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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (1778)4/9/2004 11:15:10 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The Kerrey flip-flop - He wrote the "Clarke is wrong"
piece for the WSJ that I posted today, then went after
Condi. She nailed him. - From: LindyBill
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Useful Fools - Condi Conquers Kerrey

Under hostile questioning by comissioner Bob Kerrey about why the administration didn't respond to the attack on the USS Cole (which took place during the Clinton administration), Condi took Bob Kerrey to the cleaners:

KERREY:
...

So I just _ why didn't we respond to the Cole?

RICE: Well, we...

KERREY: Why didn't we swat that fly?

RICE: I believe that there's a question of whether or not you respond in a tactical sense or whether you respond in a strategic sense; whether or not you decide that you're going to respond to every attack with minimal use of military force and go after every _ on a kind of tit-for-tat basis.

By the way, in that memo, Dick Clarke talks about not
doing this tit-for-tat, doing this on the time of our
choosing.

RICE: I'm aware, Mr. Kerrey, of a speech that you gave at
that time that said that perhaps the best thing that we
could do to respond to the Cole and to the memories was to
do something about the threat of Saddam Hussein.

That's a strategic view...

(APPLAUSE)

And we took a strategic view. We didn't take a tactical view. I mean, it was really _ quite frankly, I was blown away when I read the speech, because it's a brilliant speech. It talks about really...

(LAUGHTER)

Not only is her answer very wise (strategy was needed, there was no effective tactic available) but she mousetrapped Kerrey very nicely.

His response was to get angry and respond with more partisan attacks.
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