After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, I confessed
the following:

There was a former NSC guy (now living in MN) on local TV in St Paul
tonight (they showed a pic of him and GWB in the Oval Office and two
letters of commendation from Rice and Rumsfeld). This gentleman pretty
much backed Clarke's assertion that Iraq was the primary target
immediately after 9-11.

Allow me to correct myself. I just watched the 10pm news and the guy's
name is Tom Maertens (pronounced Martins) who was NSC Director of
Non-Nuclear Proliferation under Clinton and Bush. The retirement
letters of commendation are signed by Rice and Bush (not Rumsfeld, my
bad... d'oh).

Calls himself a political independent, but is flat out disgusted by
the current administration. He mentioned a Rove memo from 2002 sent to
GOP folks running for elected office (around the country) reminding
them to "run on the war." I hope they do.

Maertens thinks that Richard Clarke "hit a nerve," with GWB.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4684189.html

Juvat