Originally posted by GN SBS
Let's not forget that Clarke has served under presidents of both parties, including Ronald Reagan. He's not some liberal whacko.
There is lots of liberal bunk out there, but why assume this is more of the same? I haven't read the book, but without doing so it seems just a tad premature to write it off in entirety.
-S.
I didn't say he was a "Liberal Whacko", I said that Book releases are not front page news. The book was written about stuff that happened 3 years ago. Why wasn't it news then?
Clarke says all Bush could think about after 911 was Iraq. So why did we we attack Afghanistan and wait nearly 2 years to attack Iraq?
Mansoor Ijaz, the guy that negotiated Sudan's handing over of Bin Laden to Clinton in 1997, said Clarke's book was written to cover Clarke's ass and said he would debate Clarke about any of it's content's disparaging the Bush administration's war on terror.
Why would he want to cover his ass? Who bombed the aspirin factory in the Sudan on the basis of flawed intelligence? Richard Clarke. I wonder if that made the book. Hmmm... A pre-emptive strike on a "state Sponsor of terror" that was based on a "lie". Where have I heard that before
Clarke hasn't told anyone that he was "out of the loop" post 9/11 (he was) or that the network making his book front page news is owned by the same parent company selling his book (it is). He's not even telling everybody that he thought IRAQ had WMD's and he knew Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism (he did).
He's not a whacko Liberal, but is he, like Paul Oneill, an egotistical, self promoting government hack, who was never wrong about anything? you decide.
If he is or he isn't, it's NOT front page news. Not even on a slow newsday.