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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189734)	6/20/2006 3:43:53 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"Why didn't Bush respond to the USS Cole bombing? CLARKE: I suggested, beginning in January of 2001, that ... there was an open issue which should be decided about whether or not the Bush administration should retaliate for the Cole attack [which occurred in October 2000]. Unfortunately, there was no interest, no acceptance of that proposition. And I was told on a couple of occasions, "Well, you know, that happened on the Clinton administration's watch." I didn't think it made any difference. I thought the Bush administration, now that it had the CIA saying it was al Qaeda, should have responded. RICE: I do not believe to this day that it would have been a good thing to respond to the Cole, given the kinds of options that we were going to have. ... We really thought that the Cole incident was passed, that you didn't want to respond tit-for-tat. ... Just responding to another attack in an insufficient way we thought would actually probably embolden the terrorists -- they had been emboldened by everything else that had been done to them -- and that the best course was to look ahead to a more aggressive strategy against them...." cnn.com ============ Rice, most incompetent NSA ever subsequently promoted by her 'husband' Dubyette to Sec of State even though she really wanted to be Sec of Defense. Unbelievable incompetence.

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