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Terror Advisor proud of his personal failure
EFL hattip drudgePresident Bushâs former top terrorism advisor says the president isnât doing the best job fighting terrorism. The former advisor, Richard Clarke, discusses this and other observations he made while he was a White House insider in an interview with Lesley Stahl to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday March 21 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Heâs a FORMER terrorism advisor for good reason - as noted below. The top counter-terrorism advisor, Clarke was briefing the highest government officials, including President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in the aftermath of 9/11. "Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq....We all said, âbut no, no. Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan," recounts Clarke, "and Rumsfeld said, âThere arenât any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq.â I said, âWell, there are lots of good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with [the 9/11 attacks],â" he tells Stahl. Clarke, who advised four presidents, reveals more about the current administrationâs reaction to terrorism in his new book, "Against All Enemies." So he advised four presidents while AQ grew. Under his watchful eye and brilliant anaylsis, he raised no alarms re: the years of planning that resulted in the worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor. You failed miserably in your job, loser. Itâs obvious to anyone who isnât a partisan that you should have been fired long before Bush did it. Posted by: B 2004-03-20 |
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