Bush was AWOL on 9/11

[Stephanie]

They need to take those ads off the air.

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9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning.

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9:30 a.m.: President Bush, speaking in Sarasota, Florida, says the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack."

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9:43 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.

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9:57 a.m.: Bush departs from Florida.

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http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/

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At 12:39 word is that Bush has landed at a base near Shreveport, La. Incredibly, at 12:51, there is footage of a Taliban news conference by one Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel. It is difficult to absorb that Arafat and the Taliban have weighed in before Bush. Five minutes later ABC reports that in Shreveport "the president looked grim. His eyes were somewhat red." The only hard information is that there are no national security people traveling with the president. ABC's Peter Jennings, breaking protocol for news anchors, says forcefully that the country needs words from its president in Washington.

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1:08: More than three hours after the second tower collapsed. A taped message from President Bush. But the sound isn't transmitting, and the image is jerky. Then the image goes backwards. Then it goes off.

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2:35: Guiliani live again: "The number of casualties will be more than anyone can bear."

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3:30: Confirmation that Bush has landed at the Strategic Air Defense Command base near Omaha, Neb. ABC's Ann Compton, traveling with the president, is on the phone to Peter Jennings, whose inflection says it all: "Annie, can you hear me? What are you doing in Nebraska?"

When he asks where Bush is, she replies, "He disappeared down the rabbit hole, Peter."

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3:48: For the first time an administration official, White House counsel Karen Hughes, gives a live statement: "The president, vice-president, and speaker of the House are all safe." It is astonishing that this late in the day the White House has nothing more to say.

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At 6:41, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld gives a live press conference -- nearly nine hours after the towers collapsed, a cabinet-level official finally speaks.

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8:31: Nearly 12 hours after the attack began, 10 and a half after the towers collapsed, President George W. Bush reads a speech live from the Oval Office.

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http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-10-05/cols_ventura.html

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Bunnypants

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{edited to add the morning chronology from CNN}

[CalebHayes]

1. Bushflash

http://bushflash.com/buddy.html

[RedSock]

2. bush on 9/11

http://complete911timeline.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html

then read the entire timeline
http://complete911timeline.org/timeline/index.html

[mopinko]

39. thank you thank you

i was trying to find that one. i couldn't remember the title. when i saw that flash, i went straight to the kitchen to make myself a :tinfoilhat: this guy is great. for what it's worth, i think he gets a lot of hits. he gave me a link to my site, and i get a steady stream of hits.

[leftchick]

3. This is Great Stephanie except...

didn't he make a statement after the second plane hit. Quite a while after reading to the kids some more? Correct me if I am wrong. Also, I think your thread title would make an Excellent bumpersticker!
:)

[unblock]

4. if memory serves

he said little more than 'i'll have something more to say later'

[Stephanie]

7. I just cut that part out. Everyone has a pretty good memory

of that sequence of events. It's the rest of the day that we need to think about.

[Old and In the Way]

20. Correct....9:30.

What I find interesting is the pResident was right on time for the planned photo-op which had been previously set for that time. Amazing that he would stick to a previously published schedule that the public would have known. Don't you think an event of this magnitude with uncertainty that the attacks could be over....went on as planned?

Unless they knew that the "event" was finished?

[Cooley Hurd]

32. He stammered and mumbled...

...during the 9:30 am statement. I remember wondering, after viewing it, if he was really up for the task at hand. I also remember thinking, "Oh my God, and this joker wasn't even elected!!!"

[Stephanie]

5. I know - he did. It's not mentioned in this article.

It does belong in there though. This article is from October 2001. I think actually it may be a typo, because he made a statement after the second, not the first. So I think I'm going to edit it with brackets.

[nostamj]

16. he sat for 20+ minutes after Card told him of the second strike

I've seen the unedited Booker video.

it should damn him to the nth circle of hell.

[MrBenchley]

35. Did you notice that Card walked away briskly

without even bothering to see if this unelected drunk had anything to say worth hearing?

The US comes under direct attack...and the White House chief of staff doesn't even want to hear if the pResident has any orders to give?

[MajorFlaw]

6. I'm not surprised . . .

since shrub has been AWOL for most of his life.

[MI Cherie]

8. After the first plane hit, didn't he ...

... laugh and say something like "that's one bad pilot"?

When told of the second plane, didn't he look like a deer in the headlights? Then continue on reading a goat book for 20 minutes?

He had time for a photo op with the kids. If he was truly a "target" then so was every child in that school and surrounding area.

[Zookeeper]

10. Yes! Deer in the headlights!

That is EXACTLY what I thought when I was watching on 9/11! I saw that look on Bush's face (which wasn't just shock), and thought, "He is absolutely terrified and has no clue as to what to do next."

I watched a video of that scene yesterday and what I hadn't realized was that he wasn't even reading to those children. He just sat there while the teacher and students read.

I wish everyone who sees him as our big, strong, commander-in-chief would look at that video. Bush is the person I would least like to have in charge during a crisis!

[MI Cherie]

12. That would be the video to use ...

... in truthful political ads. I once saw a video clip showing a clock, him sitting there in the classroom along side the WTC burning video. Powerful. Sad.

That's the way he should be remembered. Scared. Doing nothing. Running & hiding. He's been trying to scare everyone else ever since.

[never cry wolf]

17. This one??

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html

[MI Cherie]

23. That one is very powerful, too.

I seem to remember another one, though, without the long into.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. He stated at least twice that he SAW the first plane impact the WTC...

...take a second, and think about what that means.

[Old and In the Way]

21. I'll take him on his word.

Impeach and try him for 1st degree murder of 3000 people.

[MI Cherie]

24. Either he was ...

... very confused or he REALLY did SEE it. Either one is awful.

[goclark]

37. DRUNK

He probably did see it. In a drunken stupor and hallucinating like crazy he probably saw a lot of things - stars, his rotten life flashing before him, his teddy bear, his baby blanket, his pacifier laced with booze etc.

:crazy:

[MasonJar]

9. Bush and 9/11: the perfect ad could show Bush off in Nebraska,

being photographed so his picture could be sold to make (shock) money for the Pugs. Is he still traveling around the country, getting money on our money? How can we find out? It needs to be publicized and stopped. Let him spend his millions getting more millions.

[ThomWV]

11. Where Was The SOB on 9/10?

That's the real question. Where was the sniveling cowardly son of a bitch on the day before?

And to think, I used to simply detest the son of a bitch, its got a lot worse since then .....

[Stephanie]

13. good question

We know where he was for the month of August. On vacation.

[Old and In the Way]

22. In Florida?

I know Poppy stay at the WH on 9/10 (just coincidence mind you) and went to a Carlyle business meeting with the bin Ladens on 9/11.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Alternate theory...

...Junior knew exactly what was going on, and he knew that he was safe in Florida from the "terrorists". That's why he showed very little reaction when Andy Card told him about the second impact.

Another point...while addressing two separate groups in the White House in the months following 911, Junior stated that he saw the FIRST plane impact the North Tower of the WTC. The only way he could have seen that terrible event was while he was in the limo traveling to the Sarasota elementary school. And the limo is equipped with the latest closed-circuit television systems...and a camera could have been trained on the WTC beaming signals to the limo.

LIHOP or MIHOP? Think about it.

[Hailtothechimp]

18. Most people won't even go for LIHOP. But they need to.

THe election is 8 months away. There's still time, but not much.

[Octafish]

19. Bush Was AWOL on 9-11!

Great line, Stephanie! Bush Was AWOL on 9-11!

That's the truth the whole world can see. Wait until the majority of the American people discover what Bush knew about bin Laden and all those petrodollars before 9-11. They'll be looking for more than a scapegoat.

I fear Bush won't go down quietly. And that's why we need to make some noise and tell the Bush--bin Laden connection story loud and clear. Only be getting the word out will Bush feel constrained from another MIHOP, LIHOP or ecological collapse.



STOP THE PRESSES by Eric Alterman

9/11/01: Where Was George?

September 11 is often said to be the defining moment in the Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange, therefore, that Bush's behavior that morning--along with that of his Administration--is almost never examined in any detail. This is all the more incredible when one considers the fact that 9/11 is among the most exhaustively chronicled days in human history and Bush among its most heavily covered individuals. No less odd has been the media's willingness to let the many inconsistencies in White House stories pass unexamined. They seem content instead to let Showtime tell the story, Leni Riefenstahl-style.

That fateful morning, Bush was visiting the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. The moment he learned of the attacks is a matter of deep dispute. CIA chief George Tenet was informed of the first crash almost immediately and is reported to have remarked to his breakfast companion, former Senator David Boren, "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." But the President's aides maintain that he was not told about the attack for more than fifteen minutes, well after viewers saw the first building engulfed in smoke on CNN, and even after he interrupted his schedule to take a call from Condoleezza Rice upon leaving his limousine, after the first crash took place.

The various accounts offered by the White House are almost all inconsistent with one another. On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked, "How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?" Bush replied, "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower--the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there. I didn't have much time to think about it." Bush repeated the same story on January 5, 2002, stating, "First of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error, and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake...."

This is false. Nobody saw the jetliner crash into the first tower on television until a videotape surfaced a day later. What's more, Bush's memory not only contradicts every media report of that morning, it also contradicts what he said on the day of the attack. In his speech to the nation that evening, Bush said, "Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans." Again, this statement has never been satisfactorily explained. No one besides Bush has ever spoken of these "emergency plans," and the mere idea of their implementation is contradicted by Bush's claim that at the time, he believed the crash to have been a case of pilot error.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031006&s=alterman

[MI Cherie]

25. Oh, how I wish ...

... I would have had the presence of mind to pop a fresh video tape in the VCR and hit record. So many things I clearly recall have been buried or ignored.

[leftchick]

29. "Leni Riefenstahl-style."

Is that perfect or what? Excellent article. Thanks!

[Stephanie]

30. "9/11/01: Where Was George?"

Bush's aides later offered, and retracted, the excuse that he spent the day flying around the country because of threats to Air Force One believed to have been received at the White House. What nobody has ever explained is this: If you think Air Force One is to be attacked, why go up in Air Force One?

Thanks Octafish!

How many times has this Admin. been caught LYING?

[tedoll78]

26. Question:

Will all of this be covered in the Michael Moore movie this Summer? (Fahrenheit 911, I think it's called?)

If this movie comes out and tells the truth, and if it gets the 1/2 media attention of 'The Passion', there's gonna be hell on earth for Bush.

[Dying Eagle]

27. You know where Gore would have been

At his desk in the white house running the government. He would not have been flying around looking for a hole to jump in. Bush is a coward, he was during Veitnam and he is now. Go JK!!!!

[Stephanie]

43. Bush is a Coward and a Fraud

Bush is a Fraud

[graphixtech]

28. why the peace and justice community should tackle the 911 Cover-Up

The 9-11 issue, with the administration's current vulnerability can be a critical piece of the puzzle to get this mob out of power.

Add YOUR voice at this important time in history!
http://www.septembereleventh.org/alerts.php

Brand NEW article by Bill Douglas: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DOU403A.html
Historic Moment for the Peace & Justice Movement
Stopping the 9-11 Cover Up
is Ground Zero for the Peace Effort
by William Douglas

www.globalresearch.ca    4 March 2004
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Author's note: In issue #6 of Global Outlook my Kansas City arrest for attempting to attend a anti-Bush demonstration was covered. The good news is that I was acquitted on both counts of Disorderly Conduct. The better news was my protest sign was carried on ABCNews.com ( http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/WorldNewsTonight/protest_zones_031112-1.html ), reading "What is Bush Hiding About 9-11? Stop the 9-11 Cover Up!" Which brings me to this essay's point. The peace & justice community has a historic opportunity to profoundly affect the future of the world . . . if we take it. We must work to get Bush's 9-11 cover up the attention it deserves. Mainstream media is beginning to look at this, but we need a movement. Why?

It is common knowledge that the Bush team had written the Patriot Act "before" 9-11. We also know through the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) written by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc., that their designs for conquest in Iraq and elsewhere were planned "before" 9-11. The American people would have never allowed such dramatic rollbacks in civil liberties at home and the launching of two wars overseas had it not been for one

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The American people would have never allowed such dramatic rollbacks in civil liberties at home and the launching of two wars overseas had it not been for one event . . . 9-11. 9-11 gave the Bush Administration and Pentagon hawks cart blanche to turn the world upside down. It frightened Americans into answering the age old question "guns or butter?" with a resounding answer of "GUNS!!" The problem is, the "official" 9-11 story does not hold water. 9-11 families in mass are filing litigations to demand full 9-11 disclosure. However, they need the support of the peace movement to gain a larger voice. Why should the peace & justice movement be involved in 9-11 truth actions?

Bush has persuaded Americans that to stop future 9-11 terrorist type strikes, we need A) Endless wars, and B) Reduced Liberty at home. The truth is that neither is necessary, the only thing required was for Bush et al to DO THEIR JOBS before and on 9-11, which they did not. President Bush actually ordered the FBI's head of counter terrorism to "back off" the Bin Laden and Al Qaeda investigations before 9-11. All airforce hijacked flight intercept procedures were violated on 9-11, and 9-11 widow Ellen Mariani's attorney is charging that this could only have happened if someone had issued a "stand down" order on 9-11. Oddly, immediately after 9-11 when other planes were grounded throughout the U.S., Bush allowed private jets to spirit Bin Laden family members and other Saudi royals out of the U.S. with no substantive questioning from the FBI. Insider stock trades profiting off the coming attacks of United and American airlines were made at a bank with known CIA connections, AB Brown Trust. The current head of AB Brown resigned on 9-11-2001, leaving behind $2.5 million in unclaimed "winnings" from someone who had bet AGAINST United and American Airlines stocks "the day before" 9-11. If 9-11 was allowed to happen, as it appears it was, it would remove the fuel from the militaristic fires in many Americans hearts that the Bush Admin. absolutely needs to justify endless war and civil liberty rollbacks.

It is time for the peace and justice movement to get behind heroes like Mrs. Ellen Mariani, Kristin Breitweiser, and Mindy Klienburg, 9-11 widows who are fighting for a truth that may unravel the entire Bush "endless war" agenda. Mrs. Mariani's attorney in her suit against Bush, stated that Mrs. Mariani's goal is to end Bush's endless illegal wars, to recover civil rights in America, and to end Bush's manipulation of the American people by shamelessly using 9-11, an event that he allowed to happen for personal political gain, and is now covering up.

Mrs. Mariani and her attorney Phil Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, recently spoke in Kansas City to capacity crowds at several metro churches, and were interviewed by local ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX News affiliates, as well as The Kansas City Star.

A subtle and silent revolution for truth is beginning to boil across North America, and beyond. The 911Visibility.org Movement has emerged in the United States in response to 9-11 widow, Ellen Mariani's, historic lawsuit against G.W. Bush et al for complicity in allowing the 9-11 attacks to occur and for his subsequent "attempted" 9-11 cover up. Long Island Press wrote last week that www.911visibility.org is giving Americans demanding 9-11 truth a voice.

Bush's cover up is about to be thwarted. The 911Visibility.org Project released it's new website www.septembereleventh.org to 100,000 hits from visitors in the first two weeks of it's launch. It's purpose is many fold. To empower ordinary people to contact media and governments worldwide to demand a full and complete disclosure of all relevant 9-11 facts. It seeks to engage the mainstream peace & justice movement in the 9-11 truth movement. It provides step-by-step manuals on how to organize local 9-11 Visibility Projects, from organizing to media outreach, and by forming coalitions of existing peace & justice groups.

The National 911Visibility.org Project was modeled on broad based peace & justice coalition efforts in Seattle and Kansas City, where hundreds demonstrated, got local media coverage, lobbied the local newspaper into condemning Bush's 9-11 cover up, and handed out many thousands of leaflets on the 9-11 cover up, as well as organizing public teach ins at churches etc.

www.septembereleventh.org provides downloadable flyers and posters, access to 9-11 cover up books and videos for house parties, etc. The 911Visibility.org Project also promotes and supports the 9-11 Meetups.com. 9-11 Meetups.com enables those concerned about the 9-11 cover up to meet with others in their communities to begin organizing. Activists in over 100 cities around the world have listed for 911Meetups. The 911Visibility.org Project provides tools for those 9-11 Meetups to utilize and hit the ground running, to empower them with techniques to broaden their effort by reaching out to mainstream peace & justice organizations, and by using the Internet more effectively.

Howard Dean called to attention the rumours that Bush was warned by the Saudi's of the coming 9-11 attacks BEFORE they occurred, and Dean asserted that this is exactly why we need FULL disclosure from the Bush Administration regarding 9-11. John Kerry recently demanded full 9-11 disclosure from the Bush administration as well. Former 9-11 Commissioner, Max Cleland, on CNN stated that Bush's obstructions of the 9-11 investigation were "DISGUSTING" and a "SCAM," and that in fact "America is being scammed!" CNN's Aaron Brown condemned Hastert's attempt to cut short the 9-11 Commission, and urged his viewers to call Congress to demand an extension of the 9-11 Commission deadline. The 9-11 movement seeks to build on these bold assertions, to create a mass movement calling attention to the Bush obstruction of the 9-11 investigation.

For 2 long years Bush has attempted to thwart any real 9-11 investigation. Ellen Mariani's suit against Bush et al under the RICO Act for racketeering, is the catalyst to demand truth. Bush tried to buy her off with a $1 MILLION "settlement," but Mariani said, "I'd rather eat dirt . . .". Mrs. Mariani's courageous act must not go unsupported by mainstream peace & justice activists.

We are at a critical point in human history. Americans are willing to be led into shameful acts, so long as they are terrorized into thinking that is the only way they can avoid future 9-11 type strikes. To expose the truth that 9-11 was allowed to happen by an administration that needed the strike to further it's own political ambitions will provide a shock therapy that can wake Americans up. It will be the healthiest possible thing that could happen right now.

"The Truth shall set you free."

Get involved today, and urge all other activists and activist organizations to get involved. The truth is ripe, it yearns to be broken free, but it will take a concerted effort by the movement to break the truth through the corporate media shroud that has thus far contained it. This week the Ellen Marinari suit was mentioned in some North American media. Together we can force it out to the mainstream public.

Roughly in America there are 40% who will love Bush no matter what he does. There are about 40% who have a visceral distaste for Bush no matter what he does. The 20% swing voters lean to Bush due to the carefully nurtured myth that Bush=Security. Of course the opposite is true, because evidence shows Bush allowed 9-11 to occur. So, to expose the Mariani suit to the general public, will result in Bush losing in a landslide in 2004, and THEN the truth of 9-11 can come out. We are at a historic moment. American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison wrote, "We may be witnessing the Nazification of our nation." The Irish Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, wrote, "We are living in a moment where hope and history rhyme."

We have within our grasp an opportunity to rent the fabric of our Prozac nation, and clear away the spell that has clouded our national vision. However, we must step forward and take it. The American peace & justice community has a historic opportunity before us. By embracing the 9-11 truth movement and taking up the cause of the courageous 9-11 family's fight for truth, they can remove the shroud that is clouding the vision of Americans to accept illegal wars and illegal rollbacks in rights at home. However, the peace & justice community must act fast, because once the 9-11 Commission closes its doors the opportunity to fight for truth . . . is over for good. Visit www.septembereleventh.org to get involved today with the 911Visibility.org movement to demand the truth that can set our nation free.


"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds" -- Samuel Adams - Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility.org Project, www.septembereleventh.org
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Kansas City faces of 911Visibility:
http://homepage.mac.com/snapshots1/iMovieTheater1.html

[Octafish]

31. Kickin a GREAT THREAD!

:kick: to the great threat and traitor.



Courtesy of the Bartcop Collection.

[Stephanie]

33. Thanks Octafish

I just want the headline out there - it's good for a bumpersticker, right?

And how soon we forget about the timeline.

They like to show that photo of bush at the rubble with the megaphone and the old fireman - but that was THREE DAYS later. Bush didn't show up here until FRIDAY - 9/11 was on TUESDAY.

The bunker-hopping on 9/11 was the ultimate, though. His cowardice frightened the entire country even more than we already were. A little leadership on 9/11 would have gone a long way to calming fears. But bush was nowhere to be found.

SHAME.

[MrBenchley]

34. Great thread

worth noting that Giluiani and Pataki were unable to get in touch with anyone in the appointistration until late that day...

[Stephanie]

36. And then they did that phony, scripted phone call - was that the next day?

They did that stupid phone call with the split screen? They both had to stop everything to prop up bush in the middle of the chaos. Giuliani had been the only leader standing up and telling us what was happening all day long. And Pataki was right behind him holding his coat. But they both had to lend their images to bush, who was a miserable failure that day. Which is exactly what they've done this week, trotting Giuliani out to vouch for bush on the 9/11 ad. They are hoping people will confuse Giuliani's performance with bush's. But I remember all too well.

Bush was AWOL on 9/11.

He's a Coward and a Fraud.

[DemLikr]

38. Thanks for this. Kerry needs to ATTACK Shrub* about his 9/11 actions

I've been praying that the Dems would use the Repubs' exploitation of 9/11, and their claims that Bush was so noble on that day, to debunk those claims and expose the elephant in the living room: the unelected fraud disappeared on 9/11, and when we finally saw him many hours later, he was on tape and was a frazzled mess.

This oft-repeated myth that he was a tower of strength has got to be shown for what it is: utter bullshit.

[Stephanie]

40. He was too much of a Coward to even come to NYC until 3 days later

The attacks were on Tuesday - he came here on FRIDAY. He could not be bothered to come here and support the rescue workers, show the world we're not afraid, reassure New Yorkers that it was safe - he could not be bothered to do any of that until FRIDAY. Why? I think he was too skeered. All he cared about was staying "out of harm's way."

In NYC we were ON OUR OWN. People from all over - rescue workers, medical people, firefighters, construction workers - flocked to NYC in those first hours and days to see what they could do to help. The line for volunteers at the Javits Center went around the block. All kinds of people set aside their fears and headed to NYC to pitch in.

Where was BUSH?

Where was BUSH on 9/11??

Where was he in the days after?

AWOL.

Bunnypants.

[Stephanie]

41. Actual Headline: "Bush Fled 'Harm's Way' After 911 Attacks"

Bush Fled 'Harm's Way' After 911 Attacks
By Edwin Chen
LA Times Staff Writer
5-22-2

WASHINGTON - President Bush spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about his fears for himself and his family in the hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling a German television reporter he was "trying to get out of harm's way" before returning to the White House.

<snip>

Bush and his entourage flew to two highly secure Air Force bases--one in Louisiana, the other in Nebraska--before arriving in Washington that evening.

"I mean, I was trying to get out of harm's way," Bush said.

"We were concerned about threats on the president. We were worried about future attacks, and there's a lot of belief that Flight 93 was headed to the White House," Bush added, referring to the hijacked commercial airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania.

http://www.latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036064may22.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation

(original link is dead - there is a copy here: http://www.rense.com/general25/bushfled.htm )

[Stephanie]

42. Jimmy Breslin: a lot of decent people regard {the ad} as an insult

Well worth reading this entire article - Breslin is a rock solid New Yorker. He rips Giuliani a new one in this.

<snip>

Now, right off, this second George Bush came up with the badge of a Port Authority cop, George Howard, who died. He was from Hicksville. His mother gave Bush the son's badge. When Bush came back to the trade center a year later, he reached into his pocket and whipped out that badge and he had a tear in his eye. What makes it worse is that this George W. Bush acts like he's entitled to treat the remains of a dead man like a souvenir. Now he shows a commercial with dead bodies, or body parts, covered with an American flag being taken through the smoke and flames of the world trade center attack. It caused people who had lost family members in the attack to complain about using the dead or parts thereof being used for a politician's gain.

"Bush is afraid to let us see the dead being brought back from Iraq," one fire fighter said yesterday.

The ad is nothing more than another George W. Bush fraud. First, arriving at the trade center, he was led by a flunkey to a retired fire fighter, Bob Beckwith, who had come down three days after the attack to take a look. Bush's flacks had Beckwith stand on a destroyed fire engine and Bush came up next to him and Bush put an arm around him and, two heroes, Bush called out "we're tough" to the television cameras.

He had all he wanted out of the place. A picture.

You all saw Bush play dress-up and land on the aircraft carrier and stand there, the helmet under his arm just like an Ace from the top of a bloody sky. The aircraft carrier had to be turned around so the skyline of San Diego wouldn't be seen.

Now he has his world trade center commercial out there and a lot of decent people regard it as an insult.

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/nyc-bres0306,0,5341970,print.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

[Karenina]

44. Speaking truth to power!

HI STEF! :hi: :loveya: :hi:

[Stephanie]

45. I dare them to run those ads in NYC!

Let them try!