There was a clip on the NBC Nightly News of Condi Rice defending Bush against Clarke. At one point she said, "We wanted a new plan on Al Qaeda. The Clinton plan was to roll them back; we wanted a plan to
eliminate them." That's fabulous, Condi. Apparently, it was so important to "
eliminate them" instead of rolling them back, that Bush was willing to wait eight months to get the right plan. In the meantime, 9/11 happened. So, I suppose that after 9/11, the Bushies must have been truly, truly determined to implement this plan to
eliminate Al Qaeda?
Well, how's that plan working out? Where were the eliminators when Rummy delegated the job of smoking Bin Laden out of Tora Bora? Where were the eliminators when Bush made the decision to redeploy forces from the war on Al Qaeda to a different war in Iraq? And, where are the eliminators every time Bush claims victory because "we've got them on the run"? By Condi's standard, the war on Al Qaeda has been a miserable failure.
George Bush's foreign policy consists of three principles: Anything Clinton said was wrong. Kill the guy who tried to kill Daddy. Nothing else matters. What a disgrace. Let's hang the bastards with their own words.