Addressing the general situation in Iraq on her way here this morning, Ms. Rice told reporters on her plane that she wanted her trip to Iraq to show that the American approach of “clear, hold and build” was working despite criticism at home that the Bush administration lacked a plan for success in Iraq and [...]
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Raw Story: It Begins with Wurmser and Condi’s Guy
Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on loan from the office of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. [...]
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Condi, Condi, CONDI
But the fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al-Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al-Qaeda and perhaps after the Taliban and then our work [...]
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THE VULCANS
“This is the most dysfunctional NSC that ever existed,’ says a senior U.S. official. But it’s not Condi’s fault. The person that’s made it so dysfunctional is Cheney. … (Rice) gives the most powerful actors—Rumsfeld and Cheney—what they want,’ says a former adviser to Bush’s father who remains in contact with administration officials. ‘In fact, [...]
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What Would Jesus Do?
“FACT: President Bush himself acknowledges that, despite repeated warnings of an imminent Al Qaeda attack, before 9/11 ‘I didn\’t feel the sense of urgency’ about terrorism. Similarly, Newsweek reports that Bush\’s attitude was reflected throughout an Administration that was trying to ‘de-emphasize terrorism’ as an overall priority. As proof, just two of the hundred national [...]
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Poor Condi, She Forgot
“…Top members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence… found ‘significant deficiencies’ in the community’s ability to collect fresh intelligence on Iraq, and said it had to rely on ‘past assessments’ dating to when U.N. inspectors left Iraq in 1998 and on ‘some new ‘piecemeal’ intelligence,’ both of which ‘were not challenged as a [...]
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