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What words did the kids at Booker Elementary read to Bush on 9/11?

(Update: 09/03/07)

Apparently the kids didn't say: "hit" "steel" "plane" "must"

but: "pit" "steel" "plane" "must"

Oh well, three out of four ain't bad.



See also:

• Was Bush complicit with the 9/11 attacks?
  

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Bush admits to explosives in WTC?

Did President Bush just admit that explosives were used in the WTC, or is this just another one of his many many infamous Bushisms?

Press Conference of the President
The Rose Garden

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 15, 2006

11:15 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:

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The bill I have proposed will ensure that suspected terrorists will receive full and fair trials, without revealing to them our nation's sensitive intelligence secrets. As soon as Congress acts on this bill, the man our intelligence agencies believe helped orchestrate the 9/11 attacks can face justice.

The bill would also provide clear rules for our personnel involved in detaining and questioning captured terrorists. The information that the Central Intelligence Agency has obtained by questioning men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has provided valuable information and has helped disrupt terrorist plots, including strikes within the United States.

For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-2.html

(Reprint)

See also:

• Bush at Booker

Bush "Projecting Strength"

You're at a photo op, reading a book with schoolchildren and an aide suddenly whispers that a second plane has hit the World Trade Center. "America is under attack."

You're the president of the United States. What do you do?

The staff of the 9/11 Commission this week released a report that summarizes Bush's closed-door testimony about his thoughts as he sat there.

"The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening." - Washington Post (06/19/04)

See also:

• Was Bush complicit with the 9/11 attacks?

So long Andrew 'Co-Conspirator' Card!

Now that Andy Card has resigned as White House chief of staff (and good riddance), let's review what makes him an obvious co-conspirator with 9/11:

Andrew Card is most know for when he whispered, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack," into Dubya's right ear in front of the cameras at the classroom reading event at Booker Elementary on 9/11 (although it is doubtful that he actually said all those words in that short of time):

"A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card leaned over and whispered these words into President Bush's right ear at 9:07 a.m. September 11." - Washington Times (10/08/02)

Now the normal thing to do after giving an important person, such as the President of the United States, some terribly shocking, surprising, and urgent news that will require immediate attention and action to the situation after the news is given, is to wait and see what reaction and instructions the person you're delivering this terrible and urgent news to will make.

However, Card doesn't do what the normal person would do after delivering such important and terrible news, he immediately backs up and walks away without waiting for a reaction from the President of the United States of America:

(Video of Card whispering to Bush at the school)

"I was uncomfortable about interrupting the president . . . But I felt if I were president, I would want to know." Card walked away from Bush immediately after delivering the bad news." - Boston Herald (09/08/02)

"White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was with President Bush during a children's reading event at a Sarasota, Fla., public school when word came that planes had hit the World Trade Center. Card had to decide how to tell Bush without creating a national panic...
"I said those things into the president's right ear, and I stepped back." - SFGate (09/11/02)

"White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card leaned over and whispered these words into President Bush's right ear at 9:07 a.m. September 11.
"I looked at him, and that's all he said," Mr. Bush recalled months later... "Then he left. There was no time for discussion or anything." - Washington Times (10/08/02)

Now Card and Bush apologists claim that the reason he immediately left the President after informing him that the country was under attack was to not "make a scene" in front of the cameras and the children:

"I did not want to have a discussion with the president in front of that audience and in front of those cameras," [Card] said. - Boston Herald (09/08/02)

But how did Card know Bush was not going to be shocked and turn to him and react to this supposedly "terrible, shocking and surprising" news?

One logical answer, Card was in on it too and the news he gave Bush wasn't shocking nor surprising, but was merely a progress report that Bush was waiting for. Why do you think Bush didn't turn towards Card with the look of "what the fuck?" on his face after being told of this "terrible, shocking and surprising" news?

Card's whisper was all planned to be seen being delivered in front of the cameras:

"Then, at 9:07, Mr. Card entered the classroom and seized a pause in the reading drill to walk up to Mr. Bush's seat.
"A second plane hit the second tower," he whispered into the president's right ear. "America is under attack." - Washington Times (10/08/02)

"Principal Gwen Rigell was struck by how closely Bush followed the White House script. He sat in a plain padded chair and listened as the children read him a story about a girl and her pet goat. " - St. Petersburg Times (09/08/02)

It was to give Bush an alibi as to why he couldn't get in touch with his military commanders right away to order any shoot downs of airplanes. The alibi was that he was stuck in the middle of an event full of kids and he didn't want to run out of the room and "scare the children," thus helping to stall the President to be able to order any shoot downs before the Pentagon gets hit:

"I said those things into the president's right ear, and I stepped back, because I did not want to invite a discussion from the classroom. ...and I thought that he was outstanding in his ability not to scare either the American people that were paying attention to the cameras or, more importantly, the students that were in the classroom." - SFGate (09/11/02)


"...the only person who could have ordered them to be shot down was the president, and he was still at a public event when the second tower was hit." - Cape Cod Times (8/21/02)

A year later, Card tells a monumental lie when he implies that Bush excused himself from the classroom soon after he whispered "American is under attack" to the President:

"I said those things into the president's right ear, and I stepped back, because I did not want to invite a discussion from the classroom. He looked up -- it was only a matter of seconds, but it seemed like minutes -- and I thought that he was outstanding in his ability not to scare either the American people that were paying attention to the cameras or, more importantly, the students that were in the classroom.
And he just excused himself very politely to the teacher and to the students, and he left". - SFGate (09/11/02)

Of course we all know Bush didn't leave the classroom soon after Card whispered "terrible and urgent" news to him. We all know what Bush did instead:

"Bush was reading to a grade-school class in Florida at that moment. Instead of jumping up and leaving, he instead sat in front of the class, with an unfortunate look of confusion, for nearly 11 minutes.
There Bush sits, with no access to his advisers, while New York is being viciously attacked." - FOX News (06/15/04)

And does Bush immediately leave the classroom after he finishes reading with the kids? No:

Sammon's conservative perspective makes his account of Bush's behavior at the end of the photo-op all the more surprising. Bush is described as smiling and chatting with the children "as if he didn't have a care in the world" and "in the most relaxed manner imaginable." White House aide Gordon Johndroe, then came in as he usually does at the end of press conferences, and said, "Thank you, press. If you could step out the door we came in, please." A reporter then asked, "Mr. President, are you aware of the reports of the plane crash in New York? Is there anything...", But Bush interrupted, and no doubt recalling his order, "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET," Bush responded, "I'll talk about it later." But still the president did not leave. "He stepped forward and shook hands with Daniels, slipping his left hand behind her in another photo-op pose. He was taking his good old time. ... Bush lingered until the press was gone." [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, 10/02, p. 90] - thememoryhole.org

We all know that Bush knew, but it's clear that Card knew too.

So farewell to Andrew Card, you guilty piece of trash, lying sack of shit traitor.

Links:

• Was Bush complicit with the 9/11 attacks?
• Video of Card whispering to Bush

Official Reasons why we were attacked on 9/11

• "THE PRESIDENT: Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." - White House (09/20/01)

• "On September 11, 2001, there was an attack on America.
  There are some men that decided that they didn’t like what America stands for: freedom, liberty, and the rights of men and women of all races, backgrounds, and beliefs. So on the morning of September 11, 2001, they hijacked four planes and attacked America in a terrible way.
  The men that arranged this terrible attack want Americans to feel afraid and disorganized. They want to make people who live in this country do what they say by threatening us. Basically they’re big bullies." - Class Brain.com
  

Question About Afghanistan Invasion

I have a simple question for those who supported the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. It is my understanding that at least one of the reasons the United States invaded Afghanistan was to target Osama bin Laden and other members of Al Qaeda who the U.S. suspected were responsible for 9/11.

The United States invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.

The only real evidence that I have seen that the U.S. had around the time to connect Osama bin Laden to 9/11 was that grainy videotape the Pentagon released on Dec. 13, 2001 that allegedly shows OBL taking credit for 9/11. However, besides the allegations that this video may be a fake, the video was said to have been made in "early November" of 2001, one month after the invasion.

So my question is...

What evidence did the United States have on Osama bin Laden and other members of Al Qaeda for being responsible for 9/11 to justify their invasion of Afghanistan to go after them?

Please post your answers in the comments section.

The Reagan Shooting Conspiracy

If I had to think back for the one goverment conspiracy theory that got me convinced that government conspiracies really do happen then this is it, the assassination attemp of President Ronald Reagan in the spring of 1981.

Reagan was the first U.S. President to be shot since JFK and if you were around back then, you probably remember where you were when you heard about it. The shooting was also caught on video and shown on TV over, and over, and over again.

So what was the government conspiracy about this shooting? I mean some young screw-ball nutcase shot the President -- along with a couple of other people who were in the way -- to try to satisfy his sick twisted fantasies of impressing the young Jodi Foster and afterwards was found guilty by reason of insanity and locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life where he belongs. Seemed like a case that was pretty open shut and end of story, right?

Well that's what I thought for so many years, until I found out something very interesting about John Hinckley Jr, the alleged shooter. Looks like Hinckley's family had some powerful friends in very high places. How high? Try the man who would have became President if Reagan had died; George Herbert Walker Bush...

And to further add to the incredible revealation that the shooter's family and the President's own Vice President were aquanted, a huge story like this should have been reported over and over again on every TV news station and plastered on the headlines of every newspaper in the country, but only a few newspapers that can be counted on one hand picked up the story and almost no mention on TV. A total media blackout that should have been the most talked about topic at the time, even more than the shooting itself.

Of course there is one more part of this conspiracy that's even more astounishing then the connection between Vice President Bush and the shooter and that is that John Hinckley Jr. did not shoot Reagan (yes, you read that correctly).

Click here for more about this conspiracy.

Why BushCo Hates Chavez

I've been wondering what's the big fuss over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lately and why the NeoCons hate him so much that some even have called for his assassination.

Well now I know why...

"Oil-producing nations have all the bargains. The country with the world's cheapest pump prices is Venezuela, where a gallon of gas goes for 12 cents." -Washington Post (08/28/05)