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  • In this context, Clarke prepared a paper for a political-military plan he called Delenda (ph) from the Latin, "to destroy."

    CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003 2003

  • President Clinton even ad Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke draw up what it appears to have been a very successful plan known as the Delenda plan to execute this promise.

    Path to 9/11: Hugh Hewitt Accuses Me of Airbrushing History 2006

  • The 9/11 Commission report mentions a plan called Delenda, launched by then counter-terror czar Richard Clarke after the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2006 2006

  • President Clinton even ad Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke draw up what it appears to have been a very successful plan known as the Delenda plan to execute this promise.

    More on Debt to GDP Ratios 2006

  • The fact is that what we were presented on January the 25th was a set of ideas and a paper, most of which was about what the Clinton administration had done and something called the Delenda plan which had been considered in 1998 and never adopted.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2004 2004

  • At Clinton's request, Clarke produced a combined political and military plan for the destruction of al-Qaeda, entitled ” appropriately for an alumnus of the Boston Latin School ” "Delenda" after Cato the Elder's injunction "Carthago delenda est" ” Carthage must be destroyed.

    A Matter of Truth Urquhart, Brian 2004

  • Somebody suggested that it might be Eric Flint's "Cathargo Delenda Est", collected in the anthology Foreign Legions.

    Can You Name This Story? (Part 15) 2009

  • Carthago Delenda Est leave no stone standing upon another, plow the streets and salt the earth so that nothing grows there again.

    Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Carthago Delenda Est leave no stone standing upon another, plow the streets and salt the earth so that nothing grows there again.

    Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • My friends, the watchword shouldn't be Ad Astra, or on the other side NASA Delenda Est ...

    Augustine Commission Website Now Online - NASA Watch 2009

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