"ecr" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Surely you don't believe that Bush's presence was any benefit to the
country
in the minutes, days and months after 9/11, do you? If he'd perished in
flames, better men would've stepped up. Matter of fact, Rudy's
popularity
rating were far higher than Bush's.


Wow! How can a, a, ... citizen make such a response?

Do you think POTUS presence (regardless of politics)is not required
during an attack on the US mainland?

Can you imagine the state of the country at this point if POTUS had
been killed?
(POTUS didn't go to DC because it(he) was deemed a probable target).

Do you think the "bad guys" would not have kept up the attack?

I fear for my country.

1) In terms of morale, Bush was only important to people who had respect for
him. I wouldn't hold the door for him if he were on crutches, so for me, his
existence was meaningless.

2) In terms of solid, material results in the time immediately following the
attack, he was of no consequence. He doesn't possess the intelligence to
understand the spectrum of responses to an attack like that. Any and all
responses were dictated at the time by real people, not Bush.

3) Whether the bad guys continued the attack or not was in no way related to
anything the president could've done. If they had 5 more planes targeted and
in the air, there still would've been some sort of trouble on those planes,
successful or not.

4) If Bush had been 4 blocks away from the WTC, with a perfect view and
access to all emergency communications occurring at the time, he still could
not have expressed anything coherent about the events, unless it was
previously scripted for him. Better men took care of keeping the public
informed. There were fire and police officials who better able to put ideas
together during impromptu interviews.

5) A real man would've told the public that the best information was coming
from the mayor of NYC.

Sorry, but I don't believe in deities, and I especially don't attribute
god-like qualities to humans. You're welcome to do that, though.