The Lonious Monk;3238937 said:I think you're misunderstanding what he said. The "there" in the first quote you put was referring to their destination at the time. He was basically telling the driver to slow down because it's not like they were going to be able to get at Al Queda when they arrived where they were going.
That wasn't the point...the point was that he directly contridicted himself with the following statement....I thought nothing really of the first comment other than, "why would he blame al qaeda already?"
janklow;3243916 said:the humor still works if you replace "Al-Qaeda" with "terrorists" in his remark to the driver, and again, he's recalling a random humorous remark ten years or so later. it just happens that we're talking about Bush, so people (this is a general remark, not directed at you) feel compelled to assume it's some telling event, not a question of recollection. i guarantee everyone on here is telling anecdotes from ten years ago without 100% recall of how those stories went.
I watched the special again and it leads more to him trying to cover up his ineptness as the president more than some hint of a conspiracy. He also later goes on to point out how it was his intel's fault he knew nothing of pending attacks, but then NatGeo shows a document from Aug 6, 2001 stating, "Bin Laden wants to attack America" (paraphrase).
The total vibe I got was that was trying to show how blindsided he was, when i reality he wasn't. And instead of saying that, he'd rather deflect.
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