Is Bush a confirmed liar? I say yes. Here's my argument.
"I mean, one of the things about Elisabeth's question was, I step back and I've asked myself a lot, is there anything we could have done to stop the attacks. Of course, I've asked that question -- as have many people of my government. Nobody wants this to happen to America. And the answer is that had I had any inkling whatsoever that the people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to save the country -- just like we're working hard to prevent a further attack." (President Bush, April 13, 2004 Press Conference, copied from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html)
"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us, I would have used every resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people." (Bush, March 25, 2004, copied from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040325-1.html)
2002 - Condi Rice said Bush Administration could not have predicted terrorists would fly planes into buildings, but only hijack in the traditional sense.
"DR. RICE: Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane -- people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people. " (May 16, 2002, from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html)
However, Condi Rice and President Bush were warned of terrorists specifically FLYING PLANES INTO BUILDINGS, in July 2001, at the Genoa Summitt of Industrialized Nations:
"U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations, officials said Wednesday.... Italian officials took the reports seriously enough to prompt extraordinary precautions during the July summit of the Group of 8 nations, including closing the airspace over Genoa and stationing antiaircraft guns at the city's airport..... the reports suggest that Western governments were aware that terrorists might one day use a hijacked airplane as a suicide weapon--as they did Sept. 11 in attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.......The Genoa warning was disclosed last week by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini..... In any case, the possibility of suicide hijackings has been known to U.S. counter-terrorism officials for several years...... In 1996, a terrorist captured in Manila told Philippine police that Al Qaeda planned to hijack 11 U.S. airliners simultaneously and to fly a plane into CIA headquarters near Washington."Los Angeles Times, 27 September 2001
Do you agree that Bush and Rice are LYING, when they say they couldn't have predicted that terrorists would fly planes into buildings?
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