A discussion of how
this century has gotten off to such a bad start.
In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
- Monday, May 12, 2003 -
Reading about the goat.
I avoided posting more stuff like this for a while, this isn't even the first timeline I've seen, though it is a very detailed one. The problem with questioning what happened with Bush on 9/11 is that people think you're accusing him of knowing about it. If you read this timeline it is obvious he didn't. He didn't know anything. If anything it looks like Bush was stripped of power that day. It looks as if a coup happened, with Cheney lying to his "boss" to keep him out of the way.
What gets me is the rewriting of history. How the White House is now saying Bush actually reacted when told about the second plane: "Chief of Staff Andrew Card claimed that after he told Bush about the second World Trade Center crash, "it was only a matter of seconds" before Bush "excused himself very politely to the teacher and to the students, and he left" the classroom."
You can view the tape yourself in that article. When I have time I'll post it to here as well. It wasn't a matter of seconds. He kept reading about the count for many a minute (7, 9, 20?). He joked with the kids. He was doing fine. I don't really expect much from Bush, so this doesn't surprise me. But why wasn't he forcibly yanked out of that public place? Why didn't his staff demand his attention as he was the only person who could order passengers jets shot down?
I'll come back to this some time in the future when I have more time. Though I have quicktime copies of the classroom scene saved, I'd recommend you download the videos linked from that article as well. It is important that that scene not be forgotten. After all, the story about that goat is fasinating. It sure had the Presiden'ts attention that morning.
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Americans, whose rising distress
in our leader's decisions brought us together to make this site.
As Bush said, he's a "uniter." Many of us have never even met.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American people."
- Teddy Roosevelt
"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of
its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work
for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering
hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the
Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make
fitting response."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions, but laws must and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain
degree."
- James Madison
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves." - John F. Kennedy
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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