John Gaquin wrote:
Bush's continued reading for 6 or 7 minutes is naught but a red herring

That's possible, but OTOH it certainly does not support the idea that
Bush is a bold leader.


... All the people with the responsibility and the
capacity to check and respond to such events were already in motion.

Now *that's* utter malarkey. The truth is (and if you don't believe me,
read the Sept 11th Commission report) that the air traffic controllers
fumbled uselessly & flailed pointlessly, the Air Nat'l Guard controllers
sat around and waited for orders, and the bottom line is that an hour
and a half went by before anything substantial was being done.

... There
was nothing additional the President - any President - could have added to
the mix except an additional reporting requirement.

Bull****. A decisive, intelligent President could have gotten in touch
with the air control network, expedited the relay of info to the ANG,
and ordered interceptors aloft. It's just barely possible they could
have brought down that second plane, and very likely splashed the one
that hit the Pentagon.

Instead, Bush sat around and waited, and then he fled.

Fact- President Bush took NO active role controlling or containing the
tragic events of Sept 11th, 2001.

Fact- President Bush's spin machine started spewing fog that same day...
babble about assasination attempts, planted mines in DC, etc etc.

It's all part of history.

DSK