One of the bombshells of Newsweek's recent
article is that main reason for Bush continuing his vation during the aftermath of huricane Katrina is that he simply didn't know how bad it was. From
AmericaBlog:
Bush's aides are SO afraid of telling him bad news that they practically drew straws to see who would have to tell him, on TUESDAY, that the hurricane was so bad he'd need to come home.
Rinse and repeat for the disaster
response.
Not caring is only part of it. Bush is the type of manager that never wants to hear bad news, and he has honed it to such a fine art that combined with an isolated lifestyle that doesn't exactly have him reading the morning paper he was literally one of the last people in the nation to hear about one of the worst disasters in our history.
That got me thinking about 9/11 and the infamous My Pet Goat incident.
Many conspiracy theorists have latched on to his reaction (or lack there of), the inconsistent accounts and the lame excuse of not wanting to frighten the children as evidence for complicity.
I don't think anyone told him about it.
His Chief of Staff was only there talking into his ear for a few seconds. Maybe they only told him a plane had crashed into a building -- or that's what he thought he heard. Maybe he then thought to him self "That's some bad pilot." And he was never told of the scope of the incident until after he left the classroom. And he came up with the story of watching the video of the first plane hiting the tower (even though that wouldn't have been possible) because they couldn't keep their alibis straight.