MAUREEN DOWD: History as an Alibi

[kevinmc]

WASHINGTON

On Friday, Condi Rice played hooky and spent the afternoon at the Tiger Woods golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in suburban Maryland.

She had lunch at the clubhouse with Tiger, who had dedicated the contest to American servicemen. She followed Phil Mickelson and Brad Faxon for a bit, after having them over to the White House on the Fourth to watch the fireworks. She gave interviews about her newfound affection for golf, laughing about her errant drives and “wicked hook.”

Like W. going out boating and fishing in Kennebunkport as Britain and its new prime minister, Gordon Brown, reeled from terrorist attacks, Condi acted as if she didn’t have a care in the world. And why on earth should she?

The homeland security chief, Michael Chertoff, has a gut feeling that a Qaeda cell might be coming or already be here. “Summertime seems to be appealing to them,” he said, sounding more like a meteorologist than the man charged with keeping us safe.

With 30 mortars hitting the Green Zone yesterday and Army recruiting wilting, some Bush advisers are at long last coming around to the Baker-Hamilton report recommendation that they should engage in intense diplomacy with the countries around Iraq........

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/maureen-dowd-history-as-alibi.html

[fencesitter]

1. Well, she's sorta right on this point....

"W. thinks history will be his alibi. When presidents have screwed up and want to console themselves, they think history will give them a second chance. It’s the historical equivalent of a presidential pardon."

Whoever thought we'd be thinking "Hey Nixon wasn't so bad, he forged relations with China, gave us the EPA"...at the time we thought nobody could be worse.

[Felix Mala]

2. But... But... But... The Baker/Hamiton commission was filled with

a bunch of has-beens, wannabees and never-weres... Their thinking was soooooo September 10th.... /...

Don't Bush, Cheney or Rice have any more answers? I think they should come clean and tell the American public they were in way over their heads before they rely on Baker/Hamilton to bail them out.

[yurbud]

3. is somebody keeping a list of the republicans threatening terrorist attacks in the next year?

and why they can't stop them?

The FBI had an informant who lived with two of th 9/11 hijackers.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/11/ar911.hijackers.landlord




We managed to find out about the Millennium bomber and stop him.



They had an informant who supplied bomb-making materials to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
http://mysite.verizon.net/myk15/wtc93.html




Even the ITALIANS way back in the 70s had infiltrated the Red Brigade swept in and arrest their leaders when they started to discuss kidnapping a public official they disapproved of (and re-directed their efforts to kidnap and kill the prime minister).



http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/07/bbc-video-on-false-flag-terror-intel.html


All that was pre-NSA blanket wiretaps, pre-Gitmo, pre-random round up or harassment of Muslims.