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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (562042)	4/8/2004 7:09:23 PM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Clarke, with no credibility, is now only “respected” by the I hate George Bush crowd. He destroyed his own credibility. Most Americans, some 62% accordint to the LA Times, believe he is motivated for political or book selling reasons. The problems: * 180 degree difference between his 2002 background briefing and his book and testimony – his explanation of emphasizing positive and minimizing negatives is completely inadequate. We are not talking about shades of grays between the stories, they are diametrically opposed stories. * Apparently a completely different characterization between 2002 closed testimony, and his book and current testimony * Different answers to the same questions under oath compared to his book promotion interviews * 180 degrees of difference between his assertions in “Losing Bin Laden” by Richard Miniter and those in his book. * Numerous factual errors in his book, for instance: Clarke says in his book that on 9/11 the senior director for defense policy, Franklin Miller, urged Defense Secretary to take a helicopter out of the burning Pentagon, to which Rumsfeld said -- "I am too ... old to go to an alternate site." But Miller says he never talked to Rumsfeld at all that day. In addition, Clarke says an official in the White House Situation Room that day yelled -- "Secret Service Reports a hostile aircraft 10 minutes out." But Miller tells the New York Times he doesn't remember that ever happening.

To: Poet who wrote (562042)	4/8/2004 8:48:01 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You're hopeless if you can't tell the difference between a genuine show of remorse and a publicity stunt calculated to sell a book. Not only that, you're so far out of the mainstream if you think that Clarke's dramatic and overwrought apology to the 9/11 families was sincere. You haven't seen him apologize in the same showy manner to the families of the victims of the first WTC bombing in 1993 - or the Khobar Towers in 1995 or the two African embassy bombings in 1998 or the Cole bombing in 2000 -- have you?