Bush on 9/11: I Wanted To Give The Presidential Speech from the Oval Office, “I Damn Sure Wasn’t Gonna Give It From a Bunker in Nebraska”
George W. Bush in the National Geographic interview says his decision to return to the White House on September 11Th for the presidential address to the nation was over the objections of just about everybody.
Bush: I made the decision to go back to Washington on the objections of just about everybody else, I’d had it, I said I needed to get home. A lot had developed and it was important to wrap the day up with a presidential speech…I damn sure wasn’t gonna give it from a bunker in Nebraska, I wanted to give it from the Oval Office, I didn’t want to give the enemy a psychological victory”
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
Bush did many things right and some things I did not like, and how he handled 9-11 is something I will always respect.
One day we will have another President that loves America and there will be no more Obama in office. I look forward to that day.
Dubya handled the crisis well. He was very presidential. Then he called islam a “religion of peace” and declared that islam was not our enemy. Wrong!
Tom, yes he did exactly that, it had to be from pressure but it doesn’t matter the why of it, it weakened our country in the fight against the enemy. I agree with you Tom.
No guys, it wasn’t from pressure that George Bush was so gentle on the Muslims. He grew up around his dad in the oil business and Muslims who do business get selected to stay in business on the basis of merit. George Bush 43 grew up knowing what are perhaps men from the top 2% of Islam. They were men who did their jobs well and whose word you could count on and with many other unislamic virtues. They were better men than Mohammad was even if they did not recognize it in themselves.
Then Bush 43 had the leadership functions down, handed down from his father the youngest Navy pilot of WWIIif nothing else.