Time Interview with Cheney: ""I don't hold [Clarke] in high regard"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040405/ncheney.html?cnn=yes

Time: On how the Bush White House viewed the Clinton team's approach to terrorism:
Cheney: "There was the sense that they hadn't handled it very well."

Time: On whether an apology for failing to prevent Sept. 11 is necessary:
(Note: Cheney never gives a direct answer to this question. He throws in an obligatory "There are clearly some things that could have been done to be more effective. Whether or not there was a way to forecast what was going on here and head it off, I just don't know. Obviously, I think everybody feels bad about the loss of life" and that's it).

So, rating the story on the Frankenstein Scale, we have:

Fire = bad
Bread = good
Condi = good
Clarke = bad
3,000 Americans dying in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil when potentially the President and his administration were both adequately warned and did nothing about it while vacationing in Crawford = "I dunno." (It's not good, it's not bad, but it's not the Bush administration's fault).

Thanks for the update, Evil Dick!

:evilgrin: :toast: :puke: :toast: :evilgrin:

[trumad]

1. Cheney should be in this cartoon too

[boobooday]

2. Everybody feels bad

That's what Condi said too. What a load of crap, what a weasel-assed way out.

Everybody feels bad. But does that mean you feel sorry? There is no responsibility there!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[yardwork]

3. "Certainly everyone feels bad about the loss of life."

Somehow, I don't think that this interview is going to win over the hearts and minds of Americans who are looking for answers.

He sounds like a robot.

[displacedtexan]

4. Dick sure did like Richard Clarke in 1991!

He hand picked Clarke as one of the handful of advisers to accompany him on the tour to get the Arabs on board the first gulf War against Saddam.

That little tidbit is in Clarke's book.

[UTUSN]

5. Is CHENEE the Real pResident? n/t