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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (596222)	7/28/2004 12:03:44 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don’t need to have seen the clip. Here is a report (from Bloomberg) of the thing. And you will see that Bush’s support structure was already doing its job without Bush having to get in its way. At 8:55 a.m. on Sept. 11, nine minutes after the first airliner slammed into the trade center, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told Bush that a plane, either a multiengine craft or a commercial jet, had struck the center. "That's all we know right now, Mr. President," Rice said on a secure telephone from Washington, according to the commission report. (NOTE It would have been stupid for Bush to break here and demand more information when his staff has told him all it knows) Reporters traveling with Bush's motorcade to the school overheard a voice on a Secret Service agent's radio saying Rice had an urgent call for the president and would be waiting on a secure line that White House staff had set up inside the school. Behind a blue-curtained partition next to the classroom where Bush would speak to second-graders, the White House had set up a work area with secure telephone lines. Reporters peered around that partition into the work area and saw White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett on the telephone, his face pale. What he was saying was inaudible. Behind Bartlett, with his back to reporters, Bush was on a telephone for several minutes with Card standing next to him. After the call, Bush conferred briefly with Card before nodding to White House aides to go ahead and begin the school event. (NOTE Bush is now obviously engaged. His support structure is operating in full tilt, giving him everything it has, as undoubtedly was planned long before the attack.) For the next five to seven minutes Bush went through the prearranged event, greeting students, smiling and asking them about their reading habits. He sat on a small chair, his knees pulled up in front of his chest, looking somewhat distracted. "Bush made the right decision in remaining calm, in not rushing out of the classroom," said Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. (NOTE Bush’s people were working this attack and he knew it. The man is clearly trying to salvage continuity here, letting his people do their jobs while he smoothes over the matter for his students. I suspect here his appearance of distraction resulted of his being in fact distracted (duh!). But he was obviously trying to keep those in his immediate charge calm while his staff continued to work the problem.) At one point the president got up to tousle the hair of a student and leaned up against the edge of a table. He nodded as the students went through their reading exercises, saying, "That's good, that's good." (NOTE Bush is obviously trying to help these kids. He is likely suspecting an attack because by this time NORAD already knows the planes had been hijacked. But while his staff works the problem, Bush is still trying to project calm for these kids. That is leadership. You may disrespect it, but leftists in truth disrespect children in general. That is why you murder them. It is also why you ridicule those of us who truly love children and who as a result have large families. Bush, on the other hand, is obviously concerned for these kids and likely for the rest of the people nearby, including his staff. The man is doing a stellar job and I don’t care what any filthy leftist has to say about it.) Card came forward and whispered in Bush's ear delivering his message. "I told the president, 'The second tower has been hit. America is under attack,"' Card told reporters later. "When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us they immediately knew it was not an accident," the commission staff reported. Bush hurried to finish the school event, thanking the students for the time and encouraging them to keep working. He made no mention of the education bill or Congress's need to pass it. Instead he stepped behind the blue partition to talk with Card and others. Reporters were prevented from looking behind the partition by White House advance staff. The commission report says the president's traveling staff focused on organizing his return to Washington. (NOTE Obviously Bush is engaged, had been engaged all along, and had properly trusted his staff to work this problem – as it did – and in good form. He was not the bumbling idiot you have wickedly betrayed him to be. You are an evil fraud to attack this man as you have. You don’t deserve Bush as president. You deserve a liar like John Kerry.) The president's motorcade left the school at about 9:35 a.m. and arrived at the airport between 9:42 and 9:45 a.m. On Air Force One at about 9:45 a.m., Bush told Vice President Dick Cheney by telephone, "Sounds like we have a minor war going on here, I heard about the Pentagon. We're at war. Somebody's going to pay,"