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Tell Fox's Chris Wallace To Ask Rice About The U.S.S. Cole

thinkprogress.org — Fox's Chris Wallace says he's fair and balanced. Condoleezza Rice is on his show this Sunday. Email Wallace and tell him to ask her the same question he asked Bill Clinton: "Prior to 9/11, you had eight months to respond to the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Why didn’t the Bush administration take action and put al-Qaeda out of business?"

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  • scanlines, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@parker1105

    Oh come on, the there was more time between the start of Bush's term and 9/11 to deal with the Cole than there was between the Cole and the end of Clinton's term. Responsibility should be shard by both sides, and I'd like to see Wallace ask the question of both sides in the interest of being, as Fox News likes to say, "fair and balanced." He asked it to Clinton, now it's the Bush administration's turn.
  • bradintheusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Should he have declared war after Oklahoma City to? Or just when brown people attack?

    Did the UK go to war after the London underground bombings?

    America has been soooo successful in declaring war they attacked the wrong country.
  • paulfarag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1real URL: http://thinkprogress.org/ask-rice

    I think this is a bit naive though. Fox is a company in the private sector that's widely accepted as having a right-leaning agenda (understatement). While it's nice to think they'll honor a flood of e-mails against their agenda if only we send in enough, there's nothing obligating them to it and, frankly, I just don't see it happening. This is assuming they even read viewer e-mails. Wallace was likely just using that excuse to bring up a malicious question.

    It'd make more sense to put effort into campaigns discrediting Fox and informing its viewers just how far off the fair and balanced trail they are than to waste time trying to convince Fox to actually be fair and balanced.
  • sorbix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The issue is the response to the Cole bombing, not who is responsible for 9/11 or terrorism in general.
  • parker1105, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@rayraywpg

    Surely you don't expect these ignorant Digger's to know that the Cole bombing happened on Clinton's watch.
  • rayraywpg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ummmm... that was under Clinton's last term.

    But you're right, it would have been a good question for Clinton. Or better yet, why did he ALWAYS treat these acts of war as regular criminal acts? e.g.
    - 1993 WTC bombing
    - 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya, Nairobi, and Tanzania
    - 2000 USS Cole attack

    At worst, Bush simply allowed Clinton's wrong headed decision to treat the Cole attact as a simple crime to continue.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://digg.com/politics/Joe_Biden_releases_PlanForIraq_com
  • chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2 Just out of curiousity, if he does ask this question will that satisfy everyone? Or on Monday will there be another digg posting scathing him for something he did or didn't do?

    If e-mailing him helps remove future annoying political articles then count me in!
  • parker1105, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Yes, give Bill Clinton 8 years and expect nothing of him, but hold Bush's feet to the fire for 8 months. Don't forget the Sudan offered Osama on a silver platter and Clinton didn't have the stomach for it. But of course, it's always the Republican's fault. This is Digg, I remember now.

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