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Now Clarke depicts himself as the one person who knew it all along. Now he also claims that he knew after September 11 it would be a colossal mistake to pursue Al Qaeda and attack Iraq simultaneously. It’s not clear this is correct, but assume it is: Why didn’t he say so at the time?

Reality:

RUSSERT: Did you speak out against the war inside the government?

CLARKE: I had spoken out against the notion of bombing Iraq immediately after September 11th. And the Defense Department, the deputy secretary and the secretary, talked to my bosses in the White House and indicated how unhappy they were with my attitude on Iraq. And, as I say, I had asked to go and become cyberspace security adviser, so I did. And I wasn’t asked about foreign policy in that role.

But when I had spoken out, when I said, “Invading Iraq after 9/11 is like invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor,” that didn’t go over well. And I was very quickly sidelined as someone whose opinions were going to be taken into account.

(Meet the Press, 3/28/2004. Transcript.)

UPDATE: Not too lazy to fix the Paris photos link.

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