“More To Come”

I was just reading a Washington Post article from the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001 and this bit really sent a chill down my spine :

Bush had received the first news of the attack at 9:07 a.m., three minutes after he had stepped into a classroom to hear 18 second-graders show off their reading skills when his chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., leaned over and whispered to him. Bush, whose eyes had been sparkling, looked suddenly grim. That was when officials still thought the crash at the World Trade Center was an accident, and he went ahead with the photo opportunity.

Bush sat with his hands folded and his legs crossed, with a bemused look. The second-graders read so well that Bush said, ?Really good readers! Whoo! This must be sixth-graders.?

Bush asked his standard question about whether any of the children read more than they watch television, and was pleased to hear that some do. Their reading included the phrase ?more to come.? Bush asked, ?What does that mean, ?More to come????

One of the pupils said, ?Something else is going to happen.?

Bush said, ?That?s exactly right.?

No, I don’t think this is a clue to some half-baked theory that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance or anything. It’s just a freaky coincidence. If you’ve got a conspiracy theory to sell, I ain’t buying.


posted by greg on April 26, 2005 @ 10:09 am

3 comments

  1. Actually, according to the 9/11 Commission Report (Pages 35 and 38), Bush was notified of the first plane earlier outside the classroom, and Card’s whispered comment referenced in the above article is the statement after the second crash that “America is under attack.”

    Comment by E-mart — April 26, 2005 @ 10:23 am

  2. I don’t have a conspiracy to sell. But I will say that if Bush had actively conspired with bin Laden, the results would not have been significantly different from what we have now.

    Luckily, sheer incompetence explains things every bit as neatly as any number of conspiracy theories.

    Comment by Roddy McCorley — April 26, 2005 @ 1:50 pm

  3. Awww, you guys are no fun!
    What about a conspiracy of ignorance? Deliberately ignoring warnings so that whatever was in the works was sure to happen. That way, the neocons get their “second Pearl Harbor” and nobody actually plotted or aided Al-Qaeda.
    However, this piece that I found at The Poor Man is mightly suspicious:

    http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5286.shtml

    FBI PROTECTS OSAMA BIN LADEN?S ?RIGHT TO PRIVACY? IN DOCUMENT RELEASE

    Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (?FOIA?) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (?FBI?) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified ?Secret? FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in ?personnel and medical files and similar files? when the disclosure of such information ?would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.? (5 U.S.C. ? 552(b)(6) (2000))

    Comment by Dave — April 26, 2005 @ 2:33 pm

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