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Insider's attack rattles Bush
(Justin Webb, BBC, 22 March 2004)
Former US terrorism czar Richard Clarke's allegations are a blow to a White House which intends to portray the president in this election year as a tireless fighter against terrorists. . . . The reality, according to Mr Clarke, is that the Bush Administration was so obsessed with Iraq that even after the 11 September attacks, key figures were looking for excuses to bomb Baghdad rather than Afghanistan - where al-Qaeda was based. . . . Mr Clarke said: "When we talked about bombing the al-Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan, Donald Rumsfeld said there were no good targets in Afghanistan: Let's bomb Iraq." . . . Mr Clarke countered that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. "That didn't seem to make much difference" to Mr Rumsfeld, he added. . . . The Iraq obsession, according to Mr Clarke, was not just lodged in the mind of the defence secretary - the president himself had caught the bug. . . . The White House is rattled. Rattled because these are grave allegations to make in election year and rattled because the man making them is a serious player: an anti-terrorism advisor to four successive presidents from Ronald Reagan through George W Bush.

posted by LoZo 1:40 PM