As we celebrate our nation and all the Patriots of our Past, a question has been on my mind on and off all day. It's hovered around for almost 4 years, and certain findings about illegal immigration, the end of our nation, the role of this President...this question has resurfaced several times in the past 3 weeks and just simply hovered today and won't go away.

Here it is:

On 9/11 the President was in Florida planning to read to the school children. Before he went in to read to the children he was informed about the plane hitting the first Tower in New York and decided to go ahead with his program. We all assumed at that point in time that it was a commerical airliner and that something had gone terribly wrong.

18 minutes later, the second plane hits the second Tower. Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff who was with the President in Florida upon receiving the news of the second plane went into the class room and told the President the following one sentence:

"Mr. President, America is under attack."

That is all he said and walked away. The President continues to sit in the little chair and finish reading to the children for about 8 minutes. Then rises and proceeds to leave the class room and leaves the school. He then flies around the airwaves on Air Force One until they determine a safe place for him to land which turned out to be an air force base somewhere.

The President carries with him at all times the suitcase that triggers our nuclear defense system.

Based upon the single sentence of information transmitted to the President, "America is under attack", how did the President know that we had not been attacked with a nuclear bomb by China taking out Los Angeles requiring immediate nuclear defense retaliation and activation of that system by HIM as President of the United States and the only person authorized to activate it......unless he knew that it was just a plane hitting the second Tower not requiring any action by HIM?

Andrew Card has stated what he told the President. There is no reason to doubt that statement. Most people would have said, "Mr. President, another plane has hit the second Tower in New York." But, he specifically chose the words, "America is under attack".

The first question on any President's or American's mind hearing those words would be: Is it a nuclear attack? Then What City or Cities?

The President did not ask any questions about the nature of the attack. He did not ask any questions about whether or not he needed to activate our nuclear defense system.

He continued to read to the children for 8 more minutes. Enough time for any enemy with nuclear capability to take out every major city in the United States without any retaliation on our part; activation of our nuclear defense system to intercept incoming missiles; or any other offensive measure to disable the system in the country having made the attack.

There is only one reason the President would continue to read to the children having just been informed that "America is under attack". He already knew the nature of the attack and knew that it required no action by him.

Until 3 months, I was so supportive of this President that I defended that action of just sitting there "gathering his thoughts", not wanting to upset the children. But I didn't connect the dots until today. Our conversations on this forum about China, refreshed my mind about our nuclear threats. Somewhere I read recently and was reminded that China has a system targeted at Los Angeles that would take out the entire city. I believe this was part of the recent noise the Pentagon is making about the "massive" military build up in China.

How would the President of the United States know that no action was needed by him on 9/11 as he read to the children with regards to activating our National Defense System having only been told "America is under attack"?

I can not reconcile this. Can anyone else?

When we consider the abandonment of the rule of law by President Bush concerning illegal immigration; his agenda to combine nations with Canada and Mexico concerning illegal immigration and security reforms; his agenda to pass CAFTA and another wave of illegal immigration with Central America; his attacks on the Minute Men only trying to stop illegal immigration; and so many other bizarre stances...this behavior on the day of 9/11 creates more questions and raises even more concerns about this President--who as you know I know believe is a true Maniac and would do anything to forward his agenda to end our nation.