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9.11 memories


[new] (#266) (No rating) by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 03/22/2004 11:05:31 AM EST
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From Robbedvoter's 9.11 archive:

NYT
"Disappointing some of his political advisers and allies, who felt he
should have returned to Washington at once from a trip to Florida to
symbolize that the government was functioning, President Bush headed
instead to Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, where a more secure
command post was available. At the height of the Cuban missile
crisis, when the sense of danger was just as palpable, John F.
Kennedy stayed in Washington."
Ari
Q Ari, in terms of this specific threat that you talked about
against the White
House and Air Force One, we have heard from administration
officials that the
plane that went into the Pentagon may have originally been
targeted at the White
House. What can you tell us about that?
MR. FLEISCHER: John, we have real and credible information that
the airplane that
landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit the White
House.
snip
Q Ari, we started off this briefing by you saying that there
was specific and credible
evidence that the plane that hit the Pentagon was originally
targeted for the White
House.
MR. FLEISCHER: Correct.
Q Do you have specific and credible evidence on the intended
target of the aircraft
that went down in Pennsylvania?
MR. FLEISCHER: Do not.

and some of that "leadership: (Fineman swooning here):

"
Bush Goes to Battle Stations
On the treadmill in the gym of a Shanghai hotel, George W. Bush
was running hard,
working up a sweat that soaked through his gray T shirt. It was
5:30 in the morning,
local time. He'd been unable to sleep. His suite on the 44th
floor of the Portman
Ritz-Carlton was plush, but the air was tense; concerns about
secure communications
were running high. His wife, always a comfort, was far away,
back home in
Washington, D.C. He had gotten out of bed to work the phones in
the early morning
hours. *That's when he learned, from calls to Vice President
Dick Cheney and others,
that U. S. Army Rangers had launched an operation Bush had
previously authorized:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/645609.asp