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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (257812)	5/22/2002 11:11:42 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

CHENEY STONEWALLING and WHERE WAS THE AIR FORCE? MSI, Hopefully the American public will become disillusioned with the arrogance that Cheney displays. I didn't watch the Larry King presentation because I get a visceral anger listening to Cheney lie. He does it so blatantly and as if he has a royal prerogative to dissemble to the people. I can only hope that average Americans wake up to fact that there is a nightmare team in the White House. The more facts that are uncovered about the intelligence available before Sept. 11, the greater is the number of people who are going to be able to figure out that our secret government was culpable of at least "standing down" in the face of risks that upper managers in the secret government were clearly aware of. You will recall that I mentioned a while ago that the response of the Air Force on September 11 seemed to be unreasonably delayed. Here's another bit of the puzzle on that particular aspect of our response that really needs close Congressional scrutiny: Quote: "On the day of the attack itself, Bush dawdled in elementary school, later he and Cheney made up the excuse that a presidential order to shoot down passenger jets would have been necessary before scrambling fighters. In fact, interception of hijacked or non-responding planes is FAA / USAF / NORAD standard operating procedure - within ten minutes. The Boeing bombshells strayed up to an hour and half unmolested before hitting their targets." Source: mediamonitors.net My fellow Americans, we clearly deserve an answer to this seeming lapse of security. And we do not need a Vice President to tell us that to ask for an answer is "despicable". Cheney went beyond the bounds of decency with that reprehensible example of hubris. -Ray