Bush on the morning of 9-11
 

Someone please tell my why after nearly three fucking years people are suddenly all in a fuss about George Bush continuing to read to schoolkinds for seven minutes after finding out about the second plane hitting the WTC? You all act like this is new information. We already knew this on 9-11. The reason given for this was that he did not want to alarm the children and was waiting for the appropriate moment to excuse himself. I found this explanation to be perfectly acceptable at the time and nothing has changed.

To suggest that he was more interested in a photo-op than in handling the situation is assinine. It was SEVEN FUCKING MUNITES, for christ's sake. Say what you want to about about Bush, but you cannot deny that he did a hell of a job in rallying the country in the dark days after 9-11. Even liberal asswipe Gerraldo Rivera said 'I'm glad he is my president' on his MSNBC talk show.

it took us three years of sitting around thinking to realise he was a bit slow off the mark there :o)

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Thousands of people dying... but he didn't want to alarm a classroom of kids?

Riiiiiiight.

Did you even watch the taped footage? Did you look into his eyes? Did you see the guilt? The fear?

If Geraldo said he was a "good guy" then it must be 100% true.

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Guilt? Why would he be feeling guilt?

Planes were crashing into the country's tallest buildings, I think the reading could have been finished by the teacher.

No. Where can i find it ?? :Graucho

:banana :Buck:

I will agree that part of the movie was a bit too biased.. IMO it could have been done with out. I don't think there is anything Bush could have done at that point to stop anything already in progress. But overall the facts in that movie were nothing new to me..

I haven't seen enough information to be able to blame Bush for not acting pre 9-11. But it is a fact the guy was sleeping at the job before 9-11 and then just went full force into his personal agenda afterwords. Instead of uniting a great country, bush instead drove it father apart and down the wrong road.

So why didn't people get all bent out of shape three fucking years ago? Maybe because election time is approaching??

Damn him!

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boobmaster... pssst :)

pssst.. Mr. President, your daddy's oil buddies are kicking the shit out of the WTC.

You fucking idiot. It was a national crisis and the fucking PRESIDENT has no business being any fucking where reading books. Not to mention he should have been removed immediately for his own safety.

Farenheit 9/11

Ah! Now isn't that just the question.

It must really SUCK to be a John Kerry supporter. :1orglaugh

That's right, he must have been in on it. Hehe! I bet you also believe that the tooth ferry assinated JFK. :1orglaugh

The sky is green. The grass is blue.
I read it in the Warren Commission, so you better believe it! :winkwink:

Yeah, those kids might think too hard and understand how messed up the world really is.

amen

Rick is one of the Globe and Mail's movie critics. The full review is here

A damming exerpt of dubya reads:

" Then, as the credits finally roll, George W. and his major players ? Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney ? are seen in silent close-up before the TV cameras, their make-up being applied, their façades polished. Suddenly, the screen goes black and the silence is broken by the sounds of 9/11 ? no picture, just the screams, the tragic din. Now comes the kicker. A quick return back to Bush himself on that fateful morning, at a photo-op in an elementary school, sitting on a small chair at the head of the class. An aide arrives to inform him of the strike on the first tower, then on the second, and he simply continues to sit, his face the same blank stare.

The camera watches as the minutes tick by ? seven long minutes and still no reaction. The point is made with savage brilliance: Briefly left unattended, with no one to pull his strings, the dummy is inert and vacuous."

what would you do in seven mins? Since most of you seem
to know let us in on it.

okay, humor me . . . what should he have done in those 7 minutes? What could he have done in those 7 minutes that would have made a difference?

Have you noticed how much Bush has aged in 3 years??? The sad thing is that eventhough he has aged he hasnt gotten any wiser.

Well, the rightist, fundie, conservative, republican, binary thinking allows for two possible values. Right or wrong. Black or white. One or zero.

If this case we seem to have the possibilities of , sit as a moron, looking stupid, or jump around hysterically, looking like an idiot.

Bush chose the first option.

OK, what should he have done instead? Would getting up and screaming have made any difference? Maybe he should have gone on live TV and asked the remaining terrorists nicely to stop crashing planes into buildings. Do you think that would have worked?

Yes, Bush looked confused when he heard the news. But we were all confused on that morning. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.

Bush is going down

They did.

Sheesh, have you ever noticed how much every fucking president ages over the course of a 4 year term?

Get his drunk ass off the kiddy chair and make himself a moving target. Call the FAA and tell them to shoot down any airliner not responding to a control tower. Pick up the phone and call somebody.

Conservatives do like their Presidents dumb and slow though, so maybe he did the right thing to appease his redneck know-nothing political base.

Clinton looked better at the end of his 8 than he did at the beginning. He was born for the job.

Let's see... jump into action. Get a full briefing. Take immediate action as an elected (HA HA) head of state is supposed to do in such a situation.

"Excuse me class, there is something that requires my immediate attention."

you really are so full of shit sometimes . . . makes me wonder if I should vote for Bush if such idiocy abounds in the Kerry camp