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To: BubbaFred who wrote (6904)	3/21/2004 3:55:40 PM
From: Raymond Duray	of 173976

"Against All Enemies : Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened" by Richard Clarke amazon.com ****** Richard Clarke will be featured on CBS's 60 Minutes tonight. Here's what has been said about this interview in the foreign press: Enough has leaked from the White House to confirm that the war was a decision made before it was justified. This weekend there was more evidence - Richard Clarke, Bush's counter-terrorism co-ordinator in September, 2001, told American 60 Minutes that within 24 hours of the attacks the Administration was convinced that al-Qaeda was responsible, but the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had complained that "there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq". Rumsfeld obsesses about uncertainty. As explained to The Atlantic Monthly by one of his deputies, Douglas Feith: "the need to deal strategically with uncertainty; the inability to predict the future; the limits on our knowledge and the limits on our intelligence". That's a windy way of saying that the end justifies the means. But people are not as stupid as the White House would like. RGD: Only most Americans, it would seem, unfortunately. <ng> smh.com.au * TERROR GROUPS 'STRONGER' A former White House terrorism adviser said Bush's decision to invade Iraq had strengthened terror groups. Richard Clarke, Bush's top official on counter-terrorism who headed a cybersecurity board before retiring, told CBS 60 Minutes: "Osama bin Laden had been saying for years, 'America wants to invade an Arab country and occupy it, an oil-rich Arab country'. So what did we do after September 11? We invade ... and occupy an oil-rich Arab country which was doing nothing to threaten us. The result is that al Qaeda and organisations like it ... have been greatly strengthened." nzherald.co.nz

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