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Originally Posted by JohnScott
Why? It's not like his leaving earlier or later is going to change anything. He isn't the only person attending to national security.
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Leaving early? As in the school? How about not attending the school in the first place.
The president arrived at the school shortly before 9am. The first plane hit was beginning to be shown on TV at approx. 8:48am.
Multiple accounts state that Bush was made aware of the first hit while in the motorcade on the way to the school. Yet he still went in.
He was told of the second at approx. 9:05am during the reading of the book. The President STILL continued to sit in the classroom blanched with fear to complete his soft photo-op. Reports have him leaving the classroom approx. 9:16am. Ten minutes went by after the President found out that a second plane had hit before he did anything.
Does that sound like he was calm cool and collected to you? It was ignorant, irresponsible, and it goes to show his incompetence and the incompetence of those who he surrounded himself with.
So to me the question is not "why didn't the president get up and leave," it should be "why in the hell did the president ever go in in the first place?"