Oh, in case you are still buying into the other false
assertion in this piece of crap passed off as reality by
Craig Unger, Bush had nothing to do with authorizing the
flights for the Bin Laden family. That was authorized by
(known Bush hater & Clinton appointee) Richard Clarke.
Funny how Moore uses Clarke extensively in his
crapumentary, F/911, but Moore never bothers to ask Clarke
about that critical point.
Well, here is reality once again exposing the lunatic left
for their willingness to use the media to intentionally
tell lies & deceit & worse in their zeal to win back the
WH by any means necessary.....
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Right after the horrifying events of Sept. 11, when there were still restrictions on U.S. airspace, the White House authorized the evacuation of at least 142 people, most of them Saudi. About two dozen were members of the Bin Laden family.
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Clarke claims responsibilty
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Richard Clarke, who served as President Bush’s chief of
counterterrorism, has claimed sole responsibility for
approving flights of Saudi Arabian citizens, including
members of Osama bin Laden’s family, from the United
States immediately after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
In an interview with The Hill yesterday, Clarke said, “I
take responsibility for it. I don’t think it was a
mistake, and I’d do it again.”...............
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* Moore's favorite anti-administration interviewee is former National Security Council aide Richard Clarke. Yet the film never mentions that it was Clarke who gave the order to spirit the bin Laden family out of America immediately after 9/11.
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Michael Isikoff, you say the film is just flat-out wrong on, for example, the question involving the bin Laden family after 9/11. Explain.
MICHAEL ISIKOFF, NEWSWEEK: The movie clearly gives the impression that a lot of Saudis were allowed to flee the country, to fly out of the country at a time when nobody else could, because of the political influence that the Saudis have with the White House and that they weren't adequately vetted by the FBI.
This is in some cases flat-out wrong. In some cases, he is raising a legitimate issue, but he's leaving out a whole lot. Mainly, that there has been an independence investigation of the Saudi flights after -- that took place after September 11. The 9/11 Commission looked at it. They determined that many of them were interviewed in detail, that they were screened by the FBI, and that none of them were wanted for or needed to be interviewed who had any information relevant to 9/11.
But most importantly, it says the White House approved
these flights and gives the impression this was because of
the Bush family nexus with the Saudis. Well, we know who
at the White House approved the flights, and it was
Richard Clarke, a holdover from the Clinton White House.....
HITCHENS: I made also some of the points that Michael has
just made about the -- Moore must have known that
Richard Clarke could say this. Maybe he did say it, and
Moore didn't think it was useful, because it wouldn't work
to say that Richard Clarke had authorized the flights.
So that's one small lie, but there's a bigger lie that
it's helping to propagate. He says that the whole of
American foreign policy is determined by the Saudi Arabian
royal family. Now, the Bush administration has been to war
with two of Saudi Arabia's friends. The Taliban, who they
helped to impose in Afghanistan, and the government of
Saddam Hussein, which they regarded as their buffer state
against the Shia.
The actual history is exactly the opposite of what Moore's
paranoid suggestions are. He openly says that he believes
that the other side of this war, the Islamic jihad,
torturers, saboteurs, beheaders and fanatics and murderers
are the equivalent to the American Minutemen. So welcome
to his contribution to the 4th of July celebration. The
man is openly on the other side in this war, and the film
shows it in every frame.....
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