EXIT STRATEGY: FIRE THEM ALL

[PSU84]

EXIT STRATEGY: FIRE THEM ALL

By Richard Reeves April 9, 2004

NEW YORK - Dr. Condoleezza Rice is giving good brains a bad name. Her testimony to the 9/11 commission on Thursday demonstrated that it is not enough to know everything. You have to understand something. She didn't get it and still doesn't.

We screwed up big time, and now she says that she and President Bush just want to "move forward." But you can't do the latter if you do not understand the former, which is: what happened before Sept. 11, 2001. As smart and alone as she is in her job, she made a huge mistake in answering questions from commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, the combative little lawyer who was a majority (Democratic) counsel during the Watergate hearings 30 years ago.

Ben-Veniste questioned her about the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) of Aug. 6, 2001, and in her nervous answer she blurted out the classified title: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." Ben-Veniste knew that, but could not say it because he and other commissioners had been allowed to see parts of the memo on condition that they not reveal its title or contents. Rice, in effect, declassified that title on her own. Many reasonable people will interpret the lack of follow-up - she lamely said follow-up was not part of her job - as stupidity and incompetence.

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[Skittles]

1. LOL

"Prove he is worthy of our trust"? This thieving piece of garbage who has been LYING TO US SINCE DAY ONE ????? Please.

[ladjf]

6. We only need about 20% more Americans to catch on.

15% to overwhelm the fixed voting machines and another 5% for good measure.

[Jade Fox]

2. Sure, fire them all and apologize.....

Nothing would be a clearer admission that his entire Administration is
a complete disaster and failure.

And it would NOT help Bush get re-elected.

[struggle4progress]

3. kick

:kick:

[sspiderjohn]

4. Bureaucracy + Peter Principle + playing hi level "hot potato" . . . .

I've never seen anything like this crowd . . .

[Beetwasher]

5. Well DAYAM!!

"But that is now the hallmark of this administration: stupidity and ignorant incompetence -- in gathering, interpreting and following up pre-9/11 intelligence, and in going to war in Iraq (news - web sites)."

OUCH!

[ladjf]

7. Therepeutic jail sentences

Can you imagine what a therapeutic effect it would have on the entire world if Bush and his gang (1) got kicked out of office and (2) were convicted of high crimes, complete with jail sentences?

Wow! I'd be so proud of Americans.