Its interesting how Condi Rice challenges Clinton's claim ...""That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try."
Her defense:
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"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice said Monday during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post.
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"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false - and I think the 9/11 commission understood that," she said.
Rice took exception to Clinton's statement that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for incoming officials when he left office.
"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida," she told the newspaper, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox News Channel., which also owns Fox News Channel.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/200...D8KCHHOG0.html
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So her defense is "we did as much as Clinton".
(OK, how abou describing any particular actions of what you and Bush did in 8 months) .....and asserting that Clarke's memo was not a comprehensive strategy.
(Semantics....so it may not have been a comprehensive strategy, it was an "urgent" memo with specific "action steps" against al Queda, all of which were implemented later...Its a shame that she was not able to explain why were those actions steps were ignored until after 9/11?)