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He seems to have found some words re awarding of 'performance' merit badges yesterday. I thought Dubya came across even less ept with the tele-prompter than usual; and his eyes were dead.

(Then too.. he hid - twarn't His idea that maybe he should sorta (?) be in the semen-stained oval office.. fer his exhausting 4 minute address.)

Related factoid just heard: those 767 lessons mentioned above [which 'we' ignored reports about] were pretty good - these folk reset the transponders so their altitude and ID were both uncertain. Comm systems shut down. No question who was flying: real pilot would never have helped with that setup.

I heard one rather optimistic est. of how many may... have gotten out before the collapses (~80%). This by someone who left a higher floor just after first hit. Let us hope that such a miracle of orderly exit somehow happened.


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Undoubtedly the wisest immediate course - was taken. I meant only that (a report from a journalist on AF-1 was source IIRC) -- it seemed that Dubya had missed the symbology of where his necessary PM speech should emanate from, given the aim of such an attack. Someone had to remind him. Maybe unfair.. HTF would any of us have handled the event?

(I held no blame for Mr. : Powell - he could hardly be prescient!)

So far today - kudos; we haven't bombed anyone back to the stone age.

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