"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Jim wrote:

Shooting the messenger
Conservatives should hail former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke,
but instead they're smearing him.

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By James Pinkerton



March 29, 2004 | Conservatives, ever suspicious of Big Government,
should love a whistle-blower -- unless, of course, he's former
counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke. The Washington Times calls Clarke
"a political chameleon who is starved for attention after years of
toiling anonymously in government bureaucracies." For neoconservative
columnist Charles Krauthammer, Clarke is "a liar" and "not just a
perjurer but a partisan perjurer." According to Ann Coulter, Clarke is a
racist. Exiting the known world and entering into her own fantasyland,
Coulter depicts Clarke musing about Condoleezza Rice: "the black chick
is a dummy," whom Bush promoted from "cleaning the Old Executive Office
Building at night."

This ad hominem defamation is obviously intended to discredit the man in
order to discredit his argument. But such low tactics aren't usually
attempted against a man whose allegations are corroborated by others,
including the implicated parties -- and, most palpably, by events
themselves.


Calling Coulter a whore does a disservice to honest whores everywhere.

It has been an astonishing week, watching the Bush-****ters squirm in
every direction to avoid two truths that seem to be more apparent every
day:

* the Bush-****ters were asleep at the wheel regarding al Qaeda prior to
9-11, and,

* the Bush II war against Iraq is a sham.

Considering that the head Bush-****ter, Dubya himself, has nothing in
his record as POTUS to earn election, the "wartime president" model
might have fooled many voters, but I suspect their numbers are
decreasing every day.

What's the biggest fear of the Bush-****ters? That in the next few
months, several more highly placed administration officials will come
out of the closet and tell the truth about Bush and his failures.

You mean *formerly* highly placed officials". None of the officials
criticize Bush until they've been fired or demoted. By then, it's just sour
grapes.