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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (127573)	3/28/2004 12:26:37 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Thanks for linking Drezner's comment. I'm beginning to discern a very personalized and petty reason for Clarke's book and testimony. The vast majority of voters will never have a clue. Plus, the damage is done. Mr. Clarke has had his revenge. His apology was a grandstanding but effective joke. John Q. Public loves apologies, whether or not they are due. Drezner also links Belgrvia Dispatch blog for more interesting comments about Clarke. Too long to copy in full here though I will offer the following excerpt: belgraviadispatch.blogspot.com There is, to begin with, the small matter of the Clinton administration's pitiful record on the issue, about which the Clarke book and the hearings have already offered an opportunity for Republicans to remind the public. Dick Cheney, for one, promptly raised the question of what the Clinton team was doing during the "years going back to 1993, and the first attack on the World Trade Center, in '98 when the embassies were hit in East Africa, in 2000 when the USS Cole was hit." The short answer is nothing. Despite a clear evidence trail leading back to Al Qaeda, the administration failed to respond to the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and vetoed proposals to dispatch Special Forces in the hunt for bin Laden. It never responded to the 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers Air Force barracks in Saudi Arabia, despite (or because of) evidence of involvement by Iran, which the Clintonites were then attempting to "engage." The administration's response to the bombing of two American embassies in East Africa in 1998 was to fling a few missiles at a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan on the eve of Clinton's impeachment. The Clinton team even gave state sponsors of terrorism a linguistic cleansing, changing their official title from "rogue state" to "state of concern."