4/10    So do you think Clarke feels sorry enough about his failure that he'll
        be donating his book *AND* movie profits to the surviving families
        of 9/11?  Somehow, I doubt it but I do think highly of his market
        timing if not his morals and ethics.
    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000484839
        \_ As a conservative, you should have long ago made peace with
           the fact that many sets of "facts" pass as "truth" in this country
           depending on what your political party is.
           \_ This isn't an issue of truth or fact or any such thing.  This is
              strictly about his making a drooling apology from one side of
              his mouth while counting his profit and cashing in on that same
              failure from the other.  I'd take his book (and now his movie)
              more seriously if it didn't look like a market timing action
              instead of an honest mea culpa.
              \_ So how exactly do you feel about Haliburton cashing it in--
                 oh, wait, sorry--spreading good will and cheer in Iraq? -sax
                 \_ Not all.  No one from Haliburton ever sat in front of a
                    camera and said, "boo hoo! woe is us!  we're so sorry!"
                    while pushing their book and movie.  Haliburton is a
                    corporation.  Corporations exist to profit and make money.
                    If you don't like corporations that is an entirely
                    different issue and either way it doesn't excuse Clarke's
                    sicken behavior.  One company's possible wrongs does
                    not excuse some unrelated one man's wrongs.  How do you
                    feel about Clarke cashing in since you find Haliburton
                    so distasteful?
                    \_ Is what Clarke said true?
                       \_ That he's sorry?  I can't read his mind but his
                          actions don't meet his words.
                    \_ Nothing wrong with speaking up about a cover up.
                       If it just so happens someone then decides to offer
                       him a book deal, there is nothing wrong with it.
                       Why do you hate when good people win?  Why do you
                       hate America?
                       \_ No, it was book deal first.  There wouldn't be a
                          book and movie if this wasn't a hot current topic.
                          My issue is that he apologised to the 9/11 families
                          and boo-hooed on TV (we call it grandstanding) but
                          then turns around and pockets the cash.  Why do all
                          of you ignore the hypocritical nature of the apology
                          preceded by book and movie deals?  The apology was
                          clearly just sales hype so he could cash in.  Why is
                          he not donating the profits to the families if he's
                          so sorry?
           the fact that two sets of "facts" pass as "truth" in this country.