Word: condoleezza
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...made clear to me that he did not want to respond to al-Qaeda one attack at a time. He told me he was 'tired of swatting flies.'" CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. National Security Adviser, explaining what she said was U.S. President George W. Bush's strategy on al-Qaeda, during her testimony before the commission investigating the attacks of 9/11...
...most dramatic moment of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission last week-her confrontation with former Senator Bob Kerrey-was also the most revealing. Kerrey was hammering Rice about the President's now famous "fly swatting" remark. Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks. "What fly had he swatted?" Kerrey demanded. And a minute later: "Why didn't we respond to the [bombing of the U.S.S.] Cole? Why didn't we swat that...
...Condoleezza Rice prepares for her long-awaited testimony before the commission investigating al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11th attacks, a look at Israel's experience with terrorism is instructive. It may shock Americans to learn that Israeli leaders freely admit that the growth of Hamas was partly a tragedy of their own making. Israel made a conscious decision to allow the Islamist movement to grow in the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1980s, hoping that this would undermine support for Yasser Arafat's PLO. "In retrospect we made a mistake," former Defense Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer told...
Yesterday’s lesson came on the heels of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the Sept. 11 commission, which was slated for this morning. Rice has vigorously disputed many of Clarke’s claims but had previously refused to appear publicly before the commission...
Chances are, Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission has not changed many Americans' perception of the Bush Administration's handling of terrorism. President Bush's National Security Adviser gave a calm and competent performance in defense of the administration's case that it had done all that could have been expected in relation to al-Qaeda in the months before the attacks. Supporters of the Bush administration will, by and large, accept Dr. Rice's argument that even an awareness of a general Qaeda threat could not have allowed the custodians of the nation's security to anticipate...