Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Saturday, Apr. 03, 2004 - 2:04 a.m.

All right, boys and girls, stand back, becauase I've had 2 weeks of feeling like crap and unable to post about all the goin's on in the world, and by GOD, I've got some things to say. So the ones o' ya that read this here little blog for the reasonably happy, non-political slicesa life in it better jus' mosey on down to the corral for some barbecue and skip over this here little entry, coz the political fur is about to fly.

Richard Clarke
Step the hell down, Condoleeza. You too, Dick (Cheney). To start labelling Richard Clarke as partisan and a disgruntled ex-employee who was out of the loop is beyond ridiculous. Let's start with the fact that he's served under every single president including and since Ronald Reagan, and the last time I looked, all but 1 of those was a freaking Republican. Let's continue by saying he left the White House of his own accord and decision. Let's go on to say that he left the office of counterintelligence AFTER September 11, and he was the expert in the office on terrorism. So, Dick, if you plan on having me believe he was really was, as you say, "out of the loop," I am forced to come to the conclusion that you senior officials, aka "Principals," in the White House are arrogant dumbasses who are not only too stupid to pay attention to the one guy you're paying to know exactly what's going on, but to actively prevent him from taking part in meetings and briefings which would provide him information crucial to effectively doing his job. WTF is up with that, Dick? Not to mention you have him someone no one in the White House would bother to listen to anyway, while your gal Condi is claiming Bush did everything he told the president to do. Y'all idiots at 1600 better get your stories straight, 'cause I gotta tell ya, right now Richard Clarke is the one with all the credibility. Everyone who knows him and isn't employed by the White House speaks exceedingly highly of him, Paul O'Neill's claims support his, and I notice George Tenet's not saying a damn thing against him. And it would seem that if he were the ineffective, smoke-blowing, disgruntled, partisan liar you creeps are making him out to be, Tenet would be the first one in line to say so. Oh, and while we're on the subject, Condi, wtf is up with all the flag waving bullshit about how it's a long-standing tradition the National Security Advisor does not speak before Congress when you already HAD spoken to Congress, it just wasn't under oath? Is it that you meant to say it's a long-standing tradition the NSA doesn't have to tell the truth to Congress? And I love how you were selling that story and trying to discredit Mr. Clarke to any and every single news program who would provide air time. And then you assholes wonder why half of America thinks you're a pack of lying, duplicitous, corrupt bastards. You did more to damage your credibility in that one week than you had in all of the 3 years you've been in office. It was a study in arrogance and stupidity. Really, I had to marvel. I still do, that there are people in this country who still believe you. But then, there are still people in this country who need a brick wall to fall over on them before they believe they should move out of the way, too. I guess if you've bought hook, line, and sinker into a party line, you really don't want to admit the people you've chosen to put your faith in have just screwed you AND the pooch, and neither of you with the benefit of a lubricant. And that brings us to...

George and Dick, Together Again
So, you guys are gonna go testify to the 9/11 Commission and set the record straight...that is, the record according to you, the guys who refuse to turn over most of the over 10,000 documents given you by the Clinton Administration when you took office...the same documents responsible for briefing you on all that was going on in the country and the world at that time and that no doubt support many of the facts Mr. Clarke holds forth in his book, testimony, and television interviews. Clinton and his lawyers have even asked you to release them and made it clear to the commission that those documents contain no information which could conceivably place the country at risk, so it's not like you can actually claim national security, though I've absolutely no doubt that's your lame claim to an excuse. And what is this bullshit about how you'll only testify one time, in private, without being under oath, and both of you at once, together, side by side? I guess that does make it easier to confer and get your stories straight before you answer, and it certainly lessens the task of having to remember what you said. A)it's in private, so it's not like the American public will have the slightest idea what you said, so it's not like you have to worry about getting it right to repeat it, and B)you won't have to worry about contradicting yourselves or each other. It really is a beautiful little plan. And all your sheep will totally buy into it, so I have to commend you for it; excellent job. You've put yet another one over on your unsuspecting followers. Seriously. Good one. I can actually see the two of you screwing it up even more by being at the table together, since I really kinda get the feeling Dick doesn't actually like you all that much, George. I bet you boys really don't get along all that well when you're in a room together. Dick's got to know he's smarter than you, and you've got to know he could politically mop up the floor with you if he seriously tried, so that must really make for an uneasy alliance, let alone partnership. Yeah, I figure behind closed doors, when the rest of the staff isn't around, you boys get along about as well as Clinton and Gore did, and that is saying something. I just wish the American public was gonna get to see this little dog and pony show of yours, because I bet it'll be a doozy. Yes, sir.

September 11
Let's hark back to a time in the not-so-distant past, shall we? At least, temporally it's not so distant. Morally, innocently and ethically, it's a helluva lot further than I want to think. Let's in fact go back to a day when you were in Florida, George. You might remember it. A lot of bad stuff happened that day, while you sat in a damn schoolroom and read a story about a pet goat. While people were dying. While they were hurling themselves out of burning buildings, George you fuck. You knew planes had been hijacked when you went into that classroom, George. You knew, because NORAD knew. And there's no way in hell NORAD knew 2 and probably 4 commercial airliners had all been hijacked and one of them had been flown into a building and yet had not bothered to contact the President of the fucking United States. The only way that could be possible is if the US military and everyone around you knew that you are the most inept, ignorant, useless moron in the entire world, and your presence in the White House were simply that of puppet. Because otherwise, that is precisely the kind of thing the President of the United States would be made immediately aware of. The Secret Service certainly knew, and well before 9:00. And in fact, you were aware of it, weren't you, George? You told a reporter you were shortly after 8:48am that day, just before you left for Booker Elementary. In fact, on the ride over, sometime before 9:00am, a news photographer in your motorcade was privvy to a conversation Ari Fleischer had sometime between 8:46 and 8:55 regarding that hijacking. Congressman Dan Miller also knew by 8:55. And yet, you'd like us to think you - the President of the United States - YOU were still blissfully unaware of any of it. Doesn't say much for your authority or position in government, does it George? Yet, you most certainly were aware by the time you reached the school; a member of your own motorcade ran from her car to yours to tell you. In fact various and sundry leading news sources cite you as knowing before you went into the the school and certainly before you went in with the children. But you claim that while you were waiting to go in to the children, at 9:01, you saw footage of a plane strike the WTC and said to yourself "that's one terrible pilot", that must have been a horrible accident, and then you say you were whisked off and didn't really have time to think about it. "That's one terrible pilot"??? My own reaction was a helluva lot stronger than that, and I'm only a girl living in Southern California who had just been woken up by a ringing phone and ordered to turn on the news and hadn't a friggin' clue or hint what was going on. Yet the best you could come up with was wow, what a bad pilot, that must have been a horrible accident. And then you were whisked away...to a room full of second graders. Do you actually expect me to fucking believe the President of the United States was at the mercy of a bunch of SECOND GRADERS, George??? Or that a bunch of second graders were more important to the President of the United States than a building struck by a hijacked commercial airliner??? Also, what footage is that you say you saw, George? Footage of the first plane striking the south tower wasn't available at all that day. In fact, it was a long while before any surfaced. And all accounts place you in the school room when the second plane hit, yet you'd like us to believe that you had no idea of the severity of the situation even when you claim you saw it on television. Wow, George, you're less astute than even *I* give you credit for. But let's get back to those second graders, George. The ones you claim you didn't want to frighten. You sat in that room for at least 20 minutes, George. You smiled. You posed for fucking pictures to promote your education policies. You heard about the second fucking crash, and you still sat there. You still smiled. Cheney had already been rushed off to a secure location from the frigging White House, arguably the most secure building in the country, but you sat in a room of grade school students in a school who had been proudly touting your visit since September 6, 5 days prior. WTF were you thinking, George? You didn't want to scare the children, but endangering their lives, that's okay??? In fact, the best thing you can fucking think to do is sit there and read a happy little story about a pet goat. And smile blandly. And point at pictures, ask kids questions, and make cute presidential jokes. All while sitting in a publically disclosed, non-secure position. Surrounded by school children. You claim that you were thinking about what to say and how to handle the situation, but George, I gotta tell ya, NOBODY is that good a multi-tasker. And no one who is actually dealing with a serious situation smiles like a fucking halfwit and chats with school children for 30 minutes and then holds a staff meeting for another 13 in another room of the school. And then YOU GAVE A SPEECH. At a publically announced and scheduled time, in a publically announced and scheduled place...in that same grade school. You really didn't give a shit, did you George? That, or you were incapable of grasping the gravity of the situation, neither of which makes me in the least bit happy to have you as my president. As a matter of fact, it makes me damned UNHAPPY, George. Markedly unhappy. Really freaking unhappy. I'm also not happy that while all these military planes were scrambling to try and prevent further attacks, they were pretty much wasting their time, because while you claimed that evening that "immediately following the first attack, [you]implemented our government's emergency response plans," but that certainly didn't include scrambling planes or authorizing the military to shoot down hijacked flights. So while flight 77 was headed to the Pentagon, and flight 93 was headed for its target, you were the one person who could have given the order to do something about it. And you were reading a story. About a goat. In fact, Cheney made the recommendation to you from his secured location sometime after 9:56 - a full hour and 10 minutes or MORE after the first plane hit the WTC and after you had recently boarded Air Force One. Your response? "Sure. You bet."

You know, George, I can see why you'd hate to answer questions about September 11. I can see why you refuse to answer them in public, under oath. I can see why you and your administration are so desperate to discredit Richard Clarke and others like him. Any president who can sit so uselessly in a room full of second graders and pose for a photo-op when 2662 people are dying and more are going to certainly doesn't have the sense of urgency it would have taken to prevent September 11, even if you'd been given an advance schedule from Osama bin Laden himself. You're a loser, George. You're a liar and a loser and a bad man. You're a worse president and a disgrace to this country. I just wish more people understood that. I wish more of them could see that a man who hides behind second graders or hasn't the sense to grasp the severity of a tragedy like September 11 has no right being president. You have no honor, George. None at all.

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