The thing that I remember about Bush on 9/11 is that he didn't address the public until that night. A true leader would immediately find a camera and address the public.

How do I tell a hijacked airliner from an ordinary one until it deviates from its filed flight plan?

 

Now what? Where do you send'em? What are the targets? How do you keep'em in the air? Ooops...maybe we needed to organize and get some tankers in the air too, so these guys won't be falling out of the sky dry.

 

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Ok, I'm just not talking to you anymore, because you aren't even reading my posts.

 

time to break out the mister wizard on your ass. Airplanes are equiped with a little thing called a "Transponder" in helps with tracking, yada yada yada. When the guys took over the planes, they shut them off. Don't ask my why, I don't know nothing about them, but I know it is something you do if you are up to no good. Put fighters over wash., ny. la. and if a plane has it's transponder off, it gets checked on.

 

 

I'm not asking for the sky to be overrun by warplanes, one or two over the largest cities. Bush didn't even check on the fesability, he just sat there.

holy crap, fishfan46. You have yet to answer his questions!!!!

 

You talk about reading previous posts, but the previous posts are personal attacks on posters and random "cutesy" drivel. Post some real content! I'm sitting here wanting to know what Bush could have done, yet you give nothing. You also cannot prove how things would have been different.

 

If you keep the personal attacks up, I'm gonna have to report you to a moderator.

If you keep the personal attacks up, I'm gonna have to report you to a moderator.

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Personal attacks? I would like to personally attack you and these other righties for just not listening. I have said several times what he should have done. IE get up, go tell norad to scramble fighters, get to a safe location. What do you want me to say for you to understand? should I say it in latin?

 

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Gore/Kerry would have done much better :plain

 

(p.s. clever with the reversal of "personal attacks". How brilliant of you to "personally attack" me).

I don't know why I'm bothering because this is largely a non-issue, but let's leave it at this:

 

What were the first things Bush did once his handlers finally got him out of the school & briefed him? Were they important?

 

If so, then the time he spent at the school was clearly wasted. That much you have to admit.

 

Now could anything have been prevented or changed if he left 7 minutes or 27 minutes earlier? Probably not in this case, but we're saying this in retrospect now aren't we! We already know what happened, how things progressed, etc. At the time how did Bush know there was nothing to be done?

 

That's not entirely the point anyway, is it? I don't think the argument here is: why did Bush sit there for 7 minutes because if he got out in 30 seconds, the plane that hit the Pentagon could've been saved. No one can predict that.

 

The argument is what the hell was he doing if he wasn't just plain frozen? Was he needed at all? To take your argument, he may as well have just remained in the classroom all day to read stories while everyone else took care of the adult problems.

 

Tonyi is correct in retrospect that there's probably little Bush could've done that others couldn't have done without him anyway, and it's not as if he's going to don a cape & fly off to save the planes like superman, but at the very least make an effort, & give the appearance that you're on top of the situation. To just sit there & shrug your shoulders & respond with "hey, wasn't anything he could've done anyway" is pretty weak.

 

Is it sincerely your view that Bush would have nothing better to do after being informed that the nation is under attack than to waste 27 minutes? Or even 7? How did Bush know there wasn't anything to be done? At the time, he should've been out the door, & on the move. I'm not in the administration so I won't pretend to know what the protocol is, but get in touch with your staff, get to the car, to the airport, to a command center, to the batcave, whatever.