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About as long as it takes to start the car, this is the President at the time of a national emergency. How long does it take to pick up a phone? Fighters were scrambled to intercept and maybe shoot down US civilian aircraft. My understanding is that Cheney gave that order. If that is true, why? Was that order given during those seven minutes? I don't know but I'm sure the timeline is out there.
My one and only point is that by sitting on his hands for even seven minutes while he knew we were under attack Bush handed the opposition a bat and they hit him with it.
Let me ask you a question....how did you react? Did you continue doing what you were doing or did you get on the phone to someone else to say "You believe this"? Did you sit and finish your breakfast or did you turn on Fox to see for yourself? Did you sit still?
I walked into the bonus room in time to see the second plane hit the WTC.
I stood there for the next 12 hours.
I continued to wait for my son’s School bus, and sent him to school, like any other day. I then went to work, and told my coworkers to turn on their radio. Not that it matters really, the POTUS does not run out and jump in a car to go somewhere, the roads have to be cleared first, or the secret service is not doing it's job. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.