Clarke is Apologizing to the American People

[NewHampster]

What a good man.

[BootinUp]

1. That was very sincere

[snooper2]

2. That was great...

The only thing he had to say on his opening statement.

very classy..

[Lex]

3. Wow, that was powerful.

Have ANY of them

1. apologized
and/or
2. taken responsiblity

like that before?

[NewHampster]

5. Nope

[tom_paine]

25. Totalitarian Scum NEVER apologize

Might as well ask if Hitler, Stalin, Himmler, and "Iron Feliks" Dzerzhinsky apologized...

Same thing.

Clark was like the Otto Bismarck of the Bush Cabal.

[Catfight]

4. it's truth time

n/t

[BeyondGeography]

6. Classy and emotional

I hope the families found it sincere. I did.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. What did he say?

Some of us don't have TV and get our news on the net. Can someone tell me what exactly he said or paraphrase it?

[MountainLaurel]

12. Why is he apologizing?

For us media-challenged folks at work.

[htuttle]

15. He was apologizing for the government letting the people down...

...by not stopping the 9/11 attacks.

More of a general 'we should have been able to stop it' sort of thing, than an 'it's all my fault' sort of thing.

[MadProphetMargin]

18. Shows he has more intestinal fortitude than Bush and his cronies.

:thumbup:

[Melinda]

14. In re 911, he said (and I paraphrase) "To the American people...

your government has failed you and I have failed you and for that I am sincerely sorry".

[xultar]

8. Will prob be the only one who was a part of the current Admin to do so.

I HATE BUSH Co.

[robnycny]

9. mp3 stream here:

For those at work, etc:

www.c-span.org

Go to feed for c-span 3.

[w13rd0]

19. Seems to be a popular stream...

...C-Span server is quite taxed.

[kentuck]

10. How will the Bush WH spin this ?

Yes, it was his job and he did the right thing by taking responsibility?

[orwell]

11. No Wonder

No wonder he no longer works for the BA. He takes reponsibility instead of passing the buck.

O

[nolabels]

24. LOL

zingers to ya :D

[NewHampster]

13. Other stream if you have problems with C-span today

http://www.npr.org/ NPR sound only is coming in clear

[eek]

16. Anyone kinda scared?

Scared of what awful thing is going to pre-empt, co-opt or obfuscate our attention from Clarke and his damning testimony?
:scared:

[MadProphetMargin]

20. Not really. Anything happening to him would look WORSE than

anything he could say.

Karl Rove isn't stupid.

[derby378]

17. CNN Radio

If you can't get NPR, go to http://www.cnn.com and click on CNN Radio.

[newsguyatl]

21. his words:

"Your government failed you," he said, "and I failed you. We tried hard, but that doesn't matter because we failed you. And for that failure I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness."

[NewHampster]

22. Thats either going to be somebody's sig or a banner on DU

[maddezmom]

23. very powerful and sincere

like to hear something along those lines from the bushistas