Bush was reading a story about goats and he was not whisked to safety.
Why?
Because he knew he was safe!
As for BigRob's assertion that maybe there weren't any fighter jets around well all I can do is laugh. US fighters routinely intercept airliners that have strayed off course. It happens on average twice a week. Except of course on the day when that was really needed.
And whilst I agree that shooting down a civil airliner is a big deal I don't think it is quite as big a deal as letting it slam into a heavily populated tower block in the middle of a densely populated city. Especially as one had already done this.
Bush was not whisked to safety, the planes were not shot down, nobody was disciplined. there was no wreckage at the Pentagon etc etc because the Bush adminstration wanted 9/11 to happen.
I really don't know why you struggle to accept this.
The US government lied about an attack to justify enterring the Vietnam war.
It allowed its fleet in Pearl Harbour to be attacked to justify enterring WW2.
Lying to justify war is second nature to the US adminstrations.
