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Originally Posted by ASU2003
How did the government know that it was a terrorist attack? There was only the one plane that hit the tower at that point.
Did the air traffic controllers get the codes from all of the airplanes saying that they had been hijacked when he was told?
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It seems that you are mistaken.......
The video of Bush sitting in the classroom, after receiving the news, from Andrew Card that a second plane had crashed into the WTC, is available here:
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.html
........The only source to describe what happened next is Fighting Back by Bill Sammon. Publishers Weekly described Sammon's book as an "inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 [and] a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president [showing] the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle." http://www.publishersweekly.com/inde...cleid=CA251932
Sammon's conservative perspective makes his account of Bush's behavior at the end of the photo-op all the more surprising. Bush is described as smiling and chatting with the children "as if he didn't have a care in the world" and "in the most relaxed manner imaginable." White House aide Gordon Johndroe, then came in as he usually does at the end of press conferences, and said, "Thank you, press. If you could step out the door we came in, please."
A reporter then asked, "Mr. President, are you aware of the reports of the plane crash in New York? Is there anything...", But Bush interrupted, and no doubt recalling his order, "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET," Bush responded, "I'll talk about it later."
But still the president did not leave. "He stepped forward and shook hands with [classroom teacher] Daniels, slipping his left hand behind her in another photo-op pose. He was taking his good old time. ... Bush lingered until the press was gone." [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, 10/02, p. 90] http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/t...estingday.html ...........
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<b>The public is allowed to edit anything that seems inaccurate or disagreeable on the web pages here:</b>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Card
On September 11, 2001, it was Card who whispered in Bush's ear while the President was conducting an education event at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida that terrorists had attacked the United States. People most remember Card for this action. [1]
and.....under the classroom photo, on the right side of the page....
Card informs President Bush about the second WTC tower being struck on 9/11 after having told Bush prior to going into the classroom about the first plane hitting the first tower.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595071129,00.html
Thursday, June 17, 2004
9/11: Bush didn't react to attack for minutes, report says
Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush didn't react for five to seven minutes after learning a second aircraft had hit New York's World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, because he was trying to "project strength and calm," a national commission investigating the attacks said.
At 9:05 a.m. on that day, Bush was in a second-grade classroom at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, for an event designed to prod Congress to pass his education proposals. Bush had been told that one plane, possibly a commercial jet, had hit the South Tower 19 minutes earlier.
In a moment captured on video and replayed, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered in Bush's ear, saying, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." Bush's face froze, his lips tight.
"The president told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis," the Sept. 11 commission said in a staff statement issued in Washington today at the panel's last public hearing before it issues a final report next month.....
.........At 8:55 a.m. on Sept. 11, nine minutes after the first airliner slammed into the trade center, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told Bush that a plane, either a multiengine craft or a commercial jet, had struck the center.
"That's all we know right now, Mr. President," Rice said on a secure telephone from Washington, according to the commission report. The FAA and NORAD already knew the first plane had been hijacked and a second was missing, the panel said..........
......Card came forward and whispered in Bush's ear delivering his message. "I told the president, 'The second tower has been hit. America is under attack,"' Card told reporters later.
"When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us they immediately knew it was not an accident," the commission staff reported.......
...........The president's motorcade left the school at about 9:35 a.m. and arrived at the airport between 9:42 and 9:45 a.m.
On Air Force One at about 9:45 a.m., Bush told Vice President Dick Cheney by telephone, "Sounds like we have a minor war going on here, I heard about the Pentagon. We're at war. Somebody's going to pay," the report says, citing notes of the call.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...2754-2002Jan26
PART 1: Sept. 11
America's Chaotic Road to War
Bush's Global Strategy Began to Take Shape in First Frantic Hours After Attack
By Dan Balz and Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 27, 2002; Page A01
First in a series
Tuesday, September 11
......At 9:05 a.m., United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767, smashed into the South Tower of the trade center. Bush was seated on a stool in the classroom when Card whispered the news: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
<img src="http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/1h/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I45468-2002Jan27">
Bush remembers exactly what he thought: "They had declared war on us, and I made up my mind at that moment that we were going to war."
A photo shows Bush's face with a distant look as he absorbed what Card had said. He nodded and resumed his conversation with the class. "Really good," he said before excusing himself and returning to the holding room. "These must be sixth-graders."
........At 9:30 a.m. the president appeared before television cameras, describing what had happened as "an apparent terrorist attack" and "a national tragedy." <b>He appeared shaken, and his language was oddly informal.</b> He would chase down, he said, "those folks who committed this act."
Bush also said, "Terrorism against our nation will not stand." It was an echo of "This will not stand," the words his father, President George H.W. Bush, had used a few days after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990-in Bush's opinion, one of his father's finest moments.
"Why I came up with those specific words, maybe it was an echo from the past," Bush said in an interview last month. "I don't know why. . . . I'll tell you this, we didn't sit around massaging the words. I got up there and just spoke.".......
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The decisions at 8:55 am, to go into the school after hearing the news that the first plane had flown into a WTC tower, and then, to stay in the classroom after hearing the news that the second plane had hit the WTC, resulted in Bush being sidelined and effectively disabled for 40 minutes, including the crucial half hour after the second plane hit. Bush departed from the school at 9:35 am. He has offered conflicting accounts of the event, and his actions that morning, in the classroom have never been fully, or coherently explained. |