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Originally posted by Iron Steve
On the first point, just as he did not need a popular referendum to do his job on national defense, he did not Congressional support.
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I don't think he could have invaded Afghanistan without some Republican support, much as Bush got support and authorization from Congress before he invaded. You guys bitched and bitched about the launching of a few cruise missiles -- you weren't about to let foreign policy distract anyone from the whole blowjob thing.
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On three, if Clarke was so fucking great, why didn't he help Clinton solve the problem? Didn't the 911 plot start during Clinton's watch and wasn't Clarke part of that team too?
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Read his book. The problem is Islamic fundamentalism. And I didn't say he was fucking great, but he was the nation's top counterterrorism official under both Clinton and Bush, so if Bush had been interested in doing something to protect the country from Al Qaeda, listening to Clarke would have been the logical place to start.
