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Condi Contradicting History?

Condi Contradicting History?

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#0Condi Contradicting History?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 2:59pm

I am now wondering of Clinton's "meltdown" was actually something designed to catch the Bush Administration in its own over-reaction?

From Raw Story:

"A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned.

"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. "Big pieces were missing," Rice added, "like an approach to Pakistan that might work, because without Pakistan you weren't going to get Afghanistan."

Rice made the comments in response to claims made Sunday by former President Bill Clinton, who argued that his administration had done more than the current one to address the al Qaeda problem before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She stopped short of calling the former president a liar.

However, RAW STORY has found that just five days after President George W. Bush was sworn into office, a memo from counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke to Rice included the 2000 document, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." This document devotes over 2 of its 13 pages of material to specifically addressing strategies for securing Pakistan's cooperation in airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Pakistan obstacle

The strategy document includes "three levers" that the United States had started applying to Pakistan as far back as 1990. Sanctions, political and economic methods of persuasion are all offered as having been somewhat successful.

Other portions of the passages relating to Pakistan – marked as "operational details" – have been redacted from the declassified memo at the CIA's request.

The document also explores broader strategic approaches, such as a "need to keep in mind that Pakistan has been most willing to cooperate with us on terrorism when its role is invisible or at least plausibly deniable to the powerful Islamist right wing."

But Clarke also made it clear that the Clinton Administration recognized the problem that Pakistan posed in mounting a more sweeping campaign against bin Laden: "Overt action against bin Laden, who is a hero especially in the Pushtun-ethnic border areas near Afghanistan," Clarke speculated in late 2000, "would be so unpopular as to threaten Musharraf's government." The plan notes that, after the attack on the USS Cole, Pakistan had forbidden the United States from again violating its airspace to attack bin Laden in Afghanistan.

The memo sent by Clarke to Rice, to which the Clinton-era document was attached, also urges action on Pakistan relating to al Qaeda. "First [to be addressed,]" wrote Clarke in a list of pending issues relating to al Qaeda, is "what the administration says to the Taliban and Pakistan about ending al Qida sanctuary in Afghanistan. We are separately proposing early, strong messages on both."



Hmmmm

FindingNamo
#1re: Condi Contradicting History?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:08pm

But Condi, what have you done for us late-ly?


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bwaysinger
#2re: Condi Contradicting History?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:09pm

Well, namo, she's been REALLY busy trying to deflect rumors of lesbianism and sleeping with the prez by courting that hot Canadian minister dude. That's, like, a full-time job.

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#3re: Condi Contradicting History?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:09pm

She plays a mean piano.

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doodlenyc
#4re: Condi Contradicting History?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:12pm

doesnt she like to shoe shop while people are drowning in sewage in her spare time, too?

and the theatre...she loves the theatre.


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papalovesmambo
#5condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:14pm

the fact that she works out to zeppelin cancels out all the bad. i mean c'mon, blowing out your lats to black dog? feeling the burn in your gluts as plant wails celebration day? sorry. it's the zep, dude.


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he was the gimmicky sort

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FindingNamo
#6condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:16pm

I bet she only uses Stairway to Heaven. Can't you hear her praising the warm up and cool down segments?


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#7condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:18pm

You can do an entire workout to Stairway to Heaven - it's perfect. Warmup, rockin' cardio, and cooldown.

All right there in one song.


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jimnysf
#8condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:18pm

She's a liar, just like her boss. I don't believe a word either of them say. They are both disgraceful!


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FindingNamo
#9condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:28pm

That's what I'm saying. She doesn't work out to Led Zep catalogue, just The Hit. Until I see her doing step aerobics to Misty Mountain Hop and spinning to D'yer Maker, I'm not gonna give her props. And When the Levee Breaks is probably too hurtful for her to listen to at this point.


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#10condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:32pm

"Until I see her doing step aerobics to Misty Mountain Hop and spinning to D'yer Maker,"

My eyes!! My EYES!!!!


Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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#11condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:34pm

no way, she's totally early zep. decline press to i can't quit you, baby, pullovers to heartbreaker/living loving maid, curls to you shook me, squatting to hats off to (roy) harper.


r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

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JohnBoy2
#12condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:36pm

What's RAW STORY? Sounds like a Geraldo show.

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Rathnait62
#13condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:36pm

You just had to say "squatting," didn't you.


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PalJoey
#14condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:48pm

I don't care who she works out to, she's still a liar.


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South Fl Marc
#15condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:00pm

Why should it come as a surprise that she lied? The entire administration has done nothing but lie to the American people for 6 years.

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lildogs
#16condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:07pm

I can't imagine Condi grooving to anything but Mitch Miller...

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Rathnait62
#17condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:08pm

...or Kenny G.


Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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doodlenyc
#18condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:13pm

She thinks she's cool cause she listens to RENT.

but she listens to the original cast recording and calls it a soundtrack.


"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

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#19condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:14pm

Total LOOOOSAH.


Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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lildogs
#20condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:15pm

doods, we got plenty of folks right here on the BWW who do that...

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Rathnait62
#21condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:17pm

She thinks Megan Mullally started out on TV.


Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

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doodlenyc
#22condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:17pm

I know it, lil...she just seems like the type, tho, no?


"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

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lildogs
#23condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:21pm

I find it very hard to respect a black female Republican--it's like a gay Jewish nazi...

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doodlenyc
#24condi contradicting history?
Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:23pm

a gay...polish...female...impersonator.


"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS


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