Comments on: Fahrenheit’s Missing Question

By: maria silva

maria silva — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:21:09 +0000

i just saw the movie… i’m portuguese and i realized that mr.Bush is bad person to be at the commamd of the worl and he said that he could’ support the environmental politcs in discussion in sdney few years ago, because if so the economical situation in the U.S.A. would be in crisis, what kind of governor is the one that thinks in own country is superior to the interests of the planet. Doesn’t he live here? Perhaps with the money of the war he expects to by the moon…
i know that politics isn’t what it seems to be, sometimes, worst that we can imagine. If the american people can decide, directly, in whom they want to be the president some of these problems will be solved or even never had hapened.
the question is: Mr. President Bush made the war, and now what can we do for the iraqui people? They don’t want military force there not even help…
And now? What’s next?

By: mbf1978

mbf1978 — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:37:27 +0000

I will never forget where I was and how I reacted when I heard what happened. I wasn’t scared at first, I assumed that the first plane was an accident, then when I saw the second plane I was very concerned. When I heard about the Pentagon, I was freaking out. By that time, both the Net and cell phones were down. I was in the student lounge of my school with about 50 students and faculty members glued to the TV. There were two landline phones there, and administration allowed those with family in NY (I was in FL at the time…..2 blocks from the Capitol) to try and call for info. We didn’t know about Monkeyboy’s reaction, in fact I expected he would be swept away to that “undisclosed location” as soon as they determined it was an attack. I was sickened by Moore’s showing that Bush was clueless. In a state of national emergency, where the Emergency Broadcast System was utilized for the first time in my life, it would be expected that the president leave the photo op, be secured and then address the nation from that place, telling us that despite the attack, we were safe. He did no such thing. Imagine FDR, JFK or even Reagan in that situation, as soon as being told, they would have dropped what they were doing, contacted the military leaders, put our forces on alert and then do SOMETHING to calm the American people….but I guess that My Pet Goat must be one hell of a book!

It was at that moment on 9/11/2001 that I lost all respect (I had only a little to begin with) for our great leader. Isn’t it amazing how the sheep flocked to him afterwards, Saying he was there for us…..Well, guess what, when I was panicked, when they shut my school down and evacuated downtown Tallahassee, FL, I could have used the inarticulate idiot we call Mr. President, to tell me that bad things happened, but it would be alright. Great leadership.

By: Conspiracy Nut (Non-Governmental)

Conspiracy Nut (Non-Governmental) — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:32:05 +0000

More interesting than what Bush did or didn’t do, was what Chief of Staff Andrew Card and the Secret Service DIDN’T do.

- Card didn’t wait for any possible immediate order(s) from Bush. He just whispered that a second plane had hit the WTC AND BACKED AWAY.

- The Secret Service DIDN’T rush the President away from his KNOWN public location. Didn’t even discreetly come up and discuss it with him. Rove’s explanation: They didn’t want to scare the kids.

Yeah, uh huh. Better to leave the kids in harm’s way, for all the president’s coterie knew.

Or did they know more than we’ve been told?

Regardless of what you make of W’s intelligence, decisiveness, etc. He was surrounded by highly trained professionals who acted as if they knew he would have no orders to give and was in no danger of attack.

In fact, given that the WTC had already been a terrorist target in 1993 and should have been well known as such anyway, why did Bush et al continue with the photo op even after they “only” knew about the first plane impact?

This doesn’t cover even 5% of what the media (including Michael Moore) aren’t asking about September 11.

By: Past Peak

Past Peak — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:34:39 +0000

Bedtime for Bonzo

A blog I like a lot, The Talent Show, recently had a post called Fahrenheit’s Missing Question. Here’s how it starts: When I met Michael Moore last January, we spent most of the time talking about the Democratic primaries and…

By: Jonathan Scott Chinn

Jonathan Scott Chinn — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:26:34 +0000

I think we passed that point a long time ago.

By: Hamilton Lovecraft

Hamilton Lovecraft — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:55:46 +0000

Bush was frozen, scared, and didn’t know what to do. It demonstrates a lack of leadership, courage, and resolve, but at least I could imagine myself having the same reaction.

I’m no paragon of leadership, courage, or resolve, but when I heard about the attacks, my first reaction was “I have to know what the hell is going on.” I immediately turned the radio on to NPR, and I pulled the TV out of the closet and tried to find a station I could receive (no cable, no external antenna).

So besides leadership, courage, and resolve, the man has no curiousity. Then again, he’s admitted as much. At what point do you just have to say that the man has no qualities at all which would qualify him for presidency?

By: Charles V

Charles V — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:07:45 +0000

Bush probably got to sleep early that night the same way I did…downing a fifth of Jack Daniels.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:11:32 +0000

I can only imagine that Moore wasn’t able to prove 100% that Bush went to bed early that night, otherwise I’m sure he would have used it.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:15:40 +0000

I think Bush was trying to follow the intricate nuanced plot intertwined with the flawed yet complex characters in “My Pet Goat”.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:41:16 +0000

“Bush was frozen, scared, and didn’t know what to do”

i didn’t see that at all… i saw absolutely NO FEAR on his face or in his eyes. he looked more like a kid who got caught doing something wrong and was trying to act like he didn’t do anything. not that i’m saying “he knew” but i didn’t see ANY fear in his eyes in that footage.