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".impervious" wrote:

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

: 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 happen to a
: dedicated paper pusher. That's reason enough.

he resigned because nobody would listen.

....after eight years of nobody in the Clinton administration listening,
apparently. He also claimed that Condoleeza Rice didn't seem to know
who al-Qaeda was, but public comments by Clarke *and* Rice before 2004
show quite nicely that he was full of it.

: 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...

When you're a lifeling bureaucrat, and you get demoted, it's shorthand
for "you're fired."

and so did the NEXT guy who had the job, for the same reason.

That he couldn't do the job, either.

:: 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.

Funny, that's not what they're saying, and they actually have Clarke to
prove it (from his own comments before he wrote the book). *Public*
comments.

There's another funny thing. Clarke says he's been a Republican, except
that for the last several years, he's been giving thousands of dollars
per *year* to Democratic politicians, and none to Republicans.

Another of those "says one thing, actually did the opposite" things from
Clarke...

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