[kj] ot - there's just no connection

[gathering@misera.net]

> So is the US media turning against Bush in the run up to the election? 
> What's the feeling over there about whether he'll win?
> 
> cheers
> Tony Blair
> 



nah he's safe in the pouch

there is enough damaging information released about the escapades of bushites 
over the past 3 years to impeach twelve presidents but this guy makes teflon look 
like super glue. thanks to his megaphone - stuffed pants aircraft carrier props he will 
get another 4. doubt even pics of eight year old boys with his dick in their mouths 
would stop this guy. 

wager at least 4 more years and he'll be chiseled out on mount rushmore.    








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> >To: gathering@misera.net
> >Subject: [kj] ot - there's just no connection
> >Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:08:35 -0500
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-
> >retaliation.html?ex=1080743908&ei=1&en=7b065e118508cef0
> >Ex - Advisor Says Bush Eyed Bombing of Iraq
> >on 9 / 11
> >By REUTERS
> >{PRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT="}
> >Published: March 19, 2004
> >
> >Filed at 7:21 p.m. ET
> >NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former White House anti-terrorism advisor says
> >the Bush administration considered bombing Iraq in retaliation after Sept. 
> >11,
> >2001 even though it was clear al Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the
> >World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
> >Richard Clarke, who headed a cybersecurity board that gleaned intelligence
> >from the Internet, told CBS ``60 Minutes'' in an interview to be aired on
> >Sunday he was surprised administration officials turned immediately toward
> >Iraq instead of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
> >
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> >``They were talking about Iraq on 9/11. They were talking about it on 
> >9/12,''
> >Clarke says.
> >Clarke said he was briefing President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald
> >Rumsfeld among other top officials in the aftermath of the devastating 
> >attacks.
> >``Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq. ... We all said, 'but no, no. 
> >Al
> >Qaeda is in Afghanistan,'' recounts Clarke, ``and Rumsfeld said, 'There 
> >aren't
> >any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in 
> >Iraq.'''
> >Clarke, an advisor to four presidents, left his position in February 2003 
> >after
> >the White House transferred functions of the cybersecurity board to 
> >Homeland
> >Security.
> >Clarke's comments are the latest to raise the question of the Bush
> >administration's focus on overthrowing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
> >Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, fired in a shake-up of Bush's
> >economic team in December 2002, told ``60 Minutes'' in an interview aired 
> >in
> >January he never saw any evidence Iraq had weapons of mass destruction --
> >Bush's main justification for going to war.
> >O'Neill also charged that Bush entered office intent on invading Iraq and
> >ousting its leader, Saddam Hussein.
> >``I think they wanted to believe that there was a connection'' between Iraq 
> >and
> >al Qaeda, Clarke tells ``60 Minutes.''
> >``But the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting there, I was sitting 
> >there,
> >saying, 'We've looked at this issue for years. For years we've looked and
> >there's just no connection,''' says Clarke.
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