Another lie just told: "Dick Clarke claimed to be part of the cabinet"

[keithyboy]

On CNN Wolf Blitzer.
That is not what Clarke claimed. He was not a part of the cabinet, that was the problem. Terrorism was demoted when Bush first came into office.

[keithyboy]

1. "Iraq was shooting at our pilots?"

Yes, does anyone care that our pilots were flying over Iraqi air space in an illegal "no fly zone" established by the US? I guess other countries have no rights to their air space?

[truebrit71]

2. The flying monkey right is really worried about this story..

..hence the half-truths amd misrepresentations..Now if Dick Clarke says the same thing to the 9/11 committee will he be accused of perjury, because the rethuglicans are calling him a liar...

[imax2268]

3. These people

are scared...they are running scared...they are attacking Clarke's character instead of facing facts...they dropped the ball...and they know it...

If BushCo was so focused on terrorism...then why did he take a month long vacation 1 month before the attacks...

And where is the Chimp...why is he not defending himself...why is he letting his brown-nosers do it for him...?

[grannylib]

4. He's too incoherent; you know what he's like when he's not working from

a script...he has no command over his own native language, and usually sounds intoxicated but trying to cover it up.
Wish they would let him try though...it's always hilarious watching the little Chimposter dig hisself a big ol' hole....

[Kool Kitty]

5. Boy, they have trotted out every one of the WH

staff that was wearing a new suit today. Jeez! The guy that made that quote you posted just said that the book's publishing was pushed up so it could coincide with Clarke' testimony tomorrow. The WH shill (some undersecretary for the defense department, I think it said under his name) has to be the fifth person I've seen today that falls into the formerly anonymous category. Then you have Ms. Rice, Cheney on Rush's show, Adelman on "Crossfire", the unkempt-looking man that was on FAUX and Fiends this morning (he is the author of "Bush Country") and the assorted cast of characters that I'm sure will be on every show tonight. Right-wing talking-point overload. Clarke himself will be on Charlie Rose's show tonight on PBS.

Clarke never claimed to be part of the cabinet. And how come only one reporter asked about Ms. Rice's inconsistent comment about airliners? She said she had a briefing about them with FAA officials in June or July. (This was when she was on CNN this morning.) I can believe it, because it was the same time our beloved AG Ashcroft decided to stop flying commercial, because of threats. But, soon after the WTC and Pentagon attacks, didn't this same woman claim that "no one could have conceived of airplanes being used as weapons"? (I'm paraphrasing here, but that was the gist of the comment.) Only one reporter even asked about it?