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montanacowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:04 PM
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I copied this from Bart Cop - Please Read!
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"Richard Clarke was Director of Counter-Terrorism in the National Security Council. He has since left. Clark urgently tried to draw the attention of the Bush administration to the threat of al Qaeda. Right at the present, the Bush administration is trying to withhold
documents from the 9/11 bipartisan commission. I believe one of the things that they do not want to be known is what happened on August 6, 2001. It was on that day that George W. Bush received his last, and one of the few, briefings on terrorism.

I believe he told Richard Clarke that he didn't want to be briefed on this again, even though Clarke was panicked about the alarms he was hearing regarding potential attacks. Bush was blithe, indifferent, ultimately irresponsible. The public has a right to know what happened on August 6, what Bush did, what Condi Rice did, what all the rest of them did, and what Richard Clarke's memos and
statements were. Then the public will be able to judge exactly what this presidency has done."
--Sidney Blumenthal, risking his life speaking out like that Attribution <http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/010504A.shtml>
Hope this is OK to do.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:26 PM
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1. Didn't want to be briefed again?
If that's what Bush really said, he should be court martialled for derelection of duty.

What goes on out there at the Pig Farm in Crawford, TX?

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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:39 PM
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2. The August 6, 2001 briefing always has been Bush's Achilles heel.
The media had the story in early 2002 but accepted the White House lies about the purpose of the briefing. It may be Bush's most successful lie.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:43 PM
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3. This jives with what O'Neill is saying today
Bush blindly goes through his job, not seeing anything he does not want to see.

He only wants to hear news from his trusted advisors, and that must mean only the good news.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:52 PM
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4. Yep !
I support the 911 widows vs. bushco
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 06:56 PM
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5. can anyone say Treason?
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 06:57 PM by rumguy
Yes, it's treason...I want Bush to fry (metaphorically speaking)...
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:04 PM
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8. 'Tis treason!
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 07:02 PM
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6. I don't think he is blind, I actually think he is quite dumb
Edited on Fri Jan-09-04 07:28 PM by Marianne
and is the boy Dauphine. He is looking more and more dumb as each day goes by and needs more and more time "away" to escape any embarrassing situations.

He does not have a clue at all what is going on. He waits eagerly for his next "escape" to Camp David or to the barren, dried out, 1600 acres of brittle, useless scrub, Texas pig farm called , laughingly, the "Prairie Chapel" It is obvious why he is never allowed to have a press conference by his handlers, as all Dauphines have thus been controlled over history

. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON . And HE DOES NOT HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE OR THE ETHICS OR THE MORALS TO CARE. HE WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS nor will he TELL US WHAT IS GOING ON BECAUSE HE DOES NOT KNOW! Bush is merely a poster boy, Mr. O"Neil and I think you know that and I think you are embarrassed by that. I also think that you are concerned about selling your book and do not really have the country's interests at heart as much as your own.

Perhaps you also, like Bush, value "revenge" as the proper and approved, Republican "macho man" response--
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onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-04 08:00 PM
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7. We've known for a long time.......
now that Aug 6th was significant. And because of the briefing. We could only assume what was in the briefing. We knew bush had ignored it though.
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