In om,
Chad Irby attempted to impart some wisdom, instead sputtering:

: In article ,
: (Tammy) wrote:
:
:
:: So far there have been no outright discrepancies. The closest that
:: the GOPs could get is that as an aide to Bush, he only released
:: positive information to the press and saved the negative information
:: until after he left the White House.
::
:: There are three things to keep in mind.
::
:: 1. He was a Reagan appointee, and served 4 presidents. Not exactly a
:: poster child for anti-GOP views.
:
: He was a long-term bureaucrat who quit during the current
: administration after being denied the promotion he wanted (and being
: effectively demoted). The worst thing in the world to happene to a
: dedicated paper pusher. That's reason enough.

he resigned because nobody would listen.

:: 2. In attempting to discredit him, the White House and VP Dick Cheney
:: (amoung others) says that their anti-terrorism coordinator and top
:: anti-terrorism expert did not know what he was talking about because
:: he was kept out of the loop because the position of anti-terrorism
:: coordinator was downgraded from a "Principle" position to a "deputy"
:: position.
:
: They gave other people that responsibility, and as soon as they got
: rid of him, put someone else into the job.

"they" didn't "get rid" of him, he resigned... and so did the NEXT guy
who had the job, for the same reason.

:: Huh? They try to prove that Bush took terrorism seriously by stating
:: that Bush deemphasised efforts to fight terrorism.
:
: No, they took it seriously by getting rid of someone who wouldn't
: understand the size of the problem, and who was directly in charge
: during the worst terror attacks in history.

you moron... even the Bush Administration will tell you that they are
following Clarke's plan (minus Iraq) to eliminate the al-Qaeda threat
nearly to the letter - the one he wrote during the Clinton
Administration.

:: 3. There is pretty much nothing new in Richard Clark's reports.
:: Everything that he states has been reported in the press already and
:: matches claims by other Bush administration officials who have left
:: office (and some who are still there). At most, Clark just fills in a
:: bit of the details.
:
: ...with some creative writing.
:
: That contradicts other reports.


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in other news, Bush has called Kerry a liar on public television. also,
Don King said Kerry had funny hair, and Jay Leno said Kerry had a big
chin.