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To: GretchenEE
I am / was not aware that Bush sat still for 25 minutes after Card told him about the second plane, and the only reference I've seen to it is the quote in #299 of Barrie Zwicker, Insight Media Analyst. I had the impression from news reports of that day that after Card whispered to him, he listened for a very short time and then got up

There may have been 25 minutes between Bush being told about the plane #1 and #2. He did not sit there reading stories to the kids for 25 minutes after being told of the second attack. He made a short statement to the teachers present about what happened and then when the secret service was certain that it was safe to move him, the President was taken to Air Force One where he could be better protected against the terrorists that were attacking the country. His staff you can be sure was collecting information for him. During the first few minutes, you know you cant really be sure about much of what is offered up as intelligence.

333 posted on 05/20/2002 7:22:25 AM PDT by Dave S
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To: Dave S
The emperors-clothes.com has an article that constructs a conspiracy out of this 25 minutes.

This fact together with the fact that the intercept jets were late to be dispatched and that no jets from Andrews were dispatched at all is used to construct a conspiracy that Bush, Cheney and the Joint Chief of the Armed Forces Myers knew the WTC was about to happen!

336 posted on 05/20/2002 11:08:46 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Dave S
Well, Dave S, you are my new hero in this mudslinging. It is not absolute in my own memory what happened during those minutes, but from all I saw and heard, what is in my memory is what you describe. Thank you. It happened that I had to be up all night on September 10 and didn't get to bed till about 6 AM Pacific time on the 11th, and had checked the news just then. Seeing nothing of significance, and being exhausted, I went to bed. I got up eight hours later, at 2 PM, having missed the horror of that day but being full of it afterwards, so the timeline of September 11 has been less clear to me than almost everyone else.

And in that statement to the media crazymakers, he was obviously shoved off his usual demeanor and obviously deeply serious about how to get things in order to respond to the attacks and what to do to continue to protect America. It is beyond the pale for others to suggest otherwise, and anyone who says so does not observe the man very closely, or does so through such jaundiced political motives as to make them incapable of correct analysis.

338 posted on 05/20/2002 12:32:17 PM PDT by GretchenEE
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