5 Minute Video Of What Bush Did On The Morning of 9.11

[RestoreGore]

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

At 9:03 AM on 11 September 2001, the second airplane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. President Bush was in Florida, at the Emma T. Booker Elementary School, listening to children read. Chief of Staff Andrew Card came over and whispered in Bush's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."

What did the Commander in Chief do? Nothing. He sat there. He sat for well over 5 minutes, doing nothing while 3,000 people were dying and the attacks were still in progress.

Not only did the leader of the free world sit as his country was attacked, the Secret Service also did nothing. Bush was appearing in public at a previously announced photo-op. He was a sitting duck. The attacks were ongoing at that point (planes had yet to hit the Pentagon or the field in Pennsylvania), and nobody knew how much more destruction was going to happen. Were there two, three, four, eight more planes hijacked and on their way to crash into prominent buildings? Was one headed for the school, where anyone who checked the President's public itinerary would know he was located? Were other terrorists planning to detonate dirty nukes? Were they going to release anthrax or smallpox or sarin? Was an assassination squad going to burst into the school and get Bush? Was a suicide bomber going to ram a truck full of explosives into that classroom?

During the midst of the attacks, any of these things could've happened. Yet there sits Bush, seemingly unconcerned. His Chief of Staff likewise doesn't think that America in flames warrants the President's immediate attention. And the Secret Service utterly fails to do its job by grabbing the President of the United States and getting him to safety. It's truly inexplicable.

And it's something the administration isn't too eager to trumpet. They haven't released footage of the President's (non)actions during this historic moment of American history. Until now, the only available footage had been a little film put together by Booker Elementary. The problem is, there's a jump edit in the footage: From the time Card whispers to Bush until the end of the scene in the classroom, only 2 minutes and 10 seconds elapse.

But this new, fuller footage shows Bush sitting for a full five minutes after he'd been told that "America is under attack."

He declined to take action even longer than this, but unfortunately this footage ends before he leaves the classroom. Thanks to an amazing article by Allan Wood and Paul Thompson, we know what happened after the footage suddenly cuts off:

end of excerpt from site.
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Of course, you won't see THIS in the MSM today.

“It was an interesting day.”— Bush, recalling 9/11

[rurallib]

1. Hope that gets splashed all over the internet today

[Why Syzygy]

2. What a terrible comment

on our public educational system.

[rocktivity]

3. And of course, don't forget DU-er Symbolman's

An American Requiem of Take Back The Media fame.

:patriot:
rocknation

[RestoreGore]

9. I've watched this before and it still makes me cry

Insidious is all I can say.

[nickyt]

4. ...and here's what he did that night:

President Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note.... we're heading straight down to the basement because there's an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says it's a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back upstairs and go to bed.

Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.

Noonan: So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.

President Bush: That's right -- we got a laugh out of it.

http://www.lhj.com/lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/lhj/story/data/UpClosewiththePresidentandFirstLady_10262003.xml&catref=cat2210008&page=6

[displacedtexan]

5. After that, Bush* studied his speech. Here's the pic...

And the link.

And a snippet:

Reading The Pictures: Beyond The Pet Goat

Posted August 15, 2007 | 12:24 PM (EST)

The photo, as you can tell from the clock and the TV screen, was taken at 9:25 am on the morning of 9/11/2001 at Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida.

Although everyone in the world, it seems, is familiar with the "Pet Goat" photos, I think this one -- though far lesser known -- is as much, if not even more scandalous.

Given the detailed timelines available from that morning, we know well how George Bush spent 10 very long minutes reading a story to a group of second graders. He entered the classroom room at 9:03, and he was informed at 9:06 by Andy Card that a second plane had crashed into the World Trade Towers, but he didn't finish up with the kids until 9:16.

What is much less familiar, however, is how Bush spent the next fifteen or twenty minutes. After taking another minute or two to speak with the teacher and principal after the reading exercise, Bush and company made their way into this adjoining classroom. Once there, Bush spoke with Condi Rice (check), then Dick Cheney (double check), then New York Governor Pataki (check again). What is most remarkable -- both about the photo, and Dubya's subsequent decision making -- however, are those pages in front of him.

I also covered this in the Aug. 24 DU Blog Box column.

Sad, isn't it?

[RestoreGore]

7. Bush Claiming He Saw The First Plane Hit- Which was Impossible

Unless of course that's a closed circuit TV and the school was command central. And that picture above is chilling to me.
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http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htm

A White House Briefing was published with a transcript of the Orlando meeting during which Mr. Bush took questions from local people. During the meeting, a boy named Jordan, a third grade student (about 8 years old) asked Bush how he had felt on 9-11. Mr. Bush answered with what we will show was an elaborate lie.

We have posted the full transcript of the 'Town Hall' meeting at

http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/town.htm

Below is the part with the exchange between Bush and Jordan. This text is unaltered except that there are two comments by me. The comments are clearly indicated.

-- Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor's Clothes

* * END OF NOTE FROM EMPEROR'S CLOTHES.] * *

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Remarks By President George W. Bush At Town Hall Meeting (Excerpt)
...

Q Mr. President, I want to say they haven't won. I got in my car today, and I'm in the same building with you, speaking to you. They have not won.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you very much.

Q And would you say hello to my son, Jordan, and my daughter, Patricia?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Jordan and who?

Q Patricia.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Hi, Patricia. How are you?

How old is Patricia?

Q Five, and Jordan's in third grade. And Jordan has the question, if I could give him the microphone.

PRESIDENT BUSH: You bet. That's -- your mother's relaying the mike to you, Jordan.

Q One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country. And another thing is that -- how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well -- (applause) -- thank you, Jordan.

Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe where -- what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- well, actually I was in a classroom, talking about a reading program that works. And it -- I was sitting outside the -- the classroom, waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower of a -- of a -- you know, the TV was obviously on, and I -- I used to fly myself, and I said, "Well, there's one terrible pilot." And I said it must have been a horrible accident.

end of excerpt

[WinkyDink]

6. And as for 2001, which ended a mere 14 weeks later, "It's been a fabulous year...."

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me. We're so grateful to be living in this compound and I'm grateful to be working in this office. It's a joy to walk in here every morning, realizing that I'm the President of the greatest country on the face of the Earth.

Anything you want to say?

MRS. BUSH: Happy holidays to everybody. Very happy New Year.

THE PRESIDENT: Why don't you say something about the rug?

MRS. BUSH: Do you want to hear more about the rug?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011221-2.html

[RestoreGore]

8. Sickening n/t

[Lisa]

10. claiming he didn't want to panic the kids -- then making them stand there

.... while he talked about airplanes crashing into buildings -- very reassuring!