On 9/26/06, Gruss Gott wrote: > > The point is that it's not just Rummy but all of the Republican > Senators that opposed Clinton during the time, many of whom are in > power today.
Bet you can't name one. > Further the whole basis of this is Republicans trying to head off the > valid argument that Bush did jack to fend off Al Quaeda prior to 9/11 > (not Clinton or his legacy). There is no argument there, Clark said himself Bush did much more in 8 months than Clinton did in 8 years. He also said the plan Clinton claimed to have given the new Admin was actually his plan from '98 that was never implemented. The he said if it was it wouldn't have done anything to stop 9/11 anyway. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115085,00.html CLARKE: There was never a plan in the Clinton administration to use ground forces. The military was asked at a couple of points in the Clinton administration to think about it. Um, and they always came back and said it was not a good idea. There was never a plan to do that. (Break in briefing details as reporters and Clarke go back and forth on how to source quotes from this backgrounder.) ANGLE: So, just to finish up if we could then, so what you're saying is that there was no one, there was no plan; two, there was no delay; and that actually the first changes since October of '98 were made in the spring months just after the administration came into office? CLARKE: You got it. That's right. QUESTION: It was not put into an action plan until September 4, signed off by the principals? CLARKE: That's right. QUESTION: I want to add though, that NSPD the actual work on it began in early April. CLARKE: There was a lot of in the first three NSPDs that were being worked in parallel. ANGLE: Now the five-fold increase for the money in covert operations against Al Qaeda did that actually go into effect when it was decided or was that a decision that happened in the next budget year or something? CLARKE: Well, it was gonna go into effect in October, which was the next budget year, so it was a month away. QUESTION: That actually got into the intelligence budget? CLARKE: Yes it did. QUESTION: Just to clarify, did that come up in April or later? CLARKE: No, it came up in April and it was approved in principle and then went through the summer. And you know, the other thing to bear in mind is the shift from the rollback strategy to the elimination strategy. When President Bush told us in March to stop swatting at flies and just solve this problem, then that was the strategic direction that changed the NSPD from one of rollback to one of elimination. > For example, when Pres Clinton was delivered a report stating that Bin > Laden might use Airplanes to attack the US he tightened airport and > airline security (much to the very public disturbance of airlines as > they had to pay for it.) Boo-hoo > Bush, on the other hand, was delivered a document titled, "Bin Laden > Determined To Attack Inside the United States" and did nothing. It was a report he ordered based on the threat from al Qaeda in the '90's, the info that was supposed to have been passed on. It was based on the threat you just mentioned Clinton acted on. It also went on to say there were 70 agents working on current threats in the US. > Further, Bush demoted and cast aside Mr. Clark, a terrorism expert who > had served for both Pres Reagan and Pres Bush, who was attempting to > push forward the Al Quaeda danger. Clark was the terrorism czar during 9/11. He had asked to be the cyber security czar and they said fine but wait until you've trained a replacement. After 9/11 he wasn't offered the homeland security job he wanted so he quit. > Of course arguing who sucked more is mostly pointless. Arguing without facts sucks too. Are you still getting your news from the WSJ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216139 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
