GW remaining in the school should be a red flag to anyone. The full extent of the attack was not known but they were perfectly happy to leave the Commander in Chief alone so he could read books to children. Really?
Shouldn't he be taking an active part in the response? Were nukes on the way? It was almost as if he already knew what was going to happen and he had just been told that it was going according to plan.
This is what makes me think Bush Jr. wasn’t actually in on it, but they did it behind his back. Otherwise why would he sign off on this? Rumsfeld was out on the Pentagon lawn helping victims like a hero. That sounds like the kind of set up someone might choose for themselves.
But zoning out in front of a classroom of children while holding a storybook in my hands? Why would anyone choose that? Especially as The President? Wouldn’t you choose something badass and cool?
Instead they infantilized him and humiliated him. So odd. To me it feels like a parent giving his kid a spanking and then a time out and telling him to go sit at the kid’s table and think about who’s in charge.
If true, this could explain the theory that Bush Jr. flipped and that’s why the nod after Jeb! received the letter.
OK, but if I had been President and my country had just been attacked, as per GW's announcement, then I would want to know exactly what was happening and have some influence over the response. A quick word in my ear would not have cut it.
I think he was in shock and trying to figure out if he was set up. To me it looks like he is playing back conversations he had with Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bush Sr. and suddenly seeing how it all fit. And it looks like he is also realizing that he’s the patsy of his own administration and he isn’t running shit. So there’s no rush to do anything because he’s irrelevant.
If he was in on it, then he would have known it was coming, and he would have worked out beforehand how he was going to respond. To me it doesn’t make sense that he would have intentionally chosen to zone out in front of children. Is there any explanation why he would choose to humiliate himself like that?
GW remaining in the school should be a red flag to anyone. The full extent of the attack was not known but they were perfectly happy to leave the Commander in Chief alone so he could read books to children. Really?
Shouldn't he be taking an active part in the response? Were nukes on the way? It was almost as if he already knew what was going to happen and he had just been told that it was going according to plan.
This is what makes me think Bush Jr. wasn’t actually in on it, but they did it behind his back. Otherwise why would he sign off on this? Rumsfeld was out on the Pentagon lawn helping victims like a hero. That sounds like the kind of set up someone might choose for themselves.
But zoning out in front of a classroom of children while holding a storybook in my hands? Why would anyone choose that? Especially as The President? Wouldn’t you choose something badass and cool?
Instead they infantilized him and humiliated him. So odd. To me it feels like a parent giving his kid a spanking and then a time out and telling him to go sit at the kid’s table and think about who’s in charge.
If true, this could explain the theory that Bush Jr. flipped and that’s why the nod after Jeb! received the letter.
OK, but if I had been President and my country had just been attacked, as per GW's announcement, then I would want to know exactly what was happening and have some influence over the response. A quick word in my ear would not have cut it.
I think he was in shock and trying to figure out if he was set up. To me it looks like he is playing back conversations he had with Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bush Sr. and suddenly seeing how it all fit. And it looks like he is also realizing that he’s the patsy of his own administration and he isn’t running shit. So there’s no rush to do anything because he’s irrelevant.
If he was in on it, then he would have known it was coming, and he would have worked out beforehand how he was going to respond. To me it doesn’t make sense that he would have intentionally chosen to zone out in front of children. Is there any explanation why he would choose to humiliate himself like that?