Well, I truly cannot fault anyone for that. 1. It was stunning. 2. I can only hope that he spent those 7 minutes not stunned, but thinking "who do I need to talk to, how do I handle this", getting his head straightened out around the 1000 briefings he had received about what to do in just such a case. 3. NOT moving was the safest thing for the secret service to do from an immediate threat to the president perspective. That location had been cleared at least 2 weeks in advance. They _knew_ that place, and the threats. Moving in reaction is _never_ the right move, unless the spot you are in is _known_ to be immediately dangerous.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Justin Scott wrote: > > government internship thing (I live in Sarasota). She said that once > they > > realized what was going on, the entire group about ran out of there back > to > > their motorcade and sped off to the airport. > > Well, it just took Bush a long time to do anything. The timeline was: > > 8:51 a.m.: Bush arrives at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in > Sarasota, Florida for a photo op with 16 second graders. He is there > to promote his administration's new bill on education. > > [9:00am Fiction] Bush lies later about what happened: > "And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw > an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I used to > fly myself, and I said, 'There's one terrible pilot.' And I said, 'It > must have been a horrible accident.' But I was whisked off from there > -- I didn't have much time to think about it." > > This couldn't have happened because the video of the first plane > hitting wasn't release to later and Bush was reading My Pet Goat since > ... > > 9:05 a.m.: Andrew Card walks up to Bush while he reading My Pet Goat > to 2nd graders. Card whispers "A second plane has hit the World Trade > Center. America is under attack." > > >9:12 and <9:23: Bush continues to sit with Children after hearing "America > is under attack" for at least 7 minutes and possibly as long as 18 minutes. > > 9:23 am: Bush has a conf call with VP Cheney, Nat'l Sec Adviser Condi > Rice, FBI Chief Robert Mueller and NY Gov George Pataki. > > Of course there are 3 crazy things here that should scare the crap out > of every one: > > (1.) Our President sat for a minimum of 7 minutes and possibly 18 > minutes after hearing our country was under attack before he moved. > (Only the President, btw, could order that we shoot down the civilian > planes) > > (2.) The Secret Service, knowing our nation was under attack and the > president was at a public event, didn't bother to grab the President. > > (3.) No government official interrupted the photo ops WHILE THE NATION > WAS UNDER ATTACK! > > And there's this ... > > Here's what Special Counselor to Pres Bush Karen Hughes said: > > I remember once the Secret Service thought they had another threat > and tried to get the president to leave and he insisted that he wasnt > leaving. I'll never forget, he said: In fact, Im hungry. I want a > hamburger. > > And I said, Well, you might as well have cheese. Hed been trying > to diet, and so I thought, well, if were all going to die here in the > next few minutes, you might as well have a hamburger with che > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292612 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
