Instead he arranged for hundreds of Saudi Arabians to fly home. Americans were not able to fly - only the foreigners.
as i recall, it wasn't Dubya that did this, but that little worm Richard Clarke doing it on his own independent initiative because he was so sure that "bigoted Americans" would take out their anger on "innocent Saudis" in the days immediately following the atrocity.
"The young members of the bin Laden clan were driven or flown under F.B.I. supervision to a secret assembly point in Texas and then to Washington from where they left the country on a private charter plane when airports reopened three days after the attacks. Many were terrified, fearing they could be "lynched," after hearing news reports of sporadic violence against Muslims and Arab-Americans.
"It's a tragedy," said Prince Bandar. "The elders" of the students "came to see me, and one of them was a bright boy from Harvard who like the others had absolutely nothing to do with this and yet we had to tell him to go home and wait until the emotions calmed down. And he told me that he never really appreciated why the Japanese wanted a memorial or an apology for their treatment in World War II."
The s.o.b. likens himself to the Japanese wanting an apology for their treatment during World War II?
Every last Muslim has to be removed from this country - permanently.
The effort to protect and transport hundreds of Saudis after 9/11 could not have been an independent initiative. Arranging the flights of hundreds of pampered Saudis, sometimes on jumbo jets, while Americans were unable to fly, that was no small independent initiative. George W. and the White House are responsible for that.