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BUSH KNEW! Part II . . . or is this Part III?

by JohnHuang2

In yet another bombshell revelation that has Washington again reeling in shock, a new book claims that Bush, months before the Sept. 11th attacks -- indeed, within days of being sworn in -- began planning an Iraq invasion. Oh, wait -- that's another book . . . by whatchamacallit? . . . um, Paul O'Neill.

Sending shock-waves across Washington this time are allegations by former Clinton-holdover, Richard Clarke, who claims that Bush, months after being sworn in -- indeed, within days after the Sept 11th attacks -- began planning an Iraq invasion. (On invasion planning, O'Neill was off by only 8 tiny months, per Clarke).

Outlandishly enough, the day after 9/11, Bush took Clarke aside and ordered him to see if Saddam was in any way involved in 9/11, a flabbergasted Clarke, author of a new book, told "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday. Inexplicably, Bush did not immediately rule out Saddam, sponsor of state-terrorism who held a grudge against the U.S., of possible involvement in state-terrorism against the U.S. Asking questions of a possible Saddam-9/11 link, say critics, was flat-out beneath contempt. It was reckless, irresponsible, tasteless -- unsavory innuendo bordering on character assassination of Saddam. (Bush -- has anyone ever told you, you just don't go around accusing innocent dictators like that? Other than killing and gassing a million Kurds and Iranians, what kind of sicko Saddam-hater sees Saddam capable of killing 3,000 infidels, anyway?) After a comprehensive 6-day investigation, Clarke, convinced before the investigation there were no Saddam links to al-Qaeda, issued a report that there were no Saddam links to al-Qaeda. (Thousands killed in New York and Washington by Mideast suicide bombers. Cynically, Bush suspects a link to Saddam, who funds Mideast suicide bombers. Good grief -- what a stretch! Only in the Bush administration!)

The attempt by Bush to demonize Saddam was reckless enough. More damning still, Clarke, in his book, Against All Enemies, accuses Bush of ignoring the al-Qaeda threat. Bush, says Clarke, did nothing to prevent 9/11, despite being warned in advance about 9/11 by the Clinton administration, which worked long and hard for 8 years preparing a lengthy report for Bush on the dangers of al-Qaeda. (Bush, warned in advance by the Saudis, by the Clintons, by governor Howard Dean, and still the warmongering cowboy failed to act like a warmongering cowboy!) Bush was supplied with detailed instructions, meticulously gathered over two Clinton White House terms, on how to pursue and dismantle the enemy. (Details will come out in my forth-coming book -- Click here to order now!) But it wasn't just talk. With Clinton at the helm, the enemy was pounded, hunted down, day-in-and-day-out, relentlessly. The enemy had no place to hide. Showing unflinching resolve, Clinton did everything in Monica's power to break up, dismantle, and hopefully bankrupt this horrible enemy: Microsoft. (Sadly, software outlaw Bill Gates was never captured, despite the worldwide manhunt. Today, Microsoft -- reconstituted, reinvigorated -- is stronger than ever, thanks to Bush, a soft-on-Microsoft weenie. Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism, when we have Microsoft going after all of us! He ignored it. He ignored Microsoft for years, when maybe we could have done something to stop Windows XP. Maybe. We'll never know. I think he's done a terrible job fighting Microsoft).

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In his book, Clarke blasted Bush's decision to attack Iraq, a Muslim country, saying the invasion has sparked huge anti-U.S. reaction in the Muslim world. (Credible reports indicate 9/11 pre-dated the war in Iraq by 18 months, proving al-Qaeda was channeling to Miss Cleo). Invading a Muslim country unprovoked provided al-Qaeda a "recruitment device," Clarke charges. Clarke also blasted Bush's pre-9/11 decision not to invade Afghanistan, a Muslim country, with critics saying the No Invasion decision led to 9/11. The invasion of a Muslim country unprovoked would not necessarily have provided al-Qaeda a recruitment device. Attacking a non-fundamentalist Islamic country -- Iraq -- inflamed Islamic Fundamentalists, Clarke charges. Attacking a Fundamentalist Islamic country -- Afghanistan under the Taliban -- would not have inflamed Islamic Fundamentalists, critics brilliantly note.

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Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America Monday, Clarke accused Bush of having "botched the response to 9/11." Rather than waste time building a global coalition, Bush "should have gone right after Afghanistan, right after bin Laden." Clarke added that Bush "made the whole war on terrorism so much worse by invading Iraq," rather than spend time building a global coalition. (While details were sketchy at press time, indications are that, after 9/11, Bush procrastinated 3 weeks on bombing Afghanistan, while rushing breakneck to war in Iraq just 68 tiny weeks later). So singularly focused was Bush on Iraq that he invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in record time. Later, the war in Iraq did fan anti-U.S. sentiment -- among U.S. Democrats.

"Frankly," Clarke told Lesley Stahl, "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know. I think he's done a terrible job on fighting terrorism." Clarke says Bush is soft on terror. Clarke also accuses Bush of alienating allies by being a warmonger on terror, rather than trying more nuance.

In his book, Clarke wrote how he was struck by Condoleezza Rice's reaction when warned in advance by Clarke about 9/11. (Yes, CONDI KNEW, TOO!) "Her facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the term (al-Qaeda) before." (Yes, Condi spent all 8 Clinton years in a coma, just like the Clinton anti-terror team). Outrageously, despite the Cole bombing, the Embassy bombing, the Khobar bombing, the WTC bombing (the first one) and other tiny mistakes on his watch, Clarke was passed over for a promotion in the Bush administration. So he quit.

Clarke says his *going public* has nothing to do with being passed over for a promotion or being a bitter and disgruntled former employee; he has no ax to grind, no hard feelings for not being promoted despite having done such great things about terrorism; and going public has nothing to with Election-Year politics, his Kerry campaign connections or book promotion -- really! (Yes, and Andy Rooney loves Mel Gibson movies with a Passion).

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Meanwhile, after weeks of gathering evidence and interviewing scores of witnesses, detectives in the Madrid bombing case may have hit pay-dirt. A new witness has reportedly stepped forward, providing agents probing the blast a key clue on the mastermind behind the March 11th railway bombings which claimed over 1,600 victims.

"A factor in the death of 200 Spaniards," asserted the powerful witness who appears to have helped crack the case, is U.S. President George W. Bush, "who dragged our troops to Iraq." By removing Saddam, who fiercely opposed al-Qaeda, Bush, chief bombing suspect, made al-Qaeda, which fiercely opposed Saddam, very, very mad. So says former '04 Democrat candidate, Howard Dean, star witness assisting the probe. As evidence, Dean cites al-Qaeda videotape claiming responsibility for the bombing, which proves Bush's responsibility for the bombing, says Dean. The voice on the tape, recovered from a trash bin shortly after the blast, says al-Qaeda, which fiercely opposed Saddam, is very, very mad at Spain for backing the U.S. removal of Saddam, who fiercely opposed al-Qaeda. Dean says this tape is proof Saddam has nothing to do with al-Qaeda.

Dean made his remarks last week during a conference call with reporters to help shore up Kerry's tough on terror credentials. The Kerry campaign swiftly disavowed Dean's remarks, claiming Dean's remarks are not the campaign's position. For now. Dean also swiftly disavowed Dean's remarks, saying the tape made him do it. "Let me be clear," said Dean in a statement to The Associated Press, "There is no justification for terrorism. Today I was simply repeating what those who have claimed responsibility for the bombings in Spain said was the reason they carried out that despicable act."

Meanwhile, as thousands of Pakistani troops battle al-Qaeda fiercely in South Waziristan, a published report indicates DNA tests are underway on a body believed to be the moribund Kerry campaign. Film at 11.

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Anyway, that's

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[dutchess]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.

[JOE6PAK]

Bush knew...THANK THE LORD BUSH KNEW!

[dutchess]

It's Thursday at the Finest...that means it's another tell it like it is essay from our favorite resident author...JohnHuaug2. Please stop by and enjoy life on the RIGHT side.

[South40]

It's well known that Klinton spent more prosecuting Bill Gates than he did terrorism.

But, according to Mr. Clarke, Klinton was more focused on fighting terrorism than was Bush prior to 9/11.

Clarke is a lying pus-bag.

[GailA]

more on this idiot

[ladyinred]

Bush knew...THANK THE LORD BUSH KNEW!

Oh this is GOOD! LOL! (turning lemons into lemonade!)

[Diver Dave]

Okay, Let me see if I've got this straight.

1. Clarke, under oath on Wednesday says that the Bush administration knew and didn't act on information.

2. Clarke, presumably under oath, tells the Committee behind closed doors that Bush knew and acted on information.

3. Clarke, under the protection of "background information", tells reporters that Bush in 8 months exceeded what Clinton accomplished in 8 years in the fight against terrorism.

4. Clarke, under contract to his publisher and thereby CBS, and thereby 60 Minutes, and thereby Leslie Stahl and thereby the DNC, tells all of the above anything they want to hear.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Dutchess.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thursday !

[MeekOneGOP]

But it wasn't just talk. With Clinton at the helm, the enemy was pounded, hunted down, day-in-and-day-out, relentlessly. The enemy had no place to hide. Showing unflinching resolve, Clinton did everything in Monica's power to break up, dismantle, and hopefully bankrupt this horrible enemy: Microsoft. (Sadly, software outlaw Bill Gates was never captured, despite the worldwide manhunt. Today, Microsoft -- reconstituted, reinvigorated -- is stronger than ever, thanks to Bush, a soft-on-Microsoft weenie ...

LOL !

Good one, John ! Outta the park ... again !

[The Mayor]

Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and . . . rose again the third day. —1 Corinthians 15:3-4

The cross of Christ-the crossroads to heaven or hell. .

[The Mayor]

March 25, 2004

The Cross Speaks

Read: Acts 2:22-39

Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and . . . rose again the third day. —1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Bible In One Year: Joshua 19-21; Luke 2:25-52

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Crosses decorate church steeples and designate burial places. Sometimes they mark the spot where people died in highway accidents. And they are often worn as jewelry.

Crosses remind people of Jesus Christ. I was made aware of this when a businessman, seeing a small gold cross on the lapel of my jacket, asked me, "Why are you a believer in Christ?" I was glad for the opportunity to share my faith with him.

Jesus died on the cross for us, but we don't worship a dead Savior. Our Lord's body was taken down from the cross and placed in a tomb, and then on the third day He emerged in a glorified body.

The cross speaks to us of the total picture—our Lord's atoning death to pay the price for our sins, as well as His glorious resurrection to deliver us from the power of death.

If it were not for what Christ did on the cross, we would all stand guilty before God and hopeless in the face of death. But through faith in Him, we receive the forgiveness of all our sins and the assurance that death cannot hold us.

Have you looked at the cross and placed your trust in the One who died there? It's the only sure and perfect remedy for guilt and fear. —Herb Vander Lugt

The cross upon which Jesus died
Is a shelter in which we can hide;
And its grace so free is sufficient for me,
And deep is its fountain—as wide as the sea. —Stanphill
© Renewal 1974 Singspiration, Inc.

The cross of Christ—the crossroads to heaven or hell.

[Texagirl4W]

Good morning, dutchess, everyone. Very good reading, as usual. Do you believe we have 8 months left of this. November 2 cannot come soon enough. God bless President Bush and the USA. And my freeper friends.

[dutchess]

God Bless Our Military
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[dansangel]

Clarke says his *going public* has nothing to do with being passed over for a promotion or being a bitter and disgruntled former employee; he has no ax to grind, no hard feelings for not being promoted despite having done such great things about terrorism; and going public has nothing to with Election-Year politics, his Kerry campaign connections or book promotion -- really! (Yes, and Andy Rooney loves Mel Gibson movies with a Passion).

Yep.....Hey Clarke, I've got a prime piece of ocean-front proprty in Arizona that I can sell you, schmuck!

(((((JH2)))))) - thank you for allowing me a few grins when the mere act of turning on FoxNews at night to review the "testimony" makes my blood boil. And we're supposed to believe this has nothing at all to do with an election year? My momma didn't raise no stupid kids!

((((((dutchess)))))) - great hostess graphic! Thank you for presenting our weekly dose of John. I owe you FReepemail.

(((((((HUGS)))))) to all of my Finest sistahs and to my favorite fuzzy brothah: [[[[[{{{{{(((((Louie_Wolfie_Man)))))}}}}}]]]]]

[GailA]

This is one of your BEST John. It's a hoot.

Coffee's on

[Aquamarine]

Well done you two!
Thought this dog looked alot like Gizmo.

Click!

[The Mayor]

Excellent presentation dutchess !

I understand that his book and his comments contradict each other ....
There are a couple things going on here that disturb me greatly.
The press just loves this idiot and every other idiot that comes out bashing Bush.
They are undermining our National Security, for what ? What drives them ?

This is what happens when people are driven by pure hate..

I can only wonder what would have happened if these idiots were to speak out during WW11,
would the people of this Country have tolerated it ? or would there be screams of aiding the enemy ?

When we kill osama will cnn describe him as the old, sickly spiritual leader of the religous muslims ? After all, they are a religion of peace....

I am afraid that this country and it's politics have boiled down to a battle between Good and Evil..
The demonrats most important issues are homo marriages, the complete removal of the existance of God in our society, the choice to kill the unborn, diversity, the acceptance of all things immoral, and of course the continued issues of healthcare, social security, education and rights for the minority...

Issues that have been out there for 40 years, the whole time they were in power and never did anything about but continue to carry the issues and blame the Right for not doing anything about....

The only way to get involved in a dispute with any country is to involve the un and persue diplomacy while the attacks continue to kill the innocent. While the corrupt (which is most of em) make money off of things like the food for oil program

When will this insanity stop, is it time for another bloody revolution ? Count me in, when I joined the Army I swore to Protect and Defend the Constitution against all enemies.... as far as I'm concerned that oath never expires ! Sad how our politicans don't even know or care about The Foundation of Our Country..

The day that God is removed from our Country is the day that God will remove his Blessings from it, I am afraid that day is coming sooner, not later.

I only Pray the the Second coming of Christ is soon, I long for Love and Grace to return !

God Bless America !

[Aquamarine]

Well said!

The thing that disgusts me the most about Clarke is that despicable man was supposed to be working to protect all of us, the American taxpayers all these years. How many more of them are there like that in our nations Capitol? Perish the thought.

[dutchess]

(((((aqua))))))) What a sweet picture and beautiful calming music. Stopped in before rushing out the door. Glad I did.... How relaxing.... Put me in a great state of mind. Thanks sistah!