Kindly respond to the substantive claims I made in my post. Otherwise you are just another smug face (Ann Lewis comes to mind) saying, "I know but I cannot say".
--Boris
Posted on 08/08/2004 9:22:05 AM PDT by dvan
ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning.
Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to -- and I would have attended to it."
In the same interview with Larry King on July 8th where Kerry claimed "I haven't had time" to be briefed on new security threats, he told King what he did that horrible morning.
"I was in the Capitol. We'd just had a meeting - we'd just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle's office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation."
The second plane hit the WTC at 9:03 AM and the plane crashed into the Pentagon at 9:43 AM. For a period of 40 minutes Mr. Kerry did nothing because "nobody could think".
Conversely, the President did think. It took the President seven minutes to vault into action while his staff was preparing his departure. Those were seven minutes the Secret Service had to secure an alternate route for the Presidential motorcade and Air Force One, seven minutes to make the executive decision to ground all aircraft, and seven minutes to make the decision to issue orders to shoot down any aircraft that failed to comply.
Kerry's immediate response was not to check on his family, not to check on any of his Boston constituency where some attack planes originated, not to inquire if the attack was continuing, and for at least 40 minutes he didn't call any federal agency to see where he could be of help. In fact, he waited for 40 minutes to be told what to do.
Since he is not the President, Kerry would no nothing of what emergency protocols were in place for that day. The President did indeed "attend to it" after the proper protocols had been initiated. He simply did not alarm the children and teachers at that the moment he was informed.
And done what? Grab his shotgun, and go crawling on his belly hunting terrorists?
Hey Boris, just because no one emails you with updates on all of the government actions, doesn't mean plenty of things aren't being done.
My ex husband is a federal agent and you and all the other "geniuses" on this board would be shocked at how much is being done.
You aren't as informed as you think you are.
Unless you are a congressmen, it is not your job to jump into action.
Everyone believed it was an accident, though I vividly remember witnesses on CBS saying it sounded more like a missile than a plane. I pretty much dismissed that, but there was something odd to me about the plane hit.
I think I even told my mom I didn't think it was an accident....and then boom, the second plane hit on live tv.
What was the ketchup boy doing in a "leadership meeting?" According to his own Senate web site, he holds no leadership positions. He's got three minor subcommittees where he is ranking minority member but not even a co-chairmanship of a subcommittee.
Boxer's pretty low on the leadership roll, too. Reid is the Dim whip(Maybe even a dimwit!). If the story's at all true, sounds more like the ketchup boy and Boxer had been called in for a "Come to Jesus" meeting
Most likely discussing personal concerns in our preemptive attacks on Vietnam.
When he came back over to let me know a second plane had hit the other tower, I just looked at him and said "That's no accident!"
Bush took a few minutes while preparations were being made to go on with business as usual, an important and calming example for a roomfull of kids. He handled it very well, even to the point of not getting the children worked up.
Quality leadership is not just learned by rote, it comes from within.
Kerry apparently does not have that.
No, but he would have panicked a school full of kids in his haste to save his own butt....and then said it was to keep them out of the line of fire later.
How does one respond to that.
BTTT
Tell the lefties to STFU, for several reasons. For example, the reasons given on this very thread. And also for the reason Bush gave -- that there wasn't any good to be gained by rushing off in a tizzy, when it would have (and was) perfectly fine to wait as he did. Seven minutes would not have made any difference on that day. As it turns out, W has demonstrated that he has the ability to make difficult and correct snap decisions. JF'nK has shown merely that he's a whiner.
If President Bush had done the things Kerry, and the rest of the Democrats, said he should have done, Kerry, and the rest of the Democrats, would now be criticizing him for having done those things. To them this is all a political game and how to make points. Another example: the heightened security alert. No matter when it was announced, the announcement would be criticized as having been made for political purposes.
By his own admittance he couldn't think for those 40 minutes. Even if you're not the president, if you're supposedly presidential material you should be able to think. He was paralyzed.
The reality is that the 'Rats would find something to complain about Bush's response to 9/11 no matter what the response. Goes to show they have nothing.
Let's see; Kerry thinks Bush should have hurriedly left the room, stunning the teacher -- because you know the press would have made a mad dash out the door after him -- so that he could DO something (like scare the children.).
And, on the other hand, at a rally for his whistle stop this very week, Bush supporters loudly cheering were admonished by John Edwards, "My children are on this train; show some manners."
Color me confused.
All these talking heads think they have ALL available information. I've always said that there is more going on than we know. Everyone tries to second guess everyone else when, in reality, they DO NOT know how they would have reacted. I don't care if they say they do, they have no idea how they would've reacted in that situation.
When you're put into a situation you've never experienced or even planned for, only a complete MORON would say they know what they would do.
And when it comes to being a moron, Kerry IS the total package.
Thanks. My ex husband is part of a counter-terrorism task force and there is so much going on that they can't talk about.
(We are still very close, obviously.)
He tells me what he can, but even with me, he has plenty he can't discuss.
In fact, I feel very comforted by the things he can't tell me.
That means all sorts of things are being done to help protect us.
Kindly respond to the substantive claims I made in my post. Otherwise you are just another smug face (Ann Lewis comes to mind) saying, "I know but I cannot say".
--Boris
You are a great big fool if you think I am going to tell you classified information.
Call me what you want but I will not do it.
It's wrong.
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