Condi Contradicting History?

[YouWantitWhen????]

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]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:08pm

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

[bwaysinger]

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.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:09pm

She plays a mean piano.

[doodlenyc]

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.

[papalovesmambo]

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.

[FindingNamo]

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?

[Rathnait62]

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.

[jimnysf]

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!

[FindingNamo]

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.

[Rathnait62]

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!!!!

[papalovesmambo]

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.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:36pm

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

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:36pm

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

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 3:48pm

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

[South Fl Marc]

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.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:07pm

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

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:08pm

...or Kenny G.

[doodlenyc]

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.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:14pm

Total LOOOOSAH.

[lildogs]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:15pm

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

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:17pm

She thinks Megan Mullally started out on TV.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:17pm

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

[lildogs]

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...

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 4:23pm

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