Understanding 9/11: In the Face of Disaster, A Great Leader Sits Frozen

As Robert Perry says:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/062305.html


Arguably the success of al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11 attacks could be blamed on Bush’s negligence in ignoring blunt warnings from the CIA, including the Aug. 6, 2001, briefing paper entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the U.S.” Instead of responding aggressively – or “shaking the trees” of the federal bureaucracy, as counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke said – Bush stayed on a month-long vacation, went fishing, cleared brush at his ranch and studied the ethics of stem-cell research.

Then, on Sept. 11, Bush sat frozen for seven minutes in a second-grade Florida classroom after White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispered in his ear, “the nation is under attack.” When Bush finally got up and left, he rushed to Air Force One and flew westward to greater safety in Louisiana and then Nebraska.

Most of the events that later enshrined Bush as a national hero were essentially PR stunts, such as his speaking through a bullhorn to firefighters amid the rubble at Ground Zero or boasting that he would get Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.”

Bush’s decision to attack al-Qaeda’s sanctuaries in Afghanistan was an obvious and popular response, even though the invasion failed to capture or kill bin Laden or eradicate his Taliban allies.

yet that same blunder has made him a hero to millions.

ironic and stupid.

or inactions really just tells me with no doubt--he knew an attack was coming and just let it happened to enpower him and the Rethugs and neocons to push forward their agenda of greed and corruption and their pre-planned attack of Iraq--connect the dots--it's pretty transparent.

that Bush is: in any sense capable of understanding the military issues involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other parts of the world; or in any sense brave.

with someone like Chimpie needs to understand it all when whispers of "war president", "hero", "greatest president ever" and other fantasies are injected into one's psyche. Remember we're talking about a delusional man who says he was sent by God to be president of the free world.