Tuesday, March 23, 2004
"Delusional aides fail to see Bush's genius"
A nifty column from Richard Cohen.
That's the part that makes my head explode—Condi Rice thinks The Clenis™ did a good job in the WOT.
I wish these guys could get their stories straight; it's embarrassing when they don't, and bad for the credibility of the country.
Pity poor George Bush. For some reason, he has been beset by delusional aides who, once they leave the White House, write books containing lies, exaggerations and -- this is the lowest blow of all -- do not take into account the president's genius and all-around wisdom. The latest White House aide to betray the president is Richard Clarke, who was in charge of counterterrorism before and after the attacks of 9/11. He says Bush ``failed to act prior to September 11 on the threat from Al-Qaida.''
As with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, another fool who had somehow risen to become chairman of Alcoa, Clarke's account of his more than two years in the Bush White House was immediately denounced by a host of administration aides, some of whom -- and this is just the sheerest of coincidences -- had once assured us that Iraq was armed to the teeth with nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Among them was Condoleezza Rice, who insists in a commentary on this page that Bush not only did everything just right, but so, really, did Bill Clinton.
(via the San Francisco Chronicle)
That's the part that makes my head explode—Condi Rice thinks The Clenis™ did a good job in the WOT.
I wish these guys could get their stories straight; it's embarrassing when they don't, and bad for the credibility of the country.
