Bush 9-11 "gaffe" deserves more US media coverage

On December 4 in Orlando, Florida, in a "town hall" meeting attended by about 70,000 people, President Bush made an almost unbelievable statement, claiming to have seen the first World Trade Center attack--as it was happening!--on television while sitting outside a classroom door in an elementary school hallway, and having claimed the airplane crash to be the result of pilot error, calling it an accident (see links below). What is unbelievable is not only that he claimed to have seen it as it was happening, but that it was the first crash attack that he saw, and someone was filming it as it happened, all the while the film footage was being broadcast on some TV station in Sarasota, Florida, location of the school. Unbelievable, because anyone who saw the WTC attacks knows that, having learned of a first attack, many, myself included, turned on their TV sets in time to watch the second attack. I have yet to see anyone (except Bush) claim to have seen the first attack on TV.

Except for a WorldNetDaily ("http://wnd.com/") link to this story from a British online paper ("http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/st...", the article entitled Bush reveals first thought: There's one terrible pilot by Matthew Engel) as well as a White House Transcript ("http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/s...") of the interview, I have not seen any articles pertaining to this in any American online media. Missing this story, a Bushian "gaffe" or something more serious, is a sign of the sorry state of news media in the US if there ever was one. Just think: news organs such as the New York Times or the Washington Post, who are used to reporting Dubya's sleight-of-tongues, missed either the biggest spoken miscue of Bush II's career or one heckuvan admission.

Admission?

For, since then, I've been getting e-mails by some of the more overt conspiracy theorists who are claiming that since Bush said he saw the first attack (while everyone who saw any attack on the WTC says they only saw the second one), it is an admission that Bush had someone (FBI? CIA? NSA?) with a camcorder/digicam across from the twin towers taking film footage at the precise time the North Tower was attacked--the inference being that Bush knew about the attacks beforehand (which goes hand-in-hand with the theorists' notions that VP Cheney, who was nowhere to be found at a time of crisis, was in on it), and was having it filmed. What the conspiracy folks are saying, in effect, is that President Bush was in charge of the terrorist attacks! Bush, they say, planned the attacks in order to bring down the US Constitution, usher in a police state, and to attack certain Middle East nations for the sake of "Big Oil" (the Cheney connection) and/or destabilizing the former Soviet Central Asian republics in order to set up "US/UN Protectorates" (this is being put forth by none other the Emperor's Clothes, at "http://tenc.com/", which has heretofore been a fairly reliable source of news-you-won't-find-anywhere-else [but, unfortunately, it's pro-Soviet, pro-Milosevic bent is obvious]).

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