That’s Our Bush
Just read a Yahoo! News story on Bush’s speech and press conference tonight. Full story is here; now, some quotes from Bush and (notes) from me:
Had I had any inkling whatsoever that people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to protect the country. Just like we’re working to prevent further attacks,” he said.
(That’s what has us worried, George…that you didn’t have any inkling.)
The president also said a highly publicized intelligence briefing he received on Aug. 6, 2001, contained “nothing new” in terms of disclosing that Osama bin Laden (news – web sites) hoped to attack the United States. He was heartened, he said, by the disclosure that the FBI (news – web sites) was conducting numerous investigations.
But that claim was undercut earlier in the day at a televised hearing by the commission investigating the terrorist attacks. Former Acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard testified he didn’t know where the information about the FBI investigations came from, and one commission member, Slade Gorton, suggested many of the investigations related to fund raising, not the threat of attacks.
Bush said he would investigate the matter.</b>
(Tilt!)
“Some of the debate really centers around the fact that people don’t believe Iraq can be free; that if you’re Muslim, or perhaps brown-skinned, you can’t be self-governing or free. I’d strongly disagree with that,” the president said.
(See that? If you oppose or even question our involvement in Iraq, you’re racist scum. Just when you think he can’t go any lower.)
