Bush Says He Saw The First Plane Hit The Tower! But How?
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate
outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."
-GW Bush speaking before the UN GeGeneral Assembly 11/10/2001
George W. Bush has publically claimed at least twice that he saw the first plane (flight 11?) hit the (north) tower on television news before he entered the classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School on the morning of 9/11. This is impossible, because there was no television news video footage of the first plane hitting that tower until hours after it was reported to have hit at 8:46 am. Below are Bush's claims of seeing the first plane hit and also some mainstream news reports of exactly where Bush was before, during and after the attacks on 9/11:
Video: Bush says he saw the first plane hit on the morning of 9/11:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IM...irstplane1.ram
Quote:
Town Hall Meeting, Aired December 4, 2001
QUESTION: ... how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?
BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Jordan (ph).
Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida.
And my chief of staff, Andy Card – actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works.
And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower – the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
But I was whisked off there – I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower."
CNN Transcript:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../04/se.04.html
Video clip:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES...irstplane1.ram
What? He saw the first plane? Maybe he just mispoke... But wait, he said it again here:
Quote:
January 5, 2001, Remarks by the President in Town Hall Meeting, Ontario, California
Q: What was the first thing that went through your head when you heard that a plane crashed into the first building?
THE PRESIDENT ...I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack."
Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0020105-3.html
audio clip:
http://www.911blimp.net/sounds/BushA...tMorning. mp3
Steve Lemke, a producer in Sarasota, Florida confirms that through a conversation with Gwen Rigell, President Bush did not see television news images of the first plane striking the North Tower before he entered Sandra Kay Daniels' second-grade classroom:
Quote:
I had the opportunity to talk with Principal Gwen Rigell of Booker Elementary school for about twenty minutes. ... I asked her if in fact the President had been watching the events of 9-11 unfold on TV before he went into that classroom and she told me "Absolutely not". There was no TV in the corridor or anywhere near that classroom
Source:
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=10
Quote:
New York Post, September 12th 2002
Teacher relives moment Bush- and her kids- got the news
"...at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, teacher Sandra Daniels recalled yesterday how she and her class learned of the terror attacks- when a Secret Service agent rushed into the room to inform the president of United States.
President Bush had been presiding over her reading class last 9/11, when a Secret Service agent interrupted the lesson and asked, "where can we get a television?".
"The President bolted right out of here and told me: "take over", Daniels told the Post yesterday...
...a short while later he came back and said, 'What we thought was an accident turned out to be a terrorist hijack."
The New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/09112002/56883.htm
Quote:
“I thought it was an accident,” says Mr. Bush. “I thought it was a pilot error. I thought that some foolish soul had gotten lost and - and made a terrible mistake.”
Mr. Bush was told about the first plane just before sitting down with a class of second graders. He was watching a reading drill when, just after nine, United Flight 175 exploded into the second tower. There was the sudden realization that what had seemed like a terrible mistake was a coordinated attack.
Back in the Florida classroom, press secretary Ari Fleischer got the news on his pager. The president’s chief-of-staff, Andy Card stepped in.
“A second plane hit the second tower; America is under attack,” Card told the president
CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in521718.shtml
Quote:
Suddenly, a time to lead, By Bill Sammon, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
...[bush] climbed into a Cadillac limousine and set out at 8:39 a.m. on the nine-mile trip to Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota...
...What could possibly go wrong on a day such as this? It was 8:46 a.m.
Mr. Bush and his aides, including Mr. Card, arrived nine minutes later at the elementary school on Martin Luther King Jr. Way...
..."We're on time," the president remembered. "I like to stay on time; I like to be crisp."
Personal assistant Blake Gottesman gave him some final stage directions.
"'Here's what you're going to be doing; you're going to meet so-and-so, such-and-such,'" Mr. Bush recalled being told. "And Andy Card says, 'By the way, an aircraft flew into the World Trade Center.'
"And my first reaction was — as an old pilot — how could the guy have gotten so off course to hit the towers? What a terrible accident that is. The first report I heard was a light airplane, twin-engine airplane."
The president entered a holding room at the school and picked up a secure telephone to speak with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice at the White House. She was sitting in her office, watching live coverage of the stricken north tower as it belched black smoke into a cloudless sky.
"There's one terrible pilot," Mr. Bush muttered.
Turning to Mr. Card, he speculated that the pilot must have suffered a heart attack. Mr. Bush, who had yet to see the TV images, drafted a statement pledging federal assistance...
Source:
http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/que...ogle-cache.htm
Quote:
'ABC News' Special Report:
"Planes crash into World Trade Center", Tuesday 11 September 2001
JENNINGS: ...Want to check in very quickly with the president of the United States. John Cochran with the president in Florida. John:
JOHN COCHRAN reporting:
Peter, as you know, the president's down in Florida talking about education. He got out of his hotel suite this morning, was about to leave, reporters saw the White House chief of staff, Andy Card, whisper into his ear. The reporter said to the president, 'Do you know what's going on in New York?' He said he did, and he said he will have something about it later. His first event is about half an hour at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
JENNINGS: Thanks, John. John Cochran with the president...
ABC Transcript:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/abc911.htm
Bush 9/11 timeline (flash animation)
http://whatreallyhappened.com/911short.htm
President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/t...estingday.html
The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-...etservice.html
And for what it's worth; There is a branch of the Defense Department called the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA. They make it possible for generals to see live battlefield images that are fed to them in real-time from around the globe via satellite. They're also responsible for bringing images of this type to the President. Here's their mission statement:
The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring, fielding, and supporting Global Net-Centric Solutions and operating the Defense Information System Network to serve the needs of the President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and the other DoD Components, under all conditions of peace and war
http://www.disa.mil/main/about/missman.html
