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Stephanie

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Tue Aug-24-04 01:12 PM
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The COWARD from CRAWFORD

Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 01:16 PM by Stephanie

Too scared to go to Vietnam, too scared to stay in DC in summer 2001, too scared to return to DC on 9/11, too scared to stay in NYC even one night during the convention next week, too scared to even walk out on the stage at his own convention without a bulletproof cage around him.

The Cowardly Cowboy, the Texas Wimp, President Pussy.

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Sept. 18, 1973 Arranges to leave the Guard six months early to attend Harvard Business School. A deal for early release was not unusual at the time.

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/163815p-143464c.html

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One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike “in the coming weeks,” the congressional investigators found. The intelligence briefing went on to say: “The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.”

http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=KA01

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The White House had announced that Bush would stay at his 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford from Aug. 4 through Labor Day on Sept. 3, a 31-day stretch that would have broken a modern record for a presidential vacation, held by Richard M. Nixon for a 30-day trip to San Clemente, Calif., in 1969. News reports played up the record, and a Gallup Poll found that 55 percent of respondents thought Bush's vacation was too long.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A15957-2001

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Q.We have pictures of your travel pool on Air Force One looking in horror at this little flat screen, which was back in the plane, seeing the second tower collapse.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

Q: I wondered what was going on at about that time in the front of the plane?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, thanks for asking. First of all, I learned about the attack -- the second attack; I knew about the first attack when I walked into a schoolroom. I thought it was an accident. And I'm listening to an education briefing, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, whispered in my ear, he said, "America's under attack. There's been a second plane crash; America is under attack."

I made up my mind right then and there that if somebody was attacking us, we would respond with the full might of America.

Q: But there was little you could do at that moment, in that plane.

THE PRESIDENT: At that moment, no, there wasn't. You're right. I mean, I was trying to get out of harm's way. We were concerned about threats on the President. We were worried about future attacks, and there's a lot of belief that Flight 93 was headed to the White House.

http://www.usembassy.it/file2002_05/alia/a2052106.htm

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But now it turns out that Mr. Bush may not spend a single night in the city that helped transform his presidency. At this point, the unofficial plan is for him to arrive in Manhattan sometime on Thursday, Sept. 2, the final day of the four-day convention, deliver his acceptance speech that night, then leave immediately for Pennsylvania.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/national/23letter.html?pagewanted=all

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Aug. 20--When president Bush accepts the Republican nomination in two weeks, he will enter Madison Square Garden on a specially made blast- and bullet-proof stage, the Daily News has learned.

The platform is being constructed off-site from the Garden, sources said.

"It's a whole different" stage from the one that will be used during the other hours of the Republican National Convention, which runs from Aug. 30 through Sept. 2, the night Bush arrives, said one source.

NY Daily News 8-20, archived, mirrored at:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12739309&BRD=2207&PAG=740&dept_id=226958&rfi=6

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