Bush Wondered After 9/11 "Why Didn’t We Know This?’
In an interview that aired Sunday night, President Bush told National Geographic Channel’s Peter Schnall that after 9/11, he didn’t want to blame intelligence agencies for failing to predict the attacks. “At some point in time in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, I thought about why didn’t we know this?” Bush recalled. “I knew […]
Excerpt: Bush In His Own Words on 9/11
MSNBC has published excerpts regarding 9/11 from George W. Bush’s new memoir:
“The Secret Service wanted to get me to Air Force One, and fast. As the motorcade charged down Florida Route 41, I called Condi from the secure phone in the limo. She told me there had been a third plane crash, this one into the Pentagon. I sat back in my seat and absorbed her words. My thoughts clarified: The first plane could have been an accident. The second was definitely an attack. The third was a declaration of war.”
Chomsky: No Evidence Provided For 9/11 War
In a recent interview with Iran’s Press TV, leading American intellectual and political dissident Noam Chomsky stated that the wars launched in response to the 9/11 attacks are “criminal” and noted that US government provided no evidence that bin Laden was responsible for the attacks before bombing Afghanistan. Chomsky told Press TV: “The explicit and […]
Drudge: Bush Thought Flight 93 Was Shot Down on 9/11
Raw Story reporting on leaked details of George Bush’s forthcoming book: According to a report at Matt Drudge’s website, The Drudge Report, the new book Decision Points talks about topics including alcoholism, his order to shoot down planes on 9/11, Katrina and the financial crisis. According to Drudge, the book begins, “It was a simple […]
Olbermann Slams Cheney and Bush for 9/11
“Madame, who in the hell do you think you’re talking to? The negligence, dereliction of duty and nonfeasance committed by your father and his puppet, the previous President, led directly to this country having to absorb a terrorist attack … Your father and Mr. Bush, Ms. Cheney, were utter failures whose track record on terrorism […]
Robert Parry Decoupling From Reality
After watching the success of the Bush administration’s propaganda, some on the Left decided that their only hope was to give the neocons a taste of their own disinformation medicine. Though the 9/11 evidence pointed to Bush’s incompetence in ignoring warnings and failing to stop al-Qaeda’s terrorist operation, some American leftists felt that it wasn’t […]