NationStates Jolt Archive

As we said earlier, this is only the 3rd prime time press conference this president has held. They are tightly controlled and certain reporters are prevented from asking questions - reporters like Helen Thomas, the veteran White House correspondent. In a moment, we will be joined by Russel Mokhiber, who was allowed into the press conference but was not allowed to ask the president any questions. But first, we move to some of the questions Bush was asked. Most of the questions centered on 9-11:

QUESTION: Mr. President. To move to the 9-11 commission, you yourself have acknowledged that Osama bin Laden was not a central focus of the administration in the months before September 11th. I was not on point, you told the journalist Bob Woodward. I didn't feel that sense of urgency. Two and a half years later, do you feel any sense of personal responsibility for September 11th?
BUSH: Let me put that quote to Woodward in context, because he had asked me if I was -- something about killing bin Laden. That's what the question was. And I said, you know, compared to how I felt at the time, after the attack, I didn't have that -- and I also went on to say, my blood wasn't boiling, I think is what the quote said. I didn't see -- I mean, I didn't have that great sense of outrage that I felt on September the 11th. I was -- on that day, I was angry and sad. Angry that al-Qaida -- I thought at the time al-Qaida, found out shortly thereafter it was al-Qaida -- had unleashed this attack. Sad for those who lost their life. Your question, do I feel -- yes?

QUESTION: Personal responsibility for September 11th?

BUSH: I feel incredibly grieved when I meet with family members, and I do quite frequently. I grieve for, you know, the incredible loss of life that they feel, the emptiness they feel. There are some things I wish we'd have done, when I look back. I mean, hindsight's easy. It's easy for a president to stand up and say, now that I know what happened, it would have been nice if there were certain things in place.

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QUESTION: Mr. President, why are you and the vice president insisting on appearing together before the 9-11 commission? And, Mr. President, who will we be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30th?

BUSH: We'll find that out soon. That's what Mr. Brahimi is doing. He's figuring out the nature of the entity we'll be handing sovereignty over.

And, secondly, because the 9-11 commission wants to ask us questions, that's why we're meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.

QUESTION: I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request.

BUSH: Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9-11 commission is looking forward to asking us. And I'm looking forward to answering them.

Well RA, I did not expect anything else from a Republican Nazi...
Greetings of the Free World,

SMW

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all Bush has left is his lies

red arrow, you haven't been here in a while
i'm disaponted you never posted about the selling out of iraq industry to former interests
here: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1548/1_19/112212901/p1/article.jhtml?term=

Haha...I love whiny liberals....

red arrow, you haven't been here in a while
i'm disaponted you never posted about the selling out of iraq industry to former interests
here: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1548/1_19/112212901/p1/article.jhtml?term=

Bush is allowing corporate looters to rape Iraq and keep the Iraqi people unemployed (like he keeps americans unemployed) and he wonders why his invasion increased terrorism levels so much

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

Raysia, i would love to see you comment on the Order 39, why democracy won't happen in Iraq thread. I've been bumping it and only one person has come out and argued it.

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

That's total hogwash Ray, Clinton & Gore didn't appear together. Also when asked about it the other night in his press conference he avoided the question, when asked again he just wouldn't answer. I'll tell you this much though, if Bush is asked a question and Cheney answers it for him, I bet you any thing you like it will be leaked that Cheney was there to help Bush, a regular hand holding session if you ask me. We all know how well Bush did on Meet the Press. I think they don't want another fiasco happening like that again.

On 9/11 when the first plane crashed into WTC 1 George Tenet said in Bob Woodward's new book "Al Qaeda" Bush apparently said "That's one bad pilot" Just goes to show how in step Bush was at the time. As in not very. No one is to blame for 9/11 except Al Qaeda... but you'd think the most powerful man in the world would of jumped up and did some thing instead he kept reading to a class of grade 2 students.

One has to seriously question why it took 30 minutes to get fighter jets in the air, when it's already come out it shouldn't of taken longer then 10 minutes. Things that make you stop and go hmmm... Or why Bush allowed an entire plane of the bin Laden family to leave the US before the FBI could even question them. There are a lot of things that don't add up on the day of 9/11. Like why was Bush Sr. in a hotel downtown New York with bin Laden's brother-in-law on 9/11?

Don't kid yourself, they knew a hell of a lot more then they're saying.. but that still at the end of the day doesn't negate that 9/11 was Al Qaeda's fault.. but certainly some one was a sleep at the switch!

That's total hogwash Ray, Clinton & Gore didn't appear together.

Where exactly did Raysian Military Tech say that they did appear together? He's talking about Bush and Cheney... A little confused, are we?

That's total hogwash Ray, Clinton & Gore didn't appear together.

Where exactly did Raysian Military Tech say that they did appear together? He's talking about Bush and Cheney... A little confused, are we?

No, I'm saying that there is no need for Bush & Cheney to appear together based on their positions..it doesn't look right and it smells bad. I was simply pointing out that it's not a smart move and will give the American public some thing to look at long and hard given that Clinton and Gore didn't appear together. So it sort of loses any rational based on the positions they held or hold. To the public it looks bad. Or have you not been watching the news?

I commented on this before. Bush does not have the capacity to defend himself alone. He needs his Unky Dick to protect him and tell him what to say for the more incriminating questions.

Raysian hit the nail on teh head. If they werent there together, they might not corroborate the lies accuratly enough.


as for the fighter jet issue..... I believe the 9/11 commision asked D Rumsfeld why it took so long to scramble the fighter jets and he didn't answer and went off on some other nonsense of course.

And I believe it took a lot longer than a half hour to get those jets in the air.

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

morel likely they want to coordinate their lies so they dont get tripped up--this is the same reason why cops like to question murder suspects in separate rooms

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

morel likely they want to coordinate their lies so they dont get tripped up--this is the same reason why cops like to question murder suspects in separate roomsMore like: You're a paranoid liberal who thinks everything is a conspiracy... please, never vote :)

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

morel likely they want to coordinate their lies so they dont get tripped up--this is the same reason why cops like to question murder suspects in separate rooms

Excellent analogy TRA.. that's exactly it.

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

morel likely they want to coordinate their lies so they dont get tripped up--this is the same reason why cops like to question murder suspects in separate rooms

Excellent analogy TRA.. that's exactly it.

Thanks Steph--I dont think its stretching it to accuse Bush of negligent homicide

The reason Bush won't appear without Cheney is solely because he doesn't want even the slightest descrepancy of account. Two people are bound to give slightly different accounts, even if they were both witnessing the same thing.

Bush is a smart player. He knows that if he appears seperately, and there is even the slightest little difference in testimony, the liberal media and the democrat attack machine will be all over him.

Get Bashed for being scared to appear without Cheney, or being bashed for giving a different account than Cheney...

Weighed out, I would do the same thing.

morel likely they want to coordinate their lies so they dont get tripped up--this is the same reason why cops like to question murder suspects in separate roomsMore like: You're a paranoid liberal who thinks everything is a conspiracy... please, never vote :)

Dear, oh dear.

Raysia, comments like that merely serve to make you appear as a non-questioning stooge of whatever the government line of the day happens to be. And that, admittedly takes some rather superior mental gymnastic skills, seeing as the stories manage to change quite rapidly.

Surely Bush is able to drag himself away from his ranch to answer some questions unaided.

As for the "never vote", surely a believer in democracy would wish all citizens to express their political opinions, no ? And would be interested to ensure that all voters intentions were in fact complied with, no ? And that the actual vote should be more important than a court's assesment of it, no?