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Bush's Full Seven Minutes of Silence (Original Post) Hissyspit Sep 2013 OP
It makes me sick that he isn't in prison where he so rightfully belongs. Solly Mack Sep 2013 #1
+1,000 malaise Sep 2013 #3
I always wondered why Secret Service didn't move him immediately Deny and Shred Sep 2013 #2
Bush was so surprised not. Octafish Sep 2013 #4

Deny and Shred

(1,061 posts)
2. I always wondered why Secret Service didn't move him immediately
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 07:26 PM
Sep 2013

I mean, this appearance had been scheduled publicly. Wouldn't the sitting President make a good target? How could they know staying put was safe with lots of planes in the air?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. Bush was so surprised not.
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 07:56 PM
Sep 2013

The unelected moron George W Bush was advised by the CIA that Osama bin Laden was "determined to strike in the United States."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html

Jim Hatfield wrote Bush afraid of bin Laden aerial attack at G-7 summit in Geneva in April 2001. It was the last thing Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son," wrote that got published before his suicide cough murder. Bush was too chicken to sleep in the anti-aircraft missile protected luxury hotel on land, so the little coward stayed offshore aboard a U.S. destroyer.



Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?

CONTINUED...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html



I'd download the copy off of the Wayback Machine. For some reason, I can no longer find it at Online Journal.

The amazing Amy Goodman still hosts an interview with the feller.

BTW: John Ashcroft lied when asked why he stopped flying commercial in July 2001:



Ashcroft Flying High

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

Asked if he knew anything about the threat or who might have made it, the attorney general replied, "Frankly, I don't. That's the answer."

CONTINUED...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml



Of course, NSA tried telling him what was coming. But, like in the Florida schoolroom, Bush did nothing.

These are just a handful of examples that aren't mentioned anymore on ABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutworks people should know about.
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