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		<title>By: Global Geopolitics News &#187; Global Security News - For US, North Korea Nuclear Threat Likely Years Away</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-2/#comment-928038</link>
		<dc:creator>Global Geopolitics News &#187; Global Security News - For US, North Korea Nuclear Threat Likely Years Away</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Bush Administration s Pre-9/11 Focus Was Missile Defense, Not  Think Progress, DC - Sep 26, 2006  While the Bush administration should have been preparing for a potential terrorist attack, it was instead focused on developing a costly missile defense system [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Bush Administration s Pre-9/11 Focus Was Missile Defense, Not  Think Progress, DC &#8211; Sep 26, 2006  While the Bush administration should have been preparing for a potential terrorist attack, it was instead focused on developing a costly missile defense system [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=928038', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jake</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-890193</link>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush Administrationâ€™s Pre-9/11 Focus was LIHOP on 9/11 and then invading most of the middle east.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush Administrationâ€™s Pre-9/11 Focus was LIHOP on 9/11 and then invading most of the middle east.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=890193', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: truth4achange</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-888262</link>
		<dc:creator>truth4achange</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And lest it be forgotten, &lt;a href=&quot;http://hairytruth.blogspot.com/2006/09/sucking-with-gusto.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chris Wallace still sucks&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And lest it be forgotten, <a href="http://hairytruth.blogspot.com/2006/09/sucking-with-gusto.html" rel="nofollow">Chris Wallace still sucks</a>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=888262', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big+papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-887940</link>
		<dc:creator>big+papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Pay no attention to that negress house slave behind the curtain!&quot;...

-Condi-</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Pay no attention to that negress house slave behind the curtain!&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>-Condi-<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=887940', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Olbermannfan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-886083</link>
		<dc:creator>Olbermannfan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the olbermann playlist on youtube! a must see

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D14E64E0701DB37</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the olbermann playlist on youtube! a must see</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D14E64E0701DB37" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D14E64E0701DB37</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=886083', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pacepa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-884560</link>
		<dc:creator>Pacepa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;All warfare is based on deception.&quot;

&quot;Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent&#039;s fate.&quot;

&quot;A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.&quot;


All quotes by Sun Tzu, the Chinese military genius who wrote the book The Art of War some 2,500 years ago. It is required reading for every Soviet intelligence agent.

Again, the &quot;collapse&quot; of the Soviet Union was a strategic deception.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;All warfare is based on deception.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent&#8217;s fate.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.&#8221;</p>
<p>All quotes by Sun Tzu, the Chinese military genius who wrote the book The Art of War some 2,500 years ago. It is required reading for every Soviet intelligence agent.</p>
<p>Again, the &#8220;collapse&#8221; of the Soviet Union was a strategic deception.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=884560', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-883913</link>
		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Rather, the likelihood is that she is a Russian â€œasset.â€&lt;/em&gt; Comment by Pacepaâ€

If that&#039;s the case, she&#039;s been a spy for decades, no?  And yet the Soviet Union fell, despite her best efforts - not a very wise investment on their part, eh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Rather, the likelihood is that she is a Russian â€œasset.â€</em> Comment by Pacepaâ€</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s the case, she&#8217;s been a spy for decades, no?  And yet the Soviet Union fell, despite her best efforts &#8211; not a very wise investment on their part, eh?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=883913', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: SourDove</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-883399</link>
		<dc:creator>SourDove</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://vestigialconscience.com/img/1000YearsForRevenge_Plate15.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;
The team who convicted Ramzi Yousef told the press in 1997 that they knew &lt;/a&gt;
about the plot to fly planes into the WTC and Pentagon.  When I realized that 
meant the very counter-terrorist law enforcement &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; intelligence 
&lt;b&gt;agencies who who needed to know already knew,&lt;/b&gt; and that thousands of 
people read the list of targets in 1998, I realized the plotters were counting 
on inside help.  Pre-announcing a sneak attack makes it something else.  
By evaluating who stood to gain and who would be in a position to create the 
necessary conditions, I was able in July 1999 to guess the date and time of 
the attack.  I told everyone who would listen, but I really thought more 
people would remember the news items from the Yousef trial.  Instead, 
years later, every damn thing I read about 9/11 misrepresents it as a 
complete surprise to the people who needed to know.  

Remember that the week before the August 6 PDB, in Genoa, Shrub&#039;n&#039;
Condi slept on an aircraft carrier in case the planes-into-buildings attack 
took place there, despite the air patrols and surface-to-air batteries that 
the Italian authorities put in place on Pentagon advice.  After no attempt 
was made in Genoa, they crowed about how the publicity around their 
air defense precautions let attackers know it wasn&#039;t worth trying.  

That&#039;s how you protect a target when you don&#039;t know who the attackers 
are to be, that is, when your Pentagon intelligence guys are not already 
buying photos of the suspects and pasting Post-Its over them.  

&lt;a href=&quot;http://youthfulindiscretions.com/AnyCondi.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AnyCondi.mp3&lt;/a&gt; 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://youthfulindiscretions.com/AnyCondiCould.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AnyCondiCould.mp3&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://vestigialconscience.com/img/1000YearsForRevenge_Plate15.jpg" rel="nofollow"><br />
The team who convicted Ramzi Yousef told the press in 1997 that they knew </a><br />
about the plot to fly planes into the WTC and Pentagon.  When I realized that<br />
meant the very counter-terrorist law enforcement <i>and</i> intelligence<br />
<b>agencies who who needed to know already knew,</b> and that thousands of<br />
people read the list of targets in 1998, I realized the plotters were counting<br />
on inside help.  Pre-announcing a sneak attack makes it something else.<br />
By evaluating who stood to gain and who would be in a position to create the<br />
necessary conditions, I was able in July 1999 to guess the date and time of<br />
the attack.  I told everyone who would listen, but I really thought more<br />
people would remember the news items from the Yousef trial.  Instead,<br />
years later, every damn thing I read about 9/11 misrepresents it as a<br />
complete surprise to the people who needed to know.  </p>
<p>Remember that the week before the August 6 PDB, in Genoa, Shrub&#8217;n&#8217;<br />
Condi slept on an aircraft carrier in case the planes-into-buildings attack<br />
took place there, despite the air patrols and surface-to-air batteries that<br />
the Italian authorities put in place on Pentagon advice.  After no attempt<br />
was made in Genoa, they crowed about how the publicity around their<br />
air defense precautions let attackers know it wasn&#8217;t worth trying.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s how you protect a target when you don&#8217;t know who the attackers<br />
are to be, that is, when your Pentagon intelligence guys are not already<br />
buying photos of the suspects and pasting Post-Its over them.  </p>
<p><a href="http://youthfulindiscretions.com/AnyCondi.mp3" rel="nofollow">AnyCondi.mp3</a><br />
<a href="http://youthfulindiscretions.com/AnyCondiCould.mp3" rel="nofollow">AnyCondiCould.mp3</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=883399', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pacepa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-883190</link>
		<dc:creator>Pacepa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rice was indeed a poor choice, but not for the reason that she is a Russian &quot;expert.&quot; Rather, the likelihood is that she is a Russian &quot;asset.&quot;

I won&#039;t go into the details of how her academic work on the subject of Russia is suspect as well as inferior, or how suspicious it is that she spent 1978 as an exchange student studying in the USSR, nor will I attempt to explain how her mentor, Josef Korbel (father of Madelaine Alright) was himself a communist.

What I will do is tell you that the Cold War never ended, that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a strategic deception designed to pave the way fro the destruction of America, and that we have all been deceived by it. 

The space-based missile defense program initiated by Reagan and resurrected by Bush posed an unacceptable threat to the plans of the Soviets. That Bush made it a top priority indicates that it is likely that he was aware that &lt;em&gt;glasnost&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;perestroika&lt;/em&gt; were deceptive Soviet maneuvers as indicated by Golitsyn, and if the Russians had not intended to ramp up their terror operations against the US as early as 9-11-2001 when Bush took office, or if they had intended to allow &lt;em&gt;convergence&lt;/em&gt; to continue to work effectively against this nation, as they likely could have had a Democrat been elected to office, terror war-by-proxy was necessitated by, if nothing else, Bush&#039;s decision to complete the vitally important space-based missile defense shield, as he has begun to do.

Do not expect that our missile defense shield, scheduled to be 100% installed by the end of 2007, will be allowed to be completed. The Final Phase of the Soviet plan won&#039;t allow it.

What is the Final Phase? Click my name and find out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rice was indeed a poor choice, but not for the reason that she is a Russian &#8220;expert.&#8221; Rather, the likelihood is that she is a Russian &#8220;asset.&#8221;</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t go into the details of how her academic work on the subject of Russia is suspect as well as inferior, or how suspicious it is that she spent 1978 as an exchange student studying in the USSR, nor will I attempt to explain how her mentor, Josef Korbel (father of Madelaine Alright) was himself a communist.</p>
<p>What I will do is tell you that the Cold War never ended, that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a strategic deception designed to pave the way fro the destruction of America, and that we have all been deceived by it. </p>
<p>The space-based missile defense program initiated by Reagan and resurrected by Bush posed an unacceptable threat to the plans of the Soviets. That Bush made it a top priority indicates that it is likely that he was aware that <em>glasnost</em> and <em>perestroika</em> were deceptive Soviet maneuvers as indicated by Golitsyn, and if the Russians had not intended to ramp up their terror operations against the US as early as 9-11-2001 when Bush took office, or if they had intended to allow <em>convergence</em> to continue to work effectively against this nation, as they likely could have had a Democrat been elected to office, terror war-by-proxy was necessitated by, if nothing else, Bush&#8217;s decision to complete the vitally important space-based missile defense shield, as he has begun to do.</p>
<p>Do not expect that our missile defense shield, scheduled to be 100% installed by the end of 2007, will be allowed to be completed. The Final Phase of the Soviet plan won&#8217;t allow it.</p>
<p>What is the Final Phase? Click my name and find out.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=883190', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: p.n.a.c</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882729</link>
		<dc:creator>p.n.a.c</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do not forget IRAQ, some paper trail (criticized Clinton for not doing enough about IRAQ + more):

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m23024&amp;hd=0&amp;size=1&amp;l=e</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do not forget IRAQ, some paper trail (criticized Clinton for not doing enough about IRAQ + more):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m23024&amp;hd=0&amp;size=1&amp;l=e" rel="nofollow">http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m23024&amp;hd=0&amp;size=1&amp;l=e</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882729', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mugsy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882400</link>
		<dc:creator>Mugsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fact that &lt;strong&gt;Bush&#039;s choice for &quot;National Security Advisor&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; was a professor of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Russian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; studies was the first indicator for me that Bush was &quot;out of touch&quot;, thinking that &quot;the Cold War&quot; and standing up to &lt;strong&gt;The Ruskies&lt;/strong&gt; was going to be this country&#039;s greatest national security issue after 2000.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact that <strong>Bush&#8217;s choice for &#8220;National Security Advisor&#8221;</strong> was a professor of <strong><em>Russian</em></strong> studies was the first indicator for me that Bush was &#8220;out of touch&#8221;, thinking that &#8220;the Cold War&#8221; and standing up to <strong>The Ruskies</strong> was going to be this country&#8217;s greatest national security issue after 2000.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882400', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rosencrantz</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882307</link>
		<dc:creator>Rosencrantz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, to be fair to the Bush admin...their defenition of defense is to go to your enemies countries (or anybody you just don&#039;t like the looks of) and bomb them.

So in a way, I&#039;d say their missile defense policy and terrorism defense policy are one and the same.  They just go and bomb everyone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, to be fair to the Bush admin&#8230;their defenition of defense is to go to your enemies countries (or anybody you just don&#8217;t like the looks of) and bomb them.</p>
<p>So in a way, I&#8217;d say their missile defense policy and terrorism defense policy are one and the same.  They just go and bomb everyone.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882307', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barb</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882263</link>
		<dc:creator>barb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Missile defense and Saddam before he took office

Senate committee votes to cut president&#039;s missile defense plan
By a party-line vote Friday, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee cut the Bush administration&#039;s budget for missile defense spending next year by $1.3 billion. The vote was 13-12. 
September 7, 2001 
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/senate.defense/index.html

Bush team sets ambitious target in Iraq policy
December 19, 2000
Coupled with Bush&#039;s remark in a campaign debate with Vice President Al Gore on Oct. 11, that he wanted the sanctions to be tougher, Powell added to the impression that a Bush administration would try to tighten the screws on Iraq. 
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/19/bush.iraq.reut/index.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Missile defense and Saddam before he took office</p>
<p>Senate committee votes to cut president&#8217;s missile defense plan<br />
By a party-line vote Friday, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee cut the Bush administration&#8217;s budget for missile defense spending next year by $1.3 billion. The vote was 13-12.<br />
September 7, 2001<br />
<a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/senate.defense/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/senate.defense/index.html</a></p>
<p>Bush team sets ambitious target in Iraq policy<br />
December 19, 2000<br />
Coupled with Bush&#8217;s remark in a campaign debate with Vice President Al Gore on Oct. 11, that he wanted the sanctions to be tougher, Powell added to the impression that a Bush administration would try to tighten the screws on Iraq.<br />
<a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/19/bush.iraq.reut/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/19/bush.iraq.reut/index.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882263', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882224</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I pulled out my copy of Richard Clarke&#039;s book and found that I had highlighted a number of passages.  
Clarke was not 100 flattering to Clinton, neither to the Bushies.
But for Clinton to indicate that Clarke reported history pretty factually, says something about Clinton&#039;s ability to fault himself for failed attempts, but it says more about  Bush&#039;s inability to accept responsibility for dereliction and neglect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I pulled out my copy of Richard Clarke&#8217;s book and found that I had highlighted a number of passages.<br />
Clarke was not 100 flattering to Clinton, neither to the Bushies.<br />
But for Clinton to indicate that Clarke reported history pretty factually, says something about Clinton&#8217;s ability to fault himself for failed attempts, but it says more about  Bush&#8217;s inability to accept responsibility for dereliction and neglect.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882224', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne+A.+Schneider</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882179</link>
		<dc:creator>Wayne+A.+Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, I didn&#039;t see that last item the first time I read the post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, I didn&#8217;t see that last item the first time I read the post.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882179', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty+aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882154</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty+aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#28 -  â€œâ€¦the unusually close, personal nature of her (Riceâ€™s) relationship with Mr. Bushâ€¦â€

Now, will the Evangelical Christians who were so concerned about President Clintonâ€™s sex life insist that President Bush testify under oath as to whether or not he had sexual relations with that woman?&quot;

Comment by Briseadh+na+Faire 

********Dear Braid Faire - Thank You (!!) for taking the time to contribute to the conversation in your usual manner.  Your hypocrisy and superficiality are quite amusing - not very illuminating -- but amusing...

***Back on thread - &quot;Bush Said â€œMost Urgent Threatâ€ Was Ballistic Missiles. In a speech on May 1, 2001, Bush said, â€œUnlike the Cold War, todayâ€™s most urgent threat stems not from thousands of ballistic missiles in the Soviet hands, but from a small number of missiles in the hands of these states, states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life.â€ [Bush, 5/1/01]&quot;
*******Dear Faiz - I don&#039;t blame you for including this speech segment in your copy.  AfterALL, our President should have KNOWN  on 05/01/01 that the US would have 19 Islamic radicals hijack four planes from the East Coast on 9/11.  
Loaded with fuel and hell-bent for destruction. it is unconscieneable that our President, having the premonition that 9/11 was about to occur was worried about a little country named North Korea.  Who cares that the NK&#039;s had been selling weapons which were intercepted on the way to &quot;Palestine&quot;?  Why should the President have been concerned that nuclear Pakistan had a diplomatic arrangement with the Taliban?? So a few people died as a result of Irann and puppet Syria controlling the purse strings of Hezbollah??  

No offense, Faiz, but your copy appears trite, desperate and whiny.  I do have a constructive suggestion --  why doesn&#039;t the staff of TP research and write about the POSITIVE mid-term agenda the Democrats are proposing?  Let&#039;s have some concrete examples of the well-thought out plaform honed by the Dems and Progs.  Every Dem friend I have talked to lately KNOWS they HATE Repubs, but they haven&#039;t gotten the positive &quot;talking points&quot; from the Party apparatachik.  Hope this helps......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#28 &#8211;  â€œâ€¦the unusually close, personal nature of her (Riceâ€™s) relationship with Mr. Bushâ€¦â€</p>
<p>Now, will the Evangelical Christians who were so concerned about President Clintonâ€™s sex life insist that President Bush testify under oath as to whether or not he had sexual relations with that woman?&#8221;</p>
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<p>********Dear Braid Faire &#8211; Thank You (!!) for taking the time to contribute to the conversation in your usual manner.  Your hypocrisy and superficiality are quite amusing &#8211; not very illuminating &#8212; but amusing&#8230;</p>
<p>***Back on thread &#8211; &#8220;Bush Said â€œMost Urgent Threatâ€ Was Ballistic Missiles. In a speech on May 1, 2001, Bush said, â€œUnlike the Cold War, todayâ€™s most urgent threat stems not from thousands of ballistic missiles in the Soviet hands, but from a small number of missiles in the hands of these states, states for whom terror and blackmail are a way of life.â€ [Bush, 5/1/01]&#8221;<br />
*******Dear Faiz &#8211; I don&#8217;t blame you for including this speech segment in your copy.  AfterALL, our President should have KNOWN  on 05/01/01 that the US would have 19 Islamic radicals hijack four planes from the East Coast on 9/11.<br />
Loaded with fuel and hell-bent for destruction. it is unconscieneable that our President, having the premonition that 9/11 was about to occur was worried about a little country named North Korea.  Who cares that the NK&#8217;s had been selling weapons which were intercepted on the way to &#8220;Palestine&#8221;?  Why should the President have been concerned that nuclear Pakistan had a diplomatic arrangement with the Taliban?? So a few people died as a result of Irann and puppet Syria controlling the purse strings of Hezbollah??  </p>
<p>No offense, Faiz, but your copy appears trite, desperate and whiny.  I do have a constructive suggestion &#8212;  why doesn&#8217;t the staff of TP research and write about the POSITIVE mid-term agenda the Democrats are proposing?  Let&#8217;s have some concrete examples of the well-thought out plaform honed by the Dems and Progs.  Every Dem friend I have talked to lately KNOWS they HATE Repubs, but they haven&#8217;t gotten the positive &#8220;talking points&#8221; from the Party apparatachik.  Hope this helps&#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882154', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne A. Schneider</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882108</link>
		<dc:creator>Wayne A. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I may have this completely wrong and if it is, I apologize now.  I seem to recall hearing that Rice was supposed to give a speech the morning of 9/11/01 that was about the threat from missiles, and nothing about al Qaeda.  Perhaps I am mistaken, and if I am, please accept my apologies.  But if this is correct, then as our then-National Security Adviser, shouldn;t she have been concerned about the threats from al Qaeda that Richard Clarke had been warning her about for eight months?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I may have this completely wrong and if it is, I apologize now.  I seem to recall hearing that Rice was supposed to give a speech the morning of 9/11/01 that was about the threat from missiles, and nothing about al Qaeda.  Perhaps I am mistaken, and if I am, please accept my apologies.  But if this is correct, then as our then-National Security Adviser, shouldn;t she have been concerned about the threats from al Qaeda that Richard Clarke had been warning her about for eight months?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882108', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Will OBGYN for Food</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-882004</link>
		<dc:creator>Will OBGYN for Food</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>30

I don&#039;t understand. Bush ignored Osama prior to 911 and caused us to be attacked. How does that help you?
And by the way, I think you&#039;re lost. The terrorists are in Iraq-not in ThinkProgress.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>30</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand. Bush ignored Osama prior to 911 and caused us to be attacked. How does that help you?<br />
And by the way, I think you&#8217;re lost. The terrorists are in Iraq-not in ThinkProgress.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=882004', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: QUALAR</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-881995</link>
		<dc:creator>QUALAR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a smoking gun leading up to 9/11.  Cofer Black could be Bush&#039;s equivalent of Nixon&#039;s Alexander Butterfield, who divulged the existence of a audio tape system in the Oval Office.  Without those tapes Nixon would have undoubtedly completed his term.  Two weeks ago Cofer Black, referring to 9/11, stated that they had strongly expected a serious attack to occur in AUGUST.  That statement had to be inadvertent on his part.  Leading up to 9/11, Black was head of the State Department&#039;s Counter Terrorism efforts.  After 9/11 he was appointed to an Ambassador At Large position.  Was this a reward for his silence?  Black is currently an executive officer with Blackwater USA which has made a fortune out of war.  If the Democrats ever gain subpoena power, he should be one of the first served.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a smoking gun leading up to 9/11.  Cofer Black could be Bush&#8217;s equivalent of Nixon&#8217;s Alexander Butterfield, who divulged the existence of a audio tape system in the Oval Office.  Without those tapes Nixon would have undoubtedly completed his term.  Two weeks ago Cofer Black, referring to 9/11, stated that they had strongly expected a serious attack to occur in AUGUST.  That statement had to be inadvertent on his part.  Leading up to 9/11, Black was head of the State Department&#8217;s Counter Terrorism efforts.  After 9/11 he was appointed to an Ambassador At Large position.  Was this a reward for his silence?  Black is currently an executive officer with Blackwater USA which has made a fortune out of war.  If the Democrats ever gain subpoena power, he should be one of the first served.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=881995', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mary Poplins</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/26/not-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-881984</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Poplins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#30  You are totally wrong.  Bill Clinton told the truth and you Republican are going to be out on your ear in November GUARANTEE!!!!!!!

We can get rid of all the bad Apples Republicans like Allen, Burns, Ney, Santorum, Huckabee, Green, etc, etc.  The Dems will take over both Houses and we can impeach Bushies, Cheney, and their admin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#30  You are totally wrong.  Bill Clinton told the truth and you Republican are going to be out on your ear in November GUARANTEE!!!!!!!</p>
<p>We can get rid of all the bad Apples Republicans like Allen, Burns, Ney, Santorum, Huckabee, Green, etc, etc.  The Dems will take over both Houses and we can impeach Bushies, Cheney, and their admin.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=881984', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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