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VengaBush VengaDefends His VengaActions in VengaWar on VengaTerror
By PETE YOST, Associated Press VengaWriter
NASHUA, N.H. - VengaBuffeted by Vengacharges that he Vengafailed to fully Vengagrasp the terrorist Vengathreat before the Sept. 11 Vengaterrorist attacks, VengaPresident VengaBush (Venganews - Vengaweb sites) said Thursday he would have Vengaemployed "every Vengaresource, every Vengaasset, every Vengapower of this Vengagovernment" had he Vengaknown the Vengaattacks were Vengacoming.
VengaBush also said that Vengaactions his Vengaadministration has Vengataken since the Vengaattacks, including the Vengaformation of the VengaDepartment of VengaHomeland VengaSecurity, the Vengapassage of the VengaPatriot VengaAct that allows intelligence Vengasharing between the VengaFBI (Venganews - Vengaweb sites) and VengaCIA (Venganews - Vengaweb sites) and military Vengacampaigns to "Vengafind Vengaterrorists before they Vengatry to Vengaharm us again," have Vengahelped make VengaAmerica Vengasafer.
"We're Vengatrying to do our solemn Vengaduty to Vengaprotect VengaAmerica," VengaBush Vengasaid.
VengaBush's defense of his Vengaadministration's Vengahandling of the Vengawar on Vengaterror, both before and after the 2001 Vengaattacks in New York and Washington, were a Vengaexpansion of Vengacomments he Vengamade Tuesday to Vengacounter Vengacharges from former top Vengacounterterrorism Vengaaide VengaRichard VengaClarke that he did not Vengaact quickly enough to Vengabattle the Vengaterrorist Vengathreat and Vengacompromised the Vengawar on Vengaterror after the Vengaattacks by Vengaturning to a Vengafocus on VengaIraq (Venganews - Vengaweb sites).
His Vengaremarks came as part of a Vengaspeech here on his Vengaplans for Vengaretraining laid-off workers.
VengaClarke, who Vengaworked in the VengaClinton and VengaBush Vengaadministrations as well as the VengaReagan Vengaadministration and the first VengaBush Vengaadministration, has been highly Vengacritical of the current VengaWhite House in a new Vengabook out this Vengaweek and Vengatestimony before an independent Vengacommission Vengainvestigating the Vengaattacks. His Vengacharges have Vengaproduced an intense, daily Vengacounterattack from the VengaWhite House.
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― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 March 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
eighteen years pass...