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http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/arch...20040728c.html

Filmmaker Michael Moore on Tuesday appeared to back off his earlier allegation regarding President Bush's involvement in the flights of Saudi Arabian citizens out of the U.S. in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
CNSNews.com asked Moore on Tuesday if he still believed that President Bush was directly involved in approving the flights of Saudi Arabian citizens out of the U.S., given Richard Clarke's admission that he alone authorized the flights. Clarke is a former White House counter-terrorism official and a Bush critic.

"What I said in the film (Fahrenheit 9/11) was that the White House authorized it. Richard Clarke worked for the president, he was part of the White House and he took the word of the FBI," Moore told CNSNews.com, following his fiery speech to a "Take Back America" event, organized by the Campaign for America's Future.

But Moore's response on Tuesday differed from his earlier allegations that Bush took time out of his day on Sept. 11, 2001 to contemplate what he could "do to help the bin Ladens."

Moore told Pacifica radio last October, "So here is Bush trying to deal with everything on Sept. 11, 12, 13th, you know. You remember, everybody remembers, the total state of chaos and people, just everyone, all of us, discombobulated by the whole thing, and he had the time to be thinking -- what can I do to help the bin Ladens right now?"

But in May, Clarke admitted that he alone approved the exit of bin Laden's relatives -- contradicting one of the central premises of Moore's film.

The decision to approve the flights, Clarke admitted, had been his own. The request "didn't get any higher than me," he told The Hill newspaper.

"On 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13, many things didn't get any higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the FBI," Clarke said of the flight carrying bin Laden's relatives.

[Monique]

In a Republican governement the directives always come from the President. Anyway if it doesn't what is he doing there anyway?? If George Bush is unable to take important decisions he should not be President. Unlike President Clinton when he heard about what happened in Oklahoma and was totally devastated; Bush sat there wondering what to do next; what to do was to get up and raise hell.

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Originally posted by Monique:
In a Republican governement the directives always come from the President. Anyway if it doesn't what is he doing there anyway?? If George Bush is unable to take important decisions he should not be President. Unlike President Clinton when he heard about what happened in Oklahoma and was totally devastated; Bush sat there wondering what to do next; what to do was to get up and raise hell.

Afghanistan was not raising hell? I think we should be doing more in both Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the US to fight these terroris scumbags.

There were some pics of a Mass after Oklahoma City that you can see pics of Clinton Smiling and laughing before noticing cameras on him before he made a face to look sad. I'll have to see if I can find the pics of it. Does that come from someone who is really devastated?