"When I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida, my chief of stuff, Andy Card-----actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said it must have been a horrible accident. But, I was wisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief of stuff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack."(continued)
For about thirty minutes after his chief of staff told him that America was under attack, George W. Bush continued to sit in an elementary school classroom listening to a second-grader tell a story about a pet goat. He did a marvelous job of looking completely unsurprised. Meanwhile, four hijacked jumbo jets were able to fly off-course across several states without encountering any opposition from the most powerful and responsive air force in the world. (continued) |
