Dimson: "My job was to keep America safe"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Dimson:

"My job was to keep America safe, and I did it ! " (Just heard him say on MSNBC)

NO, YOU DID NOT !!

* RICE CLAIM: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02

* FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles. [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01]



http://rense.com/general50/bushrice.htm

[napkinz]

1. ...

[LakeVermilion]

2. Wrong! It was his job to protect the Constitution.

I love all the red herring about protecting the country. (He/They didn't.) After the attack that they didn't prevent, they proceeded to take apart the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

[CrispyQ]

14. This. ^^^

Thanks to a dumbed down population, most of whom couldn't tell you what the Bill of Rights is. Wave the flag, ramp up the fear, tell the people to shop.

The only time I felt this badly about my country was the day the Abu Ghraib story broke. I just don't see the US/us getting any better.

[napkinz]

3. what memo?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Wonder if Rice ever "got back to you..."

Yike...reading this transcript brings back horrible memories


BEN-VENISTE: Did the president meet with the director of the FBI? RICE: We had a structural problem in the United States, and that structural problem was that we did not share domestic and foreign intelligence in a way to make a product for policymakers, for good reasons -- for legal reasons, for cultural reasons -- a product that people could depend upon.

BEN-VENISTE: Did the president meet with the director of...

KEAN: Commissioner, we got to move on...

BEN-VENISTE: ... the FBI between August 6 and September 11?

KEAN: ... to Commissioner Fielding.

RICE: I will have to get back to you on that. I am not certain.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/

[napkinz]

15. ...

[spanone]

26. you really really really really can't make this shit up...

no one would believe it!!

[on point]

4. Fact: Several years prior there were NEWSPAPER reports of Al Queda plot in Philippines to use airplanes

So no one thought is just rubbish. It was documented in the newspapers before Bush regime even took office.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. The whole thing boils down to such a simple concept. If those guys

never got on those planes, never got into the cockpits - we would be living
without this horrendous event in our lives.

Condi knew there could be a highjacking - but I heard her say one time that
"I thought it was just going to be a "regular" highjacking."

She insists on saying she could not have prevented a plane flying into
a building. She does this to obscure the fact that she could have
prevented this by preventing a "regular" highjacking.

Amazing she got away with this !!

She should be universally disgraced - doing time - not serving on
a NCAA committee.

[Atman]

9. There was a damned FOX TV show about planes used as missiles!

It was on freakin' TELEVISION! But no on could ever have imagined!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Ha. Maybe even THEY know Fox is bogus. nt

[Mike Nelson]

5. Thank you, President Obama!

...for keeping us safer than the previous administration did...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. I always think about a young woman who lived across the East

River from Manhattan. Months after the attack she spoke
about how she couldn't sleep with the nightmares and sounds
that scared her.

I think about how Obama's leadership over the single act of eliminating Bin Laden must
have eased her mind to some degree. The minds of many
people who lived nearby. Only they know the true horror.

And it makes me abhor Cheney and Bush even more for disregarding these people
and putting Bin Laden's capture on the back burner - for one reason only --to keep a boogie man in
their back pocket to scare people. How detestable !

[LordGlenconner]

10. And he was a miserable fucking failure at it

As evidenced by the OPs picture.

[Iggo]

11. No, your job was to protect and defend the constitution...

...at which you failed massively.

[spanone]

12. if that's true george, why should your party worry about repercussions you dumb fuck

[hifiguy]

16. You failed, fuckwit.

Just like you failed as a human being.

Why does this cretinous manlike object still draw breath???

[napkinz]

17. you're taking about an American Hero!

[napkinz]

18. where was the outrage?

[lpbk2713]

19. And you blew it.

Advisors --- "Mr President, we have found the majority of the 09/11 terrorists were out of Saudi Arabia."

Shit-for-Brains --- "Well alrighty then. Let's attack Saddam and take all his oil."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Ugh...read Rice's testimony - she want on and on about how Bush had

set forth the number one priority before 9-11 - get Saddam. She did
well practicing the bullshit for that

[napkinz]

20. Bush on vacation one month before ...

[Ilsa]

21. Well, once he heard the warning, why would

He hang out in DC with the bullseye on it? He ran away from DC for as long as he could.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. the way I remember to diary of the days of 9-11 and after that

someone pieced together - he wanted to go to DC but Cheney wouldn't let him !

[bigwillq]

24. They should all be in jail. But I guess that is off the table. (nt)

[wildbilln864]

25. 9/11 !!!!! n/t