Curious George Goes To Grammar School

[stickdog]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F16%2Fwbush16.xml

At 9.03, as the President sat smiling anxiously in a class of seven-year-olds, United 175 smashed into the WTC's South Tower. At 9.05 the White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, 53, another long-time Bush friend and confidante, leaned in close to the President and whispered: "A second plane has hit the World Trade Centre. America is under attack."

At that moment in Washington, 900 miles north, a squad of Secret Service agents stormed into the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney. Seated in front of a television set watching CNN, Cheney, 60, who, like Bush knew only the barest details of events, was seized by the arms, legs and his belt and physically carried through 150 yards of corridors, then taken by lift, down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre (PEOPS) - a subterranean bunker capable of withstanding an overhead nuclear explosion.

He was quickly joined there by Ms Rice, and Norman Mineta, the Secretary of Transportation. Donald Rumsfeld, the pugnacious Defence Secretary, was inside the Pentagon. "Dick's supposed to have a dodgy heart," said one of Mr Cheney's staff, referring to the four heart attacks the vice-president has suffered since 1980, not to mention the pacemaker-like device he had fitted in June. "But if he survived that ride, he could anything."

At 9.12 Mr Bush left the classroom. By now the reporters' mobiles were ringing non-stop, and no one needed to ask why the school visit was being cut short. In a small, back office, the President scribbled a brief statement in black felt tip on a yellow legal pad.

http://www.billstclair.com/911timeline/2001/sarasotaheraldtribune091601.html

Still, there's been an undercurrent to this tragedy that has kept Floridians, and especially Sarasotans, feeling as if they were part of it.

It comes partly from the realization that Sarasota barely skirted its own disaster. As it turns out, terrorists targeted the president and Air Force One on Tuesday, maybe even while they were on the ground in Sarasota and certainly not long after. The Secret Service learned of the threat just minutes after Bush left Booker Elementary.

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Fairytale.html

At 9:20 am President Bush joined the teachers and students who had been waiting since 8:15 am for his scheduled speech in the media center. He spoke briefly and somberly about the terrorist attacks and left the school at about 9:30 am. The Manatee County's Sheriff's SWAT division was called in to clear Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. Their mission: to ensure that the President got out of the state safely.

"It was critical that we got him in the airport and out of here," said Manatee County sheriff's SWAT commander Maj. Brad Steube. "Everyone in the country knew exactly where he was and we had to get him out of here."

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGAJ3JZNJ5D.html

Daniels, you see, was standing near Bush last Sept. 11 when White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispered of tragedies in the presidential ear.

Precisely what Card said is uncertain, but he reportedly told Bush who already knew a commercial plane had struck the north tower of New York's World Trade Center - that the south tower also had been hit.

Daniels squirmed, silently. Her second-graders stared. ``Pet Goat,'' the chosen story, was suddenly put out to pasture. Seconds passed in silence - 15, 30, maybe more. Slowly, Bush picked up his book and read with the students for eight or nine minutes.

http://www.billstclair.com/911timeline/2002/ap081902d.html

Tose'-Rigell, 50, says she first knew something was amiss when Bush emerged from his car and was whisked into a special holding room to take a telephone call. Then she was summoned to the room to talk to the president.

"He said a commercial plane has hit the World Trade Center, and we're going to go ahead and go on, we're going on to do the reading thing anyway," Tose'-Rigell recalls. "At that point my summation was they wanted him to know about this because it was important, but it couldn't be anything huge."

The group went to Daniels' room, where Bush took a seat with 16 second-graders and began listening to the lesson. Reporters who travel with the president, as well as members of the local media, watched from the back. Minutes later, Chief of Staff Andrew Card strode across the room, bent down and whispered briefly in Bush's left ear. Terrorists were responsible for the attacks, he told the president. Associated Press photographer Doug Mills captured the moment, and the grave expression on the president's face, in a now-familiar photograph.

After the lesson, Bush took Tose'-Rigell aside and told her what he knew. He said he had to leave immediately, but first he would go into the library and address the nation.

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/09/08/news_pf/911/The_drama_in_Sarasota.shtml

As Bush stepped from his limousine in front of Emma Booker Elementary School, Putnam could hear beepers and cell phones going off. Several White House staffers scattered. The school was well-equipped for the brief presidential visit. Police and Secret Service agents were on the roof, on horseback and in every hallway. The White House had installed 49 new phone lines for staffers and reporters. One special line was known as the "red phone," though it was actually beige.

Bush stopped to greet the congressmen and school officials, but Card urged him to go inside. "Mr. President, you really need to take this phone call," Card said. Brogan followed Bush into a room set aside for the White House staff as the president took the call. At that point, White House officials believed a small propeller plane had hit the tower. Bush ended the call and walked into Kay Daniels' second-grade classroom.

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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. Several minutes into the lesson, Rigell sensed commotion in the back of the room. Card walked toward the president. The principal, not realizing who he was, expected the Secret Service to stop him.

Card whispered in the president's ear. Daniels knew something was wrong. This was not in the plan. Bush had been attentive and engaged with the kids, but the warmth had drained from his eyes. He now appeared distracted. Bush finished the lesson and even took a few questions from the children. He then excused himself and walked into the adjacent staff room.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html

The only source to describe what happened next is Fighting Back by Bill Sammon. Publishers Weekly described Sammon's book as an "inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle." 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."

Think about that: rather than rush out of the room at the first chance, Bush actually stayed until after all the dozens of reporters had left! Having just been told of a Pearl Harbor-type attack on US soil, Bush was indeed "openly stretching out the moment." But he still wasn't done. Bush then turned to principal Tose-Rigell, who was waiting to take him to the library for his speech on education. He explained to her about the terror attacks and why he had to leave. Finally, he went to an empty classroom next door where his staff was based. Given that Bush's program was supposed to end at 9:20, he left the classroom only a couple of minutes earlier than planned, if even that.

More --

Start here:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html

Then:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushlie.html

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo

http://www.livingstonemusic.net/bushlies.htm

http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/sawplane.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. There are going to be a lot of shocked Americans this week.

When they see the Brooker video of Bush being the 2nd plane has hit the WTC and proceeding on as if nothing unusual had happened, the "war president" card goes out the door.

I hope Moore has his comments about seeing the 1st plane hit.....if he did, it's capital punishment time.

[Octafish]

2. My pet goat ate Bush's 9-11 story

Lots of, um, anomalies that day, huh?

Great post, stickdog!

Here's a BFEE kick:

My pet goat ate Bush's 9-11 story

By Michael Arvey
Online Journal Contributing Writer

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"Make imaginary puissance . . . 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings . . . turning th'accomplishment of many years into an hourglass . . ." -— Shakespeare, Prologue, Henry V

March 19, 2004—-This writer has spoken to people on numerous occasions who, like himself, had intuitive "hits" that the Bush administration was somehow involved in, or was behind, the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Was it an inside job, as many people suspect? Intuition, of course, will not stand up in a court of law, nor will quesswork.

Nonetheless, perplexing tar-like anomalies abound regarding 9-11 that won't wash off. While George W. Bush runs campaign ads with 9-11 images in the background and has flip-flopped on his assertion he wouldn't answer the 9-11 commission's questions for more than an hour, even though he devoted two to three hours to filming an ad, and while talk radio demagogue Rush Limbaugh falsely accuses some 9-11 family members as receiving political funding from Teresa Heinz-Kerry, it would be profitable to note some of the oddities of 9-11 that scream out and wave for attention like shipwreck survivors on an island. I'll present a few that I've culled from many pages of research.

SNIP...

Anomaly: In July 2001 the regulation allowing commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in the cockpit was rescinded—just when terrorist warnings were abuzz?

SNIP...

Ruppert confirms Hal Turner's report: "Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. (5)

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/031904Arvey/031904arvey.html

[stickdog]

3. Thanks.

That's a new one for me.

[Octafish]

4. Anytime, stick'! Remember: Bush Fled 'Harm's Way'

And he earned the name Bunnypants.



Bush Fled 'Harm's Way'
After 911 Attacks

By Edwin Chen
LA Times Staff Writer
5-22-2

WASHINGTON - President Bush spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about his fears for himself and his family in the hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling a German television reporter he was "trying to get out of harm's way" before returning to the White House.
 
In an interview with ARD German Television, Bush said that in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, "I was concerned about things like, is my wife safe? You know, I was worried about that. I was worried about things such as my parents. I was worried about my girls."
 
Among the flying public grounded that day were the president's parents, who found themselves stranded in Wisconsin. Bush was able to reach his father, as well as First Lady Laura Bush, who was in Washington. But as he discussed his personal reactions, Bush also wanted there to be no doubt about his focus on the task at hand.
 
"At the same time, you need to know about me that I was also thinking clearly about how to respond," he said.

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http://www.rense.com/general25/bushfled.htm