RICE RIPS 'FLATLY FALSE' CLAIM ON BID TO GET BIN LADEN

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/09252006/news/...tionalnews_.htm

For the record, Clinton was getting his knob polished while he was ignoring Middle East Peace talks in the Rose Garden. That's right, Yassir Arafat was burning up in the Rose Garden while Clinton was getting blow job in the Oval Office. Like he or anyone of the idiots in his cabinet cared a wit about the Middle East.

RICE BOILS OVER AT BUBBA

RIPS 'FLATLY FALSE' CLAIM ON BUSH'S BID TO GET BIN LADEN

By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent

September 25, 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday accused Bill Clinton of making "flatly false" claims that the Bush administration didn't lift a finger to stop terrorism before the 9/11 attacks.

Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false - and I think the 9/11 commission understood that," Rice said during a wide-ranging meeting with Post editors and reporters.

"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.

The secretary of state also sharply disputed Clinton's claim that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for the incoming Bush team during the presidential transition in 2001.

"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice responded during the hourlong session.

Her strong rebuttal was the Bush administration's first response to Clinton's headline-grabbing interview on Fox on Sunday in which he launched into an over-the-top defense of his handling of terrorism - wagging his finger in the air, leaning forward in his chair and getting red-faced, and even attacking Wallace for improper questioning.

The "Fox News Sunday" show had its best ratings since the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research. Two versions of the interview were the two most-watched clips on YouTube yesterday, totaling more than 800,000 views.

After Clinton got angry during the questioning, Wallace said Clinton aide Jay Carson tried to get his producer to stop the interview. Carson said he was concerned that time was running out and that little of the philanthropy efforts of the former president had been addressed.

At The Post, Rice also touched on hot spots around the globe:

On Iran: "There isn't a particularly good, direct way to neutralize the Iranian threat."

On Iraq: "You're never going to have a just Sunni-Shia reconciliation if you don't have a political system in which the interests of all can be represented - and that's what Iraq represents."

On Pakistan: "The future of Pakistan, as [President Pervez] Musharraf and his people fully understand, is to de-radicalize elements of the population."

On the Middle East conflict: "It would help to have a moderate force in the Palestinian territories and to have the beginnings of rapprochement with Israel and the rest of its neighbors."

On the Far East: "I would like to see an improvement in Japanese-China relations."

In her pointed rebuttal of Clinton's inflammatory claims about the war on terror, Rice maintained the Bush White House did the best it could to defend against an attack - and expanded on the tools and intelligence it inherited.

"I would just suggest that you go back and read the 9/11 commission report on the efforts of the Bush administration in the eight months - things like working to get an armed Predator [drone] that actually turned out to be extraordinarily important," Rice added.

She also said Clinton's claims that Richard Clarke - the White House anti-terror guru hyped by Clinton as the country's "best guy" - had been demoted by Bush were bogus.

"Richard Clarke was the counterterrorism czar when 9/11 happened. And he left when he did not become deputy director of homeland security, some several months later," she said.

Rice noted that the world changed after 9/11.

"I would make the divide Sept. 11, 2001, when the attack on this country mobilized us to fight the war on terror in a very different way," Rice said.

Rice cited the final 9/11 commission report to substantiate her claims, while Clinton relied on Clarke's book as the basis for many of his rehashing the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I think this is not a very fruitful discussion. We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said," she added.

Transitioning to the global war on terror, an animated Rice questioned, "When are we going to stop blaming ourselves for the rise of terrorism?"

Asked about recently leaked internal U.S. intelligence estimates that claimed the Iraq war was fueling terrorist recruiting, Rice said: "Now that we're fighting back, of course they are fighting back, too."

"I find it just extraordinary that the argument is, all right, so they're using the fact they're being challenged in the Middle East and challenged in Iraq to recruit, therefore you've made the war on terrorism worse.

"It's as if we were in a good place on Sept. 11. Clearly, we weren't," she added.

"These are people who want to fight against us, and they're going to find a reason. And yes, they will recruit, but it doesn't mean you stop pursuing strategies that are ultimately going to stop them," Rice said.

She insisted U.S. forces must finish the job in Iraq and the wider Middle East to wipe out the "root cause" of violent extremism - not just the terror thugs who carry out the attacks.

"It's a longer-term strategy, and it may even have some short-term down side, but if you don't look at the longer term, you're just leaving the problem to somebody else," she said.

She also said Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have a "major educational reform" effort under way to root out propaganda literature and extremist brainwashing.

In Latin America, home to outrageous Venezuelan bomb thrower Hugo Chavez, Rice said the U.S. approach is to "spend as little time possible in talking about Chavez and more time talking about our positive agenda in Latin America," including several trade agreements.

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That's Nero for you.

When are they going to stop blaming each other and do the job they're paid to do? I mean we go back and forth here, I can just imagine what goes on in DC. It's high time someone steps up and does their job instead of letting the media spin the inadequacies. If our government just had a 50% improvement in efficiency that would solve much of what ails this country, and the globe for that matter. Regardless of party affiliation, this should anger every voter to the point of voting out the entire bunch.

Powell/Obama 2008

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When are they going to stop blaming each other and do the job they're paid to do? I mean we go back and forth here, I can just imagine what goes on in DC. It's high time someone steps up and does their job instead of letting the media spin the inadequacies. If our government just had a 50% improvement in efficiency that would solve much of what ails this country, and the globe for that matter. Regardless of party affiliation, this should anger every voter to the point of voting out the entire bunch.

That's what politics has degenerated to... a whizzing contest between a bunch of men in their mid life crisis or older that have eaten off silver platters their whole lives. Its not about the people because they can't relate to and don't care about the people. Its who can overblow their own ego by tearing down a memeber of the opposing (or same, if your a trans-party politician... ahem.. MCCAIN) party all while getting an absurd salary and continuing to vote for pay increases.

50%? Heck, 10% would be a vast improvement. They need to keep better financial records for one. The education department alone loses, what, somethling like 10B a year? That translates to $100 a student (assuming 100M students... could be more, could be less). Do you know what teachers could do with that kind of money? Term limits would be the next MAJOR step. 2-3 terms, and you're out. There's a reason the president can only hold office for so long. Why is there a double standard when it comes to other corrupt politicians?

Thanks, my blood pressure is now up.

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Anyone who thinks Rice is a straight shooter needs a brain transplant.

"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.

List what you did. Nothing. Did they avenge the Cole? Even mention OBL or Al Qaeda? They ended the Able Danger program. On 9/11, Condi had a speech planned on the greatest threat we faced. Guess whom it did not mention? It talked about missile defense. Not surprising, since she was Cold War expert who knew little about the Middle East.

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And the defense of the Clinton administration begins right on cue.

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Anyone who thinks Rice is a straight shooter needs a brain transplant.

"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.

List what you did. Nothing. Did they avenge the Cole? Even mention OBL or Al Qaeda? They ended the Able Danger program. On 9/11, Condi had a speech planned on the greatest threat we faced. Guess whom it did not mention? It talked about missile defense. Not surprising, since she was Cold War expert who knew little about the Middle East.

As long as it isn't one of those "Abby Normal" brains, I'll take a brain transplant then. Rice couldn't be any more direct and on target when she says:

Transitioning to the global war on terror, an animated Rice questioned, "When are we going to stop blaming ourselves for the rise of terrorism?"

Asked about recently leaked internal U.S. intelligence estimates that claimed the Iraq war was fueling terrorist recruiting, Rice said: "Now that we're fighting back, of course they are fighting back, too."

"I find it just extraordinary that the argument is, all right, so they're using the fact they're being challenged in the Middle East and challenged in Iraq to recruit, therefore you've made the war on terrorism worse.

"It's as if we were in a good place on Sept. 11. Clearly, we weren't," she added.

"These are people who want to fight against us, and they're going to find a reason. And yes, they will recruit, but it doesn't mean you stop pursuing strategies that are ultimately going to stop them," Rice said.

She insisted U.S. forces must finish the job in Iraq and the wider Middle East to wipe out the "root cause" of violent extremism - not just the terror thugs who carry out the attacks.

"It's a longer-term strategy, and it may even have some short-term down side, but if you don't look at the longer term, you're just leaving the problem to somebody else," she said.

Re her missile defense speech: she was so much more prescient to anticipate the need for missile defense than any idiot liberal and of course, she was right on that too. The need to fund research & development in missile defense has to be done before the threat becomes an actuality. R&D takes time. It's akin to repairing the roof in bright sunshine before the rains come. Geez, this is so basic I can't believe it even needs to be said. Who's really in need of a brain transplant here?

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With Clinton giving away W-88 Technology to the Chinese and the n Koreans getting nuke weapons during the "Ignore everything but my blowjob" President, Yeah, I say she was VERY right to worry about Nuke missile weapons. They are still more important than al Qaeda since they have hit on US soil since 9-11.

tex, even in Lib Math 1M dead>3k dead.