Richard Clark looking like a bald Chris Bury
Top Bush Advisor, Richard Clarke, says loyalty trumped by decency, conscience
"Loyalty is important, but only to a point.", says former Bush advisor and counter-terrorism expert, Richard Clarke, who, among other titles, was also former Terrorism Czar in the Clinton administration, and served under both Bushs and Reagan, who originally appointed him. He went on to explain that when the president is not safeguarding the lives of Americans, he no longer deserves that loyalty.
Mr. Clark, who is probably the person who knows more about the subject than anyone else on earth, has said that Bush was inadequate for the job, and that Bush's complacency and misplaced focus on Iraq "because it had better targets" has cost actual American lives, and threatens to put even more American lives in jeopardy.
3,000 lives needn't have been spared on 9/11, soldiers needn't have lost their lives in Iraq, since Saddam was never a real threat, and the soldiers and civilians who will lose their lives in the coming days, months, years...will not have needed to have done so.
And when one considers the profiteers of war, and the fact that they are to this day, reaping huge profits while our sons and daughters are being sacrificed to the alter of their money...hardly seems right. Seems almost sinister, really.
At least it ought to make you think twice before you pull the lever for this guy who has meant death and sorrow to so many families in America and abroad.
I applaude the nobility of Mister Clark, who, after all, is trying to keep America safe...as he has done for decades. Only this time the solution may be in the form of new leadership. I know he would agree.
And no drop-out Limbaughs can take away what Mister Clark can bring to those with ears to hear and learn...though try they certainly will.
A Renaissance of Conscience?
But I think there will be a renaissance of conscience, if you will. And that those who know things will come forward, and realize that their loyalty too has been abused. And that lives are being lost needlessly, and because of incompetence, greed perhaps, and pressures which simply should not have been allowed to enter into the decision-making process, while those that should have been...were ignored.
This is not good maintenence. Not good stewardship.
This is more like plunder.
Step forward, good people. Your ego exists as a quasi-separate entity from God, whose interests are at cross-purposes. Transcend your ego, like most responsible adults above the age of 40. It is a hindrance to real progress and harmony.
Or...read through some of these related articles:
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