| 27th September 2006 11:50 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
The shit hits the fan on November 7. No since worrying until then............
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| 27th September 2006 12:07 PM |
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| rasputin56 |
KERREY: You've used the phrase a number of times, and I'm hoping with my question to disabuse you of using it in the future.
You said the president was tired of swatting flies.
KERREY: Can you tell me one example where the president swatted a fly when it came to al Qaeda prior to 9/11?
RICE: I think what the president was speaking to was...
KERREY: No, no. What fly had he swatted?
RICE: Well, the disruptions abroad was what he was really focusing on...
KERREY: No, no...
RICE: ... when the CIA would go after Abu Zubaydah...
KERREY: He hadn't swatted...
RICE: ... or go after this guy...
KERREY: Dr. Rice, we didn't...
RICE: That was what was meant.
KERREY: We only swatted a fly once on the 20th of August 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired?
RICE: We swatted at -- I think he felt that what the agency was doing was going after individual terrorists here and there, and that's what he meant by swatting flies. It was simply a figure of speech.
KERREY: Well, I think it's an unfortunate figure of speech because I think, especially after the attack on the Cole on the 12th of October, 2000, it would not have been swatting a fly. It would not have been -- we did not need to wait to get a strategic plan.
Dick Clarke had in his memo on the 20th of January overt military operations. He turned that memo around in 24 hours, Dr. Clarke. There were a lot of plans in place in the Clinton administration -- military plans in the Clinton administration.
In fact, since we're in the mood to declassify stuff, there was -- he included in his January 25 memo two appendices -- Appendix A: "Strategy for the elimination of the jihadist threat of al Qaeda," Appendix B: "Political military plan for al Qaeda."
So I just -- why didn't we respond to the Cole?
RICE: Well, we...
KERREY: Why didn't we swat that fly?
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| 27th September 2006 12:54 PM |
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| Maxlugar |
That was the most ridiculous exchange of the hearings. IT's obvious to anyone buy Kerrey that the U.S. WAS "swatting" at flies regarding terrorism and that Bush wanted a far reaching plan. Going after the '93 WTC bombers with the FBI and launching Cruise Missles into tents and baby milk factories and enforcing no fly zones in Iraq is a good example of swatting flies and if that turd gave Condi a friggin' minute to articulate her answer it would have been nice. |
| 27th September 2006 12:59 PM |
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| rasputin56 |
LOL, Maxy and Condi sittin' in a tree... |
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