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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (187094)	9/26/2001 4:12:11 PM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the price for 8 years of clinton has yet to be paid in full. . .

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (187094)	9/26/2001 4:45:46 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Gubanatorial candidate Schundler is trying to cast aspersions on the other party to garner votes by using a specious argument. In fact, Vice President Cheney advised Bush what to do in the event of more of these unprecedented attacks. They came to an agreement about using military to shoot down hijacked commercial planes only AFTER all four of the hijacked planes had gone down. The military could have been flying practice missions over Hudson River and still could do nothing without a presidential order, which did not come. Sunday September 16 11:15 PM ET Cheney Recalls 'Horrendous' Choice on Attack Day Reuters Photo By Randall Mikkelsen A 'HORRENDOUS DECISION' **** But Cheney said the hardest choice was the evidently unprecedented decision to shoot down, if necessary, a commercial aircraft within the United States -- a decision he said Bush made on Cheney's recommendation. All four hijacked planes crashed before the order could be executed. ``The president made the decision ... that if the plane would not divert, if they wouldn't pay any attention to instructions to move away from the city, as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out,'' he said. ``People say that's a horrendous decision to make. Well it is. You've got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians captured by terrorists, and are you going to in fact shoot it down, obviously and kill all those Americans on board?'' Cheney asked. Bush said later that never in ``anybody's thought process about how to protect Americans did we ever think that the evildoers would fly not one, but four, commercial aircraft into precious U.S. targets.'' ``... When I was informed that an unidentified aircraft was headed to the heart of the capital I was concerned. I wasn't concerned about my decision, I was more concerned about the lives of innocent Americans.'' The United States ``absolutely'' would have been justified in shooting down the two aircraft that hit the World Trade Center or the one that hit the Pentagon, which have left more than 5,000 dead or missing, Cheney said. ``As it turned out, we did not have to execute on that authorization,'' he said. ``But there were a few moments when we thought we might, when planes were incoming and we didn't know whether or not they were problem aircraft until they had diverted and gone elsewhere.'' He said the fourth plane that crashed near Pittsburgh was headed for Washington, possibly the U.S. Capitol, and went down after passengers struggled with hijackers.