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FAHRENHEIT 911 SLIDESHOW |
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by Tara Carreon [Michael Moore] As the attack took place, Mr. Bush was on his way to an elementary school in Florida.
[Michael Moore] When informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center where terrorists had struck just eight years prior, Mr. Bush decided to go ahead with his photo opportunity.
[Michael Moore] When the second plane hit the tower his chief of staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush, "The nation is under attack."
[Michael Moore] Not knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and no Secret Service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there and continued to read My Pet Goat with the children.
[Michael Moore] Nearly seven minutes passed with nobody doing anything.
[Michael Moore] As Bush sat in that Florida classroom was he wondering if maybe he should have shown up to work more often?
[Michael Moore] Should he have held at least one meeting since taking office to discuss the threat of terrorism with his head of counterterrorism?
[Michael Moore] Or maybe Mr. Bush wondered why he had cut terrorism funding from the FBI.
[Michael Moore] Or perhaps he just should have read the security briefing that was given to him on August 6th, 2001, which said that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes.
[Michael Moore] But maybe he wasn't worried about the terrorist threat, because the title of the report was too vague. [Condoleeza Rice, National Security Advisor] I believe the title was "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."
[Michael Moore] A report like that might make some men jump but, as in days past, George W. just went fishing.
[Michael Moore] As the minutes went by, George Bush continued to sit in the classroom. Was he thinking, "I've been hanging out with the wrong crowd. Which one of them screwed me?
[Michael Moore] Was it the guy my daddy's friends delivered a lot of weapons to?
[Michael Moore] Was it that group of religious fundamentalists who visited my state when I was governor?
[Michael Moore] Or was it the Saudis?
[Michael Moore] Damn, it was them. I think I better blame it on this guy."
[Michael Moore] In the days following September 11th all commercial and private airline traffic was grounded.
[TV Man] Even grounding the president's father, former President Bush on a flight forced to land in Milwaukee.
[Michael Moore] But really, who wanted to fly? No one, except the bin Ladens.
[Music] We gotta get out of this place if it's the last thing we ever do.
[Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) Senate Subcommittee on Aviation] We had some airplanes authorized at the highest levels of our government to fly to pick up Osama bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia and transport them out of this country.
[Michael Moore] It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.
[Larry King] We now welcome to Larry King Live -- good to see him again -- Prince Bandar, ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States.
[Prince Bandar] We had about 24 members of bin Laden's family, and -- [Larry King] Here? [Prince Bandar] In America. Students and -- His Majesty felt it's not fair for those innocent people to be subjected to any harm. On the other hand, we understood the high emotions, so, with coordination with the FBI, we got them all out.
[Dan Brody, Author, The Halliburton Agenda] We wanted to look at which companies actually gained from September 11th.
[Dan Brody] It turned up this company Carlyle Group, a multinational conglomerate that invests in heavily government-regulated industries like telecommunications, health care and particularly, defense.
[Dan Brody] Both George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush worked for the Carlyle Group, the same company that counted the bin Laden family among its investors.
[Dan Brody] The Carlyle Group was holding its annual investor conference on the morning of September 11th in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C.
[Dan Brody] At that meeting were all of the Carlyle regulars:
[Dan Brody] James Baker, likely John Major ...
[Dan Brody] definitely George H.W. Bush, though he left the morning of September 11th.
[Dan Brody] All of them together in one room, watching as the planes hit the towers.
[TV Man] Will you testify before the commission? [George Bush] This commission? You know, I don't testify. You know, I'd be glad to visit with them.
[Rosemary Dillard] What it will do is, the hole that's in my heart, and has been in my heart since September 11th, I lost my husband of 15 years. I am now by myself. I need to know what happened to him. I know what I got back from the autopsy.
[Rosemary Dillard] That man was my life, and I have no plan. I was taking a class, and they asked me what was I gonna do in the next five years. And if I'm not doing something with this, I don't know what reason I have to live. So it's very important. Very important. Okay. Okay.
[Michael Moore] Ignored by the Bush administration, more than 500 relatives of 9/11 victims filed suit against Saudi royals and others.
[Michael Moore] The lawyers the Saudi defense minister hired to fight the 9/11 families? The law firm of Bush family confidant, James A. Baker.
[AmbuFortunaZapataGaudi] Fuck you, America! You will all be our slaves!
[Ordo Templi Orientis] I am a bearded and a turbaned sar
[Ordo Templi Orientis] Thou art a boy more lovely than a star.
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