Bush says slow reaction on 9/11 was deliberate decision

Source: Reuters/ Raw Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the September 11 2001 attacks was a conscious decision to project an aura of calm in a crisis.

In a rare interview with the National Geographic Channel, Bush reflects on what was going through his mind at the most dramatic moment of his presidency when he was informed that a second passenger jet had hit New York's World Trade Center.

Bush was visiting a Florida classroom and the incident, which was caught on TV film, and has often been used by critics to ridicule his apparently blank face.

"My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America? Then I immediately focused on the children, and the contrast between the attack and the innocence of children," Bush says in an excerpt of the interview shown to television writers on Thursday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/29/bush-says-slow-reaction-on-911-was-deliberate-decision/

yahoo.com on their story. Everyone (Teabaggers) was saying he did the right thing, he didn't want to alarm the children, bla bla bla, etc. I posted that he should have acted like an adult, excused himself to possibly save the country and do his job as President. Well, I was met with "everyone knew it was over" and what a leftist I was. Yahoo then pulled my post with 8 people voting agianst it, two voting for it. ]
How right-wing is Yahoo?
So there goes my homepage.

The plan was to sit there and look stupid to lull the terrorists into a false sense of security. Then comes the diabolically clever bit: we attack the wrong country!

Sure George, whatever you say.

I ain't buying his bs. Never have and never will.

Nope. His first thought was "now what do i do?"
GAC

WE can see what happened for ourselves. And it wasn't worry about upsetting the children.

The only ones in that room who were innocent were the children.

The rest of the people were at the very least aiders and abetters.

FBI knew about every one of the ''hijackers'' and were following them.

:mad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZgt2eNv3rA

Watch his body language and tell me what you gut feeling tells you.

He had almost no information. He showed no curiosity when briefed (for at best five seconds) by Card. Where was the follow up?

Another failure by US journalism to press Bush on his bizarre conduct.

Why did his handlers leave him sitting there like that?

about invading Iraq...that blank far away look was that idiot making a mental plan for the future..

even though I wanted to stay a while longer, there is a very important matter that I must deal with at this time. Now (standing up from his chair), please excuse me."

That is what he SHOULD have said and done.. I put no forethought into that statement; what was so damn difficult about saying something like that?