Rice: ‘I Don’t Know What We Were Supposed To Preemptively Strike In Afghanistan’ In July 2001
Rice: ‘I Don’t Know What We Were Supposed To Preemptively Strike In Afghanistan’ In July 2001
This evening, 60 Minutes will air its discussion with former CIA Director George Tenet. In one exchange, Tenet elaborates on a briefing that he and his former aide Cofer Black delivered to then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in July 2001 warning of an “urgent threat” from al Qaeda. In the 60 Minutes interview, Tenet says this is the message he delivered to Rice two months prior to 9/11:
We need to consider immediate action inside Afghanistan now. We need to move to the offensive.
On CBS’s Face the Nation, a perplexed and stunned Rice said, “The idea of launching preemptive strikes into Afghanistan in July of 2001, this is a new fact.” Rice then said, “I don’t know what we were supposed to preemptively strike in Afghanistan. Perhaps somebody can ask that.” Watch it:
Note to Rice: The intelligence community was trying to tell you to take the action President Clinton took — that is, make an effort to kill this guy:
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Transcript:
SCOTT PELLEY, CBS NEWS (voice-over): By the summer of 2001, Tenet was alarmed by repeated, specific intelligence warning that an attack was coming. He asked for an immediate meeting to brief then national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice.
GEORGE TENET, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR: Essentially the briefing says there are going to be multiple, spectacular attacks against the United States. We believe these attacks are imminent. Mass casualties are likely.
PELLEY (on camera): You are telling Condoleezza Rice in that meeting, in the White House, in July, that we should take offensive action in Afghanistan now.
TENET: We need…
PELLEY: Before 9/11?
TENET: We need to consider immediate action inside Afghanistan now. We need to move to the offensive.
PELLEY (voice-over): In his book, Tenet says that even though he told Rice an attack on Americans was imminent, she took his request to launch preemptive action in Afghanistan and delegated it to third tier officials.
SCHIEFFER: So, what he is saying is that you just sort of brushed him off.
RICE: Well, it’s very interesting, because that’s not what George told the 9/11 Commission at the time. He said that he felt that we had gotten it. And, in fact, the very next day or the day after, Steve Hadley, hardly a third tier official, sat with the intelligence agencies to try and determine what more we could do.
We were concerned for instance, could we go after Abu Zubaydah, who might have some information. But the idea of launching preemptive strikes into Afghanistan in July of 2001, this is a new fact, and I will have to…
SCHIEFFER: Well, why would he say something like that?
RICE: Well, I don’t know. I don’t know what we were supposed to preemptively strike in Afghanistan. Perhaps somebody can ask that.
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April 29th, 2007 at 11:18 amOh damn this is getting good!
April 29th, 2007 at 11:20 amCoulda woulda shoulda… doesn’t mean a thing now.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:21 amOsama bin Laden. Remember him, Condi?
How about paying attention to national security issues — while you’re the National Security Adviser?
There’s a start…..
BTW — Where is Osama bin Laden?
April 29th, 2007 at 11:21 amRice redacted her name out of the latest terrorism report. As a consequence there was no RISE in terrorism worldwide.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:22 amEvery journalist, pundit and “expert” who gets air time on a ‘news’ program should be required to see Bill Moyers’ “Buying the War” which shows how irresponsible reporting owns the blame for the Iraq debacle.
Afterward, they shouldn’t be allowed back on teh air until they promise restitution for their actions by standing up to the criminals running our country into the ground.
Perhaps that’s why Condi is getting asked a tough question here? Some of those in the media woke up from their stupor and decided to stop kissing White House ass?
April 29th, 2007 at 11:22 amA new “fact”. Interesting phrasing.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:22 am“I don’t know, I can’t recall, I can’t remember”…….. Easy policy line to remember with these guys and gals huh?
How long can we, the American People, afford to let this administration play these games? Hopefully they’ll end before the 2008 elections.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:23 amShe has time to go on TV, but no time to go before the Senate? I see where her priorities lie.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:27 amBush administration officials like Rice and Cheney tend to answer their subpoenas on Sunday talk shows where there are no oaths or tough quetions.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:27 amIf Ms. Rice has said it all about Niger, then why not adhere to the subpoena? Either she is being stubborn like the Mr. Bush or she has something to hide. Appearances lean toward both.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:28 amHarman (d-cal): we have urgent business to get al quaida (cnn-blitzer)
April 29th, 2007 at 11:28 amWHO IS THIS PERSON???? DUHH……
Condi needs to go back to shopping…She seems to ONLY be average at that. She is SO STUPID that she blindly follows everything that “W” says, does, believes and expouses….
HOW can we as Americans actually support ANYTHING this moron say/ does??
She needs to go back to Stanford – today – as a STREET SWEEPER!
April 29th, 2007 at 11:30 amWasn’t there a TV movie condemning Clinton for not getting Bn Laden a year ago? Hadn’t Osama already attacked the US and our military prior to 2001? Why was this action deemed “pre-emptive” for this administration but “reactive” for the previous one?
Just some questions from a curious mind.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:30 amNot to mention this unqualified twit just referred to Russia as the ‘Soviets’ twice in a public forum.
Yeah, the Soviets…you know the place that hasn’t existed for about 15 years.
Go buy some shoes Condi.
-GSD
April 29th, 2007 at 11:33 amHere is a fantastic article that’s not too far off topic. Scott Horton and Glenn Greenwald make my day. Here is one from Horton:
April 29th, 2007 at 11:34 amhttp://harpers.org/archive/2007/04/horton-20070428vgjt
Putting aside her lies and incompetence, it looks like she had a face life…
April 29th, 2007 at 11:35 amgood ole shifty-eyed mcgee(Condi)
April 29th, 2007 at 11:36 am:)
mornin ev’rybody..
Rice is too busy buying expensive shoes to figure out anything. Besides bin Laden family are friends of the Bush family, so Bush Regime was not interested in taking out Osama, nor are they trying to do so now.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:37 amI love it when they turn on each other. It’s the best.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:38 amAnother unqualified Bush hack. What do you expect when your cabinet is made up of oil execs.
Lets cut ‘em some slack. The Bushies were really busy in early 2001 trying to figure out the best way to bilk America for every penny. That’s hard work.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:41 amThe Neocons were complicit in aiding and letting 911 happen as most people know now
April 29th, 2007 at 11:43 amFINALLY …. lets talk 911…
April 29th, 2007 at 11:45 amOBL TELEGRAM TO W; THANK YOU THANK YOU
Dear Georgie,
April 29th, 2007 at 11:45 amTHANK YOU for letting up on the hunt for me.
THANK YOU for creating new orphans and Jihadists everyday.
THANK YOU for supporting my family and whitewashing the 9/11 investigation (guess we both were dirty)
THANK YOU for invading Iraq for that I will always be thankful.
THANK YOU for spending all your resources and children to die in the optional war of Iraq .
THANK YOU FOR LEAVING OFFICE WITHOUT GETTING ME.
AS A GESTURE OF MY APPRECIATION I WILL OR AL-ZAWAHARI WILL PUT OUT TAPES FROM TIME TO TIME TO HELP YOUR POLL NUMBERS LIKE WE HELPED YOU GET ELECTED IN 2004
HUGS AND KISSES,
Osama Bin Forgotten
UKNOWN LETTER FROM OBL TO BUSH
After numerous rounds of “We don’t know if Osama is still alive,” Osama
himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to
let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it
appeared to contain a single line of coded message:
*370HSSV-0773H*
Bush was baffled, so he emailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides
had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it
at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.
With no clue as to its meaning, they eventually asked Britain ’s MI-6
for help. Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply:
“Tell the President he’s holding the message upside down.”
April 29th, 2007 at 11:46 amOSAMA & BUSH WORKING FOR THE SAME GOALS
1 – Both have policies which will ultimately bankrupt the US
2 – Both have fighters in the Middle East giving their lives to insure that Muslim Theocracies thrive.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:47 amCoulda woulda shoulda… doesn’t mean a thing now.
Comment by GodfryDaniel
It means everything because they still are not going after Osama.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:48 amIt is a COMPLETE SHAM that OBL and Zawahiri
STILL WALK THE GODDAMN STREETS.
IT’S DISGUSTING
DISGUSTING
April 29th, 2007 at 11:49 amWasn’t there a TV movie condemning Clinton for not getting Bn Laden a year ago? Hadn’t Osama already attacked the US and our military prior to 2001? Why was this action deemed “pre-emptive†for this administration but “reactive†for the previous one?
Just some questions from a curious mind.
Comment by Stupid Git
Because the military people that died on the U.S.S Cole didnt allow them to invade Iraq. They were all about Iraq from day one. They didnt care about Osama.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:51 amHere is a fantastic article that’s not too far off topic. Scott Horton and Glenn Greenwald make my day. Here is one from Horton:
http://harpers.org/ archive/ 2007/ 04/ horton-20070428vgjt
Comment by the fly-man — April 29, 2007 @ 11:34 am
That’s a great article, thanks for the link.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:54 amComment by GodfryDaniel — April 29, 2007 @ 11:21 am
To an extent , it does: This administration has been hiding behind their “faulty intelligence” that the CIA and other agencies supposedly provided them to explain all their mistakes.
If it can be shown they were given actual “actionable” facts and intelligence, there is no place left for them to hide but their own incompetence.
Of course, they will never admit it, and their minions will be here at ThinkProgress working full time to justify one of the worst administrations in recent memory.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:57 amal Queda does not really exist. There is no international terrorist organization being run out of a cave in Pakistan. But without a ficticious organization, then Bush Regime would have no boogyman to scare us, nor any justification for spending/stealing billions of dollars in Iraq. Osama and his small group of goatherders are needed by the Bush Regime, so they will never be eliminated.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:58 amComment by jeff — April 29, 2007 @ 11:49 am
It is a COMPLETE SHAM that BUSH and CHENEY
STILL WALK THE GODDAMN STREETS.
IT’S DISGUSTING
DISGUSTING
April 29th, 2007 at 11:58 amRice is little more than a token figurehead, who has no competence to do anything other than get her hair done.
And she doesn’t even do that very well either. (I thought she was wearing a hat)
She will be removed when Cheney and Bush are impeached, along with the rest of the “hole in us all gang”.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:59 amThey attacked Iraq for one primary reason. Because they wanted Bush to be a wartime president, and they wanted him to be a winning wartime president.
They honestly believed they could win in Iraq. They honestly believed that they would “throw flowers” instead of hand grenades.
They thought Iraq was an easy mark, and they could roll in and show the country how tough and competent the republican party was.
Unfortunately for them, it didn’t quite work out that way. The fact that they believed we’d take out Saddam and then be greeted as liberators is a monument to their monumental incompetence.
911 happened because they let it happen.
Period.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:03 pmOBL to Bush.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:08 pm# 25
That was pretty good, that just made my morning.
RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Or as the POTUS and his enablers calls him comma #1462
April 29th, 2007 at 12:12 pmWhat that woman needs is a ball gag and a TIGHT leather corset.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:18 pmThey mocked Clinton for even attempting to get OBL.
They ignored the PDB of 8/6/01.
They received the message from Tenet to strike in Afghanistan.
Tenet is certainly not without responsibility here.
But this is complete irresponsibility by Bush&Co bordering on criminal.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:28 pmhey trolls whats your latest talking point on this one? valiant mite have you recovered from your weekend meth binge yet so you can dazzle us with your brilliance.
come on guys, rice, gonzo, etc are just emptyheaded patronizing nods to the concept of executive branch affirmative action. everyone who really knows thats going on and is pulling the strings in this government is old, shrivelled, and white, like dried up coconut meat…
April 29th, 2007 at 12:31 pmRICE: Well, I don’t know. I don’t know what we were supposed to preemptively strike in Afghanistan. Perhaps somebody can ask that.
Translation: I don’t know what I’m doing Mr. Cheney could you help me.
Now before the Bush apologist wake up from their caves this morning, I will like to know when will all who still support this man and his “people” realize that in every institution, every agency, every department, every branch of government, everywhere period, there is someone un-qualified running it.
As a soon to be retiring 38 year old Army Master Sergeant who has been to Afghanistan twice, Iraq three times. If I were this incompotent I would not only lose my job, but also the lives of my Soldiers. But if I worked in the Bush Administration all I would have to do is say that “I dont recall”, “I didnt know”, “No one would have thought”, “Nobody said to me”, “I didn’t hear this” etc., leave for “personal” reasons, get my Medal of Freedom, my millions, and then ease my conscience by writing a fiction novel.
Sign me up!!!
No just kidding, because if you believe in a higher power like most Repuppetcan’s claim to, believe me they are in for a very rude awakening. Because history is going to judge them favorably, why, because they will be paying the ones who will write it. We can only ride this one out, because the press is no longer our watchdog, and the opposition party has it’s own traitor’s within it’s ranks, so be patient, pull up a chair, and watch the biggest man made disaster ever created unfold before your eyes.
The chicken’s will be coming home to roost, and what goes better with chicken than rice.
RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Or as the POTUS calls him, comma #1462
April 29th, 2007 at 12:33 pmCondi: “Perhaps somebody can ask that”
Somebody just did ask that question, Condi.
Bob Schieffer.
And he asked you that question.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:37 pmCondi is way over her head.
I see that the paid trolls are still given Sunday off.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pmTake a closer look at the timeline involved. This warning was several days before a daily presidential briefing titled “bin Laden determined to strike inside the US”.
This means that Rice and Bush had two full months before the 9/11 attack to try and thwart the attack. What did Bush do during these critical days? He took a month off in Crawford fishing for perch and other important matters like raising campaign cash.
The more we see from Dr. Rice the more ugly the picture becomes. She makes Alberto Gonzales look competent.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pmSo, it sure looks as though the Bushies never intended to avenge the USS Cole terrorist attack, according to what Rice just said.
April 29th, 2007 at 12:57 pmI worked on the Cole and about 40 other Aegis cruisers and Destroyers and my High School buddy was murdered in the Cole attack.
Richard Clarke had targets in Afghanistan to attack. Did Rice blow him off too?
April 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pmI mean I still have the problem with the drop in credibility Rice causes concenring Iraq. Everybody knows Oussama Bin Laden was in Tora Bora and did only escape thru the ineptitude or willfulness of George W. Bush. Now, at the moment Miss Rice is actually denying Oussma Bin Laden was the source of the worst attack against the United States.
April 29th, 2007 at 1:03 pmSo? There could have been no terrorists in Iraq becuase you give a fuck about terrorists in general, Miss Rice? Buzzflash just offers Gores decay of reason. I think Miss Rice should start rooting out evil with herself.
The Republican Party is so over…and we have the Chimp in Chief to thank for that. There is a silver lining to his madness.
April 29th, 2007 at 1:04 pmexpect this to be the week Tenet is turned into a cross between Benedict Arnold and Baghdad Bob by the mind molders on the right and as we ALL know ahead of time – the cult of conservatism will fall in line as they are told like always…
Conservatives care more about covering for their deceptive cult than what happens to this nation or they would have begged us all to impeach these inept evil fools long ago..
April 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pmBush had NO intention to move against Al Qaeda or Osama, in Afghanistan.
Without an attack on the US he’d never have the “Political Capital” to occupy Iraq. Which is why he refused to use ARMED Predators, why he refused to acknowledge the Hart/Rudman report, and why Cheney never addressed terrorism prior to 911.
April 29th, 2007 at 1:11 pmMore Condi Rice greatest hits:
“I believe the title was, ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.’”
Condi Rice, responding to 9/11 Commission question about the title of the infamous August 6, 2001 PDB warning of Al Qaeda strikes in the U.S., May 19, 2004.
“I know there were people who said, ‘Why don’t we get out of this now, take a peace with the South, but leave the South with slaves?’”
Condi Rice, on Iraq withdrawal debate, September 4, 2006.
“Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia.” Secretary State nominee Condoleezza Rice, on her foreign policy approach, 2003.
“I know we’ve made tactical errors, thousands of them I’m sure.”
April 29th, 2007 at 1:18 pmCondoleezza Rice, March 31, 2006.
yesterday i was at a function in a banquet room at the local
Knights of Columbus hall… had to use the walk-in cooler off the bar
for some refrigerated items… during one of my trips to get more
ingredients for the punch, i was waiting next to the tv, and i noticed
the talk was all about “clinton letting OBL go in ‘99″, i looked and
noticed it was FOX…
shaking my head, pointing to the tv, i called across the bar to the
patrons, “i can’t believe you have this on the tv”… i turned and
walked out saying “it’s all lies, lies, lies…”…
the cardinal game was on the next time i was in there…
now, i’m not sayin’ that i had anything to do with it…
April 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pmbut i did speak out…
:-)
Just found a copy of today’s Talking Head schedule — looks like Condoleeza is busy today…
ABC’s “This Week” — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., presidential candidate; actress Natalie Portman.
CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Rice; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
CNN’s “Late Edition” — Rice; Reps. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., and Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi foreign minister; European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
So, she can find the time to appear on three talk shows today, but can’t find an opening in her schedule to appear before Congressional committees. But then there are the trifling matters of having to testify under oath and risk of being asked questions that don’t fall under the “Softball” heading.
Watch the MSM bury this story in record time…
April 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pmSecretary Condoleezza Rice said:
…
April 29th, 2007 at 1:32 pmIt’s Stunning that the former National Security Adviser would publicly act so incompetent. Is Madame Secretary competing with the Attorney General?
TP:
Are you censoring comments on this board?
Not very American if so.
April 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pmCondi lies like a rug.
Not only did Tenet try to warn her about the pressing need to deal with Al Qaeda, so did Richard Clarke and Sandy Berger. She tried to lie and say that they didn’t, but in his book Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them, Al Franken showed she was lying:
April 29th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
YEA katy! kudos to you!
April 29th, 2007 at 1:57 pmI had a similar encounter yesterday, where I was the only one willing to speak out about behavior which everyone was aware of, but didn’t want to confront.
The perpretators quickly packed up and left, once something was said.
She’s weak in her lying ways.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:05 pm>I see that the paid trolls are still given Sunday off.
probably recovering from whatever drug binges make them beleive the crap they spout. sunday is pretty universally known as the day of the week people tend to sober up.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:12 pmTypical right-wing troll’s response; But….but…..but….IT’S BILL CLINTON’S FAULT!
April 29th, 2007 at 2:26 pmI remember when the 8-6-01 Daily Brief was made public, Rice responded that she considered it an “historical” document.
How could it be an historical document when nothing had yet happened?
Was she referring to the 1993 bombing? If she was, then she is dumber than a box of pea gravel.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:39 pmPerhaps she meant she had a premonition it was going to be an historical document?
April 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pmAmazing the things that come back around to bite you in the ass, eh Condi?
Maybe she was to buisy reading the Bin Laden Determined to Strike US PDB to get into the discussion.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:14 pmI see that the paid trolls are still given Sunday off.
Comment by VerbalKint — April 29, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
They’re all at church, or unconscious…
April 29th, 2007 at 3:50 pmHeckuva job, Condi!
Just another incompetent crony.
Worst.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:55 pmPresident.
EVER.
Condolleza-to the eeeza- YOU are a very intelligent woman; however you are…….. one……………… _lying_…………………………….
C. eee
U.
N. ext
T. uesday
April 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pmI can tell you now the US will never get bin Laden he has to remain free to be a hero then in death a martyr
April 29th, 2007 at 4:25 pmi love the headline at http://www.crooksandliars.com/:
Condi: We were supposed to do something about bin Laden before 9/11?!
April 29th, 2007 at 4:28 pmTo paraphrase Dean Wormer, timid and inept is no way fro Condi to go through life.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:52 pmYou realize, Condi KNEW that OBL was not responsible for 9/11. At least not entirely.
If you still think, after all the lies you’ve been told, that 9/11 was done entirely by 19 Arab (mostly Saudi) hijackers with boxcutters, then you have yet to learn the lesson many of the rest of us have.
Press for Truth. No more lies. 9/11 was an inside job.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:20 pmLet me try a straightforward comment. Will this be censored?
April 29th, 2007 at 5:26 pm#68… stop hiding… we know you’re Rosie O’Dumbbell
The Bush and company hired the arabs so we can go to war.
Any fool can see that.
The s*** you people are writing is mind boggling.
No one has a single PROOF of any of these claims.
You all must be Dem-droid without any intelligence capacity.
Ya buncha idiots
April 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pmGet out and VOTE!
You elected these people by not voting.
July of 2001
Didn’t we already know that the attack on the USS Cole was directed by OBL by that time? Bush&Co are quick to blame Clinton for not attacking OBL before we knew it was AlQaeda who committed the act, but by this time, it was known that OBL was the leader of the group.
In fact, we knew it by December 2000, and Bush had nine months to attempt to take him out.
Then they ignore this warning in July
They ignore the PDB in August
They prefer to attack the wrong country after 9/11.
This is more than SNAFU — this is criminal.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:02 pmThe answer is: Yes you were supposed to strike Osama Bin Laden in July 2001. May not have stopped 9-11. But the evidence was there for past crimes (USS Cole).
The problem was that the Administration had a different strategy for Bin Laden back then. It was to rely on friends (close personal riends of the Bush family), Saudi Arabia, to reign Osama in. But Osama is a rogue and not controllable by yhe royal family.
The mistake was the strategy that the Administration has pre-9-11.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:28 pmnow, i’m not sayin’ that i had anything to do with it…
but i did speak out…
:-)
Comment by katy#49
…’atta girl katy…
…you KEEP speaking the TRUTH…
April 29th, 2007 at 7:33 pmCan you believe Cundti Rice was promoted to Sec of State?
…can incompetence be a prerequissite for advancement in this criminally inept regime?
…and she has NOT ONE foreign policy success (major or minor) since taking over the State Dept….
…what does this bi*ch DO?
April 29th, 2007 at 7:40 pmRice again shows how worthless and incompetent she is. Go buy some shoes, play the piano and be sure to wave at the camera, Condi.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:44 pmCondi: We were supposed to do something about bin Laden before 9/11?!
Comment by katy #65
…PRICELESS!
…I wonder if the inbred Bushites will castigate Cundti and her lord Bushiva…
…like they constantly do Clinton…
…about NOT taking care of bin Laden when THEY had the chance?
April 29th, 2007 at 7:45 pmIf she cant handle Wolf How the hell is she going to handle Waxman.
She bet not testify or their house of cards will crumble.
Waxman will call her on all talking points.
Thats all she answers in.
I knew the answeres that were coming before she could get them out of her mouth.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:33 pmWell, if you didn’t know what to bomb before 9/11, how did you know what to bomb after 9/11?
That means one of two things:
1. She’s lying.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:41 pm2. She’s lying.
Wait a minute. In July 2001 everyone on the Left was still pissed about the 2000 election.
Are we really supposed to believe everyone would have dropped their “Commander in Thief” banners and supported what would have been quickly portrayed as a pointless and unprovoked attack on the poorest country in the world? Based on a terrorist act the administration assured us was “imminent?”
It’s one thing to ding Bush for not going after Al Qaeda more aggressively. But it takes the zip out of it when you ding him for not doing things you would never have supported.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:52 pmI guess it wasn’t enough for this crew to be warned by the outgoing president (personally, mind you) that al Qaeda was their number one threat. And I guess that three thousand dead Americans aren’t enough to send in the special forces and gunships to drag him out of the Pakistan borderlands. Wingers have no problem coming on here and screaming that Clinton did nothing to prevent the Cole bombing and the embassy bombings; after attacking the training camps with cruise missiles the regressives accused him of ‘Wagging the dog”. And now this bitch from hell Didn’t know who to bomb?? FAILURE.
April 29th, 2007 at 9:24 pmwhy wasn’t she fired on 9/12?
April 30th, 2007 at 9:23 amThe belligerence of this woman’s disregard of honesty, integrity, coherence, or common sense is utterly mindnumbing. Her lack of repspect and her insults to the intelligence of the people she governs is jaw-droppingly confounding. I fantasize about the day I could tell her to her face what deceitful bitch she is. I fucking hate her, not because I am filled with hate, but because of her undying commitment to tyranny. Fuck. These. People.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:48 amso she didn’t know what to “preemptively strike” in Afghanistan… so …. ?? they “preemptively struck Iraq” ???
Bush and Condi… once again proving that they believe
that “all imans are cremated equally”
what is the difference between the walmart tainted catfish and george gonzales ?
April 30th, 2007 at 4:34 pmone is a crap-eating bottom feeder…. and the other is a fish
Only pre-emptive violence can prevent violence.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:58 amIf only she’d listened to Tenet we could have
started killing more people sooner. By now we’d
be ahead of schedule. Enemies would send us
bouquets.