{"id":3189,"date":"2009-06-06T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2009-06-06T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T19:58:46","slug":"past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/06\/past\/","title":{"rendered":"At long last, have you left no sense of decency?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/01\/cheney-blames-clarke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9\/11: &#8216;He Missed It&#8217; <\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>ThinkProgress<\/strong><br \/>08\/06\/2009<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>&#8230;Speaking at the National Press Club today, Cheney struck back at Clarke. When asked about Clarke&#8217;s argument, Cheney &#8212; once again &#8212; invoked the &#8220;burning ashes&#8221; of 9\/11 and the victims who leaped to their deaths from the World Trade Center. Then, quite succinctly, Cheney pinned the entire blame for 9\/11 on Clarke: <\/div>\n<ul>\n<div>CHENEY: <strong>You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counterrorism program in the run-up to 9\/11. He obviously missed it.<\/strong> The fact is that we did what we felt we had to do, and if I had to do it all over again, I would do exactly the same thing.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Watch it: <center><object width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qOA5N8AZ-nU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qOA5N8AZ-nU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation,&#8221; reprinted some of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/03\/07\/david-kay-condi-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Clarke&#8217;s emphatic e-mails warning<\/strong><\/a> the Bush administration of the al Qaeda threat throughout 2001: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (05\/03)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terrorist Groups Said Co-operating on US Hostage Plot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (05\/23)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bin Ladin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Networks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Plans Advancing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (05\/26)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (06\/23)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (06\/25)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (06\/30)<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (07\/02)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Similarly, Time Magazine reported in 2002 that Clarke had an extensive plan to &#8220;roll back&#8221; al Qaeda &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101020812\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a plan that languished for months<\/strong><\/a>, ignored by senior Bush officials:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div>Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice. &#8230; In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, &#8220;Response to al Qaeda: Roll back.&#8221; &#8230; <strong>The proposals Clarke developed in the winter of 2000-01 were not given another hearing by top decision makers until late April<\/strong>, and then spent another four months making their laborious way through the bureaucracy before they were readied for approval by President Bush.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Cheney needs to check his &#8220;recollections&#8221; before blaming former employees for the single most devastating attack in American history.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"168\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/clarke_bust.jpg\" \/>Cheney&#8217;s sarcastic and contemptuous comments about <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Richard Clarke<\/strong><\/font> were way over the top &#8211; &quot;He missed it&quot; and &quot;I haven&#8217;t read his book&quot; [hardy-har-har]. Jon Stewart took him to task, but there wasn&#8217;t so much coverage otherwise. It&#8217;s reminiscent of his response to Joseph Wilson [funny how people&#8217;s patterns repeat] &#8211; a massive over-reaction that will haunt Cheney for some time to come. He already has one recent gaffe under his belt [Colin Powell not being a Republican]. But this one&#8217;s worse, and so easily refuted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historycommons.org\/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&#038;complete_911_timeline_key_events=complete_911_timeline_key_warnings\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>public record<\/strong><\/a>. There may come a day when Richard Clarke&#8217;s bust will be in the 9\/11 museum or the Smithsonian &#8211; not only for his numerous warnings about 9\/11, but for his heroism in directing things on that day while Dick Cheney was cowering in a bunker&nbsp; developing PTSD and George W. Bush was reading a story to children about goats, looking like a scared rabbit. Richard Clarke is a national hero, not an object of derision for Cheney&#8217;s sadistic pleasure. The show Cheney puts on in this video is enough already. In a quote from our history:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>&quot;Until this moment,&quot; &#8230; &quot;I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. &#8230; Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. &#8230; It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think that I am a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. &#8230; Let us not assassinate this lad further, &#8230; You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?&quot;<\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"><em><strong>Joseph N. Welch<\/strong>, the Joseph McCarthy Hearings 1954<\/em><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">It is time to put a stop to Mr.Cheney. Passed time&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9\/11: &#8216;He Missed It&#8217; ThinkProgress08\/06\/2009 &#8230;Speaking at the National Press Club today, Cheney struck back at Clarke. When asked about Clarke&#8217;s argument, Cheney &#8212; once again &#8212; invoked the &#8220;burning ashes&#8221; of 9\/11 and the victims who leaped to their deaths from the World Trade Center. 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