17.May 2002 Bush Is Lying A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS.htm

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Bush is lying.

It's that simple.

Today,

in an effort

to stop his presidency

from

hemorrhaging its credibility,

Bush took to the podium

to gamely defend his lack of action

on behalf of the American people

prior to September 11th.

According to CNN,

"Weighing in on a furor over

what the government knew

about

potential terrorist attacks

before September 11,

President Bush

on Friday

criticized the "second-guessing"

and said

he had no clear indication beforehand

that terrorists would hijack jets

and deliberately crash them."

(<https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/17/bush.sept.11/index.html>)

Bush was echoing

the hollow excuse offered

by Ari Fleischer,

who said

on Wednesday:

"The president did not receive information

about

the use of airplanes as missiles

by suicide bombers.

This was a new type of attack

that was

not

foreseen."

(<https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020516/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_quotes_2>)

There's only one thing wrong

with

both

their statements.

The White House and Bush

were well aware

of the potential use of hijacked suicide missiles.

When Bush attended a G-8 conference in Italy

in 2001,

"U.S. and Italian officials were warned

in July

that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush

and other leaders

by crashing an airliner

into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations,

officials said

Wednesday.

Italian officials took the reports seriously enough

to prompt extraordinary precautions

during the July summit

of the Group of 8 nations,

including closing the airspace over Genoa

and stationing antiaircraft guns

at the city's airport.

But a U.S. official said that

American counter-terrorism experts

considered the warning "unsubstantiated."

In either case,

the reports suggest that

Western governments

were aware

that terrorists might

one day

use a hijacked airplane as a suicide weapon --

as they did Sept. 11

in attacks on the

World Trade Center and the

Pentagon."

(<https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092701genoa.story>)

More

damning evidence

of the Bush lie

is found

in a 1999

Federal Report

that warned:

"Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks,

a federal report warned the executive branch

that Osama bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner

and dive bomb it into the Pentagon

or other government building.

"Suicide bomber(s)

belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion

could crash-land an aircraft

packed with high explosives

into the Pentagon,

the headquarters of the

Central Intelligence Agency, or

the White House,"

the September 1999 report

said.

The report,

entitled the

"Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism:

Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?,"

described the suicide hijacking

as one of several possible retribution attacks

al-Qaida might seek for the

1998

U.S. airstrike against

bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan"

https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/AP/20020517/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_1999_warning_6

We

could

recount

more

evidence

that the

White House

is deceiving the

American people,

but the above two items offer an open and shut case.

You won't see the mainstream press calling Bush a liar,

but we will,

because

we care

about

America

and

our fellow

Americans.

We love our country dearly

-- and the man in the White House

is playing us for a fool.

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