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Dave the Wonder Boy said:
Whomod again ignores the facts.

Dumps liberal propaganda (click-and-dragged from liberal-slanted sites)

Wipes.

And flushes...



Good answer.

If not predicatable.

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From Clarke's book:

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Within a week of the Inauguration I wrote to [Assistant to the President for National Security] Rice and [Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security] Hadley asking "urgently" for a Principals... meeting to review the imminent al Qaeda threat.
Rice told me that the Principals [NSC] Committee, which had been the first venue for terrorism policy discussions in the Clinton administration, would not address the issue until it had been "framed" by the Deputies.... [M]onths of delay....
Finally, in April, the Deputies [NSC] Committee met on terrorism for the first time. The first meeting... did not go well.
Rice's deputy, Steve Hadley, began... by asking me to brief.... I turned immediately to the pending decisions needed to deal with al Qaeda. "We need to put pressure on both the Taliban and al Qaeda by arming the Northern Alliance and other groups in Afghanistan. Simultaneously, we need to target bin Laden and his leadership by reinitiating flights of the Predator."
Paul Wolfowitz... fidgeted and scowled.... "Well, I just don't understand why we are beginning by talking about this one man"....
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Hadley suggested a compromise. We would begin by focusing on al Qaeda and then later look at other terrorism.... Because dealing with al Qaeda involved its Afghan sanctuary... Hal dley suggested that we needed policy on Afghanistan in general and on the related issue of U.S.-Pakistani relations, including the return of democracy in that country and arms control with India. All of these issues were a "cluster" that had to be decided together. Hadley proposed that several more papers be written and several more meetings be scheduled over the next few months....

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The delay in the Deputies Committee continued....

Rice promised to get to it soon. Time passed....

[And as al Qaeda moved its operational assets into position for the September 11 attack: ]

By late June, Tenet and I were convinced a major series of attacks was about to come....

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During the first week in July I convened the C[ounterterrorism ]S[ecurity ]G[roup].... Each agency should report anything unusual, even if a sparrow should fall from a tree.... "You've just heard that CIA thinks that al Qaeda is planning a major attack on us So do I.... [M]aybe it will be here.... Tell me, tell each other, about anything unusual."

Somewhere in CIA there was information that two known al Qaeda terrorists had come into the United States. Somewhere in FBI there was information that strange things had been going on at flight schools.... None of that information got to me or the White House....

[Finally, on September 4, the Principals NSC Committee meets to approve Clarke's anti-al Qaeda plan:( "put pressure on both the Taliban and al Qaeda by arming the Northern Alliance and other groups in Afghanistan. Simultaneously, we need to target bin Laden and his leadership by reinitiating flights of the Predator":

On September 4... the Principals Committee meeting on al Qaeda that I had called for "urgently" on January 25 finally met... a non event. Tenet and I spoke passionately about the urgency and seriousness of the al Qaeda threat. No one disagreed. Powell laid out an aggressive strategy for putting pressure on Pakistan.... Rumsfeld... looked distracted... took the Wolfowitz line that there were other terrorist concerns, like Iraq.... CIA had said it could not find a single dollar... to transfer to the anti-al Qaeda effort. It demanded additional funds.... The only heated disagreement came over whether to fly the armed Predator over Afghanistan to attack al Qaeda. Neither CIA nor the Defense Department would agree to run that program. Rice ended the discussion without a solution...



Let the character assasination commence....

Last edited by whomod; 2004-03-24 7:05 AM.