Bush’s Unanswered 9/11 Questions

[Playinghardball]

Source: Daily Beast

President Bush has still not clearly answered what happened on 9/11 with the order to shoot down commercial airliners on that day says Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan—and new information calls into question his claims.

The National Geographic channel is trumpeting an exclusive interview with former President George W. Bush that is to be at the centerpiece of its coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. In the former president's two-hour interview, National Geographic says, he will tell "his first-person story ... what facts he weighed when Andrew Card first whispered in his ear; the impact of his situation in a classroom full of children and the press corps; his first efforts to communicate with the nation at large; the flow of information from the military, intelligence agencies and news outlets ... he provides intimate detail on what he grappled with as both Commander in Chief charged with protecting his fellow citizens, and as a family man concerned for his loved ones."

Bush's interview is welcome, for his should in theory be amongst the most meaningful recollections of the events of September 2001. It is unfortunate that he was not willing to submit in 2004 to questioning about those memories by the 9/11 Commission on his own and under oath. The president did reluctantly agree to talk with commission members, but only in the form of a private interview, without recorders or stenographers present, and only if accompanied by Vice President Cheney. The result, the version of events on 9/11 that the two men evidently agreed upon, shed little light on lingering questions as to how America's highest leadership really performed on the morning of the attack.

One sensitive question to which the commission sought an answer was: who issued authority to the military that, should a civilian airliner not change course and land as instructed on 9/11, it should be shot down?

More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/28/president-bush-national-geographic-interview-s-unanswered-questions.html

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I'm sure that all the good DU'ers caught at least a glimpse of the bumbling boob’s interview tonight...right?

[johnnie]

1. This will go to the 9-11 hole but

It was shot down, no question about it. the one in PA that is.

[XemaSab]

3. That one, I will give the conspirators

:(

[Lasher]

6. Yes, it was.

It was on the local news in Pittsburgh that day and never again.

[tavalon]

8. That's because it's unimaginable that the government would order such a thing

What I find unimaginable is that it didn't happen with all of them. Shock could account for some of the bungling but there are holes as big as the gaping ones in the towers.

See ya in the dungeon.

[tavalon]

10. And as awful as it sounds

That was the right thing to do. Adding a hokum story akin to the Jessica Lynch story wasn't necessary and did nothing to quell the many, many questions.

Let's Roll? More like, oh shit, what the.........boom.

[Fumesucker]

2. Oh brother..

Bush publicly said twice that he saw the first plane hit the WTC live on a TV outside the classroom in FL.

He's either terminally confused, telling the big lie or something more was going on that day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-h4Zc57QKg

[tavalon]

9. Well, he's not exactly smart and he could have thought he saw it, impossible that it was

Human memories are surprisingly seivelike.

[Kennah]

4. Bush finally answered the 9/11 question of who was in the middle of the whole thing.

His answer was ten.

[rocktivity]

5. Is the The National Geographic channel also trumpeting

that it's owned mostly by Rupert Murdoch?

:eyes:
rocktivity

[tavalon]

7. I can't imagine how that could be pertinent!

Sarcasm

[ladjf]

11. Reading this makes be sick again , just as it did right after it

happened. I can prove nothing and I'm no expert on politics, but my gut tells me in strong terms, that we have been lied to by Bush and his people in order to cover up their involvement in the 9-11
strike.

Since Bush's reign as President, there is NO branch of the Government that merits the trust of the American people. What a terrible feeling!