The towers had hardly hit the ground before former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was over here appearing repeatedly on Fox over three days telling the US how it should handle its crisis and then telling us what a big mistake we were making when Bush didn't buy his analysis. He was echoed by Richard Pearle and Secretary Wolfowitz who were ubiquitous on Fox and frequently on CNN during this time. All of this was echoed and repeated ad nauseum by all the talking heads at Fox.
The message Netanyahu was trying to sell was that Afganistan and bin Laden were "sideshows" (his word). We should not "waste our time on them". The heart of the terr*rist octopus was Iraq whose tentacles were Hamas and Hezbollah. That is where we should strike in concert with our good ally Israel. It was the Palestinians and their ev*l master who were the real enemy. (This message always seemed to be in the context of the "Now, America, do you get it?" chant.)
Now I expect you can work it out for yourself but just in case you are having difficulty here's some help: Having just suffered a shocking and heinous calamity the country was subjected to a highly organized propaganda campaign to forget about those who struck us and to go to war instead on the side of Israel against Israel's enemies. After all, Netanyahu told us "there were more Israelis killed (proportionate to population) in the pizza parlor blast than we lost on September 12" (paraphrase).
Bush stood up tp the pressure and continues to. The battle is far from over.
He was also an honored guest on the Rush Limbaugh show.
And I didn't notice him trying to bribe the USA with a fat check that was shoved back in his face by Rudy G. and the US govt.