WP: Questions for Dr. Rice

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Questions for Dr. Rice
By PETER BERGEN

1. A search of all your public statements and writings reveals that you apparently mentioned Osama bin Laden only once and never mentioned Al Qaeda at all as a threat to the United States before 9/11. Why?

2. Both Bob Woodward's book "Bush at War" and Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" show that shortly after 9/11 there was considerable focus by the Bush cabinet on Iraq's possibly being the perpetrator of the attacks. Why was Iraq considered a suspect when there was no evidence that it was involved in any act of anti-American terrorism for a decade — other than a failed attempt to assassinate former President George H. W. Bush in 1993 — while there was overwhelming evidence that it was the Al Qaeda network that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, tried to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, blew up American embassies in Africa in 1998 and attacked the destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000? After all, the cabinet did not discuss the possibility that the attacks were the work of Iran, Libya or Syria, all countries that have a history of terrorism directed at Americans.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/opinion/04BERG.html>

There is a total of nine questions.

[ClintonTyree]

1. Simply put.............

if any of these questions were to be asked, Condi would lie her ass off under oath or avoid answering them at all. Expect nothing concrete from Condi's testimony, and no indication that the Bush administration was doing anything but "all it could do with the information it had".
Unless the Democratic members of the commission grow some tremendous balls overnight this will be a non-event.