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Bush Was AWOL On 9-11 Too

By Allan P. Duncan

New Hope, PA

July 1, 2003

"If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me!
I'll be at home, waiting for the bastard!"

Forgive me for asking, but when on 9-11 did Bush utter those dramatic
words?

I know it wasn't at the Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida
because I've seen the twenty minute video. Bush already knew about the
first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center before he entered the
classroom and yet chose to begin reading a book about a pet goat with the
class until he was interrupted by Andrew Card who told him about the
second crash. Because he claims he didn't want to upset the students, he
carried on with the reading exercise for another ten to fifteen minutes
before he finally left the school half an hour after the second attack
took place.

They couldn't have been spoken while Air Force One was doing slow circles
over Sarasota after he left Booker since nobody in his administration
seemed to have a clue as to where the president should go at that point.

It couldn't have been after he eventually landed at Barksdale Air Force
Base near Shreveport, Louisiana, over two and a half hours after the
second plane hit the World Trade Center and where Bush remained for
another forty five minutes.

He couldn't have said them during his next layover at Offut Air Force Base
in Nebraska which lasted another hour and a half, with him finally leaving
there at 4:30 PM.

It had to have been some time after his plane left Offut for another yet
unknown destination because I read an account where one Secret Service
Agent actually had the gall to question the president about wanting to fly
back to DC and made the mistake of prefacing his argument with "But
Mr. President