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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (9694)	3/23/2004 10:12:40 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Old quotes raise some interesting questions about the Clarke of today. For example, despite Clarke's criticism of the Iraq invasion, he once thought the U.S. didn't need ironclad evidence of weapons of mass destruction to take military action against a threat. From the April 2, 2000 Washington Post profile: "We should have a very low barrier in terms of acting when there is a threat of weapons of mass destruction being used against American citizens," says Clarke. "We should not have a barrier of evidence that can be used in a court of law." He compares the current threat of global terrorism with the situation faced by Western democracies in the period leading up to World War II, when appeasement carried the day. Imagine what would have happened, he says, had Winston Churchill come to power in Britain five years earlier and "aggressively gone after" Nazi Germany. Hitler would have been stopped, but in all likelihood, Clarke says, Churchill would have gone down in history "as a hawk, as someone who exaggerated the threat, who saber-rattled and did needless things." nationalreview.com

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