President Asked Aide to Explore Iraq Link to 9/11 Attacks

[FauxNewsBlues]

The White House acknowledged Sunday that on the day after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush pressed his top counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, to find out whether Iraq was involved.
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The conversation - which the White House suggested last week had never taken place - centers on perhaps the most volatile charge that Mr. Clarke has made public in recent days: that the Bush White House became fixated on Iraq and Saddam Hussein at the expense of focusing on Al Qaeda's role in the terrorism.
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Last week, the White House said it had no record that Mr. Bush had even been in the Situation Room that day and said the president had no recollection of such a conversation. Although administration officials stopped short of denying the account, they used it to cast doubt on Mr. Clarke's credibility as they sought to debunk the charge that the administration downplayed the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks and worried instead about Iraq.

The political fallout over Mr. Clarke's charges intensified on Sunday, as he and four of the president's top advisers traded jabs in separate televised appearances over the question of whether the Bush White House did enough to deter terrorism before Sept. 11.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/politics/28CND-POLI.html?hp

[MSgt213]

1. They mean they lied right they sure the hell weren't suggesting anything

[Skittles]

2. LOL

republicans "suggest" - only Democrats LIE.

[Democat]

3. Perhaps this is related to the declassification of Clarke's testimony?

Maybe Clarke mentioned this metting in his previous testimony?

[MaineDem]

4. Kick - for the White House flip flop

Lies...lies....lies!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Another lie uncovered...I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

[Cooley Hurd]

6. kick

dupe avoidance kick... :hi:

[democracy eh]

7. kind of reminds me of Wile E. Coyote

digging a hole on one of those really thin ledges, he digs the bottom out, falling into the canyon, dissapearing in a puff of dust

lie, retract, (truth dribbles out quietly) the cycle continues