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03/25/2004 Archived Entry: "The Backlash Cometh..."
The Backlash Cometh...
K and I were just out running some errands, and I figured I'd drop a few things on you that I heard on the radio while I was out.
Attacking Clarke, like every other brilliant idea ThugCo has had of late, is doomed to backfire. I heard a report saying that the White House has announced that as long as Clarke is in the media, they're going to keep attacking him. Before long, this is going to look like exactly what it is - a bunch of politically-motivated hacks trying to silence one of the most talented counter-terrorism experts this country has ever had.
I also heard, in passing, that a poll showed that 9 in 10 Americans are familiar with Clarke's charges against the administration. The longer Clarke stays in the media eye, the harder ThugCo is going to hammer him, the more sympathetic he's going to appear.
People are going to wonder why the White House staff has dropped everything in order to destroy a man who disagrees with them. Watch and see.
Replies: 8 people speak up
Clarke is the teflon witness. He's a Bush 1, Bush 2, Clinton insider. Anything that GW throws at Clarke won't stick. Americans love a guy that can admit he failed. Clarke is the first Bush Administration official to admit that and then testify to the 9/11 Commission under oath.
Long live the truthtellers.
Posted by black_ice @ 03/25/2004 10:36 PM NY
You know, if they spent as much time and energy going after Terrorism as they're doing right now with Clarke maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened!
Posted by Smafty @ 03/25/2004 10:43 PM NY
Those educated by the fortune of having the internet are not those fed nightly doses of FOX news, who believe the news is not allowed to lie to you.
Sue for truth in news reporting to bring news agencies back into line.
If they report it they gotta back it.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 03/25/2004 10:55 PM NY
I agree. This whole thing is going to backfire like my old Ford. Bush has no credability. Never has and never will. If he's so damn religious then he already knows he's going to burn in Hell. But I don't even think the man has a religious bone in that monkey (sorry monkies)body of his. It's all a shammmm And Fox is not news. It's propaganda !
Posted by Paul @ 03/25/2004 11:03 PM NY
Number One Reason this will backfire on Bush & CO?
"...a poll showed that 9 in 10 Americans are familiar with Clarke's charges against the administration."
Wow. Wow. That's a LOTTA people hearing the truth for once.
Wow.
Later.
Posted by Daddy-O @ 03/26/2004 01:00 AM NY
Bush is going to have a hard time saying that if Clarke isn't with them then Clarke is for the terrorists...
Posted by George Johnston @ 03/26/2004 01:48 AM NY
Worse, when they announce a "scorched earth" policy outright and respond to serious charges with stuff like 'he wrote a book', 'he's Dick Clarke's AMerican grandstand' ... they look imperious, frivolous, and incapable of the maturity and gravitas required from a so-called wartime administration to make a nation more secure.
Plus, look at everyone they've slimed: career professionals who freely admit the personal foibles BushCo fixates on, but absolutely solid on the facts supporting their criticism.
Posted by Peanut @ 03/26/2004 11:25 AM NY
"Backlash"... "Backfire"...??? The smirker-in-chief is all over the spectrum with his offensive behavior. Wonder how cute the families of our soldiers (both those in Iraq and those who made it home in 'transfer tubes') think his hamming it up and searching for WMD under tables in the OO is...? Sheesh.
The mother in me makes me actually shudder to imagine how I'd feel about the incident described below if my own kid had been killed or horribly maimed looking for his damnable WMD. But... he's pathetic. And, pathologically devoid of any empathy whatsoever.
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Bush thinks failure to find WMDs is funny?
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BBC
"US President George W Bush has sparked a political
firestorm by making a joke about the failure to find weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq ... One picture [shows] Mr Bush looking
under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office, at which the
president remarked: 'Those weapons of mass destruction have got
to be here somewhere.'" (3/26/04)
http://www.free-market.net/rd/111075615.html
Posted by Jesse828 @ 03/26/2004 01:43 PM NY
