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  The outrage over the Clarke book is right behind the outrage for the book Karen Hughes is now selling on every news program she can get her back side on.

  Bush supporters deserve to support anyone they want. They should be careful about who they put down for there might be one of their own doing the same thing the next day.

  Bush people rarely think about the other people of the country, they think they are always RIGHT.

  GovExec.com reader Posted April 5, 2004 7:47 AM
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  Richard Clarke is a patriot. I've read the book and have a little understanding of the situation we're dealing with. I am amazed that people take what's in that book as a contradition of the Shrub's manhood or something. I don't.

  If we are at war why don't we invoke the article in the constitution and declare war? The fact is our greatest assets are dying for a blind man leading a bunch of deaf surrogates. These people don't have a clue about what it takes to give a foreign culture hope for the future. And by Shrub it's not as simple as go in kill them all and let God sort it out.

  The simple fact of disagreeing with this administration is not treason. If we begin to believe that then we are heading down the road to fascism. We have to sort out the mess that this man and his deaf and dumb policy makers got us in. I think the first step is retirement and the talk circuit. The second step is turning the travesty into really breaking up these cells and giving people hope so that they don't really care to join them.

  Clarke gave his opinion on how to do that. You can agree or disagree with his opinion but it's not treason. It's democracy in action.

  Au Contrair Posted April 3, 2004 7:54 AM
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  What shocks most me most is not the atrocity of 9/11. The mastermind behind the attack was a former US ally, and the CIA was obviously not willing (or able) to stop him.

  Michael Krebs Posted April 2, 2004 10:38 AM
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  With Richard Clarke's testimony, it's finally become clear how George W. Bush could have sat in that Florida classroom reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" long after being told that hijacked airliners were slamming into the World Trade Center. These swaggering, tough-talking neocons may have been on The Wall that fateful morning. But they were so intent on dismantling Bill Clinton's legacy, and so cock-sure they knew it all when it came to "grown-up" foreign policy, that they were all - except for a precious few like Richard Clarke - looking in exactly the wrong direction.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 25, 2004 4:55 PM
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  The testimony by Richard Clarke has been completely contradicted and discredited in the statement released from the background meeting with several media members present in regards to the Bush administration's efforts against terror and their 'exponential' request for terror funding in the budget in contrast to the previous Administration. This and the fact we have a political 'witch hunt' by this 'kangaroo court' that is investigating the 'War on Terror' while we are STILL AT WAR! We wouldn't have dreamed of such politicizing of an event such as this magnitude had it been close on the heals of Pearl Harbor's attack. Those investigations took place 'following' the end of WWII so we wouldn't undermine our resolve, nor further put those lives in the service of our nation at risk.

  So where is the outrage over Richard Clarke's 'money book' on the backs of the 9/11 victims, or his admitted failures to the nation on 'his watch?' Silence is the only thing so far that comes to mind by the supposed 'mainstream media' that pretend to be 'fair and balanced'.

  Clarke's book should either be pulled, put in the fiction section, or he should be brought up on perjury charges.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 25, 2004 1:24 PM
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  Don't tell me there isn't some kind of Crisis Action Team (CAT) in place! Seems to me if any one agency knows something, they ought to be calling this team together and making sure everyone else knows, too. Sure doesn't sound like this happened anytime in 2000-2001. By the way, don't forget to include the DoD on this team ... and don't forget to put a strong leader in charge ... we don't need everyone running around with their hair on fire and not a clue as to what to do.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 25, 2004 11:33 AM
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  I'm just sick of hearing all of these top officials blaming each other. What happened on 9/11 was and is a national tragedy and we cannot undo it. Why on earth are we wasting time and money on hearings? Make our world a safer place and stop pointing fingers.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 25, 2004 9:46 AM
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  Have always been curious as to whether or not the Baltimore tunnel fire was an act of terrorism. The fire occured on July 18, 2001. Mr. Bush suddenly went to Crawford Texas for a month long vacation in the month of August 2001. September 11, 2001 is now history.

  M. D. Anderson Posted March 24, 2004 11:55 PM