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To: KLP who wrote (127859)	3/30/2004 5:47:25 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<What racist tripe!> Rice herself said she owed her job at Stanford to affirmative action -- a fairly meaningless job to which she was well-suited. In comparison, she has shown herself to be completely incapable of living up to her responsibilities as national security advisor in the days leading up to 9/11 and its immediate aftermath and the runup to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Articulate? I have never heard so much empty verbal bumbling in my life. Honesty? I have never once heard her give a straight answer. Intelligent? Not on terrorism where her ignorance cost people their lives. Effective? She has never been able to influence major decisions or to help coordinate major agencies -- including the failures that led to 9/11. It is unfortunate that incompetence cannot be prosecuted in the courts -- at the very least, she should have been fired when her lack of competence and effectiveness became so glaringly obvious. Other than that, I have no opinion on Rice.

To: KLP who wrote (127859)	3/30/2004 9:05:53 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I think it's racist tripe too. Seems to me it's the marginal types on the brink (or over) themselves who rage on and on about affirmative action. Gotta have someone to blame. I notice that GST has claimed her ignorance cost people their lives. Which happens to conflict with Richard Clarke's sworn testimony to whit: Slate Gorton: "Assuming that the recommendations that you made on January 25 of 2001 . . . including aid to the Northern Alliance which had been an agenda item at this point for two and a half years without any action, assuming that there had been more Predator reconnaissance missions, assuming that that had all been adopted, say, on January 26, year 2001, is there the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11?" Mr. Clarke: "No." Mr. Gorton: "It just would have allowed our response after 9/11 to be perhaps a little bit faster?" Mr. Clarke: "Well, the response would have begun before 9/11." Mr. Gorton: "But -- yes, but we weren't going to -- there was no recommendation on your part or anyone else's part that we declare war and attempt to invade Afghanistan prior to 9/11?" Mr. Clarke: "That's right." online.wsj.com