Bush JUST said:

[worldgonekrazy]

"Had we had ANY information of the 9/11 attacks on New York City, we would have acted to prevent them."

But we KNOW that he DID have information! This is a BLATANT lie! He could have said they didn't have ENOUGH information, but he said they didn't have ANY! He cannot get away with this!

[yardwork]

1. Keep talking, W!

The more he talks, the deeper he digs!!

Keep talking, oh please keep talking!

[proud patriot]

2. Read my sigline

bush is prey to the truth .

COWARD liar liar Coward .

[Avalux]

3. Did he just say this

as he preempted coverage of the 9/11 hearings? Clever - and the damn networks took the bait. I HATE him.

[worldgonekrazy]

8. Yes, it was in response to a question posed by a reporter

The question basically asked him to comment on the allegations that the Bush Administration had advanced warning and did nothing to stop it. Bush first responded with the above line, then went on and on about stuff completely unrelated (Israel/Palestine two state solution, etc.). It was obvious that he was coached and ready for the question, but also obvious that he was not eager to be faced with it.

[JohnyCanuck]

11. I take it he was somewhat better prepared

than the last time he faced a similar question.


http://www.takebackthemedia.com/liar.html (flash presentation, How to spot a liar.)

[Old and In the Way]

15. You are correct.

He said, I'll take 2 questions....where's Jim?

A nicely scripted sound bite, sort of a Bush PSA.

"we're serious about terror". I think he said that a dozen times. A little subliminal reinforcement?

[Robin Hood]

4. When he said that I turned to my wife and told her to take a good look.

This moment will come back to bite Bush in the butt.

[buycitgo]

5. what are you, a nit picker?

you KNOW that president's aren't subject to media parsing/analysis/deconstruction, now, don't you?

that precedent began during Clinton, didn't it?

they accepted everything HE said at face value, didn't they?

get with the program!

you're either with him, or against him, and that means, if you're against him, you're a TERRIST!

[teach1st]

6. To be fair...

Didn't he say something like "if we had any information that we would be attacked on 9/11 we would have done something to prevent it."?

He can cover himself by saying we had no info about it happening on that specific day. Splitting hairs, I know, but it would hold up in court.

[nostamj]

12. he was more specific than that

he said attacked in New York City

[Catherine Vincent]

7. What's the date of that memo?

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. This is exactly how obtuse he is.

Has no clue that it was his job to actually be proactive about getting information regarding counter-terrorism. And I'll bet he went out of his way to avoid it so he could have plausible deniability.

[peacetalksforall]

10. It's all because he doesn't read newspapers...

maybe Laura should read to him...

Very early on, the newspapers reported that the intelligence couterparts in Germany, France, Israel, and Russia told us that we were going to be attacked soon.

When he went to Genoa(?) for a meeting earlier in the spring, there was all kinds of care taken because of a lead saying that al Queda was going to fly an aircraft into one of the buildings of this major meeting - they prepared and protected against exactly the same type of warning as given us about our buildings.

[glarius]

13. Bush DID NOT refer to Clarkes charges that he wanted to attack Iraq from

the get go....anybody notice??????

[Cat Atomic]

14. I thought that was a very odd statement.

Nobody in the mainstream media has suggested the Bush Administration had knowledge of an attack on September 11th. They've asked whether or not the administration ignored warnings of some sort of attack somewhere at some time, but that's vague.

I found it odd that Bush would deny having been warned that terrorists would attack airliners on Sept. 11th. Who suggested that he did?

[Kazak]

16. Maybe he can preempt the 911 commish's ruling too...

when it doesn't go his way. ;)

[Bridget Burke]

17. "I am not a crook"

Is this the Bush II equivalent? History will tell.