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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But if it makes you feel better to criticize Dubya just because he had refused to hop on the Trump Train, by all means, carry on.
Nope. The “Forever War” has been ongoing since 630CE (”CE” stands for Christian Era). Sometimes one side wins a campaign or battle, sometimes the other side wins, but the war goes on.
As long as there are people who believe there is only one God and Muhammad is God's messenger, and the Koran is the word of God, and those believers should follow the example set by Muhammad - the war against us non-Muslims will continue; as it has for the last 1400 years. -Tom
Ah, so you lived the alternate reality where we sat on our hands and gave the terrorist the keys? And you say that worked out?
You are an idiot. You and Ron Paul.
I don’t see you offering an alternative. Surrender? What?
You are an idiot.
I agree, I would not have been as concerned about the Judges as I would have been about the mess made in the ME. Gore might have had the sense to just go after Bin Laden and left the rest alone, which is all Bush needed to do and not get us involved in endless wars.
There was no need to expend patriot blood and lives and trillions of $.
Surrender to what? All Bush needed to do was put together a Delta Force to go after Bin Laden and wipe him out, that was the only mandate Bush had. Not to invade the ME and cause chaos.
Going into Irag had nothing to do with Bin Laden and all of the was predicated on very bad intelligence to begin with, look it up.
Bin Laden was our only target and nothing more, once he was taken out the example was made and out terrorist enemies would think twice.
The saddest thing about reading the comments on this thread is that posters express (correctly) their disdain for the choices we had in the 2000 election.
Two dumb-ass Deep-Staters.....geezus....
Or he may have done the exact same thing as Bush. You forgot that Gore was a huge environmentalist. So he would had gotten America on the Green New Deal 20 years earlier.
On the other hand, George Bush wouldn’t have made a good pimple on Ronald Reagan’s ass.
Al Gore could have annihilated half the Middle East in a nuclear holocaust, and the American media would have been his biggest cheerleaders.
Remains to be seen. Release all the docs and then we can decide until then I still have my opinion
The real reason why Bin Laden got away in Tora Bora is that the the NY Times spilled the beans on how we were tracking him via cell phone. The NY Times is a treasonous organization.
We might have been typing our FR posts while trying to block our ears from the speakers with the Muslim Call to Prayer outside.
Sure, Johnny Fever on WKRP. But that show is off the air now.
I remember the flags out, the enlistment lines not seen since Pearl Harbor, and the international community supporting us except the usual suspects.
Reading all the thread postings today, I'm guessing many weren't even alive in 2001.
He’s an anti-American New World Order genocidal maniac.
And a good actor.
Just in general, on this site nowadays, we are supposed to hate Bush. That’s the tone of every thread about Bush. Some say they regret voting for him. They wish they could go back in time and change their votes. As if they would really prefer Al Gore or John Kerry had won elections against Bush?
There is a general feeling here, that all Republicans except for Reagan and Trump are just too liberal to suit people here. And even those two get criticized sometimes, for certain aspects of their presidencies.
If one is going to be a purist, one can always find fault with anyone or anything.
I know it’s a cliche, but all these people are proving to us that hindsight is 20/20. I wonder how many of these Bush bashers were bashing Bush in 2001 or wishing they had voted for Gore, in the aftermath of 9/11. They should tell us their opinion of Bush and his actions then. Then we can discuss subsequent events.
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