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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
When flinging less funny one liners back at Hank I usually don't expect to have to find citations, but since you ask:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....html#rumsfeld

I just don't agree that the failure to respond to the Cole can solely be laid at Clinton's feet. If it was so clear that we needed to strike back, why did the subsequent admin "form a commission" and "implement recommendations" instead of pulling out the hammer? Unless it was a Dukakis admin, in which I think such a response would be quite standard.

At any rate, to engage in this commission/recommendation process and then say that "well, now it's too late to strike back" is about as disingenuous as you can get. And this isn't just my usual allergic reaction to Rummy, whom I've started to like more when I've seen him interviewed over the past several months...

Again, I'm not saying it's totally the Bushes problem either. I'm saying there were a lot of failures to go around, including to Mr. Clarke. The "Clinton ignored the Cole" stuff just strikes a chord with me lately, because many folks seem to think that happened in 1997 or something. No one here, of course.

The quote you cited doesn't exactly have the spin you put on it, but point taken.