RUMMY Impeded & RICE Ignored bin Laden & Terror Fight In 2001

[kpete]

Rumsfeld impeded and Rice ignored terror fight in 2001
by Joe in DC - 9/29/2006 08:28:00 AM

The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29account.html?hp&ex=1159588800&en=3862efd9e06a71e9&ei=5094&partner=homepage got an advanced copy of Woodward's new book, "State of Denial." The book contains a number of bombshells about the failures of the Bush administration. It's as bad, if not worse, than we all thought:

The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author. The book describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.

There is also confirmation that the Bush administration failed to deal with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda back in 2001:
Mr. Woodward writes that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Tenet believed that Mr. Rumsfeld was impeding the effort to develop a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Mr. Rumsfeld questioned the electronic signals from terrorism suspects that the National Security Agency had been intercepting, wondering whether they might be part of an elaborate deception plan by Al Qaeda.

On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously.

Condi cried crocodile tears after Clinton smacked the Bush team for failing to deal with Bin Laden. Woodward confirms that Clinton was right.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/rumsfeld-impeded-and-rice-ignored.html

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1. cpan. WJ is talking of this book now. interesting

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2. asked if Bush really cares if this book comes out. Quest says no-or they

would have done better at preventing the book from coming out now

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3. call from River Falls, WI----people not thinking critically and this book

will help.

[acmavm]

5. Why should he? He can do anything he wants without any

fear of repercussion.

Yesterday was proof.

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9. yup, and congress will rubber stamp it (most of it)

[babylonsister]

4. While I don't trust Woodward, I do admire his timing. nt

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12. or the publisher?---it will make some good $$

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13. geesh, another caller yelling at guest cause this time guest did not use

"president' before saying Kennedy---said she was biased. 'she did it again'

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6. they said something about an embargo on the book until 60 Minute show

but.......

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8. a caller is lecturing the Guest cause she does not call bush PRESIDENT

but she calls clinton PResident.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. They knew an attack was coming

and they were doing everything they could to help it happen.

On the morning of 9-11 the Top Civilian Leaders of the United States deliberately allowed the terrorists to attack the US.

They are cold blooded murderers and traitors.

[tanyev]

10. Interesting that Tenet believed Rummy was impeding their efforts.

I believe that if there is any LIHOP or MIHOP that Cheney and Rummy are the nexus.

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11. yes, cheney and rummy are two peas in a pod

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14. Rummy was hostile toward Condi it says-Bush tells Rummy to return her

calls.

..... Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld is described as disengaged from the nuts-and-bolts of occupying and reconstructing Iraq — a task that was initially supposed to be under the direction of the Pentagon — and so hostile toward Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, that President Bush had to tell him to return her phone calls. The American commander for the Middle East, Gen. John P. Abizaid, is reported to have told visitors to his headquarters in Qatar in the fall of 2005 that “Rumsfeld doesn’t have any credibility anymore” to make a public case for the American strategy for victory in Iraq.

The book, bought by a reporter for The New York Times at retail price in advance of its official release, is the third that Mr. Woodward has written chronicling the inner debates in the White House after the Sept. 11 attacks, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the subsequent decision to invade Iraq. Like Mr. Woodward’s previous works, the book includes lengthy verbatim quotations from conversations and describes what senior officials are thinking at various times, without identifying the sources for the information.

[Captain Hilts]

15. They wanted to re-fight the Cold War. They were too statist. nt

[Supersedeas]

16. Nothing to see here--did you hear that Don Ho got a new pacemaker

the Corp Media will bury this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Oh, I get it. NOW that they have immunity we can hammer them.

[DeepModem Mom]

18. K&R

[bananas]

19. k&r nt