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03/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Breslin."
Breslin.
Right as rain. Again.
Lovely. We get bombed in New York and there are thousands dead and mangled and we have a wedding Mass the Saturday after the attack and there is a groom at the Mass but no bride because she is in the sky. And not one of these people in Washington, D.C., these colossal failures, as much as loses a job.Then yesterday in the hearing room was Richard Clarke. He was the counterterrorism chief for Clinton and Bush. He already is out of a job, but he has a big book out now so he is not hurting.
But he did one thing that nobody on a government intelligence payroll ever did: He started his testimony by saying he was wrong. He addressed the families of the victims who got killed in the trade center, a few of them sitting behind him. He said he was glad to have this forum so "I can apologize. ... Your government failed you. ... And I failed you. We tried hard, but that doesn't matter, because we failed."
He had committed a felony in Washington government. How can you admit you're wrong? How do you say that to the public? I'm wrong? What are you, crazy?
Replies: 2 people speak up
Perhaps it's my skepticism bone acting up, but I'm not quite sure who to believe in all this crap. Bush et al have a fiduciary interest in advancing their claim to the truth (read: continued employment). Clarke's fiduciary interest is obviously the book, and nothing sells a book like controversy. Who wins? Nobody. Who loses? We do. After all, who is paying for all this? Yup, good old We the People.
I'm about ready to buy a plot of land in Australia's outback and start raising rabbits. No TV, no radio and no Bush, no Kerry, no U.S. Gubmint. No rules, just right....isn't that how it goes?
Posted by Murphy @ 03/26/2004 07:14 PM NY
Hope you got your Australian Green Card all set up, Murphy. Otherwise...consider sticking around at least long enough to vote this jerk out.
Bush is very lucky. He's lucky we didn't physically throw his ass out of office the very first day he went on record as being against a 9-11 investigation. He's very lucky to live in a country where the Democrats are 'civil' enough to wait around until this asshole gets VOTED out. He deserves not one bit of this luck.
Like Bassus' father claimed, he is a tool in the hands of powerful men.
Thanks for the Breslin fix, editor. Later!
Posted by Daddy-O @ 03/27/2004 04:53 PM NY
