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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (13422)	4/8/2004 7:08:17 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Pure lies. The situation with the Cole was becoming clear during the handoff to the incoming admin. They kept Clarke on but demoted him and spent their first NSC meeting discussing ways to justify invading Iraq. Pay attention! "...You just said that the intelligence coming in indicated a big, big, big threat. Something was going to happen very soon and be potentially catastrophic. I don't understand, given the big threat, why the big principals don't get together. The principals meet 33 times in seven months, on Iraq, on the Middle East, on missile defense, China, on Russia. Not once do the principals ever sit down -- you, in your job description as the national security advisor, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the president of the United States -- and meet solely on terrorism to discuss in the spring and the summer, when these threats are coming in, when you've known since the transition that Al Qaeda cells are in the United States, when, as the PDB said on August, bin Laden determined to attack the United States. Why don't the principals at that point say, "Let's all talk about this, let's get the biggest people together in our government and discuss what this threat is and try to get our bureaucracies responding to it"? ====== when in doubt do the Enron dance: blame others and claim ignorance and/or incompetence

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (13422)	4/8/2004 9:05:08 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

If Rice takes her oath seriously why was she AWOL on terror prior to 9-11 and why she did outright lie about Iraq's imminent threat of WMD's? Face it, Rice is a pawn of the Cheney-Bush team who picked her for her race and sex. She is a smart woman, and the only black woman in the entire GOP top circle, but didn't have anywhere near the experience it takes to be NSA. She had already sold her soul to the Texas energy cabal, was paid off and even got a Chevron tanker named after her. Chevron is a company very close to the Bushes. It was thoroughly indecent of her to ignore the victims families and refuse to apologize. Cheney-Bush both owe us big apologies too. But of course they always have to pretend they're right and can never admit mistakes nor lies even when the evidence is obvious.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (13422)	4/8/2004 11:26:35 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

I do not find anything melodramatic in these words uttered by Clarke: "I also welcome the hearings because it is finally a forum where I can apologize to the loved ones of the victims of 9/11." Paranoid Americans are now criticizing Homeland Security & the Patriot Act. Those terrorists are against the freedoms we as Americans enjoy. They would like us to be like what it was in Afghanistan under Taliban. No "liberty and justice for all" With the enactment of the Homeland Security and the Patriot Act, the terrorists have succeeded in their goal since they forced Bush to choose between safety and freedom. Bush failed in granting every American the security as well as their freedom. He curtailed the freedoms through that Act in pursuit of safety. We want a President who can guarantee us safety as well as our liberties. Vote for John F. Kerry.