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From 9/11 Encyclopedia:
On the night of September 10th to September 11th, President
Bush was in Florida and met his brother Jeb Bush (->) , former
governor Bob Martinez and other state Republicans. Governor Martinez
was once appointed by President Bush to be the director of the National
Campaign Against Use of Drugs. He now operates an international
business consulting firm in his hometown of Tampa.
Source: http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/governors/martinez.html
President Bush later left the meeting with Martinez and stayed
at Longboat Key. On 6:30 AM in the morning of September 11th, he went
already
for a four-mile run around the golf course at the Colony Beach and
Tennis Resort on Longboat Key. At 8:30 AM his motorcade left for Booker
Elementary School (->). Bush then learned before he
entered the
school, that a plane had attacked the Twin Towers, but decided not to
cancel his schedule. Bush claims, when Andrew Card told him about the
second trade center attack, he was thinking: "I made up my mind at that
moment that we were going to war" But we knew, that a while before, his
adviser Karl Rove brought him the news about the first plane, "saying
it appeared to be an accident involving a small, twin-engine
plane".
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42754-2002Jan26
If Bush had prior knowledge on a terrorist attack, it would explain, why he wasn't shocked, when he heard about the second crash, but it can't explain, why he then still continued his schedule for almost 20 more minutes. Bush lied here more than once: He later confirmed that he was thinking about an accident only, but furthermore claims, he saw the first plane crash live on TV: "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower - the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html