No vision about terror's future (Ex WH - Knows Clarke - Says * no plan)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04087/292095.stm

Richard Clarke was once described as "the most important person in the federal government you've never heard of." No longer. This week, in an explosive book, an interview on "60 Minutes," and in hearings before the commission investigating 9/11, Clarke has charged that, as a presidential adviser, he warned about the threat of Osama bin Laden long before the 9/11 attacks -- but that President Bush ignored the warnings.

Predictably, the Bush administration has denied this charge, and in response has attacked Clarke. "You have a real credibility problem" said one Republican member of the 9/11 commission, John F. Lehman, a Navy secretary under President Reagan. Others hint that Clarke is motivated by the prospect of a high-level position should John Kerry become president.

I believe Clarke is telling the truth. But, even more importantly, I believe key issues central to our national security are being ignored in the mudslinging.

I worked with Dick Clarke for years, including two at the White House, where we shared a suite of offices in the White House National Security Council. His commitment to the protection of the nation, and his high ethical standards, are to me beyond doubt. So are his qualifications. When he left the White House last year, Clarke had more experience in national security affairs by far than anyone else in the White House.

[Trajan]

1. This is yet ANOTHER Insider corraboration of Clarke's assertions ...

HOW can the american people continue to accept the lies of the White House, and stand by as a GOOD man and citizen is pubically attacked by the leader and his party ??? ...

This is becoming ABSURD people: .... Clarke is TELLING THE TRUTH !

Bush and the GOP are CLEARLY lying again, as they have since they arrived to find the WHite House 'destroyed by the Clintons' ...

YOU ! ... Lurking Moderate Republicans ??? ... WAKE UP ! .....

YOUR Party has been hijacked by extremists who care NOTHING for public service nor public safety ....

YOU ! ... Indpendent voter ? .... HOW COULD you vote for these crooks ? ....

Unfuckingbelievable .....

[caledesi]

2. Clarke's book sold out at Barnes and Noble. HA HA! nt

[teryang]

3. I beg to differ

The main problem with terror is that it is sponsored by state agencies, the CIA, and the British, German, Israeli, the Saudi, and Pakistani equivalents. It is these agencies who are unaccountable to the world because they are allied with and protected by the greatest power on earth, the power of the United States. There is no effective oversight of the CIA. Those who ostensibly oversee the CIA are wed to it.

Why is it that our FBI can't investigate its way out of a paper bag? Why is it that obstruction of justice and lies are the primary political product concerning the so called war on terror? The CIA and the defense establishment are protecting the anthrax killers and those with prior knowledge of 911. As the saying goes, if the current junta didn't have bin Laden to blame, they would have to invent him. Al qaeda and the war on terror are essential to the American corporatist/colonial plan to dominate the world. Al qaeda was enabled, organized, trained, financed and equipped with American sponsorship to take down America's victims. Unfortunately, the latest victim is democracy in America and an electorate which wishes to fund priorities other than defense contracts and corporate swill at the electorates expense. While there is a natural impetus to terrorism which arises in response to colonial enterprise, the response is cultivated by the national security apparachiki who seek to control the timing of events to establish and justify their amoral agenda. The parasitic core of the national security state invents and nourishes terrorism enemies and the cultural and financial web in which circulate so that it may prosper.

It is symptomatic that south african mercenaries and other killers for hire proliferate in Iraq. The organized armed forces of our nation and others are being corrupted and abused in a fraudulent and illegitimate conquest, justified by the outright lies before the entire world by a country called "The United States of America" concerning a "war on terror."