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To: michael97123 who wrote (157319)	1/28/2005 4:23:59 PM
From: Neocon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I have been a Condi fan since the '92 election. She would make a better president than most. And she is a twofer, historically speaking. We don't have a boatload of viable black candidates, and Powell is not looking good for stepping up. Christine Todd Whitman is a viable female candidate, but too liberal. Condi may, indeed, be the pick........

To: michael97123 who wrote (157319)	1/28/2005 11:08:28 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Right. Maybe if Rove takes Rice on, she'll fly. There is this "historical" snippet, though: In the first hours after the Sept. 11 attacks and ever since, the White House has consistently insisted that Mr. Bush and his deputies had no credible evidence before the attacks to suggest that Al Qaeda was about to strike on American soil. But the assertion has been questioned as a result of the commission's digging. After its most heated showdown with the Bush administration over access to classified information, the commission pressured the White House to declassify and make public a special intelligence briefing that had been presented to the president at his Texas ranch on Aug. 6, 2001, a month before the attacks. The existence of the document - but not its detailed contents - had been known since 2002, when the White House confirmed news reports that Mr. Bush had received an intelligence report before Sept. 11 warning of the possibility that Al Qaeda might hijack American passenger planes. In testimony this April to the Sept. 11 commission, before the report was made public, Ms. Rice insisted that it was "historical." "It did not, in fact, warn of attacks inside the United States," she testified. "It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information.'' But there were gasps in the audience in the hearing room when she disclosed the name of the two-page briefing paper: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in U.S." ( from nytimes.com , viewable at Message 20349724 ) It's all a joke. Maybe Rice could run with torture-memoist-in-chief Gonzalez to round out the ticket. She certainly did her part of the job of using 9/11 to help W get the war of his heart's desire in Iraq, which has to count for something.