Clarke, in his own book, said that al Qaeda and Iraq were cooperating in 1998? Wonder why the mainstream press didn't pick up on that
You got that right. Time to trot out the rest of the toolbox...Joe Wilson..., Wesley Clark...
He parrots their (RAT & MSM) agenda, what more do you need to know?
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