Seven Minutes - The Bush 9/11 Split Screen Video

[Mugsy]

Run time: 07:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3o-ld0CWw   Posted on YouTube: June 27, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 27, 2007 By DU Member: Mugsy Views on DU: 3758

 
It took me a while, but I finally found a way to port my 2004 9/11 Split Screen video over to YouTube (which is too small at the default size to read).

Please rate the video and let others know so it may be featured on the YouTube homepage.

(Many of my YouTube videos get slammed in the ratings by the Hitler Youth who cry like stuck pigs with every post.)

[brettdale]

1. Email this to all the republicans who are running for president.

They seem to blame Clinton a lot.

[Mugsy]

3. Why send just one video...

...when you can send them all?

Visit my YouTube channel for more videos.

[KansDem]

2. He knew...They all knew...

A few days ago Karl Rove reported that he was the first to tell Bush about the first attack. But Bush has maintained all along that he saw it on TV. Who is telling the truth? And what is the truth?

Bush knew...

Why doesn't the media get on this and investigate?

[Cha]

7. The corporatemediawhores are

sitting on their collective ass getting sloshed in some upscale bar.

[kirby]

4. Why does this matter?

Of all things to criticize the imbecile for why do people focus on the 7 minutes? It was a developing situation. Getting the full picture of any situation is always a challenge. I just dont understand why this is such a big deal. If he left and flew to Texas to clear brush that would be another thing.

[nevergiveup]

5. You are joking, right?

[redqueen]

6. a developing situation?

after MONTHS of warnings about al qaeda doing JUST THAT?


puh-leez!

[kirby]

10. Yes it was a developing situation

I remember watching TV before the second plane hit and thinking it was some tragic air traffic control mishap. Its wasn't until the second plane hit that my logical side thought that the odds of that being an accident just went to near zero. And I was sitting there watching it on TV. Bush was sitting in a school room doing a photo op getting a few seconds of something whispered into his ear. Most likely, 'we have report of a plane accident. we dont know what has happened but we are trying to get more info. when we get more info we might have to cut this short.'.

Yes there was the PBD warning, yes there was the incompetence and stupidity of Bush, but to focus on the 7 minutes is like debating how many angels fit on the head of a pin.

[redqueen]

11. there was MUCH more than that PDB.

much much MUCH more.

[chervilant]

19. I remember, too,

Kirby. I immediately<\i> picked up my phone and called our local blood bank here in Houston to volunteer my time and energy. The woman who answered my call was somewhat condescending. She didn't think "there would be a need" for any volunteers. I told her I'd be calling some of my activist friends to arrange for a group to be available asap, and would call her back. 20 minutes later, I called her to convey that I had a group ready to volunteer, and she gratefully<\i> acknowledged that a deluge of people had started to call, hoping to give blood to help survivors and rescue workers. Hundreds of volunteers and donors worked over the next two days, assisting with blood donations. We The PEOPLE responded immediately, Kirby.

It MATTERS MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY<\i> that Bush sat there with a moronic look on his face and DID NOTHING<\i>!!!! I will never understand why you refute this.

The worst President ever, indeed.

[kirby]

26. Good for you!

I'm glad to hear there are quick thinking people like yourself ready to volunteer. You are a good American. However even your blood bank example--the woman who answered the phone didnt understand the gravity of the situation and you felt she was condescending. I think, like many of us, the situation was developing and she was unsure at that moment.

You don't understand why I refute him sitting there? I guess for all the despicable things Bush has done, arguing about the 7 minutes seems irrelevant to me. I just cannot imagine the figurehead doing anything within those 7 minutes that would have made any difference. He wasn't there, he wasn't on the scene, he couldn't personally help, and I imagine he was churning through the slow little brain of his--Do I sit here and be calm or do I act? We know the guy is hands off and delegates most things to him minions. The 7 minutes was slow thinking and perhaps poor judgment. So what. Spinning the 9/11 attacks into an war against Iraq is impeachable.

[chervilant]

36. I didn't 'feel' she was

condescending, Kirby. Her initial response to me was clearly dismissive and patronizing. Mine may have been this woman's first call of that fateful day, but by the time I got back to her, she had received a deluge of such calls, and was harried and most grateful that so many of us were willing to help. I'm certain hundreds of people across the US had similar experiences on 9/11, as there were literally hundreds of volunteers and donors wanting to help over the next few days. And, imho, there are MANY such quick thinking individuals in our great nation, Kirby.

Thus, I am confused about your defense of your initial assertion about these '7 minutes' (actually, the time Bush sat doing nothing was longer, but for the sake of your argument...), almost as much as I am concerned about your perception of the "relevance" of these minutes. I didn't get the impression that DUers are 'arguing' about these 7 minutes; I feel that MOST of us are commenting on how typical Bush's behavior was and is--given WHO he is--while SOME of us are grappling with the possible reasons why he just sat there with a moronic look on his face. "Slow thinking" and "poor judgment" simply do not cut it as explanations for Bush's response nor the responses of his myriad 'handlers.'

Only Bush can know what was going through his feeble mind at that fateful moment, but any idiot can see that he didn't respond in a manner one would expect from 1) the leader of the free world, and 2)a president who had just been told our nation was under attack. Consequently, is it any real surprise that there are those among us who feel that his inexplicable inaction suggests he 'knew something' beforehand or was somehow involved?

[chervilant]

20. Well, durn,

I only italicized two phrases in that post, Kirby, and apparently I did it wrong. I apologize for the excessive emphasis of my refutation of your assertion.

[maggiegault]

21. Uh, what was whispered in his ear was, "Sir, we are under attack." And still, * sat.

[Maat]

22. My most heartfelt condolences about your brother,

Maggie. He will always be in our hearts.

[JPZenger]

29. Only Bryant Gumbal Didn't Know

After the second plane hit, only Bryant Gumbal didn't instantly know it was a terrorist attack. He was on the TV asking people "what makes you think it was a terrorist attack?"

[Dragonbreathp9d]

31. No offense

but if you thought that was an air traffic mishap, you're either dumb or naive.

[kirby]

32. Huh?

but if you thought that was an air traffic mishap, you're either dumb or naive.

When the first plane hit, yeah, I thought it was an accident. As I said it wasn't until the second plane hit that the probability of it being an
accident went to near zero. I'm amazed at how many people think they had the full picture the instant the first plane hit.

[msanthrope]

34. That 7 minutes is AFTER Bush is told of the SECOND plane........

It takes 7 minutes for the President to respond after being told "we are at war?"

Please.

[wildbilln864]

9. Wake up!

Or all our grandchildren will be risking life and limb in wars designed to enrich the profiteers!
911 Truth Ends War!

[Mugsy]

18. First the PDB, then no reaction on 9/11.

Ignoring the seriousness of a Commander-in-Chief sitting on his tush while the country he swore an oath to protect just 9 months earlier is reportedly "under attack", and ignoring the fact that this one even plays "to the very heart" of Bush's perceived greatest strength: fighting terrorism...

When you stop and think that just one month before, he chose to ignore a Presidential Daily Briefing that OBL was "determined to attack inside the United States", and then for him to sit there without responding to the news that we were under attack... one can't help but wonder if that's because he "expected" it?

[npincus]

25. he was told about the first crash PRIOR to entering the classroom

that certainly should have been enough to activate a normal, competent leader upt to performing his job to suspend his schedule and immediately get on top of the situation.

After all, a month earlier, he read this:

[iam]

27. Why does this matter?

Imagine FDR sitting in a school classroom doing nothing for seven minutes after he was informed that the japanese attacked pearl Harbor. Just sitting there doing nothing. It shows bush* wasn't up to the job, a deer in headlights waiting for someone to tell him what to do. It shows his leadership ability, confidence and competence is zero. It shows he is a figurehead with the forces of darkness using him for the purposes of conservatism.

[mudesi]

28. He is the President of the United States

When someone says "we're at war" or "we're under attack", you don't sit in a classroom for 7 minutes.

Why do people still continue to excuse this? Would Clinton have been so incompetent?

[wildbilln864]

8. K&R! eom

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Excellent (but "assailant" is misspelled).

Second to last screen (I think), it's spelled "assailent".

Apologies for being nitpicky. :)

[Mabus]

13. Thank you.

K&R.

[Redstone]

14. I wish I could recommend this more than once.

Redstone

[rudy23]

15. Can you do a 5 day split screen for Katrina?

Actually, it be great to see those "embarassing emails" that were talked about, but Lieberman blocked the investigation.

[flyarm]

16. HE ACTUALLY SAT THERE FOR 24 MINUTES I BELIEVE AFTER

Andy Card told him the second plane hit..

[Lisa]

17. they stayed in the school -- he had his photo-op surrounded by kids ...

Which wasn't a great idea, both because of the possibility that he was a target and the children would be in danger as long as he remained in the building ... and also because some of them may have been scared, listening to him talking about planes crashing into buildings and people dying.

[JPZenger]

30. I'm Still Amazed the Secret Service Didn't Rush the Room

I would have expected the immediate reaction of the Secret Service after the second plane hit would have been to surround the President and rush him to his armored limo and get him into the air on Air Force One with a fighter escort. They train for this everyday. Any logical person would have assumed that the President was in danger as part of a coordinated attack. I wonder if someone specifically ordered the Secret Service not to intervene.

When George Bush Sr. was in Panama, at one point they thought he was under attack. It was interesting to see the Secret Service's reaction. Running boards popped out of the side of the Presidential limo for the Secret Service to stand on. Agents pulled short barreled automatic weapons out of their coats that many people didn't know they were carrying.

[kath]

35. YES - important to remember this. Around 7 minutes reading The Pet Goat, THEN he went into another

room and did his scheduled photo-op! In total he hung around the school for around ***25-30 minutes*** after being told that the 2nd plane hit.

[defendandprotect]

23. Shockingly relevant, even now . . . looking back

Michael Moore first brought us to really, really looking at Bush sitting there --
And we need these constant reminders of it --

The entire world's intelligence reports were warning us of a pending attack --

All anyone got from the White House was "Operation Ignore" --

Putin was so concerned about this lack of interest and action by the White House that he went to the United Nations Security Council with his info/intelligence, which included names of hijackers.

The United Nations Security Council did what many other nations had been doing . . .
THEY SENT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND TO OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES WARNING THEM --
THIS WAS IN AUGUST OF 2001 -- !!!!

9/11 had nothing to do with anyone but Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Meyers -- and the neo-cons from PNAC --
and a lot of right-wing extremists in the military who think as they do.

[Ezlivin]

24. A split screen showing CHENEY and the events of 9/11 would look much different

You'd see instantly the difference between a man who is in charge and a man who is there only for P.R.

Sure Bush sat there and did nothing; he's not the "true" leader of this administration. Why shouldn't he continue to enjoy play acting in his role as The Decider?

[Vinca]

33. Brought tears to my eyes - very upsetting. nt