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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Like pulling teeth President Bush's decision Tuesday to allow his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to testify publicly before the commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks reversed earlier White House insistence that she would only appear privately. Some previous Bush reversals in the face of criticism: He argued a federal Department of Homeland Security wasn't needed, then devised a plan to create one. He resisted a commission to investigate Iraq intelligence failures, but then relented. He also initially opposed the creation of the independent commission to examine if the 2001 attacks could have been prevented, before getting behind the idea under pressure from victims' families. He opposed, and then supported, a two-month extension of the commission's work, after the panel said protracted disputes over access to White House documents left too little time. He at first said any access to the president by the commission would be limited to just one hour but relaxed the limit earlier this month. From CNN, no less. posted by chris at 3:27 PM   Scences of Somalia IRAQ - Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four American contractors through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. Horrific. That doesn't sound like progress to me. posted by chris at 3:16 PM   No humanity in politics President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time. Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene. Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" before the slaughter reached its peak. It took Hutu death squads three months from April 6 to murder an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and at each stage accurate, detailed reports were reaching Washington's top policymakers. The documents undermine claims by Mr Clinton and his senior officials that they did not fully appreciate the scale and speed of the killings. Story. posted by chris at 3:14 PM   New Kid on the Block A brand-spankin' new radio network hits the airwaves today. It's a progressive response to the deluge of conservative talk radio currently covering the airwaves. It's only on a few stations right now, but the more support it gets, the greater it can grow. If you're not in any of the cities where it's on the air, you can still listen via the streaming webcast. UPDATE: Here's the schedule. posted by chris at 10:56 AM   ------------------ Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Rice to testify The White House has decided to allow Condoleezza Rice to testify in public and under oath before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, an administration official said today, reversing its position that she was prevented from doing so by executive privilege. In addition, the official said, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will testify in private before all 10 commission members. They had previously said they would appear only before the chairman and co-chairman rather than the full commission. Story. posted by chris at 11:26 AM   ------------------ Monday, March 29, 2004 Cause CEOs are the most special people in the world! Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security, (brought to you by the Bush administration), is more concerned with making sure that the nation's Top 150 businessmen can continue to conduct business in the event of another terrorist attack than in supporting the nations First Responders. Firemen and policemen just don't have the kind of campaign contributions that this Administration is looking for. posted by chris at 1:18 PM   The deceptions get ahead of them The White House acknowledged Sunday that on the day after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush asked his top counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, to find out whether Iraq was involved. Mr. Bush wanted to know "did Iraq have anything to do with this? Were they complicit in it?" Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, recounted in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes." -clip- The conversation — which the White House suggested last week had never taken place — centers on perhaps the most volatile charge Mr. Clarke has made public in recent days: that the Bush White House became fixated on Iraq and Saddam Hussein at the expense of focusing on Al Qaeda. In his new book, "Against All Enemies," Mr. Clarke recounts that the president pulled him and several other aides into the White House Situation Room on the evening of Sept. 12, 2001, and instructed them "to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way." -clip- Last week, the White House said it had no record that Mr. Bush had even been in the Situation Room that day and said the president had no recollection of such a conversation. Wait a second . . . it's the day after the most horrific terrorist attack on American soil and the President WASN'T IN THE SITUATION ROOM THAT DAY???? What the hell was he doing?? Lounging around the White House?? Amazing how their excuses only make them look worse. posted by chris at 9:31 AM   ------------------

    

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