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Here's the point you missed. by laudablepuss 07/28/2003, 11:43am PDT
Columbo wrote:

Logically, he would have been briefed about the hijackings/lost planes the instant the first plane slammed into the WTC. While I'm sure it comforts you to assume he's unusually stupid, he is the President, and as such, kept on top of things like terrorist attacks. "The first plane", in his mind, likely meant the first plane hijacked. Of course , it's en vouge to say we orchestrated the whole shebang these days, at least if you ask the Germans.

Also, I did bother to read the timeline, and I can say unequivocally that I wasn't looking at the clock at any moment the the camera was on the towers.


The first plane was caught on tape crashing into the WTC (by first, I'm talking about the first to hit the towers), but that footage wasn't available until late in the day. The only plane that anyone could have seen on TV hitting the WTC was the second plane. Bush supposedly made that comment at a time when he couldn't have possibly seen the first plane hit. I'm inclined toward Mao's and El Koba's viewpoints on this, that Bush is a PR whore and a complete imbecile.

Still, if I were a Democrat running for President, I might include his idiot "I thought he was a really bad pilot or it was a tragic accident" (or however he put it) in a campaign commercial, then have a voiceover say something like "That's a hillarious joke you made, Mr. President, during a national tragedy." Then a shot of him reading to kindergartners for 20 minutes after the planes hit with the inquiry "Is this what Bush calls 'leadership'?"

I'm far more interested to know why those planes weren't shot down, however.
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Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by SBDMT 07/24/2003, 11:28pm PDT NEW
    Re: Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by laudablepuss 07/25/2003, 1:30pm PDT NEW
        Re: Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by Chairman Mao 07/25/2003, 3:33pm PDT NEW
            Re: Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by E. L. Koba 07/25/2003, 7:03pm PDT NEW
        If true, re: President Bush saying that, consider me officially freaked out. NT by Senor Barborito 07/25/2003, 5:12pm PDT NEW
            You freak out too easily. by Columbo 07/26/2003, 8:50pm PDT NEW
                Here's the point you missed. by laudablepuss 07/28/2003, 11:43am PDT NEW
                    Keep up the good work. by Karl_Rove 07/28/2003, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                Re: You freak out too easily. by foogla 07/28/2003, 12:45pm PDT NEW
                    A pity said chancellor sucks in every other conceivable way (from what I hear) by Senor Barborito 07/28/2003, 6:07pm PDT NEW
                        Re: A pity said chancellor sucks in every other conceivable way (from what I hea by Lizard_King 07/28/2003, 7:09pm PDT NEW
    heh NT by foogla 07/25/2003, 1:47pm PDT NEW
    Re: Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by Lizard_King 07/28/2003, 1:20pm PDT NEW
        Re: Dammit Foogla! Them's fightin' words! by foogla 07/28/2003, 5:48pm PDT NEW
            huh. by Lizard_King 07/28/2003, 7:06pm PDT NEW
 
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