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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Out of curiosity, what are these? A link to an article is sufficient, you don't need to mount the arguments yourself. I just haven't seen much besides the Scott McCllellan hemming and hawing and the Cheney "he was out of the loop" stuff.
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Concur. The sands have shifted quickly enough that I can't keep 'em straight without a scorecard, and the ones that I do remember aren't really challenges to "factual assertions" but the allegations of bias or inetptitutde.
As an aside, looks like Clarke gave an interview to that sissified liberal publication
Salon (click-through of annoying ad required). Clarke opines that the Administration is trying to bait him by ignoring the larger points that he's making -- and trying to drag him into the weeds on littler stuff. Nevertheless, he can't help himself. Some responses to the Administration attacks over the last day or two:
On McClellan's disingenuous statement that Clarke timed the book to come out on the Iraq war anniversary:
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I wanted the book to come out much earlier, but the White House has a policy of reviewing the text of all books written by former White House personnel -- to review them for security reasons. And they actually took a very long time to do that. This book could have come out much earlier. It's the White House that decided when it would be published, not me. I turned it in toward the end of last year, and even though there was nothing in it that was not already obviously unclassified, they took a very, very long time.
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On Cheney's assertion that Clarke wasn't "in the loop" on the War on Terror:
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I was in the same meetings that Dick Cheney was in, during the days after 9/11. Condi Rice and Dick Cheney appointed me as co-chairman of the interagency committee called the "Campaign Committee" -- the "campaign" being the war on terrorism. So I was co-chairing the interagency process to fight the war on terrorism after 9/11. I don't think I was "out of the loop."
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On Cheney's assertion that Clarke wasn't successful in fighting terror in the 90s:
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It's possible that the vice president has spent so little time studying the terrorist phenomenon that he doesn't know about the successes in the 1990s. There were many. The Clinton administration stopped Iraqi terrorism against the United States, through military intervention. It stopped Iranian terrorism against the United States, through covert action. It stopped the al-Qaida attempt to have a dominant influence in Bosnia. It stopped the terrorist attacks at the millennium. It stopped many other terrorist attacks, including on the U.S. embassy in Albania. And it began a lethal covert action program against al-Qaida; it also launched military strikes against al-Qaida. Maybe the vice president was so busy running Halliburton at the time that he didn't notice.
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