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Kid Berwyn

(22,026 posts)
8. I dunno. I still like Democracy.
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 10:40 AM
Dec 2023

Something else I know is I don't like America getting lied into war by the organ grinder Dick Cheney.

What National Security counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke said, in regards to Sneer's monkey, George W Bush:

"Basically, the president botched the response to 9/11. He should have gone right after Afghanistan, right after bin Laden. And then he made the whole war on terrorism so much worse by invading Iraq," he told ABC's "Good Morning America."

"I think we could have had a good chance to get bin Laden, to get the leadership and wipe the whole organization out if we had gone in immediately and gone after him."

Instead, Clarke said, Bush has "inflamed the Arab world and created a whole new generation of al Qaeda terrorists."

He added, "U.S. soldiers went to their deaths in Iraq thinking that they were avenging 9/11 when Iraq had nothing do with it."

In a meeting on September 12, 2001, "The president, in a very intimidating way, left us, me and my staff, with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11 because they had been planning to do something about Iraq from before the time they came into office," Clarke said.


Source: https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/22/bush.clarke/




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