Laura, Barbara & Jenna Bush in NYC - Terror Alert

[dmr]

Grrrr ....

EXCUSE ME! Do you think Bush*, the GOP, Poppy or anyone else within that cabal would endanger the First Lady and her daughters if there really was a threat? Of course not! Would you send your wife, daughters, granddaughters to a building specifically targeted by terrorists?

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Laura Bush, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush, appeared this afternoon at Citigroup Center, one of the targeted buildings, along with her twin daughters Barbara and Jenna, at an event staged for Citigroup workers in the atrium of the 59-story tower, New York's fifth-tallest building. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor George Pataki appeared with her, as they chatted with employees selected to talk with them.

``I want to thank people for coming to work,'' Laura Bush said to questions shouted from reporters. Citigroup is the world's biggest financial services company, and its Citibank branches are among the most visible U.S. businesses abroad.

Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, parent company of Bloomberg News.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced the alert and identified the buildings yesterday after intelligence authorities discovered al-Qaeda plans that Ridge described as unusually specific. The plot aims at major attacks on financial institutions symbolic of U.S. influence in the global economy, Ridge said.

More ... http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=arj.lT5AAc.s&refer=top_world_news

Oh Laura you're so brave, and such a loving mother to endanger your daughters! :puke:

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[Ann Arbor Dem]

7. What should have been done? What shouldn't he have done is the question.

He shouldn't have made the false terra threat, that's what he shouldn't have done.

He set himself up....no one else did.

[lottie244]

52. And fon't forget the Statue of Liberty is reopening.....be very afraid

I bet Rush won't ridicule this. But if Clinton were in office this latest stunt would be ridiculed all across the media and radio talk shows would be ging wild especially Rush and Hannity and O'Reilly.

[KharmaTrain]

54. Isn't It Great The Statue Opens For Whorefest?

Our neighbors went to NYC earlier this year and didn't know the Statue had been closed since 9/11 for "fear of another terrorist attack". My neighbor laughed at how the Statue could be used as some large bomb or how great a pilot one would have to be to hit such as small object (the statue isn't that tall) with a jet. He is (or might not longer) a Repugnican and was outraged how this and other public sites (they also went to Washington) are either closed or highly restricted. He was really disappointed as he was hoping to share with his teenage children the major sites of this country, just like he did as he was at the same age and couldn't do it. What's that say about where we've come over the past 4 years?

[patdem]

10. Tank, you do not send 'family members' into a threat...yourself maybe..

but never your family..if you even think there is a 1% chance that they will get killed...you go..you do not send in your family. :crazy:

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[merh]

33. He is a liar, he knows there are no threats.

Nothing to see here folks, move on....

THIS IS MAKE BELIEVE

[dmr]

17. Are you a father?

If you are, would you send your children into danger?

I set nothing up for him, he does just fine on his own.

[chookie]

19. You are SO right!

We should just keep our misgivings about the President to ourselves.

/sarcasm off

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[Junkdrawer]

28. Uh "Go Himself" comes to mind...

But why go into danger when you can send the wife and kids? Silly me.

[Green Lantern]

41. Bushwa

is following the trend he set during the "Nam war. In the Civil War boys like that were called "skeddadalers", and he has done so over and over-like on 9/11.

Hmmmm do we detect a trend here? Let's see a show of hands for our strong leader.

[drdtroit]

25. Sending Laura & daughters

only proves what any honest thinking person can reason, Bush lies once again, continuing his MO of elevating the terror threat at politically expedient moments.

I don't think even Sadam would send his own family to a site he knew was a "certain" target let alone a God "fearin'" Christian that GWB alledges he is (who said "vengeance is mine"?, oh, the LORD).

Sending someone in the cabinet is not sacrificing anyone, they are simply doing the honorable and patriotic thing for their country (Oh oh, did I use "honorable & patriotic" in conjunction with this administration?! My bad!).

What other emotion other than fear can you possibly be manipulating when you give out these "threats" and tell people to just go on doing what they need to do. What's the point???

[Booster]

42. I posted this in another thread, but want it here too.

On 9/11, Bush himself said the Secret Service overruled him on returning to Washington. Wouldn't that same Secret Service overrule Laura and the girls AND BUSH on letting them go to the very building that was supposed to be attacked? Why isn't anyone questioning this of anyone in the administration? Either he lied (wink, wink) on 9/11 or they are lying today (wink, wink). Where are the guts of people in Washington DC to question the obvious?

[Parche]

2. laura

That makes me want to hurl a cheney

"Thank you for coming to work"

Thanks Laura and your idiot husband for spreading terra

[smirkymonkey]

16. Yeah, "Thank you for coming to work..."

..."but unfortunately, your job has been outsourced."

[DaveFL99]

3. Now it all makes sense.

They were just thinning out the traffic for a shopping trip

[patdem]

4. A credible terrorist threat has to be at least as good as a bomb threat

do you know ANYONE who sent their wife and children INTO a building because of a bomb threat??? 99% are bogus...but it is the 1% that are valid that makes the people who are in a building to vacate the building ... NO ONE sends people INTO a building that has been threatened by a bomb so show they are not intimidated?? has INSANITY overtaken bush*????

[madmom]

5. shrub puts a whole new meaning...

to the term women and children first.

[radwriter0555]

6. oh why the heck not? bush let 3000 Americans die then, and 1000 more SINCE

so what's the diff?

[democratreformed]

8. Oh, I thought you meant they raised the alert level BECAUSE

they (the Bushs)are in NY. He he. :)

[chookie]

9. What we're supposed to "get" out of this

Laura Bush and her two BEAUTIFUL daughters know George W better than anyone, and have confidence that he is keeping America safe. They also have total faith in God to protect them, and full knowledge of their salvation after death, so they do not fear it. Additionally, they are brave, just like George W.

BULLSHIT!! They're just being paraded out for political theater -- in the manner of terror-as-political-tool as Howard Dean openly pointed out, and for which he must be silenced for speaking the obvious truth.

I agree that they *know* (wink wink nudge nudge) that Laura is safe.

But Mr Rove's script calls for an increasing drumbeat of threats upon the America homeland -- especially in NYC -- leading up to the RNC convention. The media will weep with joy that George W is SO BRAVE and loves America and the democratic process so much that he is willing to risk his own life to attend this dangerous event to TAUNT the terrorists who seek to take away our freedom. Hell -- when His Chimperial Highness threw out a baseball in a game after Sept 11, they were falling over each other in maudlin fashion giving hurrahs to his Resolve and Bravery.

And here's another reminder about what is going on: when George is going down, he always pulls out Pickles, the "well-loved First Lady" for some PR extravanganza.

But we MUSTN'T say stuff like this, lest we be accused of not being "nice."

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. I guess W would do anything

to avoid having to let his daughters speak at the convention?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. Proof it was bullshit. eom

[milkyway]

14. Maybe they'll stop the terrorists by having Laura parked in front of

the building.

When shrub thought he might be a target on 9/11, he ran like a scared rabbit (after finishing his reading, of course). But now Citigroup is a target, so he sends his wife and daughter to defend it?

[bahrbearian]

15. Sacrificial lambs

It would make chimpy look good at election time. " I suffered Great loss too."

[madmom]

18. wonder how much this cost the tax payers...

and what the security was like

[Junkdrawer]

20. Let me get this straight: Commander Bunnypants calls an Orange Alert...

and then sends his wife and kids to the center of that alert?

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

Can you imagine what the media would be saying if Kerry did anything like that?

[saracat]

21. Good my little pretty!

Maybe someone will drop a house on them!

[saracat]

22. Dupe

[FredScuttle]

24. Methinks Rove is attempting a "bravery in the time of war" effect

the analogy is to the Royal Family's steadfastness during the Nazi shelling of Britain during WWII. Rather than hightail out of town to Scotland or some other remote location, the King ordered his entire family to stay in England and suffer through the bombing along with the citizens...from my reading of these times, this was an unimaginable act of courage and inspiration to the English people and went a long way towards cementing the goodwill between the royal family and their subjects (goodwill that has survived the disgraces of the past 15 years).

I think, though, that this, like many recent Rove tactics will backfire. Half the people will take this to confirm their suspicion that the "terror alert" is just a political tool rolled out by the Adminstration when the mood strikes them, while the other half will be gobsmacked at a President sending his family into an area where his Homeland Security secretary just indicated is highly likely for a terror attack.

[Junkdrawer]

40. Rove doesn't want the National Media to cover the story...

Local consumption only.

[progressivebydesign]

26. Okay.. that's just macabre!

I can see how the government would want to be appreciative of the workers that went to work.. BUT SEND YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN THERE WHEN THEY ARE PART OF THE FIRST FAMILY??? Is he out of his mind? He's creating MORE of a risk to the employees by having his family there. He doesn't believe there's a risk, because there isn't one. The Secret Service would NOT allow them to be in that building, nor would Bush, if they TRULY believed that shit they're handing out. Hell, I'd be WAY more impresed if the dipshit himself when there. Otherwise, he just looks like a coward. Sorta like his sending his entire family to the Olympics, when all the OTHER heads of state are going.. to show that the Olympics is safe. Bush is a coward, he's afraid of real crowds, afraid of being in public.

[FredScuttle]

27. Next stop: Baghdad!

I could see it now...this will be like the old Hope-Crosby "road movies" for Laura and the twins:

Road to Fallujah
Road to Beirut
Road to Pyongyang

[earthside]

29. New York Terror Alert is a HOAX!

This is the headline just posted at www.Earthside.com

New York Terror Alert is a HOAX!

"Laura Bush, wife of U.S. President George W. Bush, appeared this afternoon at Citigroup Center, one of the targeted buildings, along with her twin daughters Barbara and Jenna, at an event staged for Citigroup workers in the atrium of the 59-story tower, New York's fifth-tallest building. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor George Pataki appeared with her, as they chatted with employees selected to talk with them."
Bloomberg - August 2, 2004

If there had been any possibility that there was a REAL terror threat, no way would Laura Bush have shown up at a "targeted" building with the New York GOP campaign team. Proof positive that the Bush regime is using terror alerts as a campaign ploy.

[Bullshot]

30. Isn't the Citigroup Center owned by Citicorp bank?

Isn't that the bank in which the Saudi royal family infused a ton of money and saved it from collapse?

Why would members of the Bush family be meeting there at a time when the city is under an elevated terror alert?

Meanwhile, Tom Ridge is on TV continuing to cry Wolf! Wolf! And I don't think it's his mating call for Mr. Blitzer.

[KCS72000]

43. There is a Carlyle conection also.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Citigroup+Carlyle+Saudis&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-pull-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

[daligirrl]

31. If they wanted to scare the terr'ists away. . .

They should have sent Barbara the Elder. Yikes!

[Junkdrawer]

32. Real or not, it's bizarre...

If the threat were real: you send the wife and kids and risk their lives?????

It the threat were fake: you send the wife and kids and point out just how fake it was?????

This is one of the most bizarre things I've heard for quite a while. Is it getting much press? How could you possibly spin this?

[Junkdrawer]

36. HAS ANY NETWORK COVERED THIS???

I just did a Google News search and I only see it as a buried item in the NYC local news.

[Junkdrawer]

37. NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN have all omitted it from their stories...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5569979/

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040802_896.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/30/national/main633064.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/02/terror.threat.trucks.ap/index.html

[TheSickEmpire]

38. It was on the local news

and Newsday said they were at Citicorp, but didn't question why Bush would send his wife and kids.

NYC has always been on high alert and the city doesn't plan on changing it to red alert. Below is the last paragraph in the Newsday article. It's like business as usual. So why the scare tactic now? Think of all the money they are spending and how hard they are making it for commuters.

snip ...
In Washington, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said it would be up to New York officials to decide whether to move to the highest level of security, red. The city has remained a step below, on orange, since the color system was implemented after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Bloomberg and Kelly said they would not consider placing the city at red alert because the recent intelligence did not indicate when the terrorists might try to attack.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nycalert0802,0,1328145.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix

[Junkdrawer]

39. They want to keep this a local story only...

because in NYC, they want to DOWNPLAY the danger, while they want to PLAY UP the danger in the rest of the country.

[TheSickEmpire]

46. I don't get how they can get away with this

How can we tell the rest of the country and the rest of the world? Who can I call? What can I do? Who can I write? Who will listen to me?

I'm not old enuf to vote. I'm not even old enuf to drive, but I know there is something very wrong being done here. They don't care about New York and they don't care about America even tho they present themselves that they are. They are hurting a lot of people and they are hurting New York.

What can a kid do?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp

Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say
By DOUGLAS JEHL
and DAVID JOHNSTON

Published: August 3, 2004

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way.

[dmr]

50. I guess we can now conclude

that our original assessment was correct. The wife and kids were never in danger. They knew that, but were playing America like a fiddle.

How this plays out in the national media and how Bush and gang spin it.

If he gets a pass for using ancient intel, it's too bad 'family values' America doesn't grasp the enormity of endangering his family (even if we know they were not).

[Junkdrawer]

51. This isn't getting into the national media unless a MAJOR Dem...

puts it there.

Speaks volumes to the control the GOP exerts over the media that THIS story doesn't even rate page 12 coverage, huh?

[merh]

34. Odd coincidence don't you think?

Of all the gin joints....

How many buildings were listed as potential targets?

How many buildings are in NYC?

How odd!

[arcos]

35. And the statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow!! n/t

[leesa]

44. There IS no terrorist threat except the ongoing terrorist threat from the

White House. The war on terrorism is bogus, trumped up BS to jumpstart imperialistic wars. Stop buying the Crime Family's tripe.

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. I totally agree, Leesa...

This is more BushCo bullshit...I cannot believe some people refuse to see thru this!!!:grr:

[rocktivity]

45. Isn't the Citibank building supposed to be one of the terrorist targets?

SO WHY IS THE BUSH FAMILY THERE????

:headbang:
rocknation

[MrPrax]

47. So the Bush Gals are being Turned Out...

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/209371p-180409c.html

Just like any dad, President Bush may sometimes feel exasperated by his children.

Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens reports in his August column that "a prominent senator" told him that, while visiting the President recently, the senator complimented Bush on his desk photo of First Daughters Barbara and Jenna.

"You have children?" Bush asked.

"Oh yes, Mr. President."

"You like them?"

"Of course, Mr. President."

"Mine are a pain in the a--," a straight-faced Bush allegedly responded.

Though the girls haven't lately embarassed dad with any boozy behavior (at least none we've heard about), Hitchens suggests the sober Bush "resents them because they can cut loose and he can't."

"That Bush did not surrender to the need for a colossal bourbon on Sept. 11 stands, I think to his credit," writes Hitchens, himself a Johnny Walker enthusiast."

Hitchens talking to another Johnny Walker enthusiast/Senator

[TheSickEmpire]

48. My mom would NEVER say that about me to anyone

even if it was true.

That's an awful thing to say about your kids. Doesn't he love them? If he did he wouldn't say that. No matter how mad my mom may get she would NEVER betray me and I wouldn't do that to her either!

[Junkdrawer]

49. Kick

:kick: