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To: KLP who wrote (38521)	4/8/2004 2:38:29 PM
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Watching Condi or... "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Kerrey" Roger L Simon blog <font size=4> I have no idea what the pundits will conclude, but watching Rice and Bob Kerrey jousting at this precise second, I am struck by how our system is about The Politics of the Last Five Minutes.<font size=3> That is one of the great flaws in a democracy, perhaps an inevitable one that we must live with. That the situation in Iraq looks bad this precise week is informing all of Kerrey's questions. Is that good? Not to me it isn't because I don't know... and no one knows... what the real situation is in Iraq. We probably won't know for some time to come. So everything is skewed. And now, answering John Lehman, Rice has responded to the essential question in exactly the same manner as Richard Clarke: If everything Clarke recommended had been implented before 9/11, would the terror attack on the World Trade Center have been avoided? Clarke: No. Rice: No. So what is exactly is going on here? <font size=4> UPDATE: I don't know about the rest of you, but the only thing I gleaned from today's show (and that's really what it is) is that Bob Kerrey is a strange man. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he the one who just a few weeks ago asserted that ten years from now all will agree that the US did the right thing in Iraq? He certainly has gone from the long view to the short view in a near record time. In any case, it's extremely hard to reconcile the Kerrey at the hearing with the Kerrey who wrote this in his opinion piece in today's WSJ: It is my view that a political victory for terrorism in Iraq is a much greater danger to us than whether or not we succeed in capturing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Victory in Iraq will embolden radical Islamists as much as our failure to recognize the original danger of their declaration of war against us. <font size=3> Maybe he has a ghost writer. UPDATE: Gerard Van Der Leun thinks there's a catch phrase in here somewhere. [Why didn't you try to copyright it, you numbskull?--ed. Hey, I'm pro-open source.] rogerlsimon.com

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