Posted on 09/12/2021 10:07:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In watching various 9/11 retrospectives in the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I keep coming back to one thought: Thank God George W. Bush was president, and not the enfeebled Joe Biden or the mendacious Barack Obama. It’s hard to even imagine how much worse those awful days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon would have been without the steady hand of Bush, who was at the time just seven months into his presidency.
One documentary I watched last week has Bush recounting that terrible day, moment by moment, beginning with his routine morning jog. He described his feelings upon being told by chief of staff Andy Card that America was under attack as he sat listening to children reading in a Sarasota, Fla., school. “I’m sitting in the midst of a classroom with little kids, listening to a children’s story and I realize I’m the commander in chief and the country has just come under attack,” he later recalled. For just a moment, his face betrayed shock, but Bush quickly regained his composure, allowing storytime to continue for another eight or nine minutes so as not to frighten the children with an abrupt departure. One can only imagine the emotions that were running through his mind at that moment: fear, anger, uncertainty, disbelief—the same ones the rest of us were feeling, but with the addition of the great weight of his responsibility.
He faced that moment like a man, standing before the children and teachers at the school, appearing cool and composed, and speaking directly to the American people...
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While there’s much to criticize in Bush’s actions during the War on Terror and his post-presidential years, I am convinced that he was the right man to lead us through those awful days. He was sober, vigilant, compassionate, and driven to help the country heal. He managed to bring together a nation that just seven months before was roiled by partisan bickering over the 2000 election. For that, I’ll forever be grateful.
Or as I thought to myself at the time, Al Gore.
The Bush Crime Family can FOAD. I will not be buying this whitewash.
I would have rather had Pat Buchanan, but we had two evil choices instead.
What would Al Gore have done differently?
If Bush had guts and a brain he would have parked a B-52 over Mecca and said, “The next time an American building falls down I’m turning Mecca into a sheet of glass. You have 30 days to find Osama and deliver him to America.”
We are in a 100 year war. 60 years to go…
Why?
When socialist Bush had the brief window of opportunity to actually capture/kill UBL in 2001 in the mountains of Bora Bora, he didn’t, stopping the military from getting him because of some sort of political hand-wringing concern.
It took about another decade, many, many more deaths, and Obama of all people, to give the green light to go and kill this worldwide killer.
Read the comments at the link. They are brutal. Bush is as phony as a three dollar bill.
Biden would have apologized to Al Qaeda and sent them a couple billion dollars.
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The planet has a fever!
A triple amen to this one.
I’m sorry the Bush family is evil and they can FOAD
I thought so too at the time; but, after he left office, he moved steadily left, forgetting his social and patriotic issue supporters. He also did an especially bad cave on global warming.
I don’t understand the premise of the article.
Bush is Uniparty and so is Gore.
The response would have been the same under Gore.
Taking the conflict off shore, to Iraq/Afghanistan, to a “honey pot” .... saved us. Rule number one for fighting wars, is fight them in someone else’s land. The terrorist swarmed south Asia, instead of swarming us.
He is part of the deep state, but an enemy of our enemy is our friend.
There were dozens of potential presidents who would have eFfed up.
Exactly...
I’ve not been pleased with Pat along the way, but after
watching the leaders we’ve had, he couldn’t have been
worse.
He would have protected our border.
I’ve read that Bush wanted an Afghan army unit to capture or kill bin Laden. It would make for better optics. The idea was that American intelligence would locate bin Laden. Then the Afghans would move forward, and take him.
But the Afghans weren’t all that motivated. And so bin Laden escaped.
The author of this article is wrong. I don’t care how many people Bush hugged after 9/11. He botched the job. He failed. And we’re not even talking about the huge mess he made in Iraq.
Bush is an ASS!! Other than Romney Bush was the worst vote I ever cast OH I forgot about McCain!! When I look back at WHO these bastards have shoved down our throats it sickens me, NO MORE for me not one more vote for the lesser of two evils NOT ONE!!!
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