Storm Warnings: Bin Laden was a threat but Clinton never pushed it.

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From Newsweek...unbelievable.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4571338/

March 29 issue - It was the day after 9/11, and President Bush, like many Americans, was looking for someone to bomb. Wandering into the White House Situation Room, the president pulled aside Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism chief of the national-security staff who had been held over from the Clinton years. According to Clarke, Bush asked: was Iraq responsible for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington? Bush wanted the FBI and CIA to hunt for any evidence that pointed to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Clarke recalls that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was also looking for a justification to bomb Iraq. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld was arguing at a cabinet meeting that Afghanistan, home of Osama bin Laden's terrorist camps, did not offer "enough good targets." "We should do Iraq," Rumsfeld urged.

Talk about revisionist history. We have an ex-treasury secretary and another high ranking official come out in the last few months and say that Bush was planning to attack Iraq in the beginning of his administration and was soft on terror...and now this puff piece?

And here is my favorite part...

A White House official told NEWSWEEK that Bush has "no specific recollection" of the post 9/11 conversation described by Clarke,

The old Sargent Shultz bit again...we DON'T RECALL being warned so therefore we weren't warned.

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1. Reagan

...made 'don't recall' an art form. That is when he could actually hear the question.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Why is the word "Clinton" in this story's headline?

Is the press going to make every story about Clarke's revelations seem to the reader or viewer to be as much about Clinton as about Bush?

[Autobot77]

3. A Myth

FYI if any Repug tried to tell you Clinton never tried to get Osama or was weak on terror, point them to these sites:

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/clinton.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18