Wrong! The plane that Bush was told about was the SECOND plane, and not the first, so by then it was a known that the country was under attack. The aircraft had been off course for over an hour at this point and it is ONLY the President who can give a shoot down order, so he was at the very least aware that planes had been hijacked within the US at this point. It was no surprise as witnessed by his non-reaction. At the poing when Andrew Card told him about the second plane hitting the WTC it was a know fact that at least three planes were off course and that they had been hijacked. The hole in the donut is, "why didn't the Secret Service DO anything?" As a matter of perecautionary security they should have been all over Bush and getting him out of a known place he would be in. When the first plane hit it was assumed it was a terrible accident as that is the auto reaction it would draw with most thinking people who have a modicum of morality, but by the time plane two hit that theory was long gone and it was the second plane Bush was told about not the first, so surprise or accident was NOT an option the SS could afford at this poing but they did NOTHING, ergo, it weren't a surprise.
L. --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Harbican" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Appal Energy > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 17:43 > Subject: Re: [biofuel] THE HOT MOVIE > > > Richard, > > Don't you think that there is something problematic with a president who > sits for 7 minutes and continues to read about goats to children when bombs > (or airplanes) are exploding within his country? > > What if those two planes had only been the first of an entire wave? > > Think that those wasted seven minutes could have been used in a more > efficient manner? > > Hell. He had no way of knowing that they weren't the beginning of the end of > the world. > > > Let's look at it from a slightly different perspective. > > It wasn't until he was finally on they back in Air Force One that there was confirmation that it was a deliberate attack, and not an accident as most of the country thought it was. How was he to know at the time he was reading to the children, that it was an attack upon the country, when he was first told that an " A large aircraft has crashed into on of the World trade towers ". > > If it was me, and I was told those words, I would have finished reading to the kids, then left ASAP to cover the accident from the White House. As it was his visit to the school was to be at least 1/2 an hour longer, and some sources have said that it was supposed to be a full hour longer. > > Remember he was in Air Force One, and flying back to Washington D.C. ( not when he was reading to the kids ), when they finally figured out it was a terrorist attack and that is why it was diverted and he spent all that time in a secret location. > > Remember, everyone first thought it was a freak, but, terrible accident, and under those conditions, I can understand, why he continued to read to the kids, to show the children some normalcy, and not scare the kids, by leaving in a huff, in the middle of a book he was reading. I would have done the same. > > Yes hindsight is 20/20, but at the time, conditions, and with the best information everyone had, everyone was operating was operating the best they could. Sure, had he 20 minutes of information or warning, that the world trade center, was the target, of mad men, at the controls of a airliners, then yes, he would have moved allot faster, but given the information he had, I don't blame him one bit for doing what he did. > > Like I said before, given the same information, about it being an accident, I would have done the same. Come to think of it, I did much the same, my sister called and told me about the accident, and it was another 5-10 minutes before I finished what I was doing, and then got around to turning on the TV. > > Greg H. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
