Bush can't trust reporters leak diary entries show proof

Mondo Condi!
George W. Bush, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney: three dolts dead asleep at the wheel
George DumbBellYou Bush's Diary -- August 6th, 2001 -- as secretly leaked on April 13, 2004 to
Jeff Koopersmith


Dear Diary:


President of the United States for seven whole months and what do I hear every morning?

This or that or the other from George T‘enet about some creature called "Osama bin Laden" and his group of puke-minded illiterates who seem to think the United States is Public Enemy Number One.


Even though I'll admit I'm no genius, I was interested in this feller Osama, so I asked Director Tenet for a crib sheet, which he duly delivered to me through the indispensible Condi.


I like things short and sweet -- just like my predecessor Reagan, and for similar reasons -- so I'm pleased that the CIA provided me with just two pages of stuff to digest, without too many confusing details.


The first thing the memo taught me is that Osama bin Laden has been threatening to "bring the fighting to America" and that his hero is Ramsi Yousef -- the homicidal heathen who bombed the World Trade Center garage in '93. Osama told this to the world in a series of television interviews he made more than five years ago, so I suppose he's serious.


Then I find that after Bill Clinton bombed the bee-Jeezus out of Osama's base in Afghanistan in 1998, Osama was so miffed that he announced he wanted to even the score -- and target Washington DC with his terror campaign.

Other sources confirmed that Osama was strengthening his access to the United States too.

But what the heck can he do? He's off living like a rat according to the CIA.


Next, the CIA memo tells me that Bin Laden helped facilitate the plan to attack Los Angeles International Airport in 1999 in what's been called "the Millennium Plot" -- which Clinton's team foiled.

We foiled that one all right -- so we can foil the next one. No big deal.


The CIA also tells me that Bin Laden is patient, and not put off by failure. His successful attacks on our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania showed this. One disturbing fact the memo makes clear is that Osama's Al-Qa'ida network has members that are now living in the United States and that some of them are even US citizens. Al-Qa'ida has a support structure, financing, and two of these citizen Al-Qa'ida guys have already been found guilty in the embassy bombings. Time to round 'em up and hogtie 'em.


The memo goes on to say that the CIA has reports that Bin Laden wants to hijack a US aircraft to use as a bargaining chip to free the "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman and other Islamic extremists now held in US prisons, but they say they can't confirm this.

Well, if they can't then I can't either.


Yet they go on to tell me that the FBI thinks that there is ongoing activity preparing for these hijackings and that there has recently been proof of Al-Qa'ida surveillance of federal buildings in New York. I wonder how they know that? In addition, the FBI has 70 full field investigations going in the United States that are related to Osama, including one following up on information given to our embassy in the United Arab Emirates telling us that Bin Laden's people are in the US planning attacks with explosives.


It's a no-brainer: if the FBI, CIA and Condi don't think this all fits together, who I am to second guess them?


It's August 6th. When I think about it, it seems that this Bin Laden fellow might be serious. "Explosives... airplanes... hijacking... New York... Washington, DC... attacks."

But Condi thinks this is all just historical stuff and not "actionable."


As for that Richard Clarke fellow, my guess is that he's probably not as trustworthy as Condi. I think I'll go with Condi's opinion that fighting Al-Qa'ida should not be our top priority.

I sure wish that Bin Laden was living in Iraq -- now THAT would be just the smoking gun we've been looking for!


This Clarke guy thinks that Condi has nothing better to do than to ruin my vacation, call a full principals' meeting -- the whole damn national security team --and make me call all the Department heads and get them to put their heads together on this mess and compare notes.

Geez -- what a waste of time. I'd be better off clearing some brush in the north field. Besides, Condi and Cheney are too busy planning whatever it is we're gonna do in Baghdad with Don and that brainy Perle fellow -- but this darn Osama thing still makes me a little jumpy.


Then again, Condi might be right.

There is no "silver bullet" in this memo -- no sure target and no sure proof that Bin Laden is going to try something in New York or Washington. Heck, they don't even have a date when all this is supposed to go down.

I mean, what could that goofball do anyway? Hijack a plane and crash it into the White House?

Nope.

Condi's correct.

Besides, I'm on vacation. I need some rest.

Maybe I'll do something more on this in October.

One thing's for sure: Condi's never asleep at the switch. She's the sharpest knife in the Oval Drawer!

Thank the Lord.

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It shows Dubya as too reflective.