Asscrossed: Clinton Culpa

The New York Times reports on John Ashcroft's ceremonial passing of the buck at the 9/11 Hearings:

WASHINGTON, April 13 — Attorney General John Ashcroft strongly defended the Bush administration and himself today before the 9/11 commission, laying the blame for intelligence failures prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks squarely on the presidency of Bill Clinton.

Mr. Ashcroft said Al Qaeda was able to plan and carry out the attacks that killed some 3,000 people in large part because of policies of the Clinton administration and its deliberate neglect of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's computer technology.

Well, what else would you expect from a guy who works for a serial waffler and miserable failure? John Asscrossed then let his inner Old Testament emerge in full force whine:

"My sorrow for the victims of Sept. 11 is equaled only by my rage at their killer. Osama bin Laden is to blame for my anger. I blame his hatred for our values, his perversion of a faith, his idolatry of death. It was his hand that took the lives of nearly 3,000 innocents on September 11. It is his face that is the face of evil."

Asscrossed contradicted the testimony of Thomas Pickering, who said that he briefed the A.G. twice before being told that no more briefings were required. It'll be interesting to see who's right--my money ISN'T on Asscrossed. He also claimed that Janet Reno was inaccurate in saying that counterterrorism information was shared between agencies.

From his quoted statements, it sounds more like John-Boy saw a wall where there was a chain-link fence. And his "blame Clinton" crap is simply more of the same tired bullshit: Bush and his team--that includes you, Asscrossed--we're at the helm. If you ignore warnings about icebergs, don't start blaming the passengers you left on shore when the ship plows headlong into one.

What a bunch of weasels the Bush Team is--they're like whining little children who can't shoulder responsibility for their own actions, in spite of the Clown in Chief campaigning on a pledge of 'personal responsibility.' When I think of his pasty face (thanks to Mary for the link), I'm reminded of a scene from Battleship Potemkin--at the beginning of the mutiny, an Orthodox priest tries to quell the uprising. He brandishes a cross while haughtily lecturing about faith.

The next scene in the silent film required a caption--the sailors shoved the priest aside while shouting, "Out of the way, biblethumper!"