Reply #30: what got me was how he reached out for the book AFTER hearing ... [View All]

[Lisa]

The footage appears to show him picking up the book a few moments after Card had whispered the news in his ear. After seeing the cover of the book, it DOES look colorful and attractive -- soothing, maybe -- but not as attention-getting as being told that a second plane had struck the WTC!

Then again, I'm biased, because a former schoolmate of mine lost her husband on Flight 93, and she at any rate appears convinced that Mr. Bush could and should have done something to save those people.


""Whether or not my husband's plane was shot down," the widowed
Mrs. Homer said, "the most angering part is reading about how the
President handled this."

Mr. Bush was notified 14 minutes after the first attack, at 9
a.m., when he arrived at an elementary school in Sarasota, Fla. He
went into a private room and spoke by phone with his national
security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and glanced at a TV in the
room. Mrs. Homer's soft voice curdles when she describes his
reaction: "I can't get over what Bush said when he was called
about the first plane hitting the tower: That's some bad pilot.
Why did people on the street assume right away it was a terrorist
hijacking, but our President didn't know? Why did it take so long
to ground all civilian aircraft? In the time between when my
husband's plane took off and when the second plane
hit in New York <9:02 a.m.>, they could have turned back to
airfield.""

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/M.A.Sweeney.txt


p.s. while viewing the F 9/11 footage, I noticed that Bush seemed to be swaying back and forth slightly as the minutes went by. Did anyone else observe this? My dad, who taught disturbed children, said that this was one symptom he saw in the classroom.