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

To: steve harris who wrote (402590)	5/4/2003 9:26:10 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, for one thing. Being the President of the United States, I would think the Secret Service would have an interest in ensuring his safety and calmly remove him to an undisclosed location as soon as it became clear that the WTC wasn't hit by accident. I mean, these guys are trained to take a bullet for the President, you'd think they'd want to get him out of harms way at the first sign of trouble. Not just let him continue reading to schoolchildren like a sitting duck. That would have really been a scandal if the President had been killed because the Secret Service was negligent in getting him to safety during an unprecedented terrorist attack. What would I have expected from Bush on 9/11? I would have expected him to quietly leave the school and take command of the situation like the Commander In Chief and make sure planes had been scrambled to defend Washington, DC and make a statement from an undisclosed location ASAP to reassure the American people that the government was doing all it could to prevent more terrorist attacks. Bush's behavior and the behavior of his top "defense" staff on the morning of 9/11 have me baffled?!? They acted like nothing out of the ordinary was going on. Ho Hum! And, I do support the idea of shooting jetliners out of the sky. It was obvious from what happened in New York that these weren't regular hijackings in which negotiation would bring an end to it. These were suicidal hijackers who intended to crash their planes into buildings and kill people on the ground. The people in the plane were doomed anyway. Shooting it out of the sky would have saved lives on the ground and sent a message to would be terrorists that we don't mess around and will not tollerate another 9/11 style attack.