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To: quehubo who wrote (125894)	3/11/2004 8:18:35 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm wondering if Al Qaeda had anything to do with this tragic attack in a country who has a leader that supported GW Bush's invasion of Iraq... Spain rail blasts: 173 dead cnn.com

To: quehubo who wrote (125894)	3/11/2004 3:16:36 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"...we did nothing material in response to attacks from 1983 until 9/11." Not so. Read the cover story in the August 12, 2002, Time magazine. Richard Clarke presented a strategy paper on Dec. 20, 2000. Clinton's plan was turned over to the Bush administration instead of starting the war on terrorism. This was Clinton's biggest mistake. The Hart-Rudman Commission: "This commission believes that the security of the American homeland from threats of the new century should be the primary national security mission of the U.S. government." Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Cheney, and Bush decided not to implement the Hart-Rudman recommendations. Instead Bush's administration instituted Operation Ignore to be led by Cheney. Purpose: to pretend to develop a plan to counter domestic terrorist attacks. Bush said he would "periodically chair a meeting of the NSC to review these efforts." Bush never chaired such a meeting. Probably because Cheney's task force never held a meeting. There is more.