http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html
QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?
BUSH: Well...
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Thank you, Jordan (ph).
Well, Jordan (ph), 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. And 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 use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And 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 who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."
And Jordan (ph), 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 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 the facts that we were under attack, there would be hell to pay for attacking America.
WELL ...There is a problem with the above statement. There was no live video
coverage of the first plane hitting the tower. There couldn't be. Video of
that first plane hitting the tower did not surface until AFTER the second
plane had hit.
Bush is lying through his teeth here.
Even though Bush is not a very good pilot (he was taken off of flight status
for failure to take a medical exam which included a drug test), it would be
silly to assume that a passenger jet hitting the WTC in clear weather was
pilot error. The only other known impact between an aircraft and a New York
skyscraper was when a military airplane crashed into the Empire State
Building in a heavy fog. Because of that incident, there are mandatory
altitude minimums over the island. If Bush really did see an airplane on TV
hitting the World Trade Towers, then he saw that the aircraft was under
control at the time.
And, it must be remembered that even after andy informed Bush of the second
impact, and by his own admission Bush knew we were being attacked, he
continued to read to the classroom full of children.
Just think about that for a while.