Bush Bracing for 9/11 Panel's Report

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) said Wednesday his administration is doing everything possible to prevent another terrorist attack as he braced for a report sharply critical of the government's intelligence-gathering before Sept. 11.


"I look forward to receiving the report," Bush said in the Rose Garden as he signed a bill at the White House to develop and stockpile vaccines and other antidotes to biological and chemical weapons. He made his remarks one day before the independent commission investigating the terrorist attacks releases a 500-page report detailing significant intelligence lapses and other governmental failures that allowed the terrorist hijackings to succeed.


"I will continue to work with the Congress and state and local governments to build on the homeland security improvements we have already made," Bush said. "Every American can be certain that their government will continue doing everything in our power to prevent a terrorist attack, and if the terrorists do strike we will be better prepared to defend our people because of the good law I sign today."


Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, a former New Jersey governor, and Democratic Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman, were to brief President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), White House Chief of Staff Andy Card and White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez on the panel's findings later Wednesday, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said. The chairmen are to personally present Bush with a copy of the report on Thursday.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission

[leetrisck]

1. Too late, mr. bush, September 11

already happened on your watch. You fell down on the job completely.

[Tellurian]

5. You don't actually think there will be anything..

damaging to Mr. Bush in that report do you?

Geebus, yesterday, when I saw a news clip of the assemblance of Hastert and his crew marching down the hallway. (looked like they were physically coming for Berger)...Was reminiscent of the West Wing episode, when John Goodman was appointed President-Pro-Tem. Goodman marched in the Oval office with his entourage of lieutenants ready to take over after Bartlett temporarily resigned because of a conflict of interest...Goodman played Hastert to a T..

[htuttle]

2. I've cleared a place on my shelf for it...

...right next to the Warren Report.

I'm highly doubtful the Commission has the guts and motivation to actually tell the truth, or even approach telling the truth. This is bound to be a soft-pedaled, vague toothless report.

I'd love to be proved wrong -- we'll see.

[Dirty Hippie]

3. Notice he said

"I look forward to receiving the report" NOT I look forward to reading" the report.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. What the hell would he be "bracing" for? His GOP-controlled commission...

...sanitized nearly everything that could be even remotely construed as negative about the NeoCons' handling of 911, and what they didn't sanitize, they blamed on the CIA.

[liberalmuse]

6. Better yet...

a couple of the news stories I've read this morning on the 9/11 report made it a point to emphasize intelligence failures that were pre-Bush. I didn't even have to read past the first paragraph to get an idea how the media is planning to spin this.

[hang a left]

22. Don't forget what wasn't "sanitized" was removed from the

report by administration officials for "National Security" reasons.

[Beetwasher]

7. Managing Expectations

Send signals your preparing for the worst, and then the whitewash comes and you end up looking great!

[DaveClearwater99]

8. It's a Presidential Commission

Bush's commissioner got to write the report. There won't be anything damaging to Bush in it. I just hope that it pisses Clinton off and he speaks out about the warnings Bush received and the actions he took against AL Queda.

[Hand]

9. "I look forward to receiving the report..."

Sure you do, you lying, simpering POS. About as much as a root canal.

:mad:

[DS1]

21. anytime he says he's "looking forward to" something, he's lying through

his teeth.

Of course, that's all the time, but you get the idea.

Looking forward to Debates. Looking forward to Report. Looking forward to Cheney v. Edwards :eyes:

Fucking lying sack of shit :puke:

[Bandit]

10. Wasn't this commission "handpicked" by the Administration?

It is not an independent commission and never made that claim.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. That's correct -- it wasn't set up to be an independent commission

and it's interesting how that adjective has just kinda slipped in there unnoticed. Now, when someone calls the report a whitewash the WH can point to the commission as being "independent" and therefore unbiased.

And they'll use the term "independent commission" to head off any attempts at setting up a truly independent commission in the future to investigate 9-11 without all the restrictions and stonewalling this commission has had to endure.

[UpInArms]

11. and IF???

if the terrorists do strike we will be better prepared to defend our people because of the good law I sign today."

obviously not doing very much about it - using word "if" - to cover his lying ass.

[Parche]

14. If

If they attack George?
But We all thought we were safer now
You have said we were, at least 20times a speech

[Malva Zebrina]

12. Oh ain't he just the brave president--he is "bracing" poor widdly boy

He is just going through so much -- everybody is picking on him

and he will survive--like Clinton!

There will be nothning in the report that in any way can harm Bush. No one has the guts.

[thebigidea]

13. why is he looking forward to recieving it?

Hasn't the WH had the unredacted version for weeks?

[GeronimoSkull]

15. Yeah, right

That bullshit is so bought off.

http://www.911Truth.org

[truthisfreedom]

16. "...because of the good law I sign today." why does he suddenly sound

like he just moved here from Laos? (certainly, i have nothing against Laotians, forgive me.) i'm just saying, why is his choice of words so bizarre?

and why is law good, and lawyers are bad? and why is it ok for bush to hire a lawyer, but it's not ok for a lawyer to be president?

btw, does anyone have a list of rethug lawyers that were POTUS?

[Toucano]

17. "I look forward to receiving the report.

It's being delivered with a case of Jim Beam and 20 grams of nose candy. I'll be just fine."

[shraby]

19. That law he signed today

should have been signed right after 9/11. He's a day late and a dollar short on that one.

[KansDem]

20. "What'cha doin', Tom?"

"Preparin' the '9/11 Report.'"

[Canuckistanian]

23. 'Zackly!

[lovuian]

24. Lets see Mr.Prez sitting in your chair reading My Pet Goat

Not a recommendation for what a President does when America is attacked

I wonder if that is in the report

Or
Not recommended to allow any Saudis from America and fly only them
in the country during a No Fly Zone

[LibDemAlways]

25. Whores are already

talking up intel failures under Clinton mentioned in the report. Repuke spin will be - as always - blame Clinton.