Posted on 07/27/2004 7:57:38 AM PDT by tomball
CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush (search) met Monday via videoconference with his task force reviewing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations, and contemplates acting within days on some of them, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said.
She would not say which of the more than 40 recommendations Bush was likely to adopt or if he would make his own proposals, and it was unclear if he will make any announcements on the matter this week as the Democratic National Convention is under way in Boston.
The president said he was reading the report and found it "interesting."
"It reads like a mystery, a novel. It's well written," Bush told The Associated Press in a brief interview just outside his home in Crawford. Asked what he was gleaning from the report, he said, "I'm gleaning that was a well-thought-out plot by the enemy."
"We've got work to do," he said, adding that the nation is "safe but not safe enough."
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This AP report is an obvious hoax.
W doesn't read; ask Teresa Kerry about it.
“It reads like a mystery, a novel.”
The liberals are going to have a field day with that quote.
I don’t blame them. I wish Kerry said it instead.
"Bush Baffled by 9-11 Commission findings."
"Bush awed by planning conducted by terrorists:"well thought out" says Prez"
"Bush says America is 'not safe'"
I'm reading it right now. If you read it you would know what Bush is talking about.
The statement instantly comes to mean "Bush admitted he was mystified by the 911 report, and wondered out loud if it was a novel."
I finished reading the report day before yesterday. I was struck by the style of writing when it was describing the events surrounding and on 9/11. Someone put some effort into making it seem like a novel. It is actually well-written, easy to understand, until the Commission delves into their recommendations on the intel overhaul. That section seems almost to be an afterthought compared to the rest of the report. I am going to assume that section was subject to many rewrites in an attempt to get their precious unanimity.
But Bush is actually spot on when describing its style.
If it reads like a mystery, the butler = Bill Clinton.
You might also interpret- 'that was a well-thought-out plot by the enemy', refers to the crafters of the 9-11 report, rather than Al Qaeda. LOL!
It does read like a novel. The transitions are excatly like a novel. For example...
On the morning of 9/11,the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen. (page 18)At the end of each section or chapter, there is a "catchy" transitional sentence or paragraph.
"But the conflict did not begin on 9/11. It had been publicly declared years earlier,most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it." (Page 46).
"He could attract, train, and use recruits for ever more ambitious attacks, rallying new adherents with each demonstration that his was the movement of the future.." (page 55) (Note: this paragraph leads into the next section called "The Rise of Bin Laden"
"If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime,”he said,“let history be a witness that I am a criminal." (page 70, quoting Bin Laden)
The chapter titles are written like a novel: "We have some planes" (Chapter 1), "The Attack Looms" (Chapter 7), "Heroism and Horror" (Chapter 9), etc.. The section titles are written similarly.
It is not a government report, in any typical sense.
It does read like a novel. So the President is, again, factually correct. His assessement/impression, in the precise sense of prose, is accurate.
Why do you think the liberals "are going to have a field day with that quote" ..??
But the liberals are still going to hammer Bush over this statement, accurate or not. It's not a big deal. They're always hammering him over something anyway.
Which makes dead's statement even stronger. Since when do democrats care about the facts? They'll use anything to slander people who dont think like them.
Does anybody know who the actual author of the report is? I know they all signed off on it, but I don't know who wrote it.
You think too much like a hypersensitive PR advisor, always overly concerned about the impact on voters of a stray remark here and there, while ignoring the more important impact of the candidate's overall record of achievement. Bush has a track record of both accomplishment and clarity of vision on responding to 9/11. That is the reason Bush's numbers on this issue are so high. This sort of remark is a drop in the bucket by comparison. Of course the other side will try to paint him in the light you describe. The question is to what ultimate affect on voters? My guess is slim to none.
Bush's opponents have been prolific in using Bush's own words to paint him as a dupe and a fool for over four years now and, outside of their own base, the public isn't buying that stuff. The voters have seen Bush engage in decisive actions and heard him speak with clarity on his vision for how to respond to 9-11. Relative to your concerns, that record will mean a helluva lot more with Americans than an ill-conceived comment by Bush.
And, I agree with BureaucratusMaximus that liberals aren't intrested in facts. They seems to only be interested in these types of soundbytes.
It is again funny, however, that Bush (the supposed "dumb" guy) accurately pin points the prose, but the media template won't be allowed to show Bush's literary prowess/instincts.
Pity. I guess we just aren't allowed to say anything anymore for fear of th listening liberals. Frankly, I'm not going to live in a world like that. I'm going to say what I want, when I want .
Maybe the President "can't" do that, but I can...and will.
Unfortunately, the report doesn't say who actually wrote it. They call it a joint effort, but the writing style suggests a single author in the descriptive chapters.
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