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Originally posted by Paul Waters
Rick is one of the Globe and Mail's movie critics. The full review is here
A damming exerpt of dubya reads:
" Then, as the credits finally roll, George W. and his major players ? Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney ? are seen in silent close-up before the TV cameras, their make-up being applied, their façades polished. Suddenly, the screen goes black and the silence is broken by the sounds of 9/11 ? no picture, just the screams, the tragic din. Now comes the kicker. A quick return back to Bush himself on that fateful morning, at a photo-op in an elementary school, sitting on a small chair at the head of the class. An aide arrives to inform him of the strike on the first tower, then on the second, and he simply continues to sit, his face the same blank stare.
The camera watches as the minutes tick by ? seven long minutes and still no reaction. The point is made with savage brilliance: Briefly left unattended, with no one to pull his strings, the dummy is inert and vacuous."
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OK, what should he have done instead? Would getting up and screaming have made any difference? Maybe he should have gone on live TV and asked the remaining terrorists nicely to stop crashing planes into buildings. Do you think that would have worked?
Yes, Bush looked confused when he heard the news. But we were all confused on that morning. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.