Dubya, the president who squandered a record surplus in record time and then plunged us into a record deficit, has the balls to say that Kerry will raise taxes.
What other choice will he have after he’s left to pick up the pieces left behind by this administration?
Meanwhile, he claims that Kerry would not be effective on the “war against terrorism.”
Well, a book by Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism coodinator, goes on sale tomorrow, and we’ll see what he thinks of the Bush administration’s terrorism work:
Bush and his Cabinet were preoccupied during the early months of his presidency with some of the same Cold War issues that his father’s administration had faced.
“It was as though they were preserved in amber from when they left office eight years earlier,” Clarke told CBS for an interview tonight on “60 Minutes.”
… Clarke acknowledges that, “there’s a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too.” He said he wrote to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Jan. 24, 2001, asking “urgently” for a Cabinet-level meeting “to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack.” Months later, in April, Clarke met with departmental deputy secretaries, and the conversation turned to Iraq.
“I’m sure I’ll be criticized for lots of things, and I’m sure they’ll launch their dogs on me,” Clarke said. “But, frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for reelection on the grounds that he’s done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something.”
Anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that the Bush administration was preoccupied with Iraq from day one — and when the attacks of September 11 happened, it handed them just the excuse they needed to step up their Iraq planning. Still, they’ve done nothing at all to address the terrorist threat except invade other nations and curtail our liberties. When will they make real progress in stabilizing the middle east, starting with Israel? Nope — they want you to look at Iraq and ignore everything else.
Yikes.
