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[Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:03, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:48:42AM -0500, Don Rua wrote:
> 
> <a bunch of stuff I was fairly sympathetic to, until...>
> 
> > And Bush had to take that call. He had to deal with something that
> > almost no other president has had to wake up to. And he made his
> > choices, and immediately went to work. He made appearances that gave
> > confidence to many.
> 
> Actually, IIRC, it was several days before we saw him again. 

You recall wrong.  First, he spoke to the nation very briefly at 9:30
A.M. EDT from Emma Booker Elementary School where he was at the time (
http://www.albertarose.org/Remember/Bush9-11.htm ).  Then he addressed
the nation at 2030 EDT on the evening of Sept 11.   Transcript here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html

That was hardly "several days".

> And of course
> Cheney just /disappeared/ for months on end, in hiding at an "undisclosed
> location".

This was in case Bush was attacked and killed, so that the vice
president wouldn't be killed at the same time.  How is that cowardly of
Bush?  Wouldn't the cowardly thing to do to hide himself for the few
months and let Cheney take the reins?

Steve, I too have strong reservations about the Iraqi policy and the
other things you brought up further along in your e-mail.  But I do
think he did as good a job as was possible in the hours and days
following the initial attacks.

--Jeremy


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