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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:22 PM
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Can you believe this X-Files crap from Bushbot Jim Wilkinson?
More on just how feeble the White House anti-Clarke push-back is getting. This is Bush NSC spokesman Jim Wilkinson again on Wolf Blitzer last night ...

The terrorists weren't overseas, the terrorists were here in America. By June, the FBI says 16 of 19 terrorists in the 9/11 attacks were already here. I just don't see what this focus on process and titles and meetings. Let me also point something. If you look in this book you find interesting things such as reported in the "Washington Post" this morning. He's talking about how he sits back and visualizes chanting by bin Laden and bin Laden has a mystical mind control over U.S. officials. This is sort of "X-Files" stuff, and this is a man in charge of terrorism, Wolf, who is supposed to be focused on it and he was focused on meetings.

So now it seems the White House line is that Clarke is some sort of borderline personality or half-crazed crackpot. Here's the reference from the Washington Post ...

"Any leader whom one can imagine as president on September 11 would have declared a 'war on terrorism' and would have ended the Afghan sanctuary by invading," Clarke writes. "What was unique about George Bush's reaction" was the additional choice to invade "not a country that had been engaging in anti-U.S. terrorism but one that had not been, Iraq." In so doing, he estranged allies, enraged potential friends in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and produced "more terrorists than we jail or shoot."
"It was as if Osama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting 'invade Iraq, you must invade Iraq,' " Clarke writes.

X-Files stuff ...

When you have a good case, you make it. When you don't, you just talk trash.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:25 PM
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1. I Think Most People
if they heard or read what Clarke said, know exactly what Clarke is talking about. But the Bush admin is banking on the unfortunate reality that most people don't... so it's a race for who can plant the idea in the public's heads the fastest.

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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:29 PM
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3. preCISEly, Mr. Holmes!
that's the ONLY thing they're good at-expert, if you will.

that and destroying countries, including this one
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 02:27 PM
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2. A crackpot they allowed to continue in his job until on his own he quit
However, this argument will play very well with their base.
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