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"Most acquaintances do not regard him as a partisan. Clarke was viewed as a hawk and 'true believer' by many within the [[Clinton administration]], and Clarke himself says he is an independent who is registered as a Republican." [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040323/ts_washpost/a16192_2004mar22]
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*"<b>'This is Dick Clarke's American grandstand. He just keeps changing the tune,</b>' [[Scott McClellan]] added." [http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/26-03222004-268788.html]
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Unknowingly at the time, Ewen MacAskill, in his April 4, 2003, article [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,929464,00.html "Blair 'dissuaded Bush from attack after 9/11',"] supports Clarke's contention that the [[Bush administration]] wanted to make its retaliatory strike against "terrorists" in Iraq, not against al Qaeda in [[Afghanistan]]: