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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (5813)	3/24/2004 4:41:50 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 90947

We went after Afganistan not Iraq....THEN we went after Iraq because they refused to comply (after 12 years of feckless diplomacy)with the Gulf war accords and verification of the destruction of WMD was not achieved. Moreover, it is quite natural to assume Iraq might be complicit in 9/11 given Iiraq's support for, financing of and harboring of terrorists....and given the strong animosity Saddam had for the US and the Bush family in particular.... Bottom line is that Clark is on record with tow different versions of the same story....

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (5813)	3/26/2004 3:34:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

ice.he.net Click "Read the entire transcript" at the bottom for some particularly good stuff.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (5813)	3/26/2004 4:10:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

Senate Leader Assails Clarke, Asks to See Past Testimony By DAVID STOUT Published: March 26, 2004 ASHINGTON, March 26 — The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, today accused a former counter-terrorism official who has criticized the Bush administration of exploiting Sept. 11, 2001, and the senator wants to compare the official's recent public testimony with secret testimony he gave two years ago. Advertisement Dr. Frist said it was "awesomely self-serving" of the former official, Richard A. Clarke, to say that President Bush had paid too little attention to his warnings about the dangers posed by Al Qaeda terrorists. Far from accepting his own responsibility for any failures before the attacks, Mr. Clarke was "consumed by the desire to dodge any blame" even as rescuers were sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center, Dr. Frist said in a speech on the Senate floor. Dr. Frist said he would seek to declassify testimony that Mr. Clarke gave in July 2002 in closed meetings of the intelligence committees of both the Senate and the House. The majority leader said he wanted to compare that testimony with Mr. Clarke's testimony this week before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, a 10-member, independent, bipartisan panel investigating 9/11. Perhaps, Dr. Frist said, inconsistencies will be found. "Until you have him under oath both times, you don't know," the Tennessee Republican said. continues... nytimes.com