[Vision2020] Terrorism Expert Richard Clark's Chilling Account...

[Ted Moffett]

Counter terrorism expert Richard Clark, a registered Republican in the 2000
election, who worked with President Bush Sr. through the Clinton years,
called one of the "hard liners against terrorists," recalls the immediate
push on Iraq after 9/11from the W. Bush White House, asserting that
Bush "failed to act prior to 9/11on the threat from Al Qaeda," and distorted
the intelligence that shed doubt on a Saddam link to Al Qaeda or 9/11.  We
hear over and over that bad intelligence misled the Bush White House on
Iraq, but if Clark is correct, the linking of Iraq to Al Qaeda and 9/11 was
deliberately pursued when the best intelligence suggested otherwise.  This
commentary coming from a such a credible insider to the workings of the Bush
White House on the terrorism/Iraq issue is chilling:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13607-2004Mar21?language=printer

>From the Washington Post article at the above web link:

Although expressing points of disagreement with all four presidents, Clarke
reserves by far his strongest language for George W. Bush. The president, he
said, "failed to act prior to September 11 on the threat from Al Qaeda
despite repeated warnings and then harvested a political windfall for taking
obvious yet insufficient steps after the attacks." The rapid shift of focus
to Saddam Hussein, Clarke writes, "launched an unnecessary and costly war in
Iraq that strengthened the fundamentalist, radical Islamic terrorist
movement worldwide."

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Link to info on Richard Clark:
http://www.greatertalent.com/biography.php?id=618

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Ted Moffett
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