It's one thing saying Bush Junior is liar, but another proving it, so
let's take a look at the official White House
web site, and examine the official transcript of a Bush conversation with
some school children when he visited their school.
This is how he responded to one child who asked him how he felt on the day that
terrorism shook America to the core ...
Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe
what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida.
And my Chief of Staff, Andy Card -- actually, I was in a classroom talking
about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom
waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously
on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot.
I said, it must have been a horrible accident.
But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I
was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting
over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is
under attack."
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html
So, in his own words, Bush was outside the classroom watching the first plane
crash into the World Trade Center on television; only later was he told about
the second plane.How can this be even remotely true ?
Why would any television company be broadcasting images of a plane flying into
the World Trade Center when they wouldn't have been expecting it to happen ?
The answer is, of course, that they weren't, and the first video footage, shot
by amateurs, was only broadcast some time later. If there had been professional
footage of the first crash at the time, it would have been aired repeatedly,
and, most likely, sold on to other stations for broadcast for a considerable
sum of money.
The truth is that Bush never saw the first plane crash into the World Trade
Center on a TV in the school corridor, and he is lying through his teeth.
Indeed, in a
conversation
with Gwen Rigell, Principal of Booker Elementary,
she states that there was "absolutely not" a television in the corridor
before Bush undertook his classroom visit.
And what of Bush's other ridiculous remarks - "I saw an airplane hit the
tower -- the TV was obviously on" ?
No way George ! We'd assumed you'd looked
out of the school window and used your super-human vision to see it happen, or
you had one of those amazing televisions you can see things on when it's turned
off.
And why is he so dismissive of the first crash with such crass words as,
"I said, well, there's one terrible pilot" ?
When the news first broke in the
UK, we were told a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and most presumed this
to be a small aircraft, not a full-sized passenger jet. When we heard what
had really happened, and saw the images, there was probably no one who was
not shocked and awed by what they heard and saw. Bush on the other hand laughs
it off, and yet he claims to have seen the shocking images live on TV. And
he has continued to joke about the disaster which killed so many since.
But we're not really worried about Bush's strange turns of phrase, which we
are all so familiar with, why his reaction to the second plane crash and news
that America really was under attacks so muted, or why he seems to find 9-11 so
amusing; we are only concerned about his credibility - once a liar, always a
liar ?
If we can't trust Bush to tell us the truth about how he came to know of the
first plane crash on 9-11, how can we trust him to tell us the truth about
anything else ?
We have all witnessed how 9-11 became a catalyst for military action against
Afghanistan and a subsequent invasion of Iraq while facilitating the imposition
of draconian, anti-civil liberty, legislation in America, and we have all been
told why this had to be, but can we believe what we have been told ?
George W Bush is a liar, condemned by his own words, and confirmed by
official White House documentation.
It's not name-calling. It's not Bush bashing. It's the truth. And it's so sad
that so many still believe everything he says.
