This is a response thread to her rejection of a post I made there.
shelbell;1240636 wrote: Spot...I thought I was clear about the rules on this thread, apparently your comprehension is slipping. If you want to cause trouble today, do it somewhere else, and if you can't just go along with the intent of this thread, then just shut up!!!!
shelbell wrote: I'm sorry about my outburst but thought it appropriate...I'd like to thank whomever removed his post.
Actually, Shel, it was me. I'd already deleted my post several minutes before you exploded.
If you're quite so pathologically terrified of anyone posting George Bush's published memories, though, I'll start this new thread just so you can join in here instead. The blindness involved in refusing to look at it astonishes me. A lot of people died on 9/11, or had you not noticed? It's important to remember.
Here's the missing post.spot wrote: George Bush isn't a member of ForumGarden but it would be interesting to note his answer when a 3rd grader asked him "how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?" since it also gives his version of where he was on 9/11.THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my Chief of Staff, 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 I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident.
But I was whisked 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 Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack."
And, Jordan, I wasn't sure what to think at first. You know, I grew up in a period of time where the idea of America being under attack never entered my mind -- just like your Daddy's and Mother's mind probably. And I started thinking hard in that very brief period of time about what it meant to be under attack. I knew that when I got all of the facts that we were under attack, there would be hell to pay for attacking America. (Applause.)
President Meets with Displaced Workers in Town Hall Meeting
I do hope people keep asking him the same question in years to come. I wonder how many different stories he'll come out with.
He's on the money with "you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack", that's for sure.
A month later he repeated the bit where he says he watched the first plane fly into the World Trade Center before going into the classroom. I've no reason to doubt what he said.
Why is it that after a disaster of the magnitude of 9/11 Americans in general are so content that no American at all has been held to account for failure to react adequately? Why does nobody want to look under the stone to see what was crawling around?
