4um: Condoleezza Rice 'ordered Bush to stay out of Washington' after 9/11

In a heated exchange, Ms Rice had to argue with the US President in Florida not to return to the White House because it was a potential terrorist target.

She told the Channel 4 documentary: "The President got on the phone and he said: 'I'm coming back'.

"I said: 'You cannot come back here. The United States of America is under attack, you have to go to safety. We don't know what is going on here'.

"I said to him in a raised voice, and I had never raised my voice to the president before, I said: 'You cannot come back here'. I hung up.

"I've known the president a long time and I knew that he wanted nothing more than to be there at the helm of the ship."

Ms Rice also revealed that the bunker beneath the White House, where she was sheltering with Vice President Dick Cheney, began to run out of air.

She said: "There were so many people in the bunker that the oxygen levels started dropping and the secret service came in and said we've got to get some people out of here.

"They literally went around telling people that they weren't essential and they had to leave."

Meanwhile, the government communication systems were failing and even Mr Bush resorted to an unsecured line to talk to Washington.

Ms Rice said: "Despite all of the sophisticated hierarchy, sophisticated command and control equipment that we had, at that moment much of it didn't function very well and people instead did whatever they could to communicate messages. And frankly we then had to make it up.

"I think back on the number of cell phones that were probably used to communicate the most sensitive information because somebody was driving in or somebody couldn't get to a landline.

"And I think how really dangerous that was because if the terrorists were monitoring our communications, they would have heard a lot on cell phones."

Mr Bush gave the order authorising the airforce to shoot down any commercial airliner that was not responding.

And when United 93 came down Ms Rice and the other officials believed it may have been shot out of the sky.

She said: "Everyone in that room thinks that perhaps it's been shot down. I got on the phone with somebody at the National Military Command Centre... just saying: 'You must know whether or not you you've shot down a commercial airliner or not.'

"That was just a horrible thought that the American air force would have shot down innocent civilians, that was a horrible thought."

She continued: "As I've reflected now on what the passengers and crew of, of 93, flight 93 did, first of all there's a sense of personal gratitude that they may well have saved my life, me personally.

"I also think of what they did for the country because had another plane hit the White House or the capital I just don't think we had much more capacity to absorb greater shock than we already had."

Having once been a small part of such, SUCH DOES HAPPEN, it is human nature at work. Reading all kinds of dire things into the human failings is a waste of time.

However, with a little help, such as arranging for "exercises" the morning of the attack, Cheney denying a counter to the plane approaching D.C., etc., the confusion can be maximized.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Exactly what the bushwhacker, the dick cheney and others did. They frankly had to make up what happened on 9-11 to cover their asses.

I remember posting the following article on a neocon infested preparedness board. The shit hit the fan like I knew it would...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2005/09/16/he-s-george-wc-bush-115875-16136856/

HE'S GEORGE WC BUSH

HE might be the world's most powerful man but when you gotta go, you gotta go.

And there's no arguing when nature calls - even if you're in the middle of the planet's largest-ever gathering of national leaders meeting in New York to mark the UN's 60th anniversary.

WEE NEED TO TALK: President writes note requesting loo visit at UN summit meeting

But did George W Bush really have to beg his Secretary of State for permission to go to the loo?

The leader of the Free World was pictured passing Condoleezza Rice a note scrawled in pencil pleading to be allowed a "bathroom break".

His request was snapped by photographer Rick Wilking during a heated session. It read: "I think I may need a bathroom break? Is this possible?"

Ms Rice's reply was not recorded - but we assume she reminded the president to wash his hands.

Mr Bush's popularity levels have sunk in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and yesterday even old friends seemed to desert him. In a rare piece of criticism, Tony Blair mocked Mr Bush's lofty promises to the meeting on eliminating trade barriers to help Africa.

The Prime Minister said: "People are saying we will get rid of our tariffs and subsidies if you get rid of yours.

"We have got to start calling those bluffs."

Voice of the Mirror: Page 6

I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who make their own rules One person conditioned to rule and control The media sells it and you live the role ~Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY

She reminds me of Robert Heinlein's comment that women have more range than men. The good ones are better and the vile ones are viler.

It was disorganized confusion with NO ONE in charge until the one person stepped forward and said all aircraft down, now, until we sort this out.

Cheney as VP was a waste of time and an impediment, whether in or out of the affair, he demonstrated that.

I fully expect that Rice could expound further on the failings of Cheney and others at the top.

Nothing would come of it if she did. Nothing would surprise me about bush's sexual orientation, his drinking,his drug use, and we all know how stupid he is. What's to tell. I would love to see him in handcuffs and leg irons for what he did to Iraq and our economy.

Science indicates that it is men who are far more variant than women. All the great scientists, artists, writers, composers, statesmen, all men. But men have a huge edge on self-destructive behaviors, drug/alcohol addiction, violence, murder, rape, warring.

Women are much closer to the center of the bell curve, far fewer at either extreme of the best or worst of humanity. Women, as a group, are more 'normal' than men.

Scientists speculate this may be because a mother is far more important to the species than a male, that genetics have selected females that are nurturing and patient with babies and young children. It does make some sense over thousands of years of civilizing behavior.

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower

that's very interesting. i often get amused at how men criticize women for being emotional and irrational when, in fact, my observation is that men are more likely to exhibit extremes in both. for example, how many women have intermittent explosive disorder compared to men? also, males seem to have more issues with ego than females.

i'm sure the amount of testosterone a man has is a major factor in behavior control.

I"m not sure about the equality of the tempers because women can be quite vicious too, but the ego thing is true. We don't like to lose and some (most?) don't know how to handle a loss gracefully.