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Dems Claim Bush and Cheney Killed Flight 93 Heroes

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Dems Claim Bush and Cheney Killed Flight 93 Heroes

A Web site with ties to the Democratic Party and ex-President Bill Clinton is charging that President Bush is most likely "personally and directly responsible for the deaths of 37 passengers and 7 crew members on Flight 93," claiming that evidence shows Bush and Vice President Cheney ordered the plane shot down on 9-11.

The left-wing Web site Democrats.com goes so far as to contend that the famous photo depicting President Bush talking on the phone that morning aboard Air Force One was likely taken as Bush was authorizing Cheney to give the order to have Flight 93 blown from the sky.

"Here is a very likely scenario," says the Web site. "Bush was approving the shooting down of hijacked airliners, which led Dick Cheney to order the shooting down of Flight 93 - with all of the Heroes on board."

The photo, offered earlier this year for $150 as part of a GOP fundraising package, has the Democratic Web site complaining that sale of the picture was "a huge insult to the victims of 9-11 - who died never knowing they were helping raise big bucks for the Republican party."

The report, by Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik, blames Bush - and not the terrorist hijackers - for killing the Flight 93 heroes:

"A careful analysis of all available evidence points to a shootdown as the most likely cause of the crash of Flight 93 - thus making George W. Bush personally and directly responsible for the deaths of 37 passengers and 7 crew members on Flight 93."

Democrats.com accuses the Bush administration of perpetrating a massive cover-up by going along with the convenient cover story that it was the battle between Flight 93's passengers and the plane's hijackers that caused it to crash into a rural field in Shanksville, Pa.

"Certainly, the White House has every reason to lie," says the Democratic Party's online boosters. "After all, it would look pretty horrible if Bush and Cheney were responsible for the deaths of the crew and passengers aboard Flight 93, even if the planes were shot down to protect Washington DC.

"Unfortunately for the White House," the Web site continues, "there is overwhelming evidence that Flight 93 was shot down - and no evidence at all that the Heroes succeeded in taking control of the cockpit."

In fact, no one has ever claimed that Flight 93's heroes "succeeded in taking control of the cockpit." Otherwise the crash might have been prevented. The question is did their failed efforts to regain control distract the hijackers long enough to foil Osama bin Laden's plan to have a second plane attack Washington, D.C.

Given their public comments to date, the families of Flight 93's heroes seem to have no doubt about the cause of the crash.

Last April, after hearing the in-flight recording of the plane's final 30 minutes in a special session arranged by the FBI, family members seemed convinced that their relatives' heroic effort to storm the cockpit - and not a missile from an F-16 - was what brought the plane down.

"I felt incredible pride," said Deena Burnett, whose husband, Tom, died on the United Airlines plane, after hearing the tape. "It was obvious they all acted heroically."

"I never doubted that there were specific individuals who worked together, and the tape confirmed that," said Alice Hoglan, mother of Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham. "I never doubted that the cockpit had been taken over by terrorists who were thwarted, and the tape definitely confirmed that."

Hoglan, who along with the other Flight 93 relatives was asked by the FBI not to discuss specifics, described the tape as "wonderful in a strange and odd way" - hardly the words of someone reacting to evidence that her son was killed on orders of the president.

Further proof of a shootdown, Democrats.com argues, comes from reports that debris from Flight 93 was discovered eight miles away from the actual crash site, a detail the continues to perplex those on both sides of the political aisle.

But if Flight 93 did explode in midair, there are other plausible explanations, such as the bomb the hijackers said they had and threatened to detonate, according to several passengers who relayed the news in cell phone calls to relatives.

But Democrats.com doesn't let details like that get in the way of accusing President Bush of responsibility for the crash and the ensuing "cover-up."

"The FBI has stated that there was no evidence of a bomb at the crash site," the Web site argues. "If the hijackers detonated a bomb, it is hard to imagine a reason why the FBI would cover it up."

Democrats.com has at least nominal connections to ex-President Bill Clinton.

Former Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg sits on the Web site's advisory board.

And last August, Democrats.com boasted it had "arranged with the office of former President Clinton for birthday greetings sent by e-mail to be delivered to him personally," adding, "Please join us in thanking the last legally elected President of the United States for his dedication to public service."

On its "Community" page, the left-wing Web site explains:

"Democrats.com is the largest online community of Democrats. We have created a unique space where Democrats can meet, discuss, and work towards building a stronger Democratic Party. ... Take our Voter Pledge to sweep all Republicans out of office."
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/6/29/123036


"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Comments

  • Guns & GlassGuns & Glass Member Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In MHO:
    #1. Air tapes which are public domain, prove that there was terrorist action on board.
    #2. Even if it was shot down(exploded), or just 'winged' that eventually caused the crash, those people who tried to do what is right, are still heroes. Those that just sat there, were just along for the ride. Always are, will be: players & spectators.
    #3. Timing, and events are more than coincidence.
    #4. If shot down, and 'stormed' internally, they did what was right.
    #5. If any of my loved ones were on that plane, I would regret that it happened. I would hold the President, and military responsible to do the job they are supposed to do. Would I blame them? No.

    God Bless America, and those who protect, and serve.

    I will still, "Pledge my allegiance to the flag of America". Till I die, or the Second Comming occurs. Whicever is first.

    Happy Bullet Holes!
  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Demos take note: the Nazi credo that the bigger the lie, the more believable it is, died with Hitler.
    Get real.

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Dems have their whacko websites just like some of the crazy ultra right wing sites that are quoted here sometimes. You have to sort thru the B-sh*t when you read a story nowadays.
  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is. If it was shot down, I'm sorry for the loss. However, imagine the chain-of-events (and deaths) that would have followed if that plane had made it successfully to the White House.
  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Whether or not the jet was flamed by the military or not is irrelevant. The persons aboard this jet were going to die anyway. Sad but true. Given the choice to shoot down the plane or to let it proceed to fly into another skyscraper, excuse me but I am going to flame it. Only a complete moron, (liberal democrat) would have allowed that jet to remain aloft. The powers that be had to choose between the lesser of two evils and it is obvious they made the right decision.
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have already known that planes were on their way to interdict the aircraft. People prefer to believe (and apparently the cockpit tapes, though vague, tend to support) that the passengers got there first. This "take" on the events says loads more about those pushing the story than it has any impact on the nature of the events. Everyone was doing their duty. The Dems who take exception to that apparently are trying to say that the version we have was settled upon by the administration for personal political "capital" rather than for the benefit of the spirit of all Americans. I prefer to concentrate upon the heroes of Flight 93 and not the approaching fighter aircraft, however close they got. The idea that Bush "made" the passengers heroes won't sell. We know what they tried to do in there, the plane survived long enough for them to try to do it, and that is enough. The plane did not reach its target. That was the only acceptable outcome -- even the Democrats would not argue that.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 06/30/2002 15:06:57
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