At 11:58 AM 9/16/01, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/16/01 12:26:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>>Did you listen to VP Cheney's interview this morning on _Meet the
>>Press_? Because Pres. Bush was out of town, as soon as word of the
>>hijackings reached the White House, the Secret Service whisked* the VP to
>>the bunker under the WH, from where he called AF1 and told the Pres. that
>>he should not return to Washington but go to a secure location, in
>>accordance with the plans that had been made for a situation in which
>>Washington was targeted for attack. That is also why VP Cheney has spent
>>much of the past week at Camp David: so no single attack could get both
>>the Pres. and VP.
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>Spin as far as I am concerned. The pres should have been getting back to
>Wash DC. If someone needed to be elsewhere get Cheney out of town. Dick
>told W what to do and W listened. Should have been the other way around.
Gautam and JDG have answered this, probably better than I can, as I think
they are in positions to know more than I do about current policies. Based
on what I know, I agree with them. In fact, as I watched events unfold
Tuesday afternoon, I personally thought the President should have stayed in
a secure location away from Washington even longer than he did. This was
as much an act of war as if some other country had lobbed a pair of ICBMs
armed with thermonuclear warheads at NYC and Washington�the scenario
originally envisioned for which the plans we are discussing for protecting
government officials were put in place. In such a situation or in the one
last week, I would have been happy to see him address the nation that night
from a secure location, and would not have thought any less of him for
being in such a place. I suppose it might be my background that leads me
to feel that way, and I understand that others may reach different
conclusions based on their experience and beliefs.
-- Ronn! :)
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