Community | May 30, 2009 | 9 comments

Richard A. Clarke -- Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too.

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052901560.html

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Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense.

"Unless you were there, in a position of responsibility after September 11, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans," Condoleezza Rice said last month as she admonished a Stanford University student who questioned the Bush-era interrogation program. And in his May 21 speech on national security, Dick Cheney called the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a "defining" experience that "caused everyone to take a serious second look" at the threats to America. Critics of the administration have become more intense as memories of the attacks have faded, he argued. "Part of our responsibility, as we saw it," Cheney said, "was not to forget the terrible harm that had been done to America."
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9 comments // Richard A. Clarke -- Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too.

  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  

    • @jh64487

      Propaganda and fear tactics work well on stupid people. I think that is the secret weapon in the Republican Campaign Playbook. Too bad for the GOP that people are wising up.

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  

    • So many Dilemma's:

      Do we lie to connect it to Iraq (Downing St)? Do we torture I guy to get a false confession to do so (screwball)? do we officially break the Geneva Convention? Do we willfully shred the constitution or not? Do we claim anyone not with us is with the terrorists or not?

      so many difficult decisions. WHY THE FUCK WAS AMERICA STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE HIM BACK INTO OFFICE!

    • 2 years ago
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  
    • jh64487:

      Technically, Bush never won either election.

      The supreme court voted him in by stopping the Florida recount in 2000, and the electronic voting machine scam in 2004 was way to questionable to be conclusive in any way shape or form.

    • 2 years ago
  • ilikeike
  • WakeUpPeople
  • isnamthere
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Yeah , dilemmas like , not taking intel about threats seriously , feeling responsible for the deaths and wanting to cover that up . Not being able to find a proper scapegoat .... Being afraid people will blame you cause it was on your watch ... Ignoring advice from the military about how to proceed ... Panic .

    • 2 years ago
  • wirehedd
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      wirehedd  

    • Richard Clarke was one of a VERY few who had to courage to admit that they didn't do the best they could after 9/11 and he's been a stand up guy about it and he's also been the voice of truth from the inside when the rest of the Bush Junta have tried (and in some cases succeeded in) lying their way out of culpability.

    • 2 years ago
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