Between
Sydney Blumenthal and
Karen Kwiatowski,
salon.com strikes two blows against Shrub and for Clarke this week. Very knowledgable former insiders, these two ride to the defense and unsheathe their swords against this criminal administration in two very aticulate pieces.
First theres was Kwiatowski with:
That audacious Richard Clarke...
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When referring to the lack of seriousness of the White House regarding terrorism, pre-911, Karen reconfirms and remembers:
We might have known this earlier. In early 2000, Condoleezza Rice explained the Bush approach to security in Foreign Affairs magazine. In an article containing almost 7,000 words on national security, she mentions terrorism only five times: four in terms of rogue states like Iraq, and one referring to Chechnya. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, having repeatedly attacked U.S. military and diplomatic facilities and killed Americans in the 1990s, and against whom President Clinton had retaliated militarily, warranted not a single mention by the future national security advisor.
Devastating.
Sydney Blumenthal in Washington Animal House takes Bush to task for his shameful display in front of the press, and he notes how the press corps just ate it up:
With each gag line the press corps roared. Bush was acting as the college fraternity house president that he once was, and the journalists performing as pledges eager for acceptance by the Big Man on Campus. "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things," Bush told Bob Woodward in "Bush at War." "That's the interesting thing about being president."
Ouch!
Read these pieces, and read salon.com, it's one of the few outlets we have!