I'm curious to know how many of you think Bush may have knew about 9/11 and failed to act in order to strip the constitution and gain popularity? I know its far fetched but it is exactly what the Nazis did, they burned the Reichstag (German Parliament) and blamed it on the Communists. The very next day they invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permited the suspension of civil liberties in time of national emergency.
Interesting facts:
1. CBS reporter David Martin revealed that weeks before the attacks, the CIA had warned Bush personally of Osama Bin Laden?s intent to use hijacked planes as missiles. That followed the damaging exposure by The Associated Press?s John Solomon of a pre-9/11 FBI memo from an officer in Phoenix warning of suspicious Middle Eastern men training at flight schools?a warning that went unheeded.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=340_0_1_0_C
2. One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike 'in the coming weeks,' the congressional investigators found. The intelligence briefing went on to say: 'The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10
3. In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashhahahahaha was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines in the weeks before 9/11, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashhahahahaha has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/...le303601.shtml
4. President Bush's daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up to the September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner, senior administration officials said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bus....11/index.html
5. On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp
6. At approximately 8:48 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first pictures of the burning World Trade Center were broadcast on live television. At that time the Bush admin knew that three commercial airplanes had been hijacked. They knew that one plane had been flown deliberately into the World Trade Center's North Tower; a second plane was wildly off course and also heading toward Manhattan; and a third plane had abruptly turned around over Ohio and was flying back toward Washington, DC.
So why, at 9:03 a.m. - fifteen minutes after it was clear the United States was under terrorist attack - did President Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a 20-minute pre-planned photo op?
Here is an interesting flash timeline:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911short.htm
All this and the fact Bush opposes an independent investigation into 9/11 makes one wonder.