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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When you stop and recall that Cheney apparently issued an order to shoot down Flight 93, and only later checked with Bush, and that Bush spent the day flying from Air Force base to Air Force base before returning to Washington, what you get is a picture of less-than-decisive leadership under fire. Since Bush wants to be re-elected on the basis of his handling of 9/11, all of this is fair play, to say the least.
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You can't link the two. Communications were a bit awkward, and Clarke in the Situation Room was urging that a decision had to be made on the flight immediately. Cheney in the WH bunker sez OK, and then calls to the President to inform and confirm. That's no negative reflection on Bush -- just a function of where he was at the time.
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