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"Tom Kunich" <
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> So despite the fact that Condoleesa Rice's talk, the recording of which has
> been widely played on radio and television, you are willing to tell us that
> she is lying, and I am making it up and not some guy who stands to make
> about a million dollars on his book if he can generate enough sales through
> controversy?
Tom, if this speech was so widely played, then why do I find it so hard
to get a reference to it? Perhaps you'd be kind enough to direct me towards
one - I am interested. Really. Because what I recall and what seems to
consistently come up in searches is that the public record shows that
between January 1, 2001 and September 10, 2001, Rice made no references to
al Qaeda, and that her mentions of terrorism in speeches were limited to
talk that focused on state-run terror. Not freelance terrorists like bin
Laden. In the time leading up to her selection as NSA, her talks and
writing seemed to focus on her area of expertise, which is Cold War related.
By the way, did you know that she was to give a talk on September 11,
2001? No mention of terrorism in that one - it was to be another try at
selling the missile defence system.
> And although General Powell makes absolutely nothing out of lying about his
> knowledge of the plans concerning Iraq, and the fact that he is a man of
> extremely high morals and ethics, you believe that some clown who has lied
> in the past about his information sources is more creditable than Colin
> Powell speaking on TV all day yesterday.
Powell is doing what he considers to be his duty, Tom. If you remember,
he was always reluctant to go on with Iraq when he considered Afghanistan
to be only partially done. He has said in the media in this last week that
he only recalls having two conversations with Bob Woodward, but Woodward
has tapes of six interviews with him, and phone logs to back it up. Anyway,
it appears that it wasn't so much Powell being "out of the loop" by his own
doing - he was LEFT out of the loop because Bush had decided to go into
Iraq long before he was done with the public attempts at "diplomacy". And
Bush went to Cheney, Rummy and Rice to get the ball rolling on that plan
first because they wanted to do it, too, unlike Powell.
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tanx,
Howard
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