Richard Clarke: War against terror is a failure

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/08/MNG378LCOR1.DTL

War against terror is a failure, ex-White House official says
Richard Clarke tells Berkeley audience U.S. still isn't safe

Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 8, 2004


The Bush administration has bungled the war on terrorism, doing little to provide security at home while breeding legions of new enemies abroad, the government's former anti-terrorism chief, Richard Clarke, told a large Berkeley audience Tuesday night.

Clarke, who made international headlines last spring when he emerged as the highest-ranking whistle-blower from inside the White House's war on terrorism, painted an alarming picture of a White House still pursuing a losing strategy while America's safety hangs in the balance.

"The pool of people who really hate us is so much greater than it was on 9/11 because of this needless and counterproductive war in Iraq," Clarke said to applause from nearly 2,000 people at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach auditorium.

On the home front, except for improved airline safety, little or nothing has been done to protect the many other vulnerable targets such as trains, chemical plants, Wal-Marts and financial headquarters, said Clarke, who served as counterterrorism czar under both Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.


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[Worst Username Ever]

1. WALMARTS???

[shaolinmonkey]

2. I knew there was a reason I dont' shop at WalMart.

Well, actually there are about a billion reasons. Just add one more.

[Sub Atomic]

3. Actually that makes sense in a sick, perverted sort of way.

You see, after the next terrattack on your neighborhood Walmart store, Sam Walmart will go to the government with his hands opened wide asking for money to bail him out of the financial mess that those evildewars did unto him.

:eyes:

[Az_lefty]

5. Sam Walton going anywhere would be sick

he's dead,tweeb

[indepat]

4. Well, Dick Clark has trumped W's only ace, for what other possible claim

of accomplishment could W make?

[Disturbed]

6. Schizoid.

The Neo Fascists keep spewing contradictory bile.

America is safer now.

America is going to be attacked soon.

Uh... Saddam is in prison. America is safer.

Osama is Enemy #1.

Osama is not important.

BULLISHT!!!!

These Neo Fascists are warmongering, war profiteering bunglers and war criminals who should not only be voted out but charged with their myriad of crimes.

[wiggs]

7. Good timing

I was wondering where Clarke had gone to. His statements are well-timed in relation to Cheney stating that without BA we'd all be screwed.

[G_j]

8. I hope he keeps it up

because I don't think this one article will get much attention.

[G_j]

9. kick

:kick:

[jdj]

10. But the meme is an astounding success!

Thanks to sfgate for saying "against"

"war on..." is for morons.