Why was Cheney in charge on 9/11??

[proud2BlibKansan]

Just started watching Frontline. They said Bush was flown off to somewhere in the midwest while Cheney was left in charge in the White House.

Is this standard procedure?

[MichiganVote]

1. In truth...Cheney has been in charge of it all in or out of the WH

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I know that LOL

I am just wondering if this is the protocol - send the POTUS away and let the VP take over?

[MichiganVote]

6. The official line is that Cheney was grabbed by SS and sent to the nearest safe booby hatch

from which to communicate with *.

All bullshit in my opinion.

[wildbilln864]

15. Then why didn't they snatch Bush out of harms way?

How'd they know a hijacked plane wasn't heading strsight for Bush and them and those innocent children? :think:

[question everything]

18. The fourth plane, the one that crashed in Pennsylvania

was headed toward the White House, thus there was no reason to think that another one would try to hit a moving target - which is what Air Force One was for a while. And then, yes, he landed in a secret location.

[wildbilln864]

20. yes...

but Bush stayed at the school another 30 minutes or so after being told America was under attack. had a meeting, had a photo op. How did they know a plane wasn't heading for them from the nearby airport in Sarasota? Was it safer to stay at the school after Bush's location was televised weeks earlier? :shrug:

[malaise]

2. If we could waterboard Bush, Cheney , Rumsfeld

Wolfowitz and Perle, we might find out quite a bit.

[yardwork]

4. I'm not sure that I would find out anything I don't already know or guess.

I think I get the gist of it. I think that most of us here get the gist of it.

I'd still really like to see them waterboarded, though - don't get me wrong!

[Chovexani]

5. Dumya was too busy with his coloring books.

[defendandprotect]

7. You know... that's something that no one talks about . . .because there was a document .. .

as I recall it, where Bush pretty much had put Cheney --- prior to 9/11 --- in charge of about everything --- !!!

Cheney could, therefore, interject himself into anything because of that ---
and I haven't heard anyone talk about that document in ages . . . !!!!
Seemingly, Frontline, didn't go over it????

Cheney was trying to manipulate CIA intelligence --- he was actually spending a lot of time
at the CIA coercing intelligence gatherers. Making very obvious that there was certain intelligence they wanted reported --- and that they better get it !!!

Hopefully someone else here will be able to tune us in on that very early document which
gave Cheney all this power.

In fact, someone wrote about being in the White House and finding Bush in the gym -- while Cheney was slaving away over all the paperwork/documents ---

[Breeze54]

8. That day, they didn't know what planes were what and Bush was over Omaha....

Cheney was in consult with Bush or so they say but they say he gave the order
to shoot down Flight # 93 and he thought it had been shot down. Many still do.

[mac2]

9. No one was there for us on 911

except Dan Rather. They (our leaders in the military, the President and VP...and all of Congress) deserted us for many hours to create more fear.

How did they know there would be one attack on that day? No military called back from exercises Cheney sent them on.

For this reason alone they should have been impeached and at the Hague. http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=11343&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=88c7f10111099c6c4a84fe513dafaa13

That photo of the women stranded on the ledge of the WTC still haunts me.

If that wasn't enough they did it again during Katrina. No one was there for us..especially for them. The Congress was on break. The President celebrating his birthday. Cheney who knows where he was.

Again...impeachment was in order for our President and VP.

It can only be looked on as a coup. NO was to destroy the Democratic part of the country and steal the land, assets, etc. They failed to fix the levees and even investigate the bombs said to have gone off on that day by locals.

Remember when Cheney set up the "Shadow" and "continence" of government in case of a "disaster"? Why didn't they know what to do...and keep the people informed? Impeach them for being incompetent or maybe even treasonous. Whatever the reason it was unacceptable with a $300 billion some defense budget.
The fact that Congress fails to impeach them shows it was a coup to remove our democracy. Change? Not a bit of it.

The families of 911 still have lots of unanswered questions which our government (Bush appointed committees) refuse to answer or be asked. Demand an independent investigation. It was a crime and the evidence was tampered with by FEMA, etc.

Sign the petition.

http://www.nyc911initiative.org/instructions.htm

[RamboLiberal]

10. Cause President Bunny Pants was flying all over the country

trying to find a hidey-hole. Bunny Pants didn't have a clue all that day how to act like a president. From going in to a classroom even though he knew one tower of the WTC had been hit - and since he was getting PDBs all summer with warnings including the infamous Aug 6 PBD he should've know immediately what was happening - to his sitting like a dufus in the classroom for 7+ minutes after Card's whisper - to his flying all over the country to 2 different air bases before finally coming back to the WH in the evening the "supposedly" always electronically connected president was having communication problems.

[Richard Steele]

11. Because Dubya has never been anything but a puppet; Cheney was Poppy's "right hand" back then.

[sce56]

12. Simple he had to orchestrate the response or rather lack of real response!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y

In the above video Sec. Mineta talks about the airman that questions some unmentioned orders by the VEEP! With Andrews AFB, with 2 squadrons of fighter interceptors ANG F15's & USMC F18's 10 Miles from the Pentagon they decided to scramble fighters from Langley over a hundred miles away!

[Clear Blue Sky]

13. Who knows?

"Standard procedure" for this type of thing is probably not public knowledge. The Secret Service has protocols for this type of thing and they just follow them. I wouldn't overly read into it.

[wildbilln864]

14. because that was the deal...

They'd let Bush be pResident if he's have Cheney as VP, and hire the other PNACers to other powerful positions. This was neccesary to implement the 911(new Pearl Harbor) event. IMHO of course. :hi:

[mcscajun]

16. Um....because *somebody* had to be...

...and because * was too busy doing his "deer in the headlights" impression?

[Old and In the Way]

17. Cheney hid out in an underground bunker and George Bush flew around the country on 9/11.

Until all the loose ends had been worked out and everyone was on the same script. And that was the opening they needed to start dismantling the Constitution and get the domestic/international PNAC plan underway.

I can only hope every American watches this series, "Bush's War" and maybe then they will understand why we never did get the real story about what happened on that horrible day in 2001.

[wildbilln864]

19. Yeppers!

dats zackery right! :hi:

[wordpix]

21. I love it how no one took charge except Dickhead from his bunker--not exactly the front lines

[wildbilln864]

22. took charge!?

Took charge of what? They did nothing to stop it. I think they actually helped it happen! :tinfoilhat:

[JackRiddler]

23. I give up.