Richard Clarke interview: Damning interview with former Whitehouse Counter-terror chief Richard Clarke that tells the story of modern times: Wolfowitz was a 'kook' who believed what he wanted to believe (ie, that Saddam was behind 9/11 in spite of the fact there was no evidence); on September 12 2001 "Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to try "to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq""; the neocons were planning to invade Iraq before they came into office; Bush is 'not a big reader' who is deliberately kept in the dark by the sinister clique that surrounds and manipulates him; the rationale for the war (WMDs) was a pretext and shifted as circumstances demanded; the war in Iraq has made the rest of the world, particularly the Western world, more vulnerable to terrorism; "the war in Iraq has greatly strengthened the Jihadist movement at a time when we should have been weakening the Jihadist move.""

It is glaringly obvious that what Clarke says is true but the Bush regime still has a real chance of re-election.

Richard Clarke interview: Damning interview with former Whitehouse Counter-terror chief Richard Clarke that tells the story of modern times: Wolfowitz was a 'kook' who believed what he wanted to believe (ie, that Saddam was behind 9/11 in spite of the fact there was no evidence); on September 12 2001 "Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to try "to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq""; the neocons were planning to invade Iraq before they came into office; Bush is 'not a big reader' who is deliberately kept in the dark by the sinister clique that surrounds and manipulates him; the rationale for the war (WMDs) was a pretext and shifted as circumstances demanded; the war in Iraq has made the rest of the world, particularly the Western world, more vulnerable to terrorism; "the war in Iraq has greatly strengthened the Jihadist movement at a time when we should have been weakening the Jihadist move.""

It is glaringly obvious that what Clarke says is true but the Bush regime still has a real chance of re-election.