[howls:] Awoooo -- The wolf is always at the door when you're an American. Yeah, I interviewed all these Canadians, up in the cities, they don't lock their doors, You know why they don't lock their doors? I say, haven't you ever been a victim of crime?

Oh, yeah.

You don't lock your doors?

No.

What are you, nuts?

No, I choose not to live my life behind a locked door. I don't see it as locking them out, I see it as locking me in.

Huh. Wow. Man!


But what about THEM? the them, the them, the them that are coming to the door. The hordes. Aren't you worried, aren't you afraid? And you see, you create a nation like this, that's so freaked out, it's very easy then to convince people that there's one boogie man out there, who is going to kill all of you -- and his name is "Osama bin Laden, the Master Evil-Doer" – "Oh, Oh, Osama, Oh, Oh, he's gonna kill me! He's gonna kill me! No, don't let 'im kill me, George W. Bush! Kill 'im first! Go kill 'im for me!"

"I will, I'm gonna smoke 'im out of his cave, and I'm gonna kill 'im!"

That was our mission: we're gonna go "kill Osama bin Laden". Ah, that's like brilliant foreign policy, man. "I'm gonna KILL Osama bin Laden. (laughs) Can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt 50-60 years ago standing in front of a podium -- or sitting -- in front of a podium, going "Our job is, we're gonna go kill Hitler! We're gonna go kill 'im. Gonna kill that Hitler guy." It's a little more complex than that, isn't it? It's not just Hitler. Jeez.

Okay, so we're all gonna go kill Osama bin Laden. We're gonna kill 'im! Mm! Yeah! Right! Let's go kill 'im! And then, two days after September 11th, I go to the junk page of the Washington Post, on some story -- and I gotta tell you folks, ...

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Well anyways, I started reading the junk page, man, that's where the shit is, it's on the junk page, the stuff is on the junk page, you gotta go to the junk page, cause here's what it said on the junk page, 2 days or three days after September 11th, "Osama bin laden," buried now in paragraph 54, "Osama bin laden" -- or "Usama bin laden", if you happen to be watching the Fox Nuisance Channel -- they spell it with a "U" -- "USA-ma". Hey, we funded him, we trained him to be a terrorist, "We put the USA in Usama bin Laden". (laughter and applause). Osama bin Laden, the paragraph says, is on dialysis, and has been for 18 months. He has failing kidneys, and some believe he is near death. Did anybody? Did anybody catch that at the time? Did you see this? They've started to talk about it now, you know months later – and I never saw it again after that. And it's like, what happened? cause right there bush lost me, man. You're telling me that the monster, "THE MASTER MIND OF ALL EVIL" is hooked up to a KIDNEY MACHINE in a cave? And he's running from cave to cave with a kidney machine hooked up?

He not only doesn't have a pot to piss in, he CAN't piss in the pot? This is the guy? Who's gonna kill me? What is it, like, is there a dialysis machine in every fifth cave in Afghanistan? I mean, What is this?

But you see whoever, wrote that story was off-message, was off script. [starts talking smooth and low:] Because you see here in Hollywood, we like to have it simple. Just one antagonist will do, just one bad guy, that's all the American people can handle. Just one evil-doer, right? One evil-doer at a time, at least. So it's Osama bin Laden [cracks up laughing].

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my apologies to all in the room with bad bladders, but Come ON! Are we stupid? Are we supposed to believe this?

Then you go to another junk page and you find out that the bin Laden family funded George W. Bush's first oil venture, called Arbusto, back in the '80's. Are you aware of this? Arbusto, funded with bin. Laden. money. And then George Sr. has been in business with the bin Ladens for the last 10 years, with James Baker and his Carlyle group, a little investment thing they got going, with the bin Laden family, and whenever George Sr. stays in Saudi Arabia, he stays at the bin Laden palace.

You know, some guy said to me, Hey Mike, you can't just be painting all the bin Ladens with one big brush stroke like that, come on. You can't blame the parents because the kid goes wrong, hmm, right? No, I said you know, you're absolutely right, I hope nobody misunderstands me, and that's not what I mean, that's not what I'm saying, but I'm just wondering you know, do you think like Barbara and George Bush would be having a sleepover at Charles Mansons's parents house? I'm sure they're good people too, salt of the earth, Mother Teresa types, no fault of their own that Charlie went bad, you know, but do you think you'd see them there.. maybe , maybe NOT? What's that all about? What's that all about?

Go to the BBC website and you can look up a story from 1995 where it says: Taliban delegation hosted by Houston oil executives in Houston, while George W. Bush was governor, to discuss the building of a Unocal pipeline across the country of Afghanistan. Are you aware of this? Is anybody jumping to the junk page? This is all, you can get this from very mainstream sources, it's all there, it's in the Times, it's in the Post, it's in the LA Times, I mean you can get it in the Nation, you can get it from KPFA, you can get it from all those other .. but you know, it's actually there in their media, if you look for it. It's there, it's there.

What's it all mean? I don't know, I'm not drawing any CONCLUSIONS here (audience laughter) -- but I sure have a few questions!

I'm reading the November 12th New Yorker, a 'fine publication', an article by a woman by the name of Jane Maher, and in the article it says, in the days after Sept 11th, when 'no plane was allowed to fly and no cell phone was allowed to go off anywhere in America',

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In the skies over America, on September 12 and September 13, no planes were allowed to fly, except one, a private Saudi jet that went to 4 or 5 American cities and picked up nearly 2 dozen members of the bin Laden family and their associates. Are you aware of this? Check it out, don't take my word for it, it does not come from my black helicopter site, it is in the Nov. 12 New Yorker magazine.

Why? The FBI was furious. Because usually, the police in a murder investigation, when they can't find the murderer, like to go in and talk to the family members: "What do you know? What can you tell us?" You know, a little interrogation, not arrest them or hurt them, just a couple questions. Usually, when they can't find the murderer, that's what the police do. But no, the Bush administration told the FBI, NO you cannot talk to the bin Ladens, and they scooted them out of the country.

Why? Why?

What's the deal with this Unocal pipeline? And, Oh my god, what's this on THIS junk page: Halliburton was going to be involved in the building of this Unocal pipeline across Afghanistan? And that Cheney was involved in numerous conversations with the Taliban in the '90s about the Unocal pipeline? What happened, deal go south? Taliban do something wrong?

15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, but we bomb Afghanistan. Do you know what the Martians would think if they landed here and were watching us right now? "Hmmm 15 of the 19 came from Saudi Arabia but they bombed Afghanistan. Maybe they missed.

Can't bomb the oil supply can we? can't bomb the business associates of Poppy

15 of the 19 were from Saudi Arabia. Do you think, if 15 of the 19 were from Cuba, we'd be bombing Peru? [laughter] Just, just, I'm just floatin' the question, whatdo you think? Think so? No, I don't think so

"Well Mike, Afghanistan, the Taliban, they were harboring bin Laden and Alquaeda, they were harboring them."

Well then, Bush why'd you give them $43 million of our tax money last May, why'd you do that?

"It was humanitarian aid"

Oh really? Humanitarian, oh we're humanitarians, and the Taliban are humanitarians, so we're gonna give them $43 million of our tax money??! May 2001. Look it up. It's in the May 22nd issue of the LA Times!

Are we stupid? huh? Are we stupid? Huh? I guess they think we're stupid?

What's really goin' on here? What's really going on?

Since when ... I mean bombing Afghanistan and killing all those people, it's like Ralph said the other day, we went over to burn down the haystack to find the needle, and we didn't find the needle

What's that all about, man? I mean since when does the government first of all, our government ever go after the landlord, that's what Afghanistan was, the landlord for Al Quaeda. Huh? When does the local government here ever go after the landlord on our behalf. Can't bomb the oil supply, gotta keep the SUVs going, gotta keep the business relationships going. Ok? Well, I'm not in favor of bombing anybody actually, but I find it kind of curious, the whole thing.

And now we've got our Axis of Evil, to distract us from Enron. Isn't that brilliant? Well, I guess he believes we don't see through that, right? Enron, I don't have to tell this crowd, you know all about it, right? Enron, stinks to the high heavens,

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The pod people have taken over, folks. It's like Ken Lay handpicks the head of the regulatory agency that's supposed to oversee Enron, and then Enron's accountants, Arthur Anderson, a lawyer of theirs becomes the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the very agency that's supposed to oversee the phoney baloni crappaloni stock prices of Enron -- "The 7th largest company in America" -- and it's just a house of cards, it's all a bunch of BS.

Are they the only ones? I don't think so. Are they the tip of the iceberg? I think so. I think so folks, and I'll tell ya, you gotta thank George and Kenny Boy for this great organizing tool because Mr. and Mrs. America are right now tonight, scared shitless that their 401k is not gonna be there -- that was the one thing we were sure was gonna be there, the 401K, because we knew that Social Security wasn't going to be there. So instead of doing our work as citizens and organizing and making sure it would be there, "Oh no, let's just go play the stock market and get our 401ks, then we'll be safe, we'll have our retirement, I'll be safe." Right?

So all of middle America gets sucked into the stock market, and they get their 401ks, and now all of them tonight, are wondering, are they going to lose their pensions, are they going to be without -- do you know what that feels like, do you have any idea? And do you think that they can't put two and two together? They're thinking, "You mean, all those people down in Houston who worked for the best friend and the number one contributor to the 'president' (for those of you listening on radio, those were quotation marks) 'president' of the United states? You mean, if that company isn't gonna to be saved -- What's gonna happen to me? What's this guy up to? Who is this guy in the White House?"

You know what, I gotta say it and I'm gonna say it as plainly and as clearly as I can say it and I'm gonna say it -- I've said it for two weeks and I'm gonna say it for the rest of this book tour and I'll say it until they stop me from sayin' it [laughs nervously]

[slow and low:]
Anybody. who would steal our White House in that manner. is capable of doing anything.

If they (applause) just think about this folks. If you so detest the American public, if you hold them in such contempt that you would actually take their house when they didn't vote for you, when you are not there at the will of the people, but at the good graces of your dad's friends on the Supreme Court and the funny business that took place with Katharine Harris and Jeb Bush and how they prevented thousands of African Americans from voting down in Florida, if that's why you're there, and you hate us and this country that much that you would do that? -- what else would you do to us?

How many more Americans have to die -- because of your greed? That's what I want to know.

And I would like everybody in this room to call the White House. Don't be afraid, of course they're taking your phone number down. But -- they can't take all of us away.

I want you to call the White House. What's that number? 202 456 1414

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and ask 5 questions:

How come you let the plane fly around to pick up the bin Ladens

What are the financial connections between the bin Ladens and the Bushes?

What about that Unocal pipeline across Afghanistan?

What else did you do for Ken Lay?

And number 5, when are you gonna resign and take Dick Cheney with ya?

-- I personally have called for GW Bush to resign on opening day of baseball season ...


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Question # 1 (question is inaudible)]

Well, it could be a number of reasons. First of all, you're assuming that he was reading. I believe I make a very strong case in this book that this man is illiterate. I might be wrong, just a guess.

[more inaudible from the questioner]

Well, there's a number of answers. One answer is "Hey, shit happens. There is no explanation. we're not as prepared as we look in the movies and in real life that's the way it happens." Another answer could be found in any of the five questions that I've asked you to ask George W Bush or any of the politicians that represent you...

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Let me finish answering this question. We shot a piece on the Awful Truth down in front of the pentagon, on the lawn in front of the pentagon. We weren't there two seconds and they were all poured out of the building, I mean they were all over us. There must literally be, I'm not exaggerating this, a hundred security cameras all around that building, the parking lot, the building, the whole area. Has anyone seen one single piece of footage of that plane hitting the building? I'm not saying it didn't hit the building, it hit the building, but I'm just saying, Where's the footage? It's gotta exist, right? Show us the footage. Because you know, I think most of us, those of us who aren't pilots, would like to know how you fly something at 400 or 500 miles per hour and score a direct hit when you just learned a little flight training at some dipshit training school down in Florida? Just a question. Is that how they learned how to do that? Or was this a military operation? was it somebody who knew what they were doing? I don't know. I'm just asking a question, not drawing any conclusions, you know. I don't know. I don't know...