Rice Praises Clarke for Defeating al Qaeda
(2004-03-28) — National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice today praised former counter-terrorism coordinator Richard A. Clarke for “leading the Clinton administration to crush al Qaeda before it had a chance to strike us again on our own soil.”
“After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, Dick Clarke took decisive action as President Clinton’s trusted counter-terror chief,” said Ms. Rice. “His detailed knowledge of al Qaeda spurred the lightning attacks that destroyed Usama bin Laden’s Afghan training facilities and led to the arrest, conviction and execution of the man who was perhaps the greatest threat to the free world. One shudders to think what might have happened without Dick Clarke’s resolute leadership.”
Ms. Rice said she would lobby “to get Mr. Clarke nominated for a Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize to go with the Pulitzer he will certainly win for his new book outlining how he protected Americans from terror attacks.”
I say, let ‘em crash.
First there was Mark Steyn’s “Airplane” reference, and now Scott Ott of ScrappleFace is keeping our TJLOL: “After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, Dick Clarke took decisive
Trackback by sisu — March 28, 2004 @ 9:13 am
Funny Business
Sometimes we get asked - what’s funny on the internet? Well, Joelle over at Tenth Muse has attitude. In Pink. And sometimes blue. And if you liked Slackers, then Cafe Etiquette is for you. And then, proving that there is…
Trackback by BOPnews — March 28, 2004 @ 9:10 pm
Carnival of the Cutups
A little over a week ago, we warned our readers: The fact-twisters are coming soon to a TV screen near you. Keeping our remotes handy, we tuned in and tried to determine which was the real Richard Clarke? The
Trackback by sisu — March 30, 2004 @ 10:26 pm