WH Releases Photo of Bush in "Video Conference" - Where Have I Seen This Before? ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Ruh-roh! We saw this same photo-op, right before Katrina. This does not bode well.




In this photo released by the White House (WH), US President George W. Bush (L-seated) participates in a
secure video teleconference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from the newly-renovated Situation Room
at the White House 04 January 2007. Bush said that Saddam Hussein's execution should have occurred
"in a more dignified way" and called on Iraq to fully investigate what happened during the hanging.(AFP/WH-HO/File)

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070105/photos_pl_afp/6ef4d4cf7a13ba4ea50ab0c9348757ee

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President George W. Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, center, during a video teleconference
with federal and state emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina from his Crawford, Texas ranch on
Sunday August 28, 2005. White House photo by Paul Morse

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050828-1_p082805pm-0101-515h.html

[Hekate]

1. Bubble Boy rides again -- far removed from suffering humanity

Shudder

Hekate

[Stephanie]

2. bubble bubble toil and trouble

Can't you put a hex on him?

[Hekate]

3. rofl -- don't I wish!

:rofl: :hi:

Hekate

[havocmom]

15. Some old hag did that years ago

Oh, my mistake. That was his mother.

[Stephanie]

16. she did, in fact

and we all suffer today for it, and for generations. we'll never recover from the damage he's wreaked.

[Aviation Pro]

4. The look on Little Monkey's face says it all....

...a look of utter confusion and lack of comprehension. The hunched shoulders, the attempt to stay focused just can't be hidden by the camera.

[Stephanie]

7. He always looks like a fourth grader to me.

Here he's been made to stay after school for special help.

[Skip Intro]

5. He doesn't know what day it is - let's be honest

bush is an effing moron. A dangerous one with an ego, but in the end, a useful idiot. He's waiting for "Tom and Jerry" to come on...

[Stephanie]

6. Useful?

You give him too much credit.

[Olney Blue]

8. Would someone please pull his plug? Thank you.

[rebel with a cause]

9. If he had a plug,

Don't you think George Senior would have already pulled it? Ok, that was mean, but then what he is doing to this country/world is much much worse.

[Olney Blue]

10. Poppy did try to pull it out, I suppose. Cheney and Condi keep plugging it

back in!

[Historic NY]

11. Is his phone plugged in this time.............

:spray:

[MazeRat7]

12. Since I love to pick nits.... there is something not right about one of those pictures...

As a person who has participated in many video conferences, there is always one constant. One screen shows your CR and the other their CR. Pretty basic, right.

What I'm saying is why aren't "BOTH" screens on in the Katrina pic ? I don't think that is actually a video conference. I think he is watching a weather report.. maybe from the weather channel, who knows? Sure there may have been a video conference before or after the picture was snapped, but that picture sure does not look like a video conference to me.

Sigh... Like I said... its a nit.

MZr7

[Stephanie]

13. the guy onscreen is the hurricane expert, forget his name

but he's the guy who projected the magnitude of the disaster. perhaps bush didn't do him the courtesy of appearing on video himself. I think it is a real time vid conf. This photo was released on Sunday. Bush also released a bizarre video that Sunday, about Iraq, with a brief bit about Katrina. The storm hit Monday. Sunday night all of US at DU were up ALL NIGHT praying for the people of NOLA. We saw the storm hit, we held our breaths hoping the Superdome roof would hold. While Bush flew to AZ to eat cake with McCain and do a Medicare photo-op with seniors. The vid conf is real. He got the facts. He did nothing about it.

[rebel with a cause]

14. Well, he is the right nit wit to pick if you want to nit pick.

I do believe you are right about the Katrina picture. That definately does look like weather report.

[Stephanie]

19. found it- that's Max Mayfiled, director of the National Hurricane Ctr

Here are some contemporaneous DU threads, for context. WE knew. Bush was told, tho he did nothing.

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George, stop lying about what you knew before Katrina hit --->>>
Fri Sep-16-05 08:29 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4798690

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I PREDICT: Bush Will Not Survive This Storm >
Sun Aug-28-05 01:38 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4483423

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ONE MORE TIME: Bush's Activities Two Weeks Ago While Katrina Ravaged NOLA>
Mon Sep-12-05 02:58 PM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4746182

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OMG, I've never read a Hurricane Advisory like this one
Sun Aug-28-05 10:49 PM
DoYouEverWonder
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4490806

WWUS74 KLIX 282139
NPWLIX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA...
...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-MSZ080>082-290300-
ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-
LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-
ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-
TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-
UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
PERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL
ONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEW
ORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTS
AROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET!

$$

LAZ034>037-039-046>049-MSZ068>071-077-290300-
AMITE-ASCENSION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-IBERVILLE-
PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST. HELENA-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-
WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
SREAD NORTHWESTWARD INTO THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AREA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS EVENING. TROPICAL STORM FORCE
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO ONSET AROUND 9 PM TONIGHT AND PERSIST
FOR 22 TO 26 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL ONSET AROUND
DAYBREAK AND PERSIST FOR ABOUT 5 TO 10 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND
GUSTS OF 80 TO 90 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA
AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET


http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/ww/wwus74.klix.npw...

[madrchsod]

17. all dressed up and no where to go.....

[Beausoir]

18. Thank you for this...I had a hinky feeling about the latest photo-op..and now I know why.

Same shit, different day.

He looks likes a 10 year old trying to figure out how to work his PlayStation. Freaking idiot moron.

[Stephanie]

20. that's exactly what he looks like

they're claiming he conferred with Maliki for two hours. I call bullshit. His attention span is closer to ten minutes.

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jan/04/bush-maliki-talk-video-hookup/

[northofdenali]

21. In addition to his ADHD -

he doesn't know enough words to hold a 2-hour conversation. Unless he spent it reading Maliki "My Pet Goat".

On a side note, I wonder how much more in royalties the author of that book wound up with? The 30%ers with their heads up *'s ass would buy it for the "memories". The rest of us buy it to remember the iniquity of this Administration and its response to 9/11.

[Stephanie]

22. I want to know who else is in the room with him

Whose white head is that? Who's sitting at the end of the table? How lond were they there really?

[Jeanette in FL]

23. He's the "Deciderman"

If he was truly wanting a solution to a problem, any problem, that table would be filled with all of his advisors. There would be papers all over that table being passed around and discussed. There would be note taking.
No, this looks like a staged event. Doesn't even look like there is a pen anywhere near him.

What a freak.

[Stephanie]

24. Remember when he called in all the past Secy's of State for a mtg?

It turned out to be a two minute photo-op with zero discussion. Madeleine Albright was pissed and she talked about it.

[Jeanette in FL]

25. Yes, I do remember that meeting

She was pissed about it. She thought that he had gathered all past Sect. of State to discuss options for Iraq and nothing happened. She said it was over so fast. They hadn't discussed anything.

I guess the little decider had already decided before they all showed up.