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| Dom... |
 Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 3:20 am |
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Recently, I read Cherie Blair's, "Speaking for Myself: My Life from
Liverpool to Downing Street," Little Brown & Co. (2008). She makes
some fascinating revelations about her relationship with some British
royals, the Clintons and the Bushes.
On pp 251-252 she writes that, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attack:
"I remembered the conversation I'd had with President Bush, when he
and Laura had stayed at Chequers the previous spring. [...] George had
been talking about the Star Wars missile defense system, initiated by
President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and how he saw that as the
ultimate shield. But I had grown up under the shadow of IRA
terrorism.'Surely,' I'd said, 'the real danger is not from Russia or
any other country sending bombs, but from individual people in a
terrorist attack?' George had looked bemused at the suggestion.
Americans had no sense that such a thing could ever happen to them,
and that’s what made September 11 so shocking."
The revival of Star Wars was indeed the top priority of W’s
administration.
Richard A. Clarke, a ten-year White House counterterrorism official,
in his book “Against All Enemies,” revealed the negligent lack of
interest on the part of W and others (and especially of clueless
Condoleezza Rice) with respect to the threat posed by Islamic
extremists--even after the 6 August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief
(PDB), "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike Inside U.S.": "Al-Qa'ida
members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or
traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a
support structure that could aid attacks… FBI information since that
time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country
consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks,
including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf |
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