Posted on 08/14/2005 8:53:24 AM PDT by nwrep
Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The grieving room was arranged like a doctor's office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through five private rooms, where they met with President George W. Bush, accompanied by two Secret Service men and a photographer. Because the walls were thin, the families awaiting their turn could hear the crying inside.
President Bush was wearing "a huge smile," but his eyes were red and he looked drained by the time he got to the last widow, Crystal Owen, a third-grade schoolteacher who had lost her husband in Iraq. "Tell me about Mike," he said immediately. "I don't want my husband's death to be in vain," she told him. The president apologized repeatedly for her husband's death. When Owen began to cry, Bush grabbed her hands. "Don't worry, don't worry," he said, though his choking voice suggested that he had worries of his own. The president and the widow hugged. "It felt like he could have been my dad," Owen recalled to NEWSWEEK. "It was like we were old friends. It almost makes me sad. In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time."
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That was extremely difficult to take, given the criticism Sheehan has leveled against him.
Newsweek is as close to a Communist propaganda rag as I have ever seen. I refuse to read this tripe!
When the Able Danger stuff really started to break last Thursday, I read this: "And why is that significant? Because the Mohammed Atta timeline established by the Commission pointedly insisted Atta did not meet with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague."
I've seen nothing else that confirms it, but as you noted it keeps coming up as a suggestion in various articles. As best as I understand the theory being floated, supposedly the 9/11 Commission's timeline on Atta has this meeting in Prague never taking place, but somehow Able Danger is supposed to allow for the meeting to take place. I haven't seen it reported anywhere how that happens.
Here's the original place I first heard Able Danger/Prague, coming from NRO:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461683/posts
I've been through some (but clearly not all) of backhoe's links and I don't see the connection between Able Danger and Atta/Prague. Everything I've read new that has come out since Thursday doesn't make the connection clear, and most of the stuff doesn't mention anything about Prague.
I wonder what the Able Danger information actually was.
Thank you for looking and trying to determine why/how Able Danger is being mentioned as putting Atta in Prague. We'll just have to hope for Congressional hearings with under oath testimony, I guess, and let the people decide who is telling the truth and who is lying about this matter.
If only we knew what the Able Danger report said.
Weldon said the military guys involved were willing to testify under oath. I think it should be done. This should not be poo-pooed. My goodness, we're talking about our nation and its safety.
No stone unturned!!
LOL. Inquiring minds want to know :)
Indeed they are. From the article:
More complicated is the question of whether Bush's suffering is essentially sympathetic, or whether he is agonizing over the war that he chose to start.
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