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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (555321)3/23/2004 11:12:56 AM
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Clarke repeated his charge about Rumsfeld and Iraq: "Right after 9/11, even though there was no connection with Iraq and everybody knew it, Rumsfeld asked for and got from the President in writing -- in a directive -- instructions to prepare for the invasion of Iraq."

He rebutted Vice President Cheney's Monday comments on the Rush Limbaugh Show about all of the terrorist attacks that occurred on Clarke's watch during those "eight years going back to 1993" by recounting the terrorist attacks that were successfully thwarted and by saying that "there were fewer than 50 persons over the course of those eight years that were killed by Al Qaeda."

Clarke then went on the offensive against his critics: "in the Reagan Administration, 300 Americans died in Lebanon and there was no retaliation. In the Bush I Administration, almost 300 Americas died on Pan Am 103 and no retaliation. Yet for this much smaller threat, we had done a great deal."

While appearing on CNN's "American Morning," Clarke again defended his record -- this time invoking the C-word.

"I would argue that for what had actually happened prior to 9/11, the Clinton Administration was doing a great deal. In fact, so much that when the Bush people came into office they thought I was a little crazy, a little obsessed with this little terrorist Bin Laden. Why wasn't I focused on Iraqi-sponsored terrorism?"
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