Via Kos, I see that the DNC has started a blog. It’s called Kicking Ass, and it looks like it might even live up to the name.
And speaking of kicking ass, via Atrios, a no-holds barred editorial from the Star Tribune:
• Cheney repeated the mantra that the nation ignored the terrorism threat before Sept. 11. In fact, President Bill Clinton and his counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, took the threat very seriously, especially after the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000. By December, Clarke had prepared plans for a military operation to attack Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, go after terrorist financing and work with police officials around the world to take down the terrorist network.
Because Clinton was to leave office in a few weeks, he decided against handing Bush a war in progress as he worked to put a new administration together.
Instead, Clarke briefed national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Cheney and others. He emphasized that time was short and action was urgent. The Bush administration sat on the report for months and months. The first high-level discussion took place on Sept. 4, 2001, just a week before the attacks. The actions taken by the Bush administration following Sept. 11 closely parallel actions recommended in Clarke’s nine-month-old plan. Who ignored the threat?
• Cheney said that “we don’t know” if there is a connection between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. He’s right only in the sense that “we don’t know” if the sun will come up tomorrow. But all the evidence available says it will — and that Iraq was not involved in Sept. 11.
There’s a lot more. Unfortunately there’s also an annoying registration process.
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