The "My Pet Goat" kids

Despite all exhortations to keep this friendly, we've gone right over that. Thanks people.

 

Oh, god. The first plane is irrelevant, although there was a brief, fragile lie about who saw what when, that's gone down the memory hole.
According to Andy Card, who comes wandering into frame during this famous moment, he told the president, "America is under attack." He didn't say anything about private planes or accidents. At that moment, the President Clock starts ticking. At least within three minutes, the president of the United States gets up, excuses himself, and goes off to be president again.

 

And maybe that is indeed the case Fenian. But if we're going to quibble over three minutes that very likely wouldn't have made any difference anyway, then we're right back to arguing over the inconsequential.

I thought the story was a unique angle on a topic that's been written about quite a bit. But really, what more could Bush have done, people? Are there any of us that TRULY believe once the planes had been hijacked, there was a whole lot more that he could have done other than shoot them down (assuming we'd actually had time)?

 

American Airlines new it was their jet. NORAD new Flight 11 was hijacked before it hit the towers.

Maybe this is not Bush's fault, but if a plane is hijacked and I am the president, I would like a phone call ASAP.

My point is that when a plane of some sort hits the World Trade Center, you blow off the elementary school kids and try to figure out what is going on.

 

Maybe he wasn't wearing his Superman outfit under his suit that day.

 

Look, Junkie, I don't hate the guy. I think he a terrible president, though.

And I don't think -- in hindsight -- that anything would have turned out better if he had acted instantly.

But on that day, someone needed to be in charge. The military didn't even have a clue where to send their jets, and they sure weren't getting any help from White House.

 

No, alley. We're not quibbling about three minutes. I gave him the benefit of a doubt, but he should have been out of there immediately. LBJ didn't go through with his speech in Dallas. FDR didn't wait to finish breakfast on 12/7/41.
You go do the job that you were allegedly elected to do. You get the hell out of the classroom and back to Washington. Immediately.. It's interesting that, when the first 9/11 docu-fakery was done, with the full cooperation of the WH, the fictional GWB did exactly that. Somebody's conscience was ringing.

 

Yeah, it's been at the cleaners for about six years.

 

His first reaction was no reaction.
So was his second.
And his third.
His 15th reaction was to launch a war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

 

I've never bought the "so the kids in the classroom wouldn't panic" justification. You get up from your chair after maybe half a minute of thinking after being told "America is under attack," you say you're sorry but something has come up, and you leave. The children would have been no more traumatized by that then they were as soon as they heard what happened and later saw the coverage on TV.

 

This thread proves how idiotic the sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome have become.

Unfortunately, institutionalization isn't an acceptable treatment anymore.