National Geographic's "Inside 9/11"

[guruoo]

August 21 and 22, 9PM et/pt

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911/timeline.html

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9:05 a.m.

As President Bush begins to read with the students at Booker Elementary, Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupts to whisper to him, "A second plane hit the second tower, America is under attack." President Bush continues the lesson for another five to seven minutes, rather than alarm the students.

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And, for those who have been living on
another planet for the last few years:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. "Rather than alarm the students..."

I love that. "Sorry kids, I have to go, I'll come back again sometime soon."

Works for me. What a pathetic excuse.. The SS didn't hustle him into safety during a major attack upon American soil, for five minutes, while he's on a known photo op...

Nothing smelly here at all, whatsoever.

Thanks for the post..

[ellenfl]

2. i'm not expecting any controversy with this one.

hope i'm wrong and they have some unanswered (as yet) questions.

ellen fl

[Al-CIAda]

3. Bush blew it the morning of 9/11

Bush blew it the morning of 9/11

By BILL MAHER


John Kerry has waded into an issue raised by Michael Moore in his film "Fahrenheit 9/11," namely, President Bush's sitting for seven minutes in a Florida classroom after being told "the country is under attack." Republicans are waxing indignant, of course. But the criticism is richly deserved.

The fact that Bush wasted 27 minutes that day - not only the seven minutes reading to kids but 20 more at a photo op afterward - was, in my view, the most outrageous thing a President has done since Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court.

Watergate was outrageous but it still did not carry the possibility of utter devastation, like a President's freezing at the very moment we needed his immediate focus on an attack on the United States.

This is an issue about the ultimate presidential duty, acting in an emergency. If nothing else in Washington is nonpartisan, this should be.

But it is not. Republicans are tying themselves in knots trying to defend Bush's actions that morning. The excuses they put forward are absurd:

* He was "gathering his thoughts." This was a moment a President should have imagined a thousand times. There is no time in the nuclear age for a President to sit like Forrest Gump "gathering thoughts" after an attack has begun. Gathering information is what he should have been doing.
* From the White House press secretary: "The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening." I agree that gaining a better understanding of what was happening should have been his goal. What I don't get is how that goal was reached by just sitting there instead of getting up and talking to people. Is he a psychic? Was he receiving the information telepathically?

* "He didn't want to scare the children." Vice President Cheney has said of Kerry, "The senator from Massachusetts has given us ample reason to doubt the judgment he brings to vital issues of national security." So Kerry's judgment is suspect, but at a moment of national crisis, Bush's judgment was: Better not to scare 20 children momentarily than to react immediately to an attack on the country!


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/221160p-190107c.html

[Vickers]

4. Had an opportunity to be the finest president in that classroom that day

Instead, he looked like a complete dumbass who was TOTALLY in over his head.

He waited a few days and then went rootin' and tootin' on his bullhorn at the WTC, but his actions in the classroom, non-scripted, revealed the genuine George W. Fucking Bush; that's the real man right there.

A stupid fucking coward, right to the core.

[bvar22]

5. He needed to "fix his alibi".

Worse than the 7 minutes in the classroom,
Worse than the 27 minutes wasted at the school,

was OUR pResident's panic dash across 1/2 of American wildly looking for a Spider Hole where he could hide from Osama ("I was trying to get out of harm's way"---gwbush* Sept11). george bush* left a trail of Yellow Urine from Orlando to Omaha.

The White House was so embarrassed by bush*s dash to safety while New York burned that it issued a BOGUS Press Release to explain bush*s cowardly behavior. The White House stated that according to intelligence reports, Air Force One had been "targeted by the terrorists". This story was ENTIRELY MADE UP AT THE White House...Completely False.
Air Force One was NEVER a target.
There were NO INTELLIGENCE reports saying that Air Force One was a target.

On Sept 11, bunker boy bush* RAN for a place to HIDE from Osama while America burned.

[BeFree]

6. ...getting out of harm's way.

Just like he has avoided Ms. Sheehan, and the TANG, b**h ran the other each and every time.

How can such a coward hold any respect from any American?

[ElectroPrincess]

15. That's the point ...

He doesn't! Bush-Co. is being kept afloat by the corporate CEOs and paid-off whores withing the National Main Stream Media. This important propaganda machine will never fade because the sponsors of the MSM are the very "war profiteering corporations" that want continued perpetual war.

"We've always loved President Bush. President Bush is an honest man." Over and over and over and over ...

The latest PR fandango with Lance Armstrong drives home their OBSESSION with operating "behind the curtain" - almost absolute control of the National News media (very rare exception and always using the term LEFTISTS when referring to Anti-War protesters or Anti-Corporation promoting Democrats.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. Not only his actions or lack of them on the morning of

September 11, 2001, his track record in the TANG during Vietnam but the way this piss poor excuse for a human being is treating Cindy Sheehan and her supporters in Texas made me give him my new nickname:
the sniveling yellow coward.

This man deserves no respect from any American who has ever had any family member serve in any branch of the US military at any time.

It is so obvious to me that he doesn't give a damn about any of the 1800 plus dead Americans in Iraq and he sure as hell doesn't give a damn about the the tens of thousands of blinded, maimed and wounded American men and women who were fighting this god forsaken war.

When he made the statement the other day about "balance in his life", I was like who gives a damn about you. Try talking to the mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, grandparents, children of the dead soldiers about the "balance" in their shattered lives.

No, he cannot do that because he is what I said he is: the sniveling yellow coward.

[OneBlueSky]

7. I'll tell you what REALLY didn't make sense about that day . . .

and Bush's actions . . .

two planes had hit the WTC . . . other planes were unaccounted for, and no one (supposedly) knew the extent of what was happening . . . Bush's location was public knowledge, and for all anyone knew (supposedly), he could easily have been a target . . .

the Secret Service are trained to get the president the hell out of wherever he is and to safety at the slightest hint of danger . . . yet they allowed him to sit there for ten minutes, and then hang around the school . . .

why? . . . why didn't the Secret Service grab his sorry ass and haul him the hell away from what could have been a potential target? . . .

and why, when Air Force One eventually did depart, was it not accompanied by an escort of jet fighters? . . .

inquiring minds want to know . . .

[windbreeze]

8. and those....

Are DAMNED GOOD QUESTIONS!!
windbreeze

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

12. Hmmm...

He could have been complicit, been simply playing along or even been put on the list to rub out. There's no telling with the way Dick Cheney works, he seems to have unusual foreign friends....

[delen]

10. He was told the second plane hit

what about the first was he told about both planes then, I ask because (and I've read this else where worded the same) he was told about second plane are we to assume * was told about both it almost sounds as if he already knew, so the question could be why not only did * stay another 7 minutes but why was he there at all.

[spuddonna]

11. Exactly! Why was he there at all?! Excellent point!

His staff has got the PDB's, they know Tenant's 'hair is on fire', and then they find out the 1st plane hits the WTC.

We should totally re-frame this from why was he sitting there for 5 minutes listening to the goat story to "What the hell was he even doing there at that school?!"

He KNEW the country had been attacked, yet he decides to continue on with a photo op. That's pretty strange, don't cha think?

[OneTwentyoNine]

13. Bush was STILL at that school at 9:30 leading a moment of silence..

Terrorist flying aircraft into buildings and hijacking more aircraft and Bush hangs around that school for nearly ANOTHER 30 minutes and even has time for a moment of silence with teachers. Thats some real leadership being shown.

[tanyev]

16. Reporters were asking him about the first plane as he entered

the school. He said he was aware of it. Why indeed was he there at all? That photo-op cost 3000 lives.

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. Every notice how "prepared" his statements sound?

These are statements within 30-60 minutes of flying into the WTC. They sound like they were written weeks in advance.