"Rice Whine"

by Tracy Thompson Khan

If the Olympics were to introduce the sport of verbal tap dancing, Condoleezza Rice would surely take the gold medal. Behind her thickly-polished composure lie the vague, rhetorical, lengthy, evasive, redundant answers of the guilty: in this case, of an administration that is
guilty of not performing a very important duty - the duty of protecting the security of its country.

Dr Rice stated last week that there was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. But to kill a vampire with a silver bullet, you have to be able to identify the vampire, which, in this case, no one has done so far. The choices offered - that the vampire is Osama bin Laden, or Saddam Hussein, or Al-Qaeda, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Islam - are neither satisfying nor correct.
www.jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2004-daily/12-04-2004/oped/o2.htm

Bush's newest 9/11 excuse: President says he thought FBI, CIA were on the case
WASHINGTON - President Bush defended himself yesterday against allegations that he did not act urgently enough after being briefed about terrorists operating in the United States a month before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying he believed that the FBI and the CIA were pursuing the situation.
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Monday, April 12th, News Update posted:

A Spanish lesson for Bush
A crowd is gathered under a drizzle outside the U.S. Embassy here in the capital of a country that has been one of America's closest allies. Perhaps the crowd has come to express solidarity with the American troops being shot at (along with Spanish troops) in the alleys of cities like Falluja?
Try again. www.iht.com/articles/514287.html