Bush Claims Slow Reaction on 9/11 Was Deliberate Decision
July 29, 2011
Former President George W. Bush says his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the September 11 2001 attacks was a conscious decision to project an aura of calm in a crisis. Bush was visiting a Florida classroom and the incident, which was caught on TV film, and has often been used by critics to ridicule his apparently blank face. “My first reaction was anger. Who the hell would do that to America?”