Posted on 08/13/2004 8:35:00 AM PDT by Salvation
G R A S S F I R E . O R G S P E C I A L R E P O R T What Did John Kerry Do On 9/11? + + +
8/12/2004
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We continue to be amazed at how political leaders are reading off the Michael Moore playbook as outlined in is movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." It further emphasizes the importance of Grassfire's new publication, "Michael Moore's Misleads."
For example, Moore goes to great lengths in an attempt to show that President Bush didn't know what to do when he first found out that America was under attack on 9/11. Moore shows footage of the President sitting in a Florida classroom for seven minutes after an aid told him about the World Trade Center attacks. Moore makes the President look incompetent and confused.
It's a Moore mislead. Moore manipulated the video footage and ignored the facts. We expose Moore's tactics in our pamphlet. It's Mislead #6.
+ + Kerry attacks Bush for the 7-minute delay
A few days ago, Sen. John Kerry read from the Moore playbook in criticizing President Bush for the supposed 7-minute delay. Here is what 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.
+ + What Did Kerry Actually Do On 9/11?
Before we go on, we want to state that we disagree with Michael Moore's analysis of the supposed "7-minute delay." We also disagree with leaders like Sen. Kerry making this an issue. Events were unfolding quickly and there was much confusion in those first moments.
That said, it is important to point out the hypocrisy of Sen. Kerry by looking at what Kerry himself did at that same moment in time.
Here is Sen. Kerry's explanation of what he was doing when the first attacks came (see link below to the full transcript):
KERRY: 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.
+ + Kerry: "Nobody Could Think"
For the record, it was about 40 minutes between the when the second tower was hit and when the Pentagon was hit. For 40 minutes, Sen. John Kerry, a sitting member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sat in a room with Senate Leader Tom Daschle.
In Kerry's own words, "nobody could think."
Sen. Kerry sat in a very vulnerable place on Capitol Hill for 40 minutes after the second tower was hit. What did he mean when he said, "nobody could think"? Perhaps the chaos and confusion of the moment meant that a group of top leaders in the Senate really did not know what to do! So they sat in a vulnerable Senate office, exposed to attack. Apparently, Kerry and others did not yet realize that America was at war.
When did Kerry know America was at war?
Again, in Sen. Kerry's own words:
And as we went out of the building, my immediate feeling was, we're at war. I mean, that was the sense, that we are under attack. People are attacking the United States of America and we needed to respond.
So, more than 45 minutes after the second tower was hit, as Sen. Kerry was evacuating the Capitol, his "immediate feeling" was that America was "at war." In his own words, it took Sen. Kerry 45 minutes to come to this conclusion.
Bill the ahole maher was chanting the same crap on hannity last night with a new twist. kerry wasn't commander in chief! hannity should have said "thank God!"
I yield to no one in my loathing of Senator Kerry, but there's no hypocrisy here. The fact that he was sitting with other Senators for 40 minutes is irrelevant. He's got no governing responsibilities. Bush does. I disagree with the criticism of Bush for sitting still in that classroom, but it's a legitimate point for debate. To call Kerry a hypocrite for making that criticism while he did nothing himself for 40 minutes is just nonsense.
...of how to use this to bash Bush without getting our heads handed to us... There's no time for a focus group! What do we do?...
Where do they get 27 minutes Bush did nothing. I saw that someone referenced a 20 minute photo-op Bush did?
I pay no attention to what liberals say ~ they make it up as they go.
Be Ever Vigilant!
The DNC talking point tries to say that Bush "blew it" by not taking the threat seriously for 7 or 27 minutes. But Kerry and the other democrats are not taking the threat seriously after nearly three years.
**Thank goodness the President told him what to do, else Kerry would still be sitting there!**
I guess you could say "Thank goodness"! LOL!
A bump for the President who told Kerry what to do!
** But Kerry and the other democrats are not taking the threat seriously after nearly three years.**
Excellent point!
And Daschle is deeply disappointed.
Let;s hope that Thune gets elected in South Dakota!
Saw that too, and ditto to your remarks.
Roger That Salvation ~ Bump!
(Vacant, idiotic stare.)
Huh?
LOL! Touche.
If he had been in the classroom..he would be the first
one under the desk....he's as fujll of wind as Hurricane
Charley ..and like Charley..will fizzle out....not a brave
heart that he wants people to believe....Jake
Best post of the year! :)
And soon!
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
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