Pundit Pap - Have a Clarke Bar

[StlMo]

Pundit Pap - Have a Clarke Bar


The television event in question will be a segment on CBS' 60 Minutes in which Richard Clarke, former Senior Advisor for Counterterrorism on Bush's national security staff, blasts the Bush Regime for not only failing to take on the very real threat that Al Qaeda posed to the US but - when they did attack - trying to shift the blame to Saddam Hussein without proof or justification.

Naturally, the opinion elite were trying to spin this as a "political" problem for George Bush Jr. and his band of blatherers.

But here's the plain, unvarnished truth: the press almost seems to be acting to contain the fallout from Clarke's revelations by tagging the dilemma as "political." Clarke's allegations completely devastate the credibility, honesty and self-proclaimed integrity and "moral clarity" of the former Texas governors and his Neocon-Theocon Axis of Weasels.

The big political question is whether or not Democrats are prepared to hammer the fact that Team Bush were weak on terrorism from the moment they seized power - and dishonest on terrorism by ginning up a case for war against a sleazy despot who we are starting to realize was ripe for overthrow from any number of parties outside of PNAC (the Project for a New American Century).

Think about it. Clarke's assertions are more proof of a scandal over Bush's having dropped the ball on Al Qaeda - and then distracted the world from a real campaign against death-cult criminals with Operation Iraq's Oil, Baby! - that dwarfs Watergate and Iran-Contra.

Combined.

We urge you to not only follow this story carefully but talk it up, especially with fence-sitters.

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http://www.americanpolitics.com/punditpap.html

[Wonk]

1. For those who missed 60 Minutes this week...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x6485

[StlMo]

2. Thank you very much, Wonk.

I caught the interview, but there is much in it worth viewing again.

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