[quote name='helava']Maxwell:
From Gail Sheehy:
Where was Rumsfeld on 9-11? I put the question to the commission's vice chair, Lee Hamilton, following the release of the report the commissioners call “the definitive account of 9-11.”
“We investigated very carefully Mr. Rumsfeld’s actions,” said Hamilton. “He was having breakfast with Congressional leaders, and they hear a plane has hit the Pentagon, and he runs out.”
“He had to have been told before the Pentagon was hit that two trade centers were hit and the country was under attack,” I suggested.
Was the commission comfortable with the fact that the country’s Secretary of Defense was not in the chain of command or present in the Pentagon’s command center until all four suicide hijacked planes were down?
“I’m not going to answer that question,” said Hamilton, and turned away.
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So. After the two planes had hit, Rumsfeld was still out having breakfast. This is our Secretary of Defense.
How do you explain that?
It doesn't matter than bin Laden was thousands of miles away - what matters is that the person in charge of our country, whose authorization was needed, say, to shoot down additional hijacked aircraft, had their been any, was necessary. He should have been *focused* and instead, he sat there like a marionette with its strings cut.
Have you actually *seen* the footage of him in the classroom? If you understand that during the footage, he knows that planes have been flown into both towers, it's *chilling* to watch this guy pick up the book, and start reading to the kids. It's *insane*.
And yes, I do hold him accountable for his actions that morning, and yes, I do expect him to have taken action, and yes, I fault him for sitting on his ass, then running in Air Force One, instead of going to DC and putting things in motion like a person of integrity and valor would have.
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Okay first off that quwstion wasn't answered so you don't definitively know Rumsfield knww about the other attacks. I don't mind you proving me wrong, it's probably not hard, but don't try it with simple assumptions. And going further in the post you pull a "Bushism" as you'd probably call it and confuse Bush with bin Laden.
To answer your question yes I've seen it, but you can't just immediately put things in motion, both you and bin Laden made it sound like he should hop in Air Force One and fly to where the attacks were happening (you even suggest he go to DC, which was just attacked via the air) that would never happen with any president. Whether or not he should've got up to talked with his people to gather further intelligence (btw there's no way to gather fast enough intelligence in those 10 mins to even come close to knowing whether or not to start firing on civilan flights like you suggest may have needed to be done, you have to 100% absolutely certain) is debatable, yes. However talking to the press/public or going to someplace like DC would've gotten both him and the people nowhere.