Rice accuses Clarke of conflicting stories

I wonder why Condi insists on fighting her battles through the press. Meanwhile, Clarke has testified under oath. Put up or shut up!!!
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A fuming U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice accused former counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke on Wednesday of shifting positions from backing President Bush’s war on terrorism to now questioning it.

Clarke has accused Bush of a fixation on Iraq, but Rice said Clarke did not raise those concerns with her. She said after his resignation 13 months ago, she invited him to lunch three weeks before the start of the U.S.-led war against Iraq to thank him for his years of service.

Clarke had “not a word about concerns that Iraq was going to somehow take us off the path of the war on terrorism. It would’ve been easy to do, kick the others out, close the door, say ‘I just want you to know I think you’re making a mistake.’ He didn’t do it,” she told reporters in her West Wing office.

“There’s two very different pictures here, and the fact of the matter is these stories can’t be reconciled,” Rice said. “Either we were ignoring the threat, or now it’s changed that it was important but not urgent, or we were actually responding to the things that he actually suggested, which is what he said in the August 2002 interview.”…{{link http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4651696&section=newsWASHINGTON/ MORE}}

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