In article qZoZc.97764$Fg5.22004@attbi_s53,
"dixon" wrote:

Maybe- but when they were thinking about shooting the hijacked plane down
over Penn., you wouldn't think a decision that major would be made by
someone to far down the chain of command.

Dixon

It was NORADS job, not the president's. He had no part in it. He was
told about the first plane in the class. A single-engine plane hitting a
tower isn't something a president really needs to divert all his
attention to. The news of a second plane hitting the tower took a while
to soak in TO ALL OF US.

I saw it all live, I work in the media. I didn't exactly jump up and run
for the civil defense shelter myself. And I'll bet a lot of New Yorkers
didn't either, although they probably should have.

I say he was focused on his job at hand (in front of a classroom full of
kids and many, many media personnel and cameras, and his own entourage
of staff). To take in the new info and realize it was important and sort
out his thoughts from all the rest is a difficult thing at best.

I agree, Bush isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he had his
hands full and was handed another heapin' helping of emergency.

No, I don't fault him for his hesitation.

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