At approximately 8:48 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first pictures of the burning World Trade Center were broadcast on live television. The news anchors, reporters, and viewers had little idea what had happened in lower Manhattan, but there were some people who did know. By that time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon, the White House, the Secret Service, and Canada’s Strategic Command all knew that three commercial airplanes had been hijacked. They knew that one plane had been flown deliberately into the World Trade Center’s North Tower; a second plane was wildly off course and also heading toward Manhattan; and a third plane had abruptly turned around over Ohio and was flying back toward Washington, DC.
So why, at 9:03 a.m.—fifteen minutes after it was clear the United States was under terrorist attack—did President Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a 20-minute pre-planned photo op? No one knows the answer to that question. In fact, no one has even asked Bush about it.
I'm not going to use today as an excuse to drum up any anti-government conspiracy theories.
I'm not going to sit and lecture about all the evidence that leads towards our government's involvement of 911. I'm not going to rant about the Bush administration or talk about how the news and media companies have all been bought and paid for.
Not today...
But you'd better believe that I'll continue to talk about this subject with anyone willing to listen the other 364 days of the year.
Take a few moments out of your day to honor the innocent men, women and children who lost their lives that terrible day in our history.
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