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Actually, you and Moore are wrong.

*(Between 8:55 - 9:00 a.m.) Just after Bush arrives at Booker Elementary School and is briefly told of the WTC crash, he is whisked into a holding room and updated on the situation via telephone by National Security Advisor Rice. [Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/01, Time, 9/12/01] Rice later claims, "He said, what a terrible, it sounds like a terrible accident. Keep me informed." [ABC News, 9/11/02] School principal Gwen Tose-Rigell is then summoned to a room to talk with the President: "He said a commercial plane has hit the World Trade Center, and we're going to go ahead and go on, we're going on to do the reading thing anyway." [AP, 8/19/02 (D)]

*(9:03 - 9:06 a.m.) Bush enters Sandra Kay Daniels' second-grade class for a photo-op to promote Bush's education policies. [Daily Mail, 9/8/02] Numerous reporters who travel with the president, as well as members of the local media, watch from the back of the room. [AP, 8/19/02 (D)] Altogether there about 150 people in the room, 16 of them the children in the class. He is introduced to the children and poses for a number of staged pictures. The teacher then leads the students through some reading exercises (video footage shows this lasts about three minutes). [Salon, 9/12/01 (B)] Bush later claims that while he is doing this lesson, he is thinking what he will say about the WTC crash. "I was concentrating on the program at this point, thinking about what I was going to say. Obviously, I felt it was an accident. I was concerned about it, but there were no alarm bells." [Washington Times, 10/7/02] The children are just getting their books from under their seats to read a story together when Chief of Staff Andrew Card comes in to tell Bush of the second WTC crash (see (9:06 a.m.)). [Daily Mail, 9/8/02] Eric Draper, who is in the room, note that Card comes in at the conclusion of the first half of the planned lesson, and "[seizes] a pause in the reading drill to walk up to Mr. Bush's seat." [Washington Times, 10/7/02, Washington Times, 10/8/02]

*(9:06 a.m.) Bush is in a Booker Elementary School second-grader classroom. His chief of staff, Andrew Card, enters the room and whispers into his ear, "A second plane hit the other tower, and America's under attack." [New York Times, 9/16/01 (B)] [9:05, New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), 9:05, Telegraph, 12/16/01, 9:05, Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02, 9:07, Washington Times, 10/8/02, ABC News reporter Ann Compton, who is in the room, says she is struck "So much so that I [write] it down in my reporter's notebook, by my watch, 9:07 a.m.," ABC News, 9/11/02]

*(9:16 a.m.) Bush leaves the Sarasota classroom where he has been since about 9:03.

*(Between 9:16 - 9:29 a.m.) Bush works with his staff to prepare a speech he will deliver at 9:29. He intermittently watches the television coverage in the room. [Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02] He also speaks on the phone to advisors, first calling National Security Advisor Rice, then Vice President Cheney, then New York Governor George Pataki. [Daily Mail, 9/8/02]

*9:29 a.m. Still inside Booker Elementary School, Bush gives a brief speech in front of about 200 students, plus many teachers and reporters. [Daily Mail, 9/8/02] He says, "Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country" (see the text of the speech here [Federal News Service, 9/11/01]).

Thanks for the effort to give an overview which reflects real time reality. With Moore we get HIS perspective filtered through HIS agenda. By the way, what did HE do that morning? He seems to be so damn clear on what the President should, could and wasn't doing.... what in fact has he done since except criticize anything and anyone that supports the nation he makes such a fine living castigating?

Moore should be ashamed of himself. He is a lazy, self-centered, ill-informed toad. Instead of celebrating the heroic efforts and sacrifices made that day, he instead uses his time and energy to villify the President, and continue to build up the promise of a terroristic next time.... Worse than a "useful idiot" His ilk is a willing accomplice to aid and abet the enemy. Sadly, he STILL won't get it, when they at last come for him. The problem is that a lot of truly good people will be sacrificed because of his short-sighted drivel.

Most of all, the irony that is so totally lost on the lot of whining libs is that the standing ovation he enjoyed wasn't due to his stellar film, insightful thoughts and vitriolic wit....it was the result of his freedom to spew libelous emotional vomit to an audience of self-serving Hollywood leftist lemmings....it was a right that was paid for by a lot of sweat and blood from the same people that he would be first in line to criticize.

Moore, try making, showing, or enjoying the profits from trying the same venture in the terrorist countries you put so far ahead of your own homeland. There's a word for people like him. Traitor.