hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-30-11 12:18 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. That's been my theory all along - a modified LIHOP
Edited on Tue Aug-30-11 12:19 PM by hedgehog
I think the frantic hopping from military base to military base that day reflects the fear that he was the next target.
It also explains why he went into the school after being notified that the first plane had hit the towers. It was the second plane that had him hopping!
Hey, you all of little brain, go read this. I wanted to post this when we got it in office the other day and just haven't had the time:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-08-25/-Air-Force-One-pilots-911-mission-Keep-president-safe/50138134/1Let me point out some key things for the pointed hog:
Tillman says. "Pretty much any major military attack, I knew exactly what to do with the president and where to take him to keep him safe.
"This was different. This was an attack from within. We had the president who didn't want to follow our plans for a nuclear attack, which is hide him, keep him safe and allow continuity of government."
Doesn't sound like a man that was 'hopping' but his protectors had to until he finally forced their hand to something moderately acceptable to do otherwise.
There was no doubt about an attack when terrorists smashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the south tower. Tillman watched on television as White House chief of staff Andrew Card relayed the news to Bush, who was reading My Pet Goat with schoolchildren. America is under attack, Card told the president.
I don't know about those retards, but if I was in charge of this great nation, that would be pretty difficult for me to hear too and my thoughts would start taking me to the next scenario...something a leader should be doing...thinking ahead. As for you all thinking could of, should of, would of...if he did a damn thing to anyone of middle eastern decent you'd have been the first jackasses to be calling racism of some kind...I know that as sure as I'm sitting in a wooden chair.
Bush wanted to return to Washington. Tillman's training, instinct and advice from White House aides was to stay away until the capital had been secured. There were airliners unaccounted for, and terrorists had seized San Francisco-bound United Airlines Flight 93 after takeoff from Newark, N.J., apparently intending to attack the city.
Yeah, he was trying to run and hide alright.
All told, the president was landing at Andrews Air Force Base THAT DAY in what amounted to a work day. Considering the flight time to get from point A to point B, he was 'hidden' for maybe 3 hours total and that was only possible with the urging of his advisors and the pilot entrusted with his safety and trained to accomodate that.
Finally:
He recalls Bush fondly. The president took an interest in his family, he says, asking after son Patrick and daughters Erinn and Reilly.
"Total respect for him," Tillman says. "To this day, I'd do anything in the world for him."
Damn, that evil cowardly Bush
