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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189734)	6/19/2006 11:39:03 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

What did Bush do Nadine? Nuttin..cut some brush, took a bike ride and a nap...

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189734)	6/20/2006 3:41:09 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

So what does that say about Dubyette and OBL? Obviously Dubyette has ZERO will to get justice for 911 and ZERO will to protect the country against another 911. Dubyette also has ZERO will to balance the budget. ZERO will to address global warming. ZERO will to address corruption in government and government contracting and ZERO will to win in Iraq. After all Dubyette still has YEARS in office and he has already handed off Iraq to the 'next President.' Nope. Your arguments are still those of a propagandist for the dictator.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189734)	6/20/2006 3:43:53 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Why didn't Bush respond to the USS Cole bombing? CLARKE: I suggested, beginning in January of 2001, that ... there was an open issue which should be decided about whether or not the Bush administration should retaliate for the Cole attack [which occurred in October 2000]. Unfortunately, there was no interest, no acceptance of that proposition. And I was told on a couple of occasions, "Well, you know, that happened on the Clinton administration's watch." I didn't think it made any difference. I thought the Bush administration, now that it had the CIA saying it was al Qaeda, should have responded. RICE: I do not believe to this day that it would have been a good thing to respond to the Cole, given the kinds of options that we were going to have. ... We really thought that the Cole incident was passed, that you didn't want to respond tit-for-tat. ... Just responding to another attack in an insufficient way we thought would actually probably embolden the terrorists -- they had been emboldened by everything else that had been done to them -- and that the best course was to look ahead to a more aggressive strategy against them...." cnn.com ============ Rice, most incompetent NSA ever subsequently promoted by her 'husband' Dubyette to Sec of State even though she really wanted to be Sec of Defense. Unbelievable incompetence.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189734)	6/20/2006 3:52:18 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Clarke's memo requests an immediate meeting of the National Security Council's Principals Committee to discuss broad strategies for combating al-Qaeda by giving counterterrorism aid to the Northern Alliance and Uzbekistan, expanding the counterterrorism budget and responding to the U.S.S. Cole attack. Despite Clarke's request, there was no Principals Committee meeting on al-Qaeda until September 4, 2001.... Rice and Hadley told us that, although the Clinton administration had worked very hard on the Al Qaida program, its policies on Al Qaida, quote, "had run out of gas," and they therefore set about developing a new presidential directive and a new, comprehensive policy on terrorism.... [Rice]:Yes, the Cole had happened. We received, I think, on January 25th the same assessment or roughly the same assessment of who was responsible for the Cole that Sandy Berger talked to you about. It was preliminary. It was not clear. But that was not the reason that we felt that we did not want to, quote, "respond to the Cole."... www2.gwu.edu ============ Rice was too arrogant and incompetent. Dubyette was too stupid and incompetent and busy cutting brush for his month-long vacation in Crawford.