Memo directly contradicts Rice terrorism claim...
A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, RAW STORY has learned."We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. "Big pieces were missing," Rice added, "like an approach to Pakistan that might work, because without Pakistan you weren't going to get Afghanistan."
Rice made the comments in response to claims made Sunday by former President Bill Clinton, who argued that his administration had done more than the current one to address the al Qaeda problem before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She stopped short of calling the former president a liar.
However, RAW STORY has found that just five days after President George W. Bush was sworn into office, a memo from counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke to Rice included the 2000 document, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." This document devotes over 2 of its 13 pages of material to specifically addressing strategies for securing Pakistan's cooperation in airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan...
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Now we know that Rice is as big a liar as the other Bush cabinet members.
A lot of the time people in this administration say things like this I think it's more of a selective memory problem than an outright lie. Seriously, what kind of people would they have to be to lie as often as it seems like they do?
I can't believe she's lying. I think she may just make things up as she goes along, saying anything she has to say to win an argument. Wait -- that's lying. Oh, well, forget it.
I can't believe she's lying. I think she may just make things up as she goes along, saying anything she has to say to win an argument. Wait -- that's lying. Oh, well, forget it.
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