Bush reads 2001 newspaper today, Friday Morning? CAUGHT IN ANOTHER LIE!

[elehhhhna]

WASHINGTON (Reuters)22 Sep 2006 14:55:11 GMT -
President Bush said Friday he knew of no U.S. threat to bomb Pakistan following the Sept. 11 attacks.

"The first I've heard of this is when I read it in the newspaper today," Bush said as he stood next to Musharraf at a news conference. "I guess I was taken aback by the harshness of the words."

OOPS, ya Moron, Pervy made his accusations on 60 Minutes to be aired Sunday night. They hit the papers Thursday.


This story FIRST hit the papers in Sept of 2001:

Bush finalises battle plan
(Filed: 16/09/2001)

AMERICA was last night assembling the biggest military strike force since the Gulf War as President Bush issued an ultimatum to Pakistan to back allied action or run the risk of being bombed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wusa16.xml

Dear George W. Bush:

SNAP! You lying, traitorous, "cartwheeling purveyor of death"!
See you at the Hague.
I'll be the tall one in the crowd.
You'll be the one in chains.

Respectfully,
E

[sabra]

1. you should add a snip with *'s comments from this morning

[elehhhhna]

3. Great advice! Thank you. Fixed now. n/t

[elehhhhna]

2. Rec the thread if you want KO, etc.to catch todays edition of Bush: Busted

[sabra]

4. KO reads DU? kewl!

[elehhhhna]

6. someone @ KO does.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Was just searching for KO's email addy

I want to send this great catch to him along with today's article where * lies about it all.

Address....? :hi:

[grasswire]

7. [e-mail]

that's it

[EST]

11. Also--

[e-mail]

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. Thanks for the addresses. Here's my email to KO

Before I send it, any comments?

Dear Mr. Olbermann,

Please take a moment to read these two articles regarding Bush's statement from today, 9/22/06, and one that was reported on 9/16/01.

Once again, Mr. Bush attempts to distance himself from factual documentation of his previous remarks. His handlers continue to work furiously, and perhaps in vain, to further abuse the media and its audience by putting out this current spin in the hopes it appears as US foreign diplomacy, albeit, a foreign diplomacy that has no real merit due to the fact that it can be "un-spun" by docmentation.

Too bad the White House cannot scrub each and every article from the Internet that conflicts with the most recent image it wishes to portray to American citizens and the world at large. I say, "Too bad, Mr. President. There are no "do-overs".

Thanks you for your time and attention to this email.
xxxxxxxx
Anytown, USA


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22321309.htm
Bush says knew of no threat to bomb Pakistan
22 Sep 2006 14:55:11 GMT
Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said Friday he knew of no U.S. threat to bomb Pakistan following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said this week a U.S. official warned his country in 2001 that America would bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not cooperate with the campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

"The first I've heard of this is when I read it in the newspaper today," Bush said as he stood next to Musharraf at a news conference. "I guess I was taken aback by the harshness of the words."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wusa16.xml
Bush finalises battle plan
(Filed: 16/09/2001)


AMERICA was last night assembling the biggest military strike force since the Gulf War as President Bush issued an ultimatum to Pakistan to back allied action or run the risk of being bombed.

<snip>

If Pakistan failed to comply, US officials warned that the country ran the risk of being bombed in any future military action taken against Islamic terrorists. "We have been left with no doubt," said a senior Pakistan official.

"We can no longer be a friend of bin Laden and the US. And if we don't opt for Washington then they will not only cut off economic funding, including that from the International Monetary Fund, but also see us as a potential target."

[elehhhhna]

20. Excellent job.

[Whoa_Nelly]

21. Thanks, e!

Am sending it now :hi:

[Dhalgren]

8. K&R!

The shitless bastard! He says this with the Musharraf standing right beside him? What a nasty dictatorial son of a bitch! :puke:

[Jacobin]

9. Something our 'press corp' will never ever ever ever mention

Lest it might unhinge the royal Fart.

KO, I hope he will.

[elehhhhna]

10. so email it to your fave newsies --

google their program websites. there's always a link to email.

[Jacobin]

12. Spitting into the wind is not my idea of how to deal with this

NewsWhores are PAID big money to cover for the junta.

I'll send money to Dean, drive people to the polls and otherwise do what little I can. I honestly think its all over though.

Congress just codified the use of torture.

[elehhhhna]

13. So, the next question is:

when are these old coots in the BA going to discover the internets and real-time
FACT CHECKING?

Their words are in the internets tubes and they are easily accessible.

[radfringe]

14. another lie: Bush: I'm the first to articulate a 2-state solution

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2196013&mesg_id=2196013

[malaise]

16. Chavez is correct

Bush is one sick fugg.

[malaise]

15. You'd better send this to all of MSM

they are sure playing dumb.

[Tin Man]

17. Sorry, but 60 Minutes hasn't aired this segment yet.

In fact, it's entirely plausible that Bush didn't hear about it until this morning - 60 Minutes' own news release is dated yesterday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/21/60minutes/main2030165.shtml

[elehhhhna]

18. Thanks for defending your President but

P.M.'s accusations hit Reuters (and DU) yesterday. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-09-21T182139Z_01_N21359284_RTRUKOC_0_US-PAKISTAN-USA-MUSHARRAF.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C2-TopNews-newsOne-3

Then there's the little matter of the story from SEPTEMBER 2001 in the OP.

'Splain That. Check out my post 24 & 'splain that, too.

Thank you. The OP's been corrected.

[Tin Man]

25. I'll ignore your provocation & thank you for correcting your OP

I'm a stickler for getting the story straight - now you're good. As you've pointed out, the 2001 Telegraph article is what's really important - corroborates Musharraf's interview with 60 Minutes, and shows Bush is lying when he claims no prior knowledge.

[elehhhhna]

26. deal. sorry. n/t

[NJmaverick]

22. El Diablo strikes again!

[radfringe]

23. give him a break.. he's a slow reader

sheesh... it took him until yesterday to finish reading the article about how he "won" in 2000

[sofa king]

30. Yes, we need to cut him a break.

Several gallons of Jim Beam later, we can hardly expect a man who can't identify Pakistan on a map to remember what one of his unsupervised von Ribbentrops said way back then.

Mr. "No plans on my desk to invade Iraq" is above such petty concerns.

[elehhhhna]

24. MUCH MORE: Bomb threat was reported around the WORLD in 2001 --

September 11-16, 2001: Pakistan Threatened; Promises to Support US

ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed, extending his Washington visit because of the 9/11 attacks , meets with US officials and negotiates Pakistan’s cooperation with the US against al-Qaeda. It is rumored that later in the day of 9/11 and again the next day, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage visits Mahmood and offers him the choice: “Help us and breathe in the 21st century along with the international community or be prepared to live in the Stone Age.”

Secretary of State Powell presents Mahmood seven demands as an ultimatum and Pakistan supposedly agrees to all seven. Mahmood also has meetings with Senator Joseph Biden (D), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Secretary of State Powell, regarding Pakistan’s position.

On September 13, the airport in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is shut down for the day. A government official later says the airport had been closed because of threats made against Pakistan’s “strategic assets,” but does not elaborate. The next day, Pakistan declares “unstinting” support for the US, and the airport is reopened. It is later suggested that Israel and India threatened to attack Pakistan and take control of its nuclear weapons if Pakistan did not side with the US. It is later reported that Mahmood’s presence in Washington was a lucky blessing; one Western diplomat saying it “must have helped in a crisis situation when the US was clearly very, very angry.”


Original & links to ref'd newspapers:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-3052

[Tin Man]

27. Good stuff there - K&R

[elehhhhna]

29. damnned generous of you, tinman.

:blush:

[elehhhhna]

28. The story appeared in 2001 in such obscure media outlets as as:

Wash Post, Reuters, NY Times, AP, and the Financial Times.

[magellan]

31. And the upshot is we didn't bomb Pakistan and bin Laden escaped there

And so did the Taliban.

You're doing a heckuva job, monkey king!

[Spazito]

32. Great work!

Thanks for this!

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