"I'm the President of the United States! I'm not going to run and hide like some coward! Leave that to that fat pussy, Bill Clinton!" (Part II)

A minute-by-minute account of the great man's scurrying on the day of infamy, focussing mainly of why in God's ame did Bush continue with his kindergarden press conference, when he and his staff had known of the September 11 attacks before they had even arrived at the school. It is far too link-heavy (i.e. documented) for my to fully plagarize here. So go read it.

My favorite quote, for modbid reasons: If air traffic controllers believed Flight 11 had been hijacked at 8:13, NORAD should have been informed immediately, so military planes could be scrambled to investigate. However, NORAD and the FAA both claimed NORAD was not informed until 8:40 - 27 minutes later. Indeed, before contacting NORAD, Boston air traffic controllers watched Flight 11 make an unexpected 100-degree turn and head south toward New York City , told other controllers of the hijacking at 8:25, continued to hear highly suspicious dialogue from the cockpit (such as, "Nobody move, please, we are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves"), and even asked the pilots of Flight 175 to scan the skies for the errant plane.

Hard to imagine why nobody saw this coming.