03-23-2004, 02:03 PM
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Oh, and he got his meeting:
- Clarke finally got his meeting about al-Qaeda in April, three months after his urgent request. But it wasn't with the president or cabinet. It was with the second in command in each relevant department.
For the Pentagon, it was Paul Wolfowitz.
Clarke relates, "I began saying, 'We have to deal with [Osama] bin Laden; we have to deal with al-Qaeda.' Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, said, 'No, no, no. We don't have to deal with al-Qaeda. Why are we talking about that little guy? We have to talk about Iraqi terrorism against the United States.'"
(link to Yglesias article quoting CBS)
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And this is the same Wolfowitz who shows up to the immediate post 9/11 Camp David meetings with his business case on why the U.S. should attack Iraq in response?
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