Richard Clarke's Vanity - And Dishonesty

Gee, I suppose that al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, blew up Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, attacked the USS Cole, and bombed US embassies in anticipation of our liberation of Iraq. Only that would satisfy Richard Clarke's twisted logic that George W. Bush is to blame for the bombings in Madrid.

Richard Lowry points out that Bill Clinton rejected nearly all of Richard Clarke's suggested, while George Bush implemented some and went beyond a few others. Bush didn't want to simply bomb an al Qaeda training base now and then, which he likened to "swatting flies." Bush wanted to exterminate al Qaeda. Nevertheless, it is Bush whom Clarke accuses of being soft on terror.