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

To: Neocon who wrote (586866)	7/1/2004 12:46:28 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Was he going to assume operational control of the rapid response teams?" The whole issue is just another non-issue that gets the haters all juiced up. Shows their pettiness as well as any of their attacks.

To: Neocon who wrote (586866)	7/1/2004 12:52:27 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The operating procedure for such a scenario is that the secret service selects and acts on a plan to evacuate the President and put him in position to command. That's exactly what happened here.

To: Neocon who wrote (586866)	7/1/2004 5:53:35 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Every second counted for what? Was he going to assume operational control of the rapid response teams? Was anyone clear about what was going on, to inform him of the big picture?>> After the first plane hit Giuliani said he knew we were under attack. Bush thought "boy what a terrible pilot." When someone finally told Bush we were under attack, i'd expect the commander in chief to assume his battle station, not read to children for another 7 minutes. At the time how could he have known how much each second would matter? There are orders only a President can give. He's our leader, the commander in chief. We were under attack and he was reading to children. What did Giuliani do? Take 7 minutes to drink coffee and finish his crossword puzzle while his staff figured out what to do and where to hide him? If it's Giuliani the idea seems laughably absurd. But with Bush you accept it. Why? <<At worst, Bush took a few minutes to steady himself against a shock, at best, he prevented a panic in the classroom and possibly around the country.>> I find this excuse especially lame. Couldn't he say, "excuse me children there's something i have to attend to?" Do you suppose the school went on with their normal school day so as not to alarm the children? It's preposterous. You act as if there were only two options: run out screaming like a mad man or stay and finish the book. <<There is nothing wrong in his behavior........... >> Bush spent the day releasing video tapes from undisclosed locations. I'm used to Bin Laden behaving that way but not the President of the United States. Again, compare this to Giuliani. Imagine if Giuliani had gone missing and his spokesman had come out during that day and said, "don't worry everyone the mayor is safe in an undisclosed location." Leaders lead during a crisis. They don't freeze and they don't hide. You just have to compare Bush to Giuliani. And then there's this: msnbc.msn.com America was under attack, and somebody had to make a decision. Dick Cheney, huddled in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House, had just urged the traveling George W. Bush not to return to Washington. The president had left Florida aboard Air Force One at 9:55 a.m. on 9/11 "with no destination at take-off," as last week's 9-11 Commission report noted. Nor had Bush given any known instructions on how to respond to the attacks. I guess it didn't really matter what Bush was doing. Cheney was leading the country. Steve Dietrich