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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-03 12:50 PM
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WTF! Bush: Rove told me a small, twin-engine plane hit the WTC on 9/11
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Edited on Sun Sep-07-03 12:57 PM by TruthIsAll
I guess, if it was a small plane, it wouldn't have been anything critical, damage and casualties would be limited; Bush could go into the Booker classroom and read about goats. But didn't Bush later say (twice) that he saw the first plane hit LIVE?

When will the real questions be asked in the media?

This is from the timeline:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/dayof911.html
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Dan Bartlett, White House Communications Director, also says he is there when Bush is told: " being a former pilot, had kind of the same reaction, going, was it bad weather? And I said no, apparently not."

One account explicitly says that Rove tells Bush the WTC has been hit by a large commercial airliner. However, Bush later remembers Rove saying it appeared to be an accident involving a small, twin-engine plane.

In a later recollection, Bush recalls that it is chief of staff Andrew Card who first warns him and says, "'Here's what you're going to be doing; you're going to meet so-and-so, such-and-such.' And Andy Card says, 'By the way, an aircraft flew into the World Trade Center.'"

Says a reporter who was standing nearby, "From the demeanor of the President, grinning at the children, it appeared that the enormity of what he had been told was taking a while to sink in."

<"Shortly before 9:00," Daily Mail, 9/8/02, "just before 9:00," Telegraph, 12/16/01> In fact, Bush has already been told about the crash twice before this (see (Between 8:46 - 8:55 a.m.) and (Before 8:55 a.m.)). He should also be aware that NORAD has known since 8:40, if not before, that Flight 11 has been hijacked, and since 8:43 that Flight 175 has been hijacked. The New York Times points out that flight controllers learn Flight 77 has been hijacked "within a few minutes" of 8:48.

Is Bush and his aides putting on a charade to pretend he doesn't know there is a national emergency? If so, why?
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