Secret Service
Mr Bush arrived at the school, just before 9am, expecting to be met by its motherly principal, Gwen Rigell. Instead he was pulled sharply aside by the familiar, bulky figure of 51-year-old Karl Rove, a veteran political fixer and trusted aide of both Mr Bush and his father, George Sr.
Mr Rove, a fellow Texan with an expansive manner and a colourful turn of phrase, told the President that a large commercial airliner (American Flight 11) had
crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Mr Bush clenched his teeth, lowered his bottom lip and said something inaudible. Then he went into the school.
It might have been an accident -
as Bush has since said, he saw footage of the crash on a TV in the school "and I used to fly myself, and I said: 'There's one terrible pilot. It must have been a horrible accident.' " But Mr Bush soon learnt that it wasn't.
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Cobra - Notice Bush claims that he saw the first crash on the TV in the school. There was no footage of the first crash aired at that time. That footage came from amatuer video and the fire documentary that was aired later. The networks only caught the 2nd crash. Slip of the tongue?
At this point the secret service should have been given information that the plane was high jacked. The FAA knew it was high jacked. Norad knew it was high jacked. That information should have been passed along so they could take action.
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At 9.03, as the President sat smiling anxiously in a class of seven-year-olds, United 175 smashed into the WTC's South Tower. At 9.05 the White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, 53, another long-time Bush friend and confidante, leaned in close to the President and whispered: "A second plane has hit the World Trade Centre. America is under attack."
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Cobra- Here the president knows for a fact the US is under a terrorist attack. The secret service knows for a fact the US is under a terrorist attack. The president is on live national tv. Every one knows exactly where he is. He is a HUGE target. Still they do nothing.
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This time Bush visibly flinched and caught his breath, but he said nothing. "I am very aware of the cameras," he recalled later. "I'm trying to absorb that knowledge. I have nobody to talk to.
I'm sitting in the midst of a classroom with little kids, listening to a children's story and I realise I'm the Commander in Chief and the country has just come under attack."
At that moment in Washington, 900 miles north,
a squad of Secret Service agents stormed into the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney. Seated in front of a television set watching CNN, Cheney, 60, who, like Bush knew only the barest details of events, was seized by the arms, legs and his belt and physically carried through 150 yards of corridors, then taken by lift, down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Centre (PEOPS) - a subterranean bunker capable of withstanding an overhead nuclear explosion.
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Cobra- Ok so let's get this straight. The president is at a school, in public, on live tv, every one, including the terrorists know that. The secret service does not see fit to move him out of danger.
The VICE PRESIDENT is sitting inside the White House which might as well be a bank vault and secret service STORM his office. Pick him up by his arms, legs and belt and physically carry him 150 yards to an elevator and bring him down to an emergency bunker. Which is capable of a direct nuke hit.
Ok does no one see some thing is wrong here? WTF was the president and the SS doing?
I don't have all the answers but I do have all the lies.
Take what you want from these last quotes from our commander and chief early that morning. This is as he sat down on Air Force One.
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By the time the President slid behind his executive desk on the plane, Mr Bush's first rush of anger appeared to have settled into a controlled, if tense, mood of resolve.
"I guess we're at war," he said as the plane readied for take off. While his aides looked at him open-mouthed, he added:
"This is what we're paid for, boys."
