Forgetful
It never ceases to amaze how gullible the American public are and how television has numbed them to the truth and the obvious. The video released yesterday of the 9-11 hijackers is a good case in point. Three years ago when they first showed airport cameras, they looked like every other security camera in existence and showed a time stamp on the bottom of the screen. This latest video, conveniently released just before the report highlighting at least 10 instances where the bad people could have been stopped does not have a time stamp – very odd unless they were taken with a regular video camera. The camera angle shown tries to mimic a security cam by shooting down from the top but they forgot to turn on the time stamp.
Update: 2004-07-23
Took a while to figure out what else is wrong with the airport video, probably because I haven’t been in a US airport in years, so looking through old airport security videos and news reports. 
Take a look at the large white boxes on either side of the video still. I thought they were the tunnels that do the x-ray on luggage but they are actually bomb detection units, which although common now were not used before 9-11.
They are running the pictures of the 19 Arab looking men again too. Conveniently forgetting that it was proven that at least six of the names and faces are for people still alive and well. The news of many of the passports conveniently found around the rubble of the WTC were forged is also forgotten; creating diversions and blaming them on Arabs is a well-known tactic of the Mossad.
Both President Bush and British Prime Minister Blair have each had to confront a damning report on the intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war. Although both leaders still insist that the war was justified, Blair has since said “I accept full personal responsibility for the way the issue was presented and therefore for any errors made.†Bush has yet to make any such statement.
This past Monday, long time veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas took on White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan on the issue of responsibility.
White House Press Briefing, July 19, 2004.
TRANSCRIPT:
- Helen Thomas: Prime Minister Blair took full personal responsibility for taking his nation into war under falsehoods—under reasons that have been determined now to be false. Is President Bush also willing to take full, personal responsibility—
- Scott McClellan: I think Prime Minister Blair said that it was the right thing to do; that Saddam Hussein’s regime was a threat.
- Helen Thomas: Those were not the reasons he took his country into war. It turned out to be untrue, and the same is true for us. Does the President take full, personal responsibility for this war?
- Scott McClellan: The issue here is what do you to with a threat in a post-September 11th world? Either you live with a threat, or you confront the threat.
- Helen Thomas: There was no threat.
- Scott McClellan: The President made the decision to confront the threat.
- Helen Thomas: Saddam Hussein did not threaten this country.
- Scott McClellan: The world—the world, the Congress and the administration all disagree. They all recognized that there was a threat posed by Saddam Hussein. When it came to September 11th, that changed the equation. It taught us, as I said—
- Helen Thomas: The Intelligence Committee said there was no threat.
- Scott McClellan: As I said, it taught us that we must confront threats before it’s too late.
- Helen Thomas: So the President doesn’t take full responsibility?
- Scott McClellan: The President already talked about the responsibility for the decisions he’s made. He talked about that with Prime Minister Blair.
- Helen Thomas: Personal responsibility?
- Scott McClellan: Terry, go ahead.
Of course this exchange was not shown on TV 