Dan wrote:
Not really. Both the White House and the Capitol were on the potential
target list for the planes. There are some arguments that the path of
the plane that hit the Pentagon indicates that the first target was the
White
House, which is surprisingly hard to see from the air....although I think
"just down Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol" should be workable from
the air.
Unless one assumes that the administration knows something about the
timing of attacks, which I think we agree is not a reasonable
assumption, then Bush and Cheney would be at a likely target...and risk
death. Thus, any
deliberate looking the other way during such an attack would have to
involve taking a personal risk.
Just being wrong, of course, requires none of this. For that reason, I
see it as the simplest explanation.
First of all I'm sure they believed that they were adequately protected.
Secondly, I think you'll find that during that summer Bush was rarely at
the White House, third you may recall how quickly Cheney crawled down a
rat hole at the first sign of danger and finally, you're talking about an
administration that believed that conquering Iraq would be a cakewalk; a
president that was confident that not a single life would be lost in the
effort.
It’s an administration that just doesn't think these things through very
well.
--
Doug
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