Bush bikes through White House bomb drill.
By on Feb 24th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Bush bikes through White House bomb drill.
“Dozens of high-level officials joined in a White House drill [today] to see how the government would respond if several cities were attacked simultaneously with bombs similar to those used against U.S. troops in Iraq. … President Bush went on a bike ride [this] morning and did not take part in the test.” (HT: Huffington Post)
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Well the arrogant dumb ass putz know’s nothing is going to happen untill cheney organizes it so why bother….Blessings
February 24th, 2007 at 10:03 pmthat sounds about right
February 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pmIt sounds as if the drill went as planned.
Heh.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pmWell, this has two meanings … either one, he knows we are safe and he is thus unconcerned, which would make all his fear mongering about imminent threats pure bs.
The other one, is he is just plain stupid and will likely end up screwing up any well laid plans for response.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:06 pmWell God forbid it happens but if it does maybe we’ll get lucky and it will play out that way.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:06 pmWell. let’s see — either he felt he was above such mundane drills, leaving it to the hired help – or he is so worthless and useless that in the event of a bomb, if he were blown up it would be no great loss.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:15 pmJust like 9/11.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:18 pmC’mon, folks. He was riding his bike because story time was over, and he finally finished “My Pet Goat”.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:23 pmmaybe they chose not to tell him? maybe the staff is sick of hearing how incompetent the white house is and are taking matters into their own hands?
February 24th, 2007 at 10:28 pmhe doesn’t have to practice… he knows he just has to go limp whenever they show up to drag him to his safe place…
…
when i first saw this, my mind flashed a mental picture of “bush bik[ing] through white house” before i read the whole line…
February 24th, 2007 at 10:29 pmi thought, ‘the guy is totally gone… wheee! ridin’ through the house!’…
.
Nah! We were all wrong..I knew a girl once that use to peddle her ass all over town. Only diffrence from her and him is he’s to chicken to hit the street’s….Blessings
February 24th, 2007 at 10:33 pmwhen i first saw this, my mind flashed a mental picture of “bush bik[ing] through white house†before i read the whole line…
i thought, ‘the guy is totally gone… wheee! ridin’ through the house!’…
Comment by katy
That’s what I thought, too! I wanted to see a picture of that….
February 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pmOT but worth the read:
Hundreds of Iraq Vets Homeless. Oy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17315490/site/newsweek/
February 24th, 2007 at 10:39 pmThe Shrub and Darth Cheney were both hiding under the bed in the Lincoln bedroom!
February 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pmHundreds of Iraq Vets Homeless. Oy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17315490/site/newsweek/
Comment by Zooey
Finally the msm is picking these things up. They are actually (gasp) doing their job and investigating.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pmMaybe the rest of the 28%ers will finally wake the hell up, I doubt it, but one can always hope.
Maybe the rest of the 28%ers will finally wake the hell up, I doubt it, but one can always hope.
Comment by Wayne
There is always hope. :)
February 24th, 2007 at 10:58 pm-Bush bikes through White House bomb drill.
Hmm, must have had a credible bomb threat at the WH.
Secret Service: “The only way out is on bike sir, mount up”
February 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pmEverybody knows that…
Bushiva would never miss…
…recess…
February 24th, 2007 at 11:14 pmIncurious George once again shows his mettle.
February 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pmOr lack thereof.
Bush can resign and go back to his ranch in Texas and ride his bike for the rest of his dumb worthless life.
February 24th, 2007 at 11:36 pmComment by Jay Randal #20
Jay,
I sincerely hope not…
…Bushiva (like ALL of his supporters and co-conspirators) should spend the rest of his life…
…in poverty, and imprisonment…
…until the ultimate justice is served upon him (them)…
February 24th, 2007 at 11:59 pmOMG. Y’alls reactions are hilarious…considering what your boy Slick got away with. Anyone ever see the Clinton Legacy all written out in a nice pretty list? It’s gorgeous.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:07 ambig papa > I would love to see Bush and Cheney go to prison, but I would settle for them resigning and leaving DC forever. It’s very hard to imprison a president, because the next president always seems to pardon the prior one.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:10 amballbuster > Bill lied about getting BJs from Monica, but Bush’s lies have killed thousands of people.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:11 amComment by ballbuster #22
…go away daffy bi*ch…
…we’re discussing the here and now…
…take your.slick willi..
… “wish he would have let me fellate him” fantasies… to redstate.org…
February 25th, 2007 at 12:11 amIt’s very hard to imprison a president, because the next president always seems to pardon the prior one.
Comment by Jay Randal #23
Jay my man…
…I’m afraid this isn’t just politics as usual…
…the shape this country is going to be in fiscally, militarily, and emotionally…
…the death toll Bushiva and L’il Dick are now and will be responsible for…
…will make their punsihment unavoidable…
February 25th, 2007 at 12:16 amWell big papa if Bush sets of global WWIII by attacking Iran, then Bush and Cheney might eventually die in their bunkers, or commit suicide like Hitler and Himmler did.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:21 am#24 jay
February 25th, 2007 at 12:27 amhow many people died while Slick was resident? bigger Q, how many in slicks administration died?
#25 bigpappy
Slick’s actions…er…lack of actions in the 90’s, have everything to do with the here and now. In fact his lack of action caused all this. That and carter helping ayatollah. but lets brush all that under the rug, shall we?
February 25th, 2007 at 12:33 am#26 Papa, no one deserves doing a gig in the pen more than this gang and I share your hope, but am not optomistic that it will ever happen. Since ballbuster wants to swing down memory lane looking for criminals in the whitehouse, let’s swing by 1974 and take a look at Nixon. Now there was a crook’s crook (and coincidentally a spring board to a host of the current criminal-in-chief’s goon squad) and yet a rank amateur compared to bush.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:34 amballbuster = Bush idiot
February 25th, 2007 at 12:36 am#30, quad;
lets go back even farther and look at the crooks that created socialism security. oh God, i crack myself up.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:40 amNixon….there was a crook’s crook (and coincidentally a spring board to a host of the current criminal-in-chief’s goon squad) and yet a rank amateur compared to bush.
Comment by Quadrajet
Just thought that should be repeated.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:42 amJust a hunch, but maybe Bush knows in the end we all are not going to be around because this idiot is just waiting to push the button.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:46 amComment by Quadrajet #30
Comment by troll alert # 32
Nixon WAS the Trainer-in Chief…
…L’il Dick learned all he could on how to destroy the government…
…through privatizing the military, and stealing HUNDREDS of BILLIONS…
February 25th, 2007 at 12:50 am#34 – Papa, unfortunately I think what they also learned is there’s no chance they’ll do any time, and the value of planning versus the ‘on the fly’ method used by Nixon.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:58 am…not going to be around…
Comment by Wondering In Maryland
Maybe.
… and stealing HUNDREDS of BILLIONS…
Comment by big papa
No doubt.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:00 amSlick’s actions…er…lack of actions in the 90’s, have everything to do with the here and now. In fact his lack of action caused all this. That and carter helping ayatollah. but lets brush all that under the rug, shall we?
Comment by ballbuster — February 25, 2007 @ 12:33 am
I disagree. Bush is the sole cause.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:08 amComment by ballbuster #29
My FINAL response to your inbred, incestuous, imbecilic Bush-worshipping a*s…
…William Jefferson Clinton was president for TWO terms…
…the second of which was served under a Repulsivesum-controlled Congress…
…the SAME Repulsivescum criminals (many of whom are STILL in Congress today)…
…who TIED Clinton’s hands with so many “personal” investigations…
…that when he DID retaliate against the terrorists attacks…
…your Repulsivescum conned’self-servative hypocritical a*shole representatives and senators…
…”YOURS” because pigs like you are the ONLY ones ignorant and retarded enough to vote for them…
…pointed fingers and SCREAMED, “He’s wagging the dog!”…
…”He’s trying to start a war to divert our attention from his crimes”…
…and those SAME hypocrites recently stood in the House and Senate chambers…
…calling Democrats traitors for contemplating cutting funding for an ill-conceived disastrous invasion and occupation in Iraq…
…when THEY did EXACTLY the same thing (attempted to cut troop funding) for Clinton’s Bosnia incursion…
…which btw was heralded as a foreign policy success…
…so WHY aren’t you asking WHY your Repulsivescum Representatives and Senators didn’t DO ANYTHING to stop terrorism when they controlled Congress for twelve plus years (including half of Clinton’s term)?
…go lie down bi*ch…
…but please don’t have any litters…
February 25th, 2007 at 1:10 amwake up Nat. read some 90’s history, specifically the u.s. embassies in africa under Slicks watch. sheesh.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:13 amIf Bush and Cheney are forced to resign, then they would do it like Nixon and Agnew did. They would cut a deal to be pardoned before resigning, so they would walk away leaving the US government a train wreak. Bush family purchased the 100,000 acre ranch in Paraguay as an insurance policy in case they have to flee into exile. Paraguay would never extradite them back to the US. Cheney would probably flee to the UAE where he has stashed millions in bank accounts.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:14 amYou do understand why the Chimp-In-Chief goes riding his little bicycle all the time, don’t you? Subconsciously he’s telling the world, “Waaaah, I don’t want to be President anymore. It’s too hard and no fun. I want to be 12 or 13 again and blow up frogs with firecrackers and stay up late and not do my chores…”
I feel for ya, Dubya, I do…
February 25th, 2007 at 1:17 ambigpappa,
February 25th, 2007 at 1:22 amwhy is jack murtha (who’s contractor brother was gifted several gov’t contracts) chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee?
wake up Nat. read some 90’s history, specifically the u.s. embassies in africa under Slicks watch. sheesh.
Comment by ballbuster — February 25, 2007 @ 1:13 am
Bush was asleep at the switch and they attacked us at home.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:26 amComment by ballbuster #42
…ummm…is this a trick?
…because he’s paid his dues in the House…
…and been a staunch supporter of the military?
…Oh and because the Democrats won the election and Speaker Pelosi appointed him…
Please provide links of Murtha’s contractor brother’s contracts…
… and evidence of wrongdoing…
February 25th, 2007 at 1:30 am#44
February 25th, 2007 at 1:37 amomg, pappa, it was all over the news.
Here you go, BB!
February 25th, 2007 at 1:39 amLinked and debunked.
#44
omg, pappa, it was all over the news.
Comment by ballbuster — February 25, 2007 @ 1:37 am
Is that your version of a link BB? If it was all over the news you shouldn’t have a problem posting a link to an article about it, right?
February 25th, 2007 at 1:42 amLet me try this again.. I don’t think TP liked my link;
February 25th, 2007 at 1:44 amhttp://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/5896.html
Comment by ballbuster #45
…I missed that one…
…I’m human…
…so sue me…
…was it youTubed?
…naw, for real…
…I don’t give a sh*t about your right wing talking points…
…whatever he’s stealing it’s NOTHING compared to what your gods…
…Bushiva and L’il Dick have taken in…
…you REALLY need to gain some “perspective”…
…does your owner walk you at all during the day?
February 25th, 2007 at 1:44 amPost 48 provides the link to the story and the debunking.
February 25th, 2007 at 1:46 amand did the carpetbagger debunk the halliburton myth?
what about the twin towers myth? and the pentagon myth?
and…..
when will they debunk the algore myth?
February 25th, 2007 at 1:53 amguppies
Comment by old hippie woman #50
Thanks OHW,
…but something tells me…
…ballbuster isn’t really interested in links, evidence or TRUTH…
…but thanks for your trouble…
February 25th, 2007 at 1:55 amI believe your comment was about Murtha and his brother. ADHD bad tonight, BB? You should be more grateful that I did your work for you.. bad troll!
February 25th, 2007 at 1:56 amThis obviously does not concern Chimpy! He has started all these so called wars on terror …so guess who’s the first coward to split when consequently SHOCK AND AWE comes to town? That’s right! Chimpy …the one who started it all!!! Wake up America let’s assassinate the Chimp …there’s no room for cowards and the rich are already richer it’s time to hunt the Chimp!
February 25th, 2007 at 2:01 amI don’t think ballbuster expected to receive such a hostile reception…
…it quickly realized that it was in over its head…
…I envision it slinking back into its doggie cage in…
…5,4,3,2…
Wasn’t that fun though?
hahahahahahahaha!!!!!
February 25th, 2007 at 2:01 amGosh, it looks like BB was a bit optomistic about it’s success here when it selected it’s moniker.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:04 amComment by Quadrajet #56
Great observation Quadrajet…
…perhaps in its “normal” surroundings…
…it IS a dominant “intellectual” force…
hahahahahahahaha!!!!
…heaven help us all if THAT’s the case…
…and I DO believe that’s the case…
February 25th, 2007 at 2:18 amThat actually was fun. Thanks for allowing me to be part of it.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:28 amAnd CHIMPya can keep on peddling his ass…Oops I meant PEDALING his ass to The Hague, where he and Torticola Cheney and the rest of Bushland Uber Allies, ESPECIALLY the neocons who got us into the Iraq MORASS and are planning on DESTROYING the U.S. and the REST OF THE WORLD WITH AN ATTACK ON Iran, ARE GIVEN A FAIR WAR CRIMES TRIAL AND SENTENCED TO DEATH!!!!!
February 25th, 2007 at 2:31 amComment by old hippie woman #58
…ballbuster is on the Iran thread claiming your link doesn’t work…
…I think we can stick a fork in it…
OHW,
a while ago you asked me about Washington state…
why?
(I never got back to the thread)…
February 25th, 2007 at 2:36 am…and I DO believe that’s the case…
Comment by big papa — February 25, 2007 @ 2:18 am
As do I Papa. Perhaps we can convince it to change the ‘r’ in it’s moniker to a ‘d’.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:55 amLOL.. so the link doesn’t work.. Imagine that.. Maybe someone needs to show him how to use the computer. I believe ballbuster got some part on his/her anatomy busted.
February 25th, 2007 at 3:00 amOh.. I asked about Washington because I dated a guy from Washington State about 5 years ago who uses a version of Big Papa as his online id. I suspect you’re alot brighter than he is, though.
Bush bikes through White House bomb drill.
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Just think of it this way people.
Bush get’s off on bike riding at such a time as a bomb drill and casually and cooly goes about his own business because HE will be the one to order the strikes against the US.
He is just “calibrating fire” (fine tuning the apparatus) to find any and all weakenesses in the “system” so HE can exploit them at a time of his choosing and blame it on “Iranian” terrorists this time.
Then the attacks on Iran will begin.
Watch and see, 9-11 with a twist is coming up in the very near future.
They used to call it Operation Northwoods, but I don’t know what they call it anymore.
My name for it?
Operation KlUsTeRfU*cK.
February 25th, 2007 at 3:21 amGoing in to work today, Bloomberg radio presented the story this way. The sentiment is theirs but the words are mine.
“In response to criticism for Katrina and the Iraq war the White House held a bomb scare drill. There were several security flaws discovered in the plan but the White House stated that this is an indication that progress is being made.”
That was the gist of it.
So in grasping for anything that might make them look the least bit competent on “security” they do their little drill and don’t even get that right. The oblivious chimp is off on his circus bike somewhere and SIX years after 911 they may be making progress with security at the White House.
Bush couldn’t secure the lid on a can of peanuts.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:01 amThis morning on the local news — they were talking about how the resources for the National Guard are bring drained – being used in Iraq. So, if, heaven forbid, we have a national emergency — we won’t have the resources here.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:05 amWhen I saw that Bush wasn’t involved in the exercise, I fully expected you liberals to have a cow – and you did. The president doesn’t have to be in every staff exercise. I, as a battalion-level commander in the Army, participate in my staff’s exercises only on the outside edge, giving my intent and guidance and letting them run with it. They do the staff work and come to me with questions and then the final results. That’s because they need to be able to work together as a staff and react to events without me holding their hands. That’s their job, and that’s mine. The president and his staff are no different. I have no doubt he was fully aware of what was going on and received periodic briefings.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:47 amThat was the plan… put Bush out there with the bombs not in the shelter away from the bombs. Would Cheney approve of this plan?
February 25th, 2007 at 9:03 amDamn… the fools (trolls)are still talking about clinton. Guess they just can’t get Bill off their little minds. It’s like a broken record with them… it keeps skipping and playing the same part over and over and over again.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:11 amDoubleTap, breifing this president means nothing anyway. He’s worse then useless. How are things going for you battallion commander? How do you feel about sending troops back into combat 3 years early with no plan for an exit?
Bush said he had no reason to beleive the levee’s would be breached.
Remember that one?
He said that AFTER he was briefed that they had already been breached.
How about not kowing about a possible attack on 911. Oh, that’s right , he was briefed on that as well but they didn’t provide the exact time, date and place so NOTHING WAS DONE. Not even a meeting until a week before the attack.
Bush also had no idea there would be an insurgency. Not because he was not told but because he had already committed himself to his “we will be greeted as liberators” fantasy. He’s still hoping to bring that one back.
Per Bush, If we ever leave Iraq we lose but we really mean to leave someday. If the British leave it’s a good thing for some reason. The enormous bases we built are not permanent. Right?
That’s some classic Bush logic.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:35 amOne of the world’s busiest men, takes time out for exercise; unable to participate in every drill that takes place.
This is news? Come on TP, you can do better than that.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:06 amFinally the msm is picking these things up. They are actually (gasp) doing their job and investigating.
Maybe the rest of the 28%ers will finally wake the hell up, I doubt it, but one can always hope.
Comment by Wayne — February 24, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
They may wake up, but my first impression is that it will not matter at all until Bush and Cheney are out of the WH. And I mean before Jan. 2009.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:20 amOne of the world’s busiest men, takes time out for exercise; unable to participate in every drill that takes place.
This is news? Come on TP, you can do better than that.
Comment by paul — February 25, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Let me try again…I think the filters caught my bad word.
Once again, Paul shows his love of ignorance. Yep. Presidentin’ is hard work. Or, as Bush once put it, “trying to be President.”
You know, Paul, I think Bush could have postponed this one bike ride to participate in a mock attack on the U.S. Bush himself has said basically that we are still not totally safe. But as we saw with the administration’s actions (or lack of) from the time Bush was sworn in up until 9/11, he just doesn’t give a f**k.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:28 amHe probably signed a “signing statement” along with the order for the drill.
February 25th, 2007 at 10:51 amCurious George Rides a Bike
February 25th, 2007 at 11:24 amApparently “My Pet Goat” has been taken out of the Presidential Library and was unavailable. My question is why do you refer to a three-wheeler as a bike rather than a tricycle?
February 25th, 2007 at 12:07 pmComment by DoubleTap — February 25, 2007 @ 8:47 am
Have a cow? You think we’re having a cow? You’re too generous. Really.
No. We’re just revelling in the idiocy of this “trying to be a President” Bush. (and that’s his quote.)
I, as a battalion-level commander in the Army, participate in my staff’s exercises only on the outside edge, giving my intent and guidance and letting them run with it.
Say what? You don’t go bike riding or jogging when there’s an exercise going on? You actually participate? Oh, go on!
Seriously…Just what is the point of your post? At least you participate. Bush doesn’t think so, but he works for the American people. Even the ones who did not vote, or did not vote for him. He is our employee, see. So yeah, we have a right to complain if we feel that he’s displaying a sub-par performance. What would your superiors say to you if you skipped out on an exercise to go bike riding? I’m sure you could have been briefed about the whole thing, too. Would that be the same as being involved, though?
Maybe that’s why President-attempt Bush (my new title for him) sat in that Florida classroom for 7 minutes after being told a SECOND jet had crashed into the WTC. Maybe he and his handlers who were along for the trip just didn’t know what the f*ck to do. Maybe they had skipped out on a few exercises, too.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:21 pmWell, when 9/11 happened he stayed in the classrom.
When Katrina happened, he went on vacation.
Makes sense he’d go bike riding if something got attacked. Completes the “I’m the worst president in the history of mankind” trifecta.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pmSlick’s actions…er…lack of actions in the 90’s, have everything to do with the here and now. In fact his lack of action caused all this. That and carter helping ayatollah. but lets brush all that under the rug, shall we?
Comment by ballbuster — February 25, 2007 @ 12:33 am
Oh, STFU. What did Bush do once al Qaeda was fingered as being the group who bombed the Cole? NOTHING.
When did the Bush administration finally take terrorism seriously and have their first cabinet-level meeting on the subject? A week before 9/11.
You want to complain about what past administrations did with the enemy? Huh, big boy?
Who sold the Iranians, our enemy, weapons for cash, in violation of U.S. law? That would be the Reagan administration.
And who provided support for the Contras, also in violation of U.S. law? That would be the Reagan administration.
And speaking of Clinton, he tried to get Congress to expand the wiretapping program to track terrorists (legally, through the FISA court, I may add) and they said no.
Clinton wanted to use tagents in explosives so that they could be traced back to any terrorists using them. Congress laughed at him.
Under Clinton, a major terrorist attack on LA International Airport was thwarted when the intelligence agencies picked up increased “chatter” that led to the arrest of an al Qaeda operative, who was stopped at the border with Canada driving a car full of explosives. Clinton took action when this chatter was detected.
When similar chatter was picked up prior to the 9/11 attack, the Bush administration did nothing.
February 25th, 2007 at 3:09 pmWhen your company has a fire drill or other emergency drill (the purpose of which is to save lives), and you are taken away from a task with a deadline you may not meet, what would you think of a CEO who remained in his corner office? Who didn’t feel he needed to stoop to such irrelevant routines because he was much too important to waste his valuable time? What if that CEO wasn’t even working, but working out in the company gym at the time? Would that guy be an ass? A prick? An arrogant bastard? Or is he stupidly oblivious? Those are our choices in describing the man who is president of the largest superpower (as of now) in the world. Our own boy-king.
February 25th, 2007 at 7:16 pmhmmm ….why does our leader constantly remind me of Ruprecht?
February 25th, 2007 at 9:14 pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels
February 25th, 2007 at 9:37 pm