Keith Olbermann takes a look back at the Bush Administration in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. He shows that, despite several warnings, they did nothing. The sure have no business now trying to blame Clinton or anyone other than themselves for the lack of preparation. Crooks and Liars has the video. Transcript below the fold.
OLBERMANN: In a sense, we are all still detainees in the wake of 9/11, but there is some unrest among the inmates. Being asked what steps he took to stop al Qaeda, President Clinton freeing many to ask what steps, if any, his successor took in the most critical time before the plot.
Yesterday, President Bush declined to address Mr. Clinton‘s remarks, saying, “We‘ve already had the look back this and look back that.” But if we are to look forward with any clarity, it is important to know the facts about where we have been and how we got where we are.
Thus, tonight a special investigation. Mr. Clinton is not in office, Mr. Bush is. His policies determine how the U.S. fights al Qaeda, so it is important that we understand how he has done so in the past. Comparing the two presidents is valid, necessary, to illuminate the capacities of the office. Mr. Clinton said it plainly, he failed to get bin Laden. Mr. Bush has acknowledged no such failure.
But while it has become conventional wisdom, although debunked by the 9/11 report, that Mr. Clinton dropped an offer from Sudan to hand over bin Laden, it is rare to hear anyone discuss whether similar but real feelers were ever extended to Mr. Bush. And it is, we suspect, even more rare to see this tape of the Bush White House addressing reports of such feelers in February 2001, after the government knew al Qaeda had attacked the U.S.S. Cole.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, February 27, 2001)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Taliban in Afghanistan, they have offered that they are ready to hand over Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia if the United States drops its sanctions, and the—they have a kind of deal that they want to make with the United States. Do you have any comments (INAUDIBLE)?
ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Let me take that and get back to you on that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: There is no record of any subsequent discussion on that matter.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, of course, responded to President Clinton by defending the Bush record. “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda,” she said.
Our goal in this report is to rise to Mr. Clinton’s challenge and assess the record of Mr. Bush‘s efforts against al Qaeda in his first eight months in office.
We begin with Rice’s claim that Clinton left no strategy to fight al Qaeda.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, January 20, 2001)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: So help me God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congratulations.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN (voice-over): On January 25, 2001, five days after Mr. Bush took office, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent Rice a memo, attaching to it a document entitled “Strategy for Eliminating the Threat of al Qaeda.” It was, Clarke, wrote, “developed by the last administration to give to you, incorporating diplomatic, economic, military, public diplomacy, and intelligence tools.”
Clarke’s memo requested a follow-up cabinet-level meeting to address time-sensitive questions about al Qaeda. But President Bush had downgraded counterterrorism from a cabinet-level job, so Clarke now dealt instead with deputy secretaries.
RICHARD CLARKE, FORMER COUNTERTERRORISM CZAR: It slowed it down enormously, by months. First of all, the deputies’ committee didn’t meet urgently in January or February.
OLBERMANN: Why the delay? Rice later tried to explain.
RICE: America’s al Qaeda policy wasn’t working because our Afghanistan policy wasn’t working, and our Afghanistan policy wasn’t working because our Pakistan policy wasn’t working. We recognized that America’s counterterrorism policy had to be connected to our regional strategies, and to our overall foreign policy.
OLBERMANN: That, although Clarke’s January 25 memo specifically warned, “Al Qaeda is not some narrow little terrorist issue that needs to be included in broader regional policy. By proceeding with separate policy reviews on Central Asia, etc., we would deal inadequately with the need for a comprehensive multiregional policy on al Qaeda.”
Clarke’s deputies’ meeting came in April, when, he says, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz insisted the real terrorism threat was not al Qaeda, but Iraq.
By July 16, the deputies had a proposal for dealing with al Qaeda, a proposal, Clarke says, was essentially the same plan he gave Rice five months earlier, and it still had to go to the principals, the cabinet secretaries.
CLARKE: But the principals’ calendar was full, and then they went on vacation, many of them, in August, so we couldn’t meet in August. And therefore the principals met in September.
OLBERMANN: Although the principals had already met on other issues, their first meeting on al Qaeda was not until after Labor Day, on September 4, 2001.
But what were Mr. Bush and his top advisers doing during this time? Mr. Bush was personally briefed about al Qaeda even before the election, in November 2000. During the transition, President Clinton and his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, say they told Bush and his team of the urgency of getting al Qaeda.
Three days before President Bush took office Berger spoke at a passing-the-baton event, which Rice attended.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, January 17, 2001)
SANDY BERGER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: With survivors of the U.S.S. Cole reinforced the reality that America is in a deadly struggle with a new breed of anti-Western jihadists. Nothing less than a war, I think, is fair to describe this.
OLBERMANN: Eight days later, Clarke sent Rice the strategy Clinton had developed for retaliating in the event that al Qaeda was found to have been behind the previous October’s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. The next day, the FBI conclusively pinned the Cole attack on al Qaeda.
Mr. Bush ordered no military strike, no escalation of existing Clinton measures. Instead, he repeated Clinton’s previous diplomatic efforts, writing a letter to Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf in February and another on August 4.
Until September 11, even when Mr. Bush was asked about the Cole, an attack carried out on water by men in a boat, he offered a consistent prescription for keeping America safe, one he reiterated upon taking office.
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BUSH: To protect our own people, our allies and friends, we must develop and we must deploy effective missile defenses.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: Democrats, who controlled the Senate, warned that his focus was misplaced.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. CARL LEVIN (D): I’m also concerned that we may not be putting enough emphasis on countering the most likely threats to our national security and to the security of our forces deployed around the world, those asymmetric threats, like terrorist attacks on the U.S.S. Cole on our barracks and our embassies around the world, on the World Trade Center.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: He was not alone. The executive director of the Hart-Rudmann Commission’s request to brief Bush and Cheney on the terror threats they had studied was denied.
On February 26, 2001, Paul Bremer said of the administration, quote, “What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident, and then suddenly say, Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?”
According to the 9/11 Commission report, even bin Laden expected Bush to respond militarily to the Cole bombing. Quote, “In February 2001, according to a source, bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not, he would launch something bigger.”
The most famous warning came in the August 6 presidential daily briefing, reporting “patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”
According to the 9/11 report, “Bush did not recall discussing the August 6 report with the attorney general, or whether Rice had done so. We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the president and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. Tenet does not recall any discussions with the president of the domestic threat during this period. Domestic agencies did not know what to do, and no one gave them direction. The borders were not hardened, transportation systems were not fortified, electronic surveillance was not targeted against the domestic threat, state and local law enforcement were not marshaled to augment the FBI‘s efforts. The public was not warned.”
Explanations after the fact suggested a lack of familiarity with the recent history of terrorism.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
RICE: I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.
DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There wasn’t any way then we could have anticipated what was about to happen, of course, in—on 9/11.
(Subtitle: 1995, Philippines uncovers plot to fly planes into Pentagon and World Trade Center.)
(Subtitle: September 1999, U.S. study: Al Qaeda might crash planes into Pentagon.)
(Subtitle: Spring 2001, New York City trial testimony: Bin Laden sending agents to acquire planes.)
BUSH: These terrorists had burrowed in our country for over two years. They were well organized. They were well planned. They struck in a way that was unimaginable.
(Subtitle: July 2001, FBI told of Zacarias Moussaoui‘s interest in flying jumbo jets.)
(Subtitle: September 2001, FBI memo: Moussaoui could fly something into the World Trade Center.)
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
OLBERMANN: On September 10, 2001, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California requested a meeting with Vice President Cheney to press the case for aggressive counterterrorism measures. She is told Mr. Cheney will need some time to prepare first, six months.
That same day, the NSA intercepted a communique from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia, stating, “Tomorrow is zero hour.” That communique was only translated into English on September 12.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
OLBERMANN: It appears now that the operative word in the phrase “We could not have anticipated” was the word “we.”
“Countdown’s” look at what the Bush White House did to take the threat of terrorism seriously on its watch, and what it did not do, from Rice’s claim this week they were handed no al Qaeda strategy from the Clinton administration, to President Bush’s reaction to the confirmation that al Qaeda indeed was behind the attack on the U.S.S. “Cole.”
DEAR ??? i managed to get a signed photo of MR CLINTON here in LONDON: i’m bob dylan’s greatest bbc radiio request writer:
david c, miedzianik say..med-gen-nick
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rainmanhallelujah@hotmail.com 07847607522 i think thats right?
i’m angry as i can’t find a dinner date out with a woman here in london: THIS MAKES ME VERY, VERY, ANGRY:
i’ve always wanted, that bob dylan, song about MYSELF ??? too ??
todays date: THURSDAY: 14th may 2007:
DEAR ??? i’ve been to the USA about 20 times or so: i have ASPERGERS SYNDRONE and they start to blame me for the radio being too loud etc, when i get back here to england: radio too loud, more swearing, etc, etc, they don’t understand the USA way of life here: the newspaper guy that used to take me around THE ROCKIES has now lost his job too: AT LEAST I HAVE MR CLINTONS SIGNATURE on a photo that i got here in LONDON: so things might be OK here in the end ??? david c, miedzianik:
say…med-gen-nick: PS: cyber-cafe opposite TRAVASTOCK SQUARE: LONDON: bob dylan ended on the song BLOWING IN THE WIND september 22nd 2000: at THE HALLAM FM ARENA Sheffield: i was in the USA on SEPTEMBER 11th 2001: i was in IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO, USA: so i don’t know if bob dylan had any idea that was going to happen ??? as planes blowing into THE TWIN TOWERS, and THE PENTAGON happen to BLOW IN THE WIND don’t they: rainmanhallelujah@hotmail.com 07847607522
PPS: POPE BENIDICT 16th got elected while i was blowing in the wind on a plane to ATLANTA HEARTSFIELD AIRPORT on april 19th 2005: PPPS: i haven’t been back to the USA for about 2 years now: i’ve been about 4, or 5 times, down to PARIS, FRANCE, instead: i have seen THE WHO live in PARIS, on june 6th 2007:
and i have seen a band called THE SISTERS OF MERCY in PARIS too: i have yet to see bob dylan play PARIS: but i still might do one day ???
sorry wrong date: THURSDAY: JUNE 14th 2007: a sign of MODERN TIMES ain’t it ??? don’t make a SONG AND DANCE over it ?? as bob dylan is just a SONG AND DANCE MAN so he says ???
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Hi David,
I assume you’re posting from a cyber-cafe in London. I’m afraid I’ve never been to London. The closest I’ve come has been the fake England and France in Epcot at Walt Disney World. It’s certainly not the same as being in the real places, but it is fun to walk around an area that feels like England, and then to go over a bridge and be in an area that feels like France.
I’m also not as into Bob Dylan as you seem to be. While I have listented to some of his work, growing up I was a much bigger follower of a group closer to where you live–the Beatles.
DEAR RON, i’m having bother getting back to the USA as i overstayed my 90 day visa waver thing last visit: partly because BOB DYLAN AND HIS BAND turned up to play at THE FILLIMORE colfax avenue: about 5 or 6 days after my 90 day thing ended: and i couldn’t be bothered to go back to england
in time to get another 90 days to fly back or something ???
as i hadn’t got any very ready money at that time too:
POPE BENIDICT 16th got elected on my way back to ATLANTA: 19th april 2005: i think ??? that was the end of my last real visit to the USA: it was on the cable his election when i got to the airport: so maybe the answer is blowing in the wind after all ???( time is a jet plane it moves too fast ) “you’re a big girl now” i don’t know how many new timepieces i’ve got since ?? maybe a jet plane is a timepiece that blows in the wind ??? i got sent back to manchester airport
on the 12th december 2005 to get a visa that i still haven’t got: i still haven’t got the visa woman that stamped my passport VISA APPLICATION RECIEVED as she looked very attractive: i haven’t got a girlfriend at all now:
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Hi David,
By coincidence I was also traveling around the time of the change in Popes. I recall this as my daughter was jumping up to get on television when The Today Show (a morning news show from New York) went outside to the crowd during the coverage of this story.
I see from your web site and comments that not having a girl friend has been a problem for you. I’m wondering if there are any Aspergers support groups around you. I would think that a city like London must have all sorts of groups. Perhaps that way you could meet a woman with mutual interests and a better understanding of you. Alas, while there are many attractive women around like the one who stamped your passport, it is rare to actually get to know and date women in such situations.
DEAR RON, i’ve never used a visa before: i got back my last visit from the usa after slighly overstaying my 90 day visa waver after seeing bob dylan 2 nights in denver, colorado, and motorhead, one night: i’ve been for a visit around THE HOUSE OF COMMONS today: here in london: My local MP might be able to put right my visa if i get off again ??? bob dylan is 66 years old now. i’ve wanted that song about me for the last 20 years or so:
i saw THE WHO live at WEMBLEY, LONDON, and BERCY, PARIS, FRANCE, instead of bob dylan at these venues in 2007: just to see if anything interesting might happen if i did this song wise ??? song about me sort of stuff ???
THE DEVIL has all the best tunes doesn’t he ??? david miedzianik
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Hi David. Haven’t heard from you for a while. Hopefully your Visa problems get straightened out by your MP.
DEAR RON: LOADS OF hope in HOPE: ARKASAS: (SPELLING) ???
was that where MR CLINTON was born ??? or was it where he lived ??? can’t remember not been to the usa for over 2 years i think now:
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David,
Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, but I don’t think he actually lived there long. One of the longshot Republican candidates, Mike Huckabee, is also from Hope.
DEAR RON: i used to write the bob dylan requests for bbc radio at one time: loads of stuff played, and loads of write-ups, and articles, in the local newspapers, etc: until they decided they didn’t want me to play the radio request while i was in the USA about 20 times: they made a court case of it, but they wouldn’t listen to what i said about not being in england about 20 times, or so: i said i wanted help from the US EMBASSY in LONDON, saying i wasn’t in the country, but no help was given, apart from one of the charges, being dropped, and me getting out in about 5 weeks or so: NO help what so ever about: Can’t MR CLINTON carpet bomb, (or have endless bombing sorties if that’s the right phrase???), on LONDON with his B2 stealth planes when he gets in ??? as they understand next to nothing about anything here in LONDON: They understand when you die: Unfortunatly that’s about the only understanding anyone has of everything: david c, miedzianik: cyber-cafe near TAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON: PS: i understand nothing about anything too ??? as i have no girlfriend, no job, and no money coming in as i have ASPERGERS SYNDROME: i went to visit BUCKINGHAM PLACE here in LONDON on AUGUST 8th 2007 PRINCESS BEARTICES 19th birthday: that’s the DUKE OF YORKS daughter: i wrote the poem for the wedding of PRINCE ANDREW, and FERGIE years ago:
it was read out by MIKE READ on RADIO ONE: The Kings here died on the battlefield at one time: These days it’s a different battlefield with STEALTH PLANES, B1 LANCER PLANES, and TANKS, ETC:
DEAR RON: i used to write adverts in magazines for bob dylan to do a song about me: i took one of these adverts from KERRANG! to one of the bob dylan concerts at BOURNMOUTH: LAST YEAR I THINK ??? they always pretend not the know what the advert is about or something ????
if MR CLINTON or anyone else drops bombs on LONDON no-one will know what they’ve done wrong ??? they’ll be nonsence about innocent people, etc: they’re innocent people alright with no-one offering me a date out ever here: no-one offering me a job no-one printing me, no money off of this INTERNET thing year after year until someone doesn’t know what they’re doing with anger ??? it’s enough to rise someone to murder: some cops turned up about my radio being too loud after bob dylan write up, after write up, like i’ve said: they were back after about 11 weeks or so:(5 weeks in ASSESMENT after that) no help from the USA EMBASSY here in LONDON after about 20 visits like i’ve said too: i got off when they tried to pick me up here in LONDON though: it obviously works that great amout of travel here in LONDON:
i was wearing a bob dylan tea-shirt: so maybe that was what worked at the time too: i was unlucky with my neigbour but lucky here: bob dylan seemed a bit unwell at NEWCASTLE england on the 12th april 2007: a bit upset or something ??? he seemed to pick up by the 14th april 2007 when he played SHEFFIELD HALLAM FM ARENA: in a war no-one understands fully what they’ve done wrong: so anything might prove anything ???
it might as well be ANSWER FROM THE GREAT BEYOND instead of THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND: bob dylan “We live and we die but we know not why?” POISIONING THEM WITH WISDOM instead of words: that was what he sung at either was it newcastle, or sheffield this year: on the song “desolation row.” i didn’t make it too his birmingham concert this year: i gave the ticket to a friend i know with his own building company: i don’t think they could make it to the gig either: ???
they did make it to the MEATLOAF gig though: i messed it up with THE HALLAM FM ARENA because i got a bit annoyed because ELTON JOHN played bob dylan’s 66th birthday at the HALLAM FM ARENA: the cops gave me a free ride home: instead of me seeing that gig with SIR ELTON JOHN: CANDLE IN THE WIND instead of BLOWING IN THE WIND eh ??? david miedzianik: cyber-cafe opposite TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON: rainmanhallelujah@hotmail.com
David,
I don’t really understand what you legal problems involved. At first I thought it was over visa issues. Were there charges against you involving the radio stations or rock bands?
todays date: TUESDAY: 14th AUGUST 2007:
DEAR RON: i’m not sure if the French British Consulate in Paris can’t write me a USA Visa out ???? if not the USA Embassy in Belfast, Ireland, might be able to do me one ??? They sent me back at Phillidelphia Airport 11th December 2005 saying get a Visa from the USA Embassy or The British Consutate: These here in London don’t do USA Visas anymore: i’ve paid up here in London until the 23rd August 2007: The people at the guest house don’t mind so much me playing the TV: As they’re all pretty young where i’m staying: They don’t seem to want me to use the 90 day visa waver system anymore: CHUCK LEE MAJOR a vietnam veteran, in IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO, told me that the USA immigration laws, are changing from week to week: So anything might be possible ??? david c, miedzianik
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PS: i think they were resitrictions on JOHN LENNONS travel plans to the USA too ??? maybe ??? shame he died so tragically in NEW YORK: i wonder if his death didn’t partly cause SEPTEMBER 11th 2001 there ??? A sign of MODERN TIMES ain’t it ??? GEORGE HARRISON sung in THE TRAVELLING WILLBERRYS didn’t he ??? People here have, never forgiven the USA people, for killing a BEATLE:
todays date: TUESDAY: 21st AUGUST 2007:
DEAR RON: THE ROLLING STONES are playing LONDON tonight: i can’t get: as i’ve NEVER seen THE ROLLING STONES play before: i’ve seen bob dylan play about 11 or 12 times up to now: ????
i bought a radio controlled clock from THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM here in London yesterday: i’ve always wanted bob dylan to do that song about me: his best bbc radio request writer: and NOT have a song and dance about it ??? david miedzianik say…med-gen-nick: ps: i’m bob dylan’s greatest bbc radio request writer: good bob dylan song LIKE A ROLLING STONE: was this song really about THE ROLLING STONES: ???? cyber-cafe opposite TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON: rainmanhallelujah@hotmail.com
PPS: yes THE TIMES ARE A CHANGIN’ down at THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM aren’t they ???
David,
Hopefully you’ll get to see the Rolling Stones!
WITH WHO ???? by myself no doubt ??? david miedzianik
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DEAR RON: i went for a walk along THE THEMES EMBANKMENT last night. i have ASPERGERS SYNDROME and i get a bit sick of going to each concert by myself: even bob dylan: i’ve paid up at my guest house here in LONDON until the end of AUGUST 2007:
i don’t know where the MELLENUM DOME is ??? david miedzianik:
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PS: i keep looking for someone to do that song about me:
PPS: sorry about the spellings, etc:
DEAR RON: i’ve NOT MADE it to THE ROLLING STONES: although i did get a copy of THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD that had an article on THE ROLLING STONES: ELTON JOHN is playing at THE MILLENUM DOME on SEPTEMBER 5th 2007: he did that song BERNIE AND THE JETS: i met someone yesterday here in LONDON that tried to show me where THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL is: ????
instead i ended up somewhere near VICTORIA BUS STATION, and TUBE STATION, and BRIXTON, instead: i have ASPERGERS SYNDROME and people are trying to mess me about for some reason ??? from ROTHERHAM, SOUTH YORKSHIRE: to see me into psychatric care: there’s been no job offers here down LONDON, for the last 5 weeks since in got here on my 51st birthday: no dates out with women, no-one to publish me except this internet thing here: david miedzianik say…med-gen-nick:
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i have MR CLINTONS signed photo but my life isn’t much better up to now ??? well he was PRESIDENT where you are for 8 years wasn’t he ??? in the end it’s nothing, iron bar cutters won’t solve, with this signed photo ???? but maybe not ??? if i’m lucky ???
David,
Sorry you didn’t make it to see the Rolling Stones.
Yes, Bill Clinton was president here for eight years, but I fear his photo isn’t likley to make much of a difference with regards to your life.
DEAR RON: Nelson Mandella was here in LONDON today: i went to watch a bit of that: GORDEN BROWN was there too: i think ELTON JOHN is playing LONDON this FRIDAY too: something to do with lady diana: At THE GUARDS CHAPEL near Buckingham Palace, or something ???
david miedzianik cyber-cafe opposite TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON:
David,
Sounds like a lot is going on. Of course I’d expect a city of London to have a lot going on. I’m off at a Jazz festival for Labor Day weekend (a US holiday). There’s nobody as famous as Elton John appearing, but I’m here for the resort more than for the music. A few years ago while I was up here for Labor Day I met the Governor of the state of Michigan who happened to be sitting at the next group of chaise lounges by the pool.
DEAR RON: i’ve paid up for another 5 days here in LONDON: there’s no dates out with woman here, no job offers, nothing even resembling a job offer: if i tell anyone this out comes out a mug of coffee and absolutely nothing gets done: they might as well call ASPERGERS SYNDROME, mug of coffee syndrome ???
ALTHOUGH I DID USED TO BE A GOOD BBC RADIO REQUEST WRITER:
do i need to bore you with the details: every concert i go too is by myself even bob dylan: no doubt even THE ROLLING STONES had i gone ??? i told a few of the concert, no excitement whatsoever: too much to bear with THE ROLLING STONES ain’t it ?? i did see BAD GIRLS on the WEST END: some of them could have gone to THE ROLLING STONES with me had they had anything about them ??? they look too nice to star in a stage play called “Bad Girls” THOSE GIRLS That stared in that play:
no doubt they would be “Bad Girls” to the likes of me ??? take my cash and do nothing they should in return or something ???
only a psychatric admission or something ???
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David,
Just five days–what do you do after that?
Since we arrived for the Jazz festival a couple of days early, I’m still waiting for the concerts to begin tomorrow night.
DEAR RON: pay for another 2 days i think ??? then see if something works out for me ??? or whatever ???? or pay for a few more days after that or something ??? i went down to see ELTON JOHN this morning: he’s playing at the GUARDS CHAPEL: maybe about now ??? as i write this ??? david christopher miedzianik
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David,
It still sounds like your arrangements won’t last much longer. Hopefully something works out for you.
So far the only music I’ve heard has been the hotel’s usual band, but the actual Jazz Concerts start tonight.
DEAR RON: i don’t know ??? i might have to go down to FRANCE somewhere ??? or something ???
did i tell you that i’ve been to paris, about 4, or 5 times, in the last 2 years:
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DEAR RON: i’ve photocopied my PRINCESS BEATRICE advert a few times here in LONDON: the one in PRIVATE EYE: eye need PRINCESS BEATRICE 24/7 or something ???? i might send a postcard with the advert on to BILL RITTER the governor of colorado ??? i sent one to BILL OWENS but i found out it’s BILL RITTER now ??? i think he’s a DEMOCRAT ???? as i said BILL OWENS name as i passed the USA embassy here in LONDON: just a few weeks before the middle of LONDON BLEW UP: (july 7th 2005) THURSDAY i think ??? i don’t know if it was the right codeword or something ??? maybe this is why BILL RITTER got in power in COLORADO ??? anyway HILLARY CLINTON might be running next year ??? 2008 ??? david christopher miedzianik say…med-gen-nick:
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i think ELTON JOHN is doing THE MILLENUM DOME tomorrow ???
WEDNESDAY: september 5th 2007 ???
“BERNIE AND THE JETS” ain’t it ???
banned from a lot of RADIO STATIONS after TUESDAY september 11th 2001:
i don’t think i might get: ?? as there a tube strike here on THE LONDON UNDERGROUND:
i met a woman on the VIRGIN train back to SHEFFIELD on JULY 6th 2007: i don’t know if she was that blonde haired visa woman or not ??? but she looked a bit like her ??? i nearly got off with her ??? but maybe not ?? she wanted to know which train to get back to DARLINGTON ??? or something ??? where ever that is ??? i caught the MAINLINE TRAIN to LONDON july 7th 2007: it was a bit cheaper than the GNER train to LONDON:
i was told to catch this train by someone at a LONDON drop in centre ??? well it might have been a DROP OUT CENTRE for all i care ???
i saw bob dylan from my guest house at KINGS CROSS: LONDON:
CARDIFF, and BOURNMOUTH, concerts: 2006:
well i was based there for these concerts: all thay think of in LONDON is putting me away on a psychiatric unit or something ?? i have no-one ??? no job ??? except writing bob dylan request for the BBC radio: they’re even after my mums old house back in rotherham: so what do i do ??? THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND or something ??? ain’t it ???
i think it was a JEWISH PSYCIATRIST Dr Woodmanse that started this all off: based a THE ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL: SHEFFIELD: i was 13, or 14 years old at the time: they took my mum there before she died also: my father is bured somewhere here in LONDON too: i have about 4, or 5, of my original neigbours at that drive, where i live too: i’ve been up there about 39 years now or so ??? it was september, when we moved there when i was 12, or something ?? LONDON right now EH ???
David,
Yes, Bill Ritter (a Democrat) is current governor of Colorado, and Hillary Clinton is running for the Democratic nomination to run for president in 2008. I’m sure that the governor of Colorado is not any sort of codeword. It was just coincidence that you mentioned his name.
DEAR RON: yes the only things that are certain in life is that YOU LIVE, YOU DIE, and YOU PAY INCOME TAX: although i’ve never paid income tax ever in my life: i bought another radio controlled clock from THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, here in LONDON today: the last one i gave to the vicar of ST PANCARAS CHURCH i think it’s called ??? here in LONDON: he gives me mugs of coffee, and buns, and stuff:
david miedzianik cyber-cafe opposite TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON:
PS:
i might be going back to south yorkshire soon ???
David,
I sure pay plenty in income taxes!
I don’t know anything about South Yorkshire but I hope things turn out well if you return there, or wherever you wind up.
todays date: TUESDAY: SEPTEMBER 11th 2007:
DEAR RON: i’m back in ROTHERHAM, SOUTH YORKSHIRE, today:
i got back, last night, from LONDON: i have a ticket to see KATE RUSBY, at SHEFFIELD CITY HALL, this Saturday: the 15th september 2007: my friend should be going with me too:
david miedzianik say…med-gen-nick:
WINGFIELD LIBRARY: ROTHERHAM:
David,
Sounds like things are going well back in South Yorkshire. I’ve never heard of Kate Rusby, but quickly doing a Google search I see she is popular in the UK. I hope you enjoy the show.
DEAR RON: i think there’s an ABBA TRIBUTE BAND on tonight: plus a BEE GEES tribute band on tonight at THE CITY HALL SHEFFIELD: bob dylan did that venue many years ago on the DON’T LOOK BACK DVD video: i saw BLACK SABBETH at THE CITY HALL SHEFFIELD TOO: i went there with ROBERT MAC GUIRE: somone said that, they never played, there better: it was about 30 years ago i went: the fans went mad a ripped up the seats at THE CITY HALL: ozzy osborne’s daughter KELLY OSBORNE,
is doing THE WEST END of LONDON soon: he felt like killing everone when SHARRONS JEWELS went missing, or something, or the other ???? david miedzianik
WINGFIELD LIBRARY: ROTHERHAM, s, yorks:
David,
Sounds great. I’d much rather see concerts like those than all these new groups which I don’t know a thing about.
DEAR RON: i went to LEEDS yesterday: i went to a catholic church, and a catholic book shop there: they told me to go:
and threatened me with a psychiatric unit: ???? or as good as if not worse than one ??? why don’t they put cyclone b down them: and cut their arms off and stick their arms to their heads if it’s clever enuogh for MR CLINTON ????
my dad was sent to SIBERIA in the 2nd world war: my grandmother my grandfathers 2nd wife said that the only thing that anyone understands in the end is when they die: they ought to kill everyone: that’s about the limit of everyones intelligence: i bought a KIETH MOON book the other day up LEEDS TOO: he used to play DRUMS for the band THE WHO:
i saw KATE RUSBY and i bought her album up LEEDS yesterday too:
send the b2 STEALTH PLANES out: let everyone die ???
david miedzianik i’m bob dylan’s greatest bbc radio request writer:
WINGFIELD LIBRARY: ROTHERHAM:
David,
Sounds like you are better off going to concerts than churches 🙂
How did your dad wind up in Siberia?
DEAR RON: well there was a man called ADLOF HITLER that wanted to rule the WORLD: so when they walked into POLAND it brought BRITAIN into the 2nd world war: as there was a pact that if HITLER invaded POLAND then that would happen: so maybe that’s how my dad ended up in SIBERIA: ??? they’re trying it on with that sort of psychatric unit stuff here: i might as well be in SIBRIRA as being in a PSYCHIATRIC unit here: this is how the BRTISH are now instead of THE GERMANS: The BRITISH and THE USA want to conquer the WORLD now or something ???
david miedzianik
SHEFFIELD GRAVES LIBRARY south yorkshire:
i got back to SOUTH YORKSHIRE the night of september 10th 2007:
i’m not sure what to do now: ??? i got back to MANCHESTER, england, uk, the 20th APRIL 2005: the day after POPE BENIDICT 16th had been elected: that german guy: he was elected while i was flying to ATLANTA HEARTSFIELD AIRPORT: GEORGIA, USA:
while i was BLOWING IN THE WIND or something ??? or TIME IS A JET PLANE IT MOVES TOO FAST “you’re a big girl now” bob dylan:
David,
I know why Britain was in WW II but why was your father in Siberia? Was he there fighting or as a prisoner?
DEAR RON: he was a prisoner: and i think they were dying like flies all around him: my mum was going to write it all into a book: but she never did instead, she got ill and died:
i’ve spent my life writing adverts for music magazines: writing radio requests: writing to the tv: i don’t bother much recently as the neigbours have been lucky grumbling about me while i’ve not been in england about 20 odd times to the usa: and about 5 or 6 times to paris, france:
i’m bob dylan’s greatest bbc radio request writer:
CHUCK LEE MAJOR, IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO, told me about some stuff to sound proof the house: but i couldn’t buy this in england: they said something about making a noise in my garden, making a noise in my house: and BOB’S YOUR UNCLE: or something ???
after pretending to phone social stupid services for want of better words:
david miedzianik say…med-gen-nick:
they’ve told me to go from ST MARIES CHURCH in sheffield THE SHEFFIELD CATHEDERAL, the one at LEEDS; why don’t the B2 STEALTH PLANES drop a nuclear device on britain: and put 3,000 dead down the ground july 7th ??? next ???
you live and you die: and that’s what people deserve to happen annoying people over the church, or religion:
you don’t get married in one anymore much and you don’t get a job in oner with ASPRGERS SYNDROME: so WHY DOn’T THEY DROP DEAD for all i care ??? or have a direct hit ????
LONDON TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: or something ???
like they said in IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO why don’t they drop MUSTARD GAS on everyone for all i care ???
David,
Do you know why he was a prisoner? Great Britain and the Soviet Union were allied during the war.
A nuclear device or mustard gas won’t do anything to solve your problems.
By the way, are you aware that the link to your web site no longer works?
DEAR RON: a man called adlof hitler wanted to rule the world:
that’s what happens when people won’t give you the right answers or something ???? i’ve took a bus back to london today: there’s nothing of any date out value with women here, no job offer, value: but maybe it’s to the value of people that listen to the bbc radio when i write my requests off or something ??? i could give you better answers to that question but my mum isn’t there to write that book anymore: i understand that a proffesor at BOULDER UNIVERSITY, COLORADO, was theatened with being fired: as he said it was NAZI REPERATION money or something that caused THE TWIN TOWERS EXPLOTION september 11th 2001: in NEW YORK: david c, miedzianik
TRAVISTOCK SQUARE: LONDON: it was 2 years ago today i think: ??? that the cops hammered the door down for me to turn my GRUNDIG TV down: i got out halloween that same year 2005:
bob dylan’s greatest bbc radio request writer:
DEAR RON: i have my tea shirt of THE WHO today: i saw them live at WEMBLEY ARENA 27th june 2007: 5 years to the day that JOHN ENTWISTLE died or something ??? david miedzianik
i saw THE WHO live at THE BERCY, PARIS, OMNISPORTS ARENA, FRANCE, on JUNE 6th 2007: i should have seen bob dylan at both of these venues, but i saw THE WHO at these 2 venues instead:
cyber cafe TRAVISTOCK SQUARE:
David,
Its a shame that the full story on your father is lost.
Are you back living in London or just visiting?
DEAR RON: i got back to LONDON yesterday: all they could talk about just about in south yorkshire is calling the cops on me for not being in the country about 20, or 30 times: whatever music law that think i’ve broken ??? maybe i broke that music law with that JEWISH CAT owner i met in ST LOUIS, MISSOURI, that time: LISA LEVINE: ??? she liked listening to THE WALLFLOWERS, and driving the car with a WISCONSTON (spelling) driving licence: i think that was 10 years ago in 1997 ??? had i pulled it off with her things might have been different now ??? david miedzianik say…med-gen-nick
cyber-cafe near that AMERICAN CHURCH london: near EUSTON STATION i think ??? somewhere near that ???
jacob dylan bob dylan’s son plays guitar in THE WALLFLOWERS: