He said a second tower had hit because the first one had already been struck before he even went in the scool so why not go somewhere else and tend to the matter?
Bush was notified of the first tower just as he arrived at the school. At the time, the report was that it was probably a small propeller plane and may have been an accident.
No, but they expected him to do something, anything. He was the president. And when osama bin laden can take the high road on one of your actions, you know you’ve fucked up
No dummy...excuse himself and deal with it. Don't sit there. Why would the two choices be Read the book And Scream at kids ??? Can you not think of anything else? You must be as ignorant as Bush.
Okay but how is no one talking about how quickly that goat story escalated? The entire first page is a rhyme about how the goat keeps eating things, and eventually the girl trains the goat not to eat everything. Then on the next page, some guy just shows up, robs their car and drives away, and that's how the story ends.
thank you to bringing attention to that ^^ it's the most random plot ever! the second part just has nothing to do with the first at all 😅 why would you not make children at least read a story with a nice plot wtf
Lol, I am sure there are pages Michael didn't show. The "more to come" is foreshadowing the fact that the goat is going to butt the robbers and the dad will be glad that he didn't get rid of the goat.
@@teresaellis7062 Oh my god it's an allegory. The car is the towers, the thief is Al Qaeda, and the goat is the US planning to come back and "butt" them.
@@LettusfarmTechnically, the Afghanistan war ended in 2021, so it's quite possible some of those children could have signed up for the military and possibly fought in the war. 😮
Not even close to this level, but I was once reading a book to a kid in the hospital who underwent brain surgery and needed to be kept calm and her mind stimulated, when I received a call on the hospital line and was quietly told that my father just had a massive heart attack and was going in for surgery, with his chance of survival at less than 25%. Knowing I could do nothing, but I could at least make this kid happy for a few more minutes, I finished reading the chapter. Inside, my mind was screaming and crying, but I kept a calm composure. After I was relieved, I ran downstairs (he was in the same hospital) and found my family. He made it, and he's still alive 22 years later. This all happened in the spring of 2001, mere MONTHS before the 9/11 attack, so when I saw that Bush stayed to read to kids, although the news razz him, I respected that. He knew those kids needed one last moment of calm before their world upended in chaos.
Seriously. I can't stand the guy but there are tons of reasons to stay. Children like it when adults keep commitments. Maybe he needed a moment to process. And no, he can't catch it.
@@TheLoneMitteneither way he's screwed, he stays, the media blasts him for doing nothing, he leaves, the media blasts him for scaring the children or some other dumb thing. The media cares about all this shit, so they keep talking about it, the vast majority of people don't really care about the dumb things like this.
@@juicydanglaI am not a fan of Bush especially with him getting us so involved in the middle east but I think he did the right thing here.. He remained calm and collective and I'm sure was processing everything, if he just booked it out of there I can almost guarantee that it would have caused a panic to happen at the school with both students and teachers leaving. He team is still being informed on the severity of the situation and even with him being the president there isn't much he can directly do in that situation, the air force was already scrambling jets and rescue teams were already on their way to the towers. The best thing he could do as the figure head of our country is to project strength and resolve and eventually speak to the nation when all threats were resolved. But even then that was a very different time and not like today where a president can reach the world from the phone in his pocket. I don't say any of this with ill will or hatred but what do you think he could have done in those 10 minutes that would have had a serious impact that day? Again I don't mean that in jest I sincerely would like to know what you think.
I mean, he could have calmly excused himself. Children aren't exactly stupid, especially when it comes to reading obvious emotions. I'm sure they could tell something was wrong, especially since secret service interrupted. They surely found out about it later when nobody would stop talking about it for ten years
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What he did really in my opinion was strategic. He sat listening and gathered his thoughts. His advisers also had time to come up with strategies and ideas that could be then presented in a more coherent and less rushed manner. And at the specific time the second tower was hit what could he have done. It had already happened.
As a teacher, I respect that he stayed until the end of the story. Getting up and dramatically leaving in the middle would have panicked those kids. They deserved to have the adults stay calm and at least pretend they knew what to do.
I don't know why people think it has to be one extreme or the other. Stay exactly as you are vs rush out of the room. It really wouldn't be that difficult to be like "oh goodness, I'm so sorry kids but as it turns out, there's some very important president things I need to take care of," or something like that - could even make it a fairly slow exit, give a few more words and a smile, thank the teacher, all that and casually exit. All that said, I think he made the right decision, but I just can't stand people's black and white thinking.
@@Taimabecause they are thinking from the perspective of a child… sure we could be rational adults and consider every possibility but the president was there to be in that room with those kids and read along the story with them, if he left he didn’t stay and give his time to the kids… that’s the whole point of him taking time out his busy presidential schedule to go to a school. He couldn’t really half ass it.
@@draketurtle4169 A scary amount of people just aren't capable of basic logic. I'm legitimately convinced that a good portion of humanity secretly isn't actually sapient yet
But why what did that really do? I know for a fact that those there didn't have any comprehension of what was going on an wouldn't truly understand for many years. It is only a strange thing now, but I believe that it was just simple shock and want to go back that kept him there not a lack of action, there was no action to take so why even bother.
@@JesseVlogs Ohhhhhhh. Gotcha. I work as a private tutor for young kids, which includes teaching them spelling and reading. Would you like me to send you a photo of every single teaching material I own that had the word “goat” or “hit” in it? Give me your email, and I’ll be happy to do so. You can find a way to make them all connect to 9/11.
@@johnnyvive2136 Was there a car robbery on 9/11? lol Again, I’ll send you all my teaching materials if you’d like. Let me know your email. “Robber” is a good word to learn how to double consonants before a suffix, and “car” is a good way to learn the weird “ar” sound that American English has. You’d be surprised how many children’s materials have messed up concepts based on the simpleness of the words. Did you know that Curious George once inhaled noxious gas and got high then passed out and had a weird hallucination dream in the original children’s books? How does that relate to 9/11?
In no way am I a fan of bush but I have the common sense to know there was little he could do at that point and I understand him wanting to stay calm for the children
Man… I remember when this happened. I was in school and the whole school froze and we were locked to our classroom as all we could do was watch the TV and teachers calmly instructed to call each parents if they were able to pick us up and if not stood by to comfort us. I was in the 4th grade at this time and didn’t know how bad it was until after school ended. Panicking at that moment would only scare the kids and insure distress and chaos.
I was in fourth grade too. I was in class on that morning announcements on TV, as per usual the teacher thought she turned off the TV after announcements. then the news came on about the attack. She turned it off pretty quickly and started sobbing nervously. After I went home it was on all the news I did not know what happened and why nothing just that something terrible happened in the world.
I'll never forget it. I was in middle school in New Jersey... Teachers wouldn't tell us what was going on. There were kids crying and screaming in the hallways because their parents were in the buildings. Jet planes flying fast and low over head. You could see the tree tops touching the ground... We started to protest in the school demanding to know what was going on... The teachers got the TVs set up to show us. I thought it was a movie. That whole day was a movie. I'll never forget it. A week later I went to ground zero. You could see all of the rubble piled up high on every block in the area. Crazy times.
I actually really respect his demeanor in that moment. Panic would do nothing. I was also a kindergartener, just 10 miles from that school, and I wish I'd seen adults stay that calm in the moment, let alone the most powerful man in the country.
He didn’t need to panic, but it would have been more prudent to excuse himself, and promise to make time to come back and reread it. I don’t even know how he could stay there, and focus on the book, knowing that his people were being murdered.
Is it really a virtue to stay calm in this situation and just sit there like nothing is happening? Like other people pointed out panic does nothing good but doing nothing seems very questionable. Especially if you consider what went on after 9/11 in the Middle East led by the same man you're respecting for his demeanor...........
@@Dickstick 10 minutes would not have made a difference. There are mechanisms in place for the military to respond. I don't see a problem with this, as much as i dislike the guy. Also yes, its children. Being the president has a lot to do with appearances. The president panicking in front of those kids would do more harm than him thinking and letting them have their peace for a few more minutes.
As a kid i didn't understand what was happening, as an adult, a man that shows restraint, self control, and consideration for those around him is a strong man. No matter how he was as a president, or a person, he has my respect for not panicking the students and faculty.
people who rip on this reaction are just upset about cause they don't like him. Like sure he maybe could have have found a way to leave that wouldn't have caused panic but given the situation and what must have been going through his head Bush made a smart move where many weaker men would have panicked and rushed out. He took a few minutes to consider what he had to do now and when he was finished he went immediately into action.
@@veronicaproctor184Oh please, I’d love to see your example of a country or even state for that matter anywhere in the world that has never contributed to death or some kind of malfeasance.
@@maxwellhesher1790 You're kidding me? You think Haiti is going around bombing millions of civilians? Iceland doesn't even have a military. USA has over 800 military bases on the sovereign soil of other countries, second is UK at about 300 or something. Literally nothing else even comes close. USA was invading country after country at the end of the 20th century and continues to now. This isn't the Roman empire, this is modern warfare. WMD was a lie; USA invaded and killed millions of civilians in Iraq bc of oil deposits. They didn't need to do that. If you can't see how that's a heinous evil, then. Wow.
Also love the euphemism on 'contributed to death'. Directly bombing and shooting civilians isn't some indirect contribution. But if you want to be real, then yes, all the countries' governments contributing to the Saudi government's bombing of Yemen also have the blood of innocent civilians on their hands, yes. Why would they not.
Yep yep, i was 10 years old. I watched it live with my mom on TV. All my siblings was in school but i got sick and threw up on the bus. The one and only time i EVER threw up at school/on bus. When we got to the school the bus driver took me to the nurse and my mom came and picked me up. On the drive home my mom stopped at the A-Market _(a small little country store here in the Appalachian mountains)_ the woman behind the counter knew us pretty good and told my mom to turn on the radio to a news station and said that a plane crashed into the twin towers! My mom had a Mercury Cougar. We listened to radio but my mom was just _interested,_ not freaking out yet. When we got home my mom turned on the TV and we watched the building smoking and she realized how serious it was. Then BOOM the second plane hit live on our TV. My mom was standing in the living room floor and she started stomping up and down screaming. I remember seeing the 2nd plane hit and how ny stonach felt like it dropped. Like tge feeling of a roller coaster going over a hill. Y'know? The inertial feeling you sometimes get in cars.. My uncle (mom's brother) was on an airplane, he traveled alot. Shes frantically trying to call him with our house phone. My uncle was the only person i knew who had a cell phone in 2001, the Appalachian mountains is VERY rural. He traveled so his company provided a cell phone. But it wouldn't work. His wife is on the phone with ny mom and theyre both crying and freaking out that my uncle might be on one of the planes! I remember my eyes watering up and telling my mom to stop screaming and crying please, its gunna be okay. But she shouted at me "THEYRE ATTACKING US JAKE!". Anyways, my uncle was ok. His plane was told to land at the nearest airport immediately. He was stranded at an airport in Michigan. Im a rare case of someone my age who saw it live because i wasnt in school like most people my age. Even my siblings didn't see it happen live and im the youngest in the family. The crazy thing is... Its almost as if i knew something bad was about to happen because i felt so weird that morning and i threw up before the attacks started. I wasn't even sick the rest of the days after the attacks! Kinda crazy. I remember alot more i could go into but thats the basic overview of my story and where i was on 9/11.
I was just starting kindergarten, sitting on the family room floor wondering why the hell the TV wasn't playing Arthur for like an entire week. Like, come on, these exploding buildings look cool and all, but where's my Cyberchase?! Haha, I miss being 5, simpler times.
I called my mom’s friend, the secretary at our elementary school, and told her to run to the library and turn on the tv. She asked what channel and I said any channel 😞
He knew that his actions in that moment were going to be broadcast all over the country. He needed to project calm not just to the kids but to the whole world.
Yeah I'm not a bush fan at all but he did exactly what he should have done at this moment. People act like he should have run out of there and started working, when in reality he couldn't have added anything immediately. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were working on trying to figure out what was happening, who did it, what was coming next, what or who else was in danger. He needed to give people time to gather Intel, the more information he has the better decisions he can make going forward.
@@thingl7859 Ever heard of operation northwoods? In 1962 the department of defense proposed a number of staged attacks on American citizens to justify a war against Cuba. One of those proposals was for the CIA to crash remotely piloted commercial jets into civilian buildings. It was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy before his assassination. This is an indisputable fact that's been declassified in the decades since. Was it a tin foil hat conspiracy back then?
There was nothing he could do even if he got up. Was he going to become superman or something. I think the best thing is to stay as thats really your only option
Fun fact the day after 9/11 the song “hit me baby one more time” alongside over 100 more songs were banned from playing on radio. EDIT:Jesus why this comment blow up?
They also change the setting of the climax of lilo and stitch. The final version of the scene has them flying a large rather shaped airplane spaceship through an uninhabited island chain, whereas the original scene had them flying a jumbo jet through a city.
@@Dave-dh7rtlmao kid who was shitting his pants for living calling America f*cked in the early 2000s is hilarious. And you think we're a paragon of paradise today I take it?
@@michaelh.1262 an estimated 500,000 people died due to the war in Afghanistan according to the costs of war project and another half a million more in the war in Iraq according to PLOS Medicine. Are the violent actions of a couple dozen terrorist truly worth the lives of more than a million? George W Bush thought so
@@oliverr6925 Iraq didn’t happen until 2003. The initial “first” military action in Afghanistan went after Al Queda took a matter of months and was very targeted; then we had the whole “mission accomplished” and a move towards Iraq in 2003-that’s when things took a nose dive. …the issue wasn’t reacting without time to think-we might argue we thought too hard about it such that we came up with solutions for problems that didn’t exist (and then the civilian casualties began rolling in).
I don't respect the man at all, but I acknowledge that he had the presence of mind to not terrify a bunch of children when there was probably nothing he could do to help the immediate response anyway.
I'm glad he stayed calm and didn't make the kids feel unimportnant. I really don't know what he could have done to improve the situation if he had left the kids immediately.
@@Richardo004genuinely curious. what evidence is there that bush legitimately planned 9/11? not attacking you i just haven't heard that theory before and it's everywhere in these comments. couldn't find much on google
saying "sorry kids but mr president has something very important to do" is a kind of assertive thing, non a panicking one, so he could have been more useful than reading a book doing nothing for the country.
Absolutely. For him to have made the kids day, and to continue to do so through consistency, pose, promise and commitment was smart. What else was there for him to do really? People really need to put themselves in his shoes for that moment, even regardless of whether or not, they will ever be president. What else was there for him to do? People just want to get a reaction.
I absolutely agree. Sitting like that in a few minutes of calm probably allowed him to process the words "America is under attack" more than he would have been able to if he'd immediately gotten all the details right at that moment. He had time to let the statement sink in before going to address things.
🤦♂️Imagine all the children that got killed because of bush after this. No one cares about them. And for 9/11 to happen he probably did very many evil things before that
I agree with the faculty. Imagine putting yourself in that scenario. You lead a country with pride, and have the opportunity to read a book to some kids. You are told you are under a terrorist attack. There is nothing you can do immediately to stop the threat, thousands are dying as you speak. All you can do is either burst out of the room and do nothing or keep reading with the stress and anxiety building up behind you thinking of what to do next as you are reading a story book to America’s future. Taunt him all you want he couldn’t just say “quick, turn on the forcefields around New York, shoot down every commercial plane filled to the brim with potential innocents that comes close.”
Its funny how good Americans remember one of the worst US presidents ever. I guess nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Stop drinking tap water for your own sake lol.
Exactly is this really what people are hung up on, among all the atrocious decisions the guy made?? It just goes to show how superficial politics are to the average person. What the fuck man
@@Dickstick If you are going to be political, go do it around family or someone that HAS to hear you shout and preach your not asked or wanted opinion. This comment had nothing saying what political standpoint this person has, only that they think that was the best course of action in the moment, if you are so smart and intelligent, please, tell us what YOU would do, hmm? I'm curious to know your response so please do humor me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *HEY!* This is getting more traction than I would enjoy, so to save future me from getting angry notifs on my 4th when i'm with amazing family when I didn't explain much and people love jumping to conclusions about me: - No. I do not support either side of the US political parties, I'm not on EITHER side, do not think my opinion is biased off of that. -My opinion is from OBSERVATION, what OP said is how I interpreted it from reading and looking at exaggeration/context clues. -I am NOT saying that former president was a good man, he had many faults. I only think he did the right course of action THEN. (Be for real please, what was he going to do? grab the plane like a toy??) -TO ME I THINK OP shares my thoughts too, that was the 1 of the 2 things he could have done, and excusing himself no matter how politely would have done nothing to change a thing, the towers were already hit. Have a great 4th everyone, don't spend your time in anger commenting to a stranger(me) because you think i'm wrong, people will think YOU'RE wrong, we're all different. Spend your time with your loved ones in happiness and fun times, it's way more healthy, promise.
He was good at it. He read them the book after he found out what was going on, and he did not scare the children at all. He finished the book up with him. That’s the way you help children to understand our lives.
I always forget how different 9/11 is for people who were far from it. I was only a 2nd grader too but there was never an opportunity to not panic when you have family who lives/goes to school/works in Manhattan. Ultimately, Bush staying for the children was probably the right move but I think of my 2nd Grade teacher who was a huge comfort by telling us what was going on as calmly as possible.
There was a plane that hit the Pentagon, and another that would've almost certainly hit the White House, had the hijackers not been overwhelmed with the passengers, who refused to let it happen once they had heard about the rest of the attacks. He wasn't able to get to the White House until that evening, so it was a test of strength not to panic.
Bush had advisors who were working behind the scenes. He made a committee the school and too these children that he would be there with them. These kids are now in their late 20s, early 30s. They don't have the same memory of that day as the rest of us. "Where were u when the towers were hit?" I was in school. I was watching the morning news production made for the school, and than my history class switched over to watch local news, as we always did. We were learning about current events and how they can become something in our history books. Even a more ironic class lesson have I had. These kids however. They get to remember how calm their President was. And how he put his commitments to these young children, first. He did cut his vist short, he didn't stay and vist with the kids and their teachers like he had planned to. Because he did have a job to do. But 20 minutes to make these kids know they were important... nothing could replace it.
Yeah it's a good thing Bush was there or those kids might remember 9/11 as a fucked up and traffic incident. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that spending time with kids is more important then responding to an attack against the country you're supposed to be running is a moron. Trying to justify that instead of admitting that Bush made a mistake is imbecilic.
And then he went on to sanction a couple of horrific wars and a regime of torture that persists to this day. Glad some American 30-somethings felt important for a bit when they were infants though.
I was coming to say something like the 3rd part Also a the kid of someone who worked in the towers ( thay was late that day thankfully) it spooky to think one hour early I could not be here
It was important to him to read to these children. We were all terrified in school when this was happening.. I’m glad these children had a few more moments of peace
It is crazy to think people criticize him for that. They really think in those 10min he would have turned everything around? What would the children have thought if he rushed out of that classroom suddenly? Those people are delusional.
"What would the children have thought if he rushed out of that classroom suddenly?" That he's the president? Doing import president things? I'm not suggesting he scream and run out of the room. Just say "excuse me I'm being called away. It was wonderful to meet you all. I hope to return some day to see what happens to that goat" and leave! The kids might have been disappointed but not scared.
@@maryvon8518and then what? What could he have done with the 10 minutes he saved by leaving early? Even if another attack after the pentagon was on its way what’s he gonna do to stop it? There were no immediate actions he could have done
@@kinderx16_38 He could have talked to some experts- was their any new threats that seem more credible than they did this morning? Do all agencies know about them? Are the White House and Capitol building being evacuated? Lets make sure. Lets evacuate the 140 infants and toddlers from the Pentagon's daycare. If the president can't find a way to be useful during a terrorist attack then he has no business being president.
@@kinderx16_38 order to shoot the planes down? Yes, that leads to another ethical issue that everyone on board those planes would be killed, and potential civilians on the ground could also be harmed or be killed, but it was still an option nonetheless. I don't get why people are saying what he could have done, with all that super advanced tech.
Why? Genuinely why? The dude literally started a war in Iraq over nothing and killed hundreds of thousands of people. In what way does he deserve sympathy. Serial killers will be in higher levels of hell than George W. Bush. Not to mention his lack of action during 9/11 and the drafting of the patriot act. Plus the rumors of 9/11 being something of a Pearl Harbor 2: electric boogaloo. As far as I’m concerned if there are any people who deserve torture and hanging it’s Bush and Cheney.
History isn't being kind to him, you're just whitewashing history and forgetting all the fucked up things he did, up to and including literal war crimes
@@Craxin01 "Why would that be a virtue?" Wow. That question tells me everything I need to know. How about civility? Respect towards a fellow human? Just because you don't agree with someone politically, doesn't mean you have to hate them.
You also need to trust your system so that it not all depends on a single person. In that case I don’t think he could’ve done anything else to prevent new attacks, the defense department should’ve been doing the best they could. He might address the nation earlier, but not sure how much difference that’d make, although I don’t know what good 10 minutes more sitting in on a story time is good for either.
He was at my little sister's school. I was at Booker High in French class. I was worried about my sister until he left because no one knew what was going on and we thought he'd be a target.
I didn't even realize he was so close by I was in middle school going to the temp school in North Port high, it was like finding out this dudes trained at that little airport in Venice lol
I don’t care for him as a president but he handled this the best he could. People will be so quick to criticize him but put yourself in his shoes. None of us could have handled that any better.
Speaking as a mom with children that age, I know that if a grown up came into my child’s classroom and freaked out, rightly or not, my kid would have a hard time going to school. My child was traumatized by the damn fire alarm durin fire drill practice and now makes it a point to look for fire bells whenever he’s in a public building.
I think most ppl could’ve handled it better than that ! Lol a lot of you think if the president of the USA just says , excuse me , I have something I need to take care of that the children’s lives would be ruined lol
@@tegantalks9612I think your child may be autistic or have a sensory issues of some kind, I know several people with those issues and I myself have Asperger's so I can see the similarities especially about fire alarms, of course you're their mother and you know them a lot better than I do but this seems like a sign to me that it's possible they have something relating to that
Great to hear from a "fellow" non-drinker (who coincidentally is about the same age as myself), though in my case/circumstances it was a lot easier not to drink so kudos to Frankie for "holding out" :)
I'd really love a tour of Michael's books to see what other interesting books he owns (and also to see what kind of books inspire his existential crisis of videos).
As much as I despise Bush for his response to 9/11 (striping away civil liberties and starting a pointless war on terror) I think he reacted right in this situation. Had he only remained calm and pressured the Taliban into giving up Bin Laden instead of taking revenge on the people of Afghanistan.
How would he have pressured them? Words can only go so far. The Taliban themselves stated that "If we give up Bin Laden, we wouldn't be muslim anymore".
@@thepsychicspoon5984 the CIA funded the Mudschahid to fight against the Soviets. I'm pretty sure they could have found some of the people they trained who weren't allied with the Taliban. Just tell the Taliban that if they don't hand over Bin Laden, the US will give money to it's enemies and they will have to fight another civil war. There is a reason the Taliban killed Massoud just two days before 9/11. He warned the west about Bin Laden and asked for weapons. Unfortunately the arms deals to Pakistan were more important.
@@thepsychicspoon5984 The Taliban also said they would extradite Bin Laden if given evidence of his guilt. The US chose not to pursue extradition and then lied about it to the American people.
As a staunch leftist, I have to agree with the faculty. He didn’t want to scare the kids. I feel like its been long enough, anybody who says otherwise is just being unnessasarily dismissive imo. I don’t think I would’ve been able to keep it together at ALL.
I can't describe the feeling swelling in me while listening to this. When news first started trickling out it didn't seem real. I was in high school. It felt like a prank. Then it felt like the world was shifting. There is a more direct line between 9/11 and our current political reality than most care to admit. In a very real way, those attacks destroyed something essential within America.
I know that it’s probably just the same book as the one Bush was reading, but knowing Michael I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he actually had *THE* book from that day.
I remember coming home from school and my mom was watching the news. I asked her what does it matter what's happening in New York (we lived on the west coast). Oh how wrong I was.
the only time I ever froze and just had a quiet freak out , was when I heard my dad had gotten into an accident. when hearing the details , I knew he wasn't gonna be okay..every other time I was as calm as he seemed. when it came to others , I knew my calmness would help a small a bit to show strength..what good would have been to show em storm out.. it would have been just as seen as what he did here.. the enemies would have said " look at em run ..hes a coward "
I was in Miami, FL 6th grade history class when it happened and all of the sudden there were bomb threats and parents scrambling to pick up their kids. That one moment changed my life as well as everyone around me forever. The word “terrorist” was foreign to me at that time but soon became burned in my mind. I used to wonder what life would have been without 9/11, but now I’ve been alive longer than the age I was when it happened, so it’s becoming more and more difficult to imagine - The butterfly effect is still fascinating to think about. Life’s weird
Scaring a bunch of children by rushing out wouldn’t have done anything to help the country. His calm demeanor allowed those kids to continue being kids in that moment. I remember watching the little tv in my parents bedroom during 9/11 when I was about 5. It was really early in the morning because we live in California and we were all getting ready for the day. My mom was crying because my grandparents were supposed to be coming back into LAX from the east coast that morning (the same trajectory as at least one of the planes that hit the towers), and her panic (which was completely justified) scared me a lot. My dad calmly walked up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder and it calmed me down big time. I think that people forget that kids only get one shot at being children. Don’t make them grow up before they need to.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. The one story about that day that stands out for me: A friend of my brother worked in IT and was going into NYC. On the way to work He got stuck in traffic, where he watched the Twin Tower go up in smoke, then fell to the ground. That experience was very traumatic to him. See, he supposed to be at work in the WTC that morning when the planes hit. However, just before he left for work, his mother told him that he fixes everybody elses computers and insisted he better fix her computer before he leaves the house. His mother saved his life by making him late for work.
Sarasota county has a strange relation to the attacks. I go to school in the same area that the attackers took flight training, venice FL, and I live in sarasota. Its certainly strange
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He said a second tower had hit because the first one had already been struck before he even went in the scool so why not go somewhere else and tend to the matter?
Bush was notified of the first tower just as he arrived at the school. At the time, the report was that it was probably a small propeller plane and may have been an accident.
America goddamnit
It was not being considered as an attack until the second plane struck.
@@Vsauce Bush said he saw the first plane hit and thought "wow, what a terrible pilot"...he said it. We know it's a lie, like the Pentagon.
@@Vsauceinteresting
Damn I wouldn't mind history videos narrated by Michael
Because he didn't put any political spin on it... He portrayed both sides of the story.
We need more of that.
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@@xKapnKrunchtf are you on xd
@@xKapnKrunchit's not really both sides there's just no
@@leemsvg ahh so you are one of those tribalistic people who thinks the Democrats can do no wrong and Republicans are evil Nazis.
What beautiful last words
*” m o r e “*
yeah i get the feeling he wanted it to be like five seconds longer so he could have his famous pause of silence after saying "more to come"
i kinda liked how it ended it jumpscared me
Eaten must be pumpkin
Eater, to project strength and calm.
Plot twist, the goat was kylo ren
- Kylo Ren
Perfect opportunity to stand up, rip off your jacket and proclaim, "My country needs me"
Thats what im saying.
Yep, and then you fly out the window.
This is what should have happened. Maybe followed with a sideways scuttle and a “whoop whoop whoop whoop”
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lol to do fucking what
Did they expect him to scream “OH GOD OH NO WE’RE UNDER ATTACK!!!” to a room full of 8 year olds???
No because Bush planned the attack
No, but they expected him to do something, anything. He was the president. And when osama bin laden can take the high road on one of your actions, you know you’ve fucked up
Scary movie had a bit on this. I’d briefly say how it happened but I don’t want to spoil it incase you haven’t seen it. I believe it’s scary movie 3
"Daddy!!" 😢
No dummy...excuse himself and deal with it. Don't sit there. Why would the two choices be
Read the book
And
Scream at kids
???
Can you not think of anything else?
You must be as ignorant as Bush.
Okay but how is no one talking about how quickly that goat story escalated? The entire first page is a rhyme about how the goat keeps eating things, and eventually the girl trains the goat not to eat everything. Then on the next page, some guy just shows up, robs their car and drives away, and that's how the story ends.
thank you to bringing attention to that ^^ it's the most random plot ever! the second part just has nothing to do with the first at all 😅 why would you not make children at least read a story with a nice plot wtf
Lol, I am sure there are pages Michael didn't show.
The "more to come" is foreshadowing the fact that the goat is going to butt the robbers and the dad will be glad that he didn't get rid of the goat.
@@teresaellis7062 Oh my god it's an allegory. The car is the towers, the thief is Al Qaeda, and the goat is the US planning to come back and "butt" them.
@@playrisk7928I’m pretty sure that’s an accurate rep of life
So, I bought the book, and actually the next story is about how the goat stops the car robber. That’s why it says “more to come” at the end.
I have respect for the fact that he kept it cool around the kids.
it’s because Bush knew it was coming
/s
People are so naive. baaaah baaah
@@dhuss14 yeah you are so clever knowing that 9/11 was planned, we are such dumb sheeps haha
He kept it cool because he thought it was cool.. Finally he could do it like his daddy and invade Iraq or some other country where they wear sandals..
_"More to come."_
Pretty eerie...
oh no
Uh oh a tangomangle@@Gamblegork
That’s terrifying
Here we go.....
Yeah
Imagine the President just casually pulling up to your school like “Alright, I’m reading ya’ll a book.”
Lol
They read to him
He couldn’t read at their higher education level
Bush learned to read that day 😂
“A second goat has butted the towers”
😂
😭
@@hypercept not melting steel beams
@Pyler..bro said vsuace but it’s a fake sssniperwolf
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Not only did he not panic the kids, he
gave them 10 more minutes of normalcy before the 20-year dumpster fire that was to follow.
"Just 10 more minutes"
@@youne_officialhe literally pressed snooze
I'm sure some of those very kids fought in that war
I’m sure those kids appreciated those ten minutes of the presidents time just as much as the folks at the pentagon would have.
@@LettusfarmTechnically, the Afghanistan war ended in 2021, so it's quite possible some of those children could have signed up for the military and possibly fought in the war. 😮
Not even close to this level, but I was once reading a book to a kid in the hospital who underwent brain surgery and needed to be kept calm and her mind stimulated, when I received a call on the hospital line and was quietly told that my father just had a massive heart attack and was going in for surgery, with his chance of survival at less than 25%. Knowing I could do nothing, but I could at least make this kid happy for a few more minutes, I finished reading the chapter. Inside, my mind was screaming and crying, but I kept a calm composure. After I was relieved, I ran downstairs (he was in the same hospital) and found my family. He made it, and he's still alive 22 years later.
This all happened in the spring of 2001, mere MONTHS before the 9/11 attack, so when I saw that Bush stayed to read to kids, although the news razz him, I respected that. He knew those kids needed one last moment of calm before their world upended in chaos.
Respect to you for that, great that her father lived as well
Of all the stories that happened, this one I don’t believe
@@crunkskunk12 ok
@@crunkskunk12ok and
@@crunkskunk12we do not care
I mean what WAS he supposed to do?
Just stand in front of the WTC and catch it?
Seriously. I can't stand the guy but there are tons of reasons to stay. Children like it when adults keep commitments. Maybe he needed a moment to process. And no, he can't catch it.
@@TheLoneMitteneither way he's screwed, he stays, the media blasts him for doing nothing, he leaves, the media blasts him for scaring the children or some other dumb thing.
The media cares about all this shit, so they keep talking about it, the vast majority of people don't really care about the dumb things like this.
Bro should have dawned the nano machines son.
As the leader of a country, I don't think just sitting around in a kids classroom is the best form of conduct.
@@juicydanglaI am not a fan of Bush especially with him getting us so involved in the middle east but I think he did the right thing here.. He remained calm and collective and I'm sure was processing everything, if he just booked it out of there I can almost guarantee that it would have caused a panic to happen at the school with both students and teachers leaving. He team is still being informed on the severity of the situation and even with him being the president there isn't much he can directly do in that situation, the air force was already scrambling jets and rescue teams were already on their way to the towers. The best thing he could do as the figure head of our country is to project strength and resolve and eventually speak to the nation when all threats were resolved. But even then that was a very different time and not like today where a president can reach the world from the phone in his pocket. I don't say any of this with ill will or hatred but what do you think he could have done in those 10 minutes that would have had a serious impact that day? Again I don't mean that in jest I sincerely would like to know what you think.
The “more to come” really gave the chills man
especially 20 mins before the Pentagon was also attacked
i'm not even american and that shook me up
lest be honest a lot of normal stuff would sound ominous in tense situations with the hindsight of history
Unintentionally read a prophecy form a children's story book
Planned book for a planned event. Makes sense
These guys really expected bush to jump up and go "HOLY CANOLI!! THEY HIT THE SECOND TOWER???" in a room full of kindergarteners
"we're under attack!"
(grab one of the kid)
"you hear me? we're in danger!"
I mean, he could have calmly excused himself. Children aren't exactly stupid, especially when it comes to reading obvious emotions. I'm sure they could tell something was wrong, especially since secret service interrupted. They surely found out about it later when nobody would stop talking about it for ten years
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@@hilkmeister1382 Bush's whole deal was he was a bit silly, though. Also a shoe dodging ninja.
The Secret Service guy actually whispered the ending of the goat book to Bush, and he was distraught because of the spoiler.
"a second goats has hit the tower"
"DUDE NO SPOILERS"
"whoops sorry"
and that why bush then went on to invade iraq.
The end of the story was "more to come"
Scary movie reference? 😂
911th like
@@randombonapartist😂
What he did really in my opinion was strategic. He sat listening and gathered his thoughts. His advisers also had time to come up with strategies and ideas that could be then presented in a more coherent and less rushed manner. And at the specific time the second tower was hit what could he have done. It had already happened.
Gave him time to think out a calm and collected reaction, and didn’t scare the kids more then they were already going to be that day.
And he still invaded the wrong country.
@@ARNouri-zh1pywomp womp
@@ARNouri-zh1pyhappy incident
As I watched that live on tv that morning, I wished I’d have done the same! My poor kid was heading to school, 1st grade…
@ClaytonBigsby01 which wasn't where what they were looking for was
As a teacher, I respect that he stayed until the end of the story. Getting up and dramatically leaving in the middle would have panicked those kids. They deserved to have the adults stay calm and at least pretend they knew what to do.
Completely agreed. It's not like things weren't in motion without president leading charge.
I don't know why people think it has to be one extreme or the other. Stay exactly as you are vs rush out of the room.
It really wouldn't be that difficult to be like "oh goodness, I'm so sorry kids but as it turns out, there's some very important president things I need to take care of," or something like that - could even make it a fairly slow exit, give a few more words and a smile, thank the teacher, all that and casually exit.
All that said, I think he made the right decision, but I just can't stand people's black and white thinking.
@@Taimabecause they are thinking from the perspective of a child… sure we could be rational adults and consider every possibility but the president was there to be in that room with those kids and read along the story with them, if he left he didn’t stay and give his time to the kids… that’s the whole point of him taking time out his busy presidential schedule to go to a school.
He couldn’t really half ass it.
@@draketurtle4169 A scary amount of people just aren't capable of basic logic. I'm legitimately convinced that a good portion of humanity secretly isn't actually sapient yet
But why what did that really do? I know for a fact that those there didn't have any comprehension of what was going on an wouldn't truly understand for many years. It is only a strange thing now, but I believe that it was just simple shock and want to go back that kept him there not a lack of action, there was no action to take so why even bother.
That book had some damn crazy foreshadowing
Which part specifically?
@@KaiLucasZachary More to come and and the goat hitting things
@@JesseVlogs Ohhhhhhh. Gotcha. I work as a private tutor for young kids, which includes teaching them spelling and reading. Would you like me to send you a photo of every single teaching material I own that had the word “goat” or “hit” in it? Give me your email, and I’ll be happy to do so. You can find a way to make them all connect to 9/11.
How about the “car robber” on the following page…
@@johnnyvive2136 Was there a car robbery on 9/11? lol
Again, I’ll send you all my teaching materials if you’d like. Let me know your email.
“Robber” is a good word to learn how to double consonants before a suffix, and “car” is a good way to learn the weird “ar” sound that American English has.
You’d be surprised how many children’s materials have messed up concepts based on the simpleness of the words. Did you know that Curious George once inhaled noxious gas and got high then passed out and had a weird hallucination dream in the original children’s books? How does that relate to 9/11?
In no way am I a fan of bush but I have the common sense to know there was little he could do at that point and I understand him wanting to stay calm for the children
Man… I remember when this happened. I was in school and the whole school froze and we were locked to our classroom as all we could do was watch the TV and teachers calmly instructed to call each parents if they were able to pick us up and if not stood by to comfort us. I was in the 4th grade at this time and didn’t know how bad it was until after school ended.
Panicking at that moment would only scare the kids and insure distress and chaos.
Dang your old
I was in fourth grade too. I was in class on that morning announcements on TV, as per usual the teacher thought she turned off the TV after announcements. then the news came on about the attack. She turned it off pretty quickly and started sobbing nervously. After I went home it was on all the news I did not know what happened and why nothing just that something terrible happened in the world.
@@Jayzsti7 I thought that you had the projector or just the speaker and the chalkboard
@leafvr2021 no, they used big box TVs on the rolling carts for the morning announcements in my elementary school in South FL.
@@Jayzsti7 LOL true af! Usually when they roll out them box TVs on the cart, we be cheering cause it usually means Magic school bus or Arthur.
That goat knew something we didn’t
The goat was a paid actor
judging by what the taliban do to goats, i’m not sure I want to know what he knew.
All we can say for sure is the goat was “maaad”, as this is a direct quote.
why did WTC 7 come down like that tho
@@gggghuijhh7676
Inertia.
I'll never forget it. I was in middle school in New Jersey... Teachers wouldn't tell us what was going on. There were kids crying and screaming in the hallways because their parents were in the buildings. Jet planes flying fast and low over head. You could see the tree tops touching the ground... We started to protest in the school demanding to know what was going on... The teachers got the TVs set up to show us. I thought it was a movie. That whole day was a movie. I'll never forget it. A week later I went to ground zero. You could see all of the rubble piled up high on every block in the area. Crazy times.
amazing, beautiful, terrific.
Your own government did that
@wajedatabassum4430 I'm not american but that's rude as fuck man.
@@wajedatabassum4430 And other hilarious jokes to tell yourself. Try not bring a flat earther next 😂
@@wajedatabassum4430 retard
I still can’t forget when George bush jumped out of his chair and yelled “America’s under attack?! It’s Bushing time” and Bushed all the terrorists
Truly an American moment🦅🇺🇸
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Insert team America world police theme
crap, I ended up in the poo timeline... I want that one! 😔
He missed Saudi Arabia by a few countries
I actually really respect his demeanor in that moment. Panic would do nothing. I was also a kindergartener, just 10 miles from that school, and I wish I'd seen adults stay that calm in the moment, let alone the most powerful man in the country.
He didn’t need to panic, but it would have been more prudent to excuse himself, and promise to make time to come back and reread it. I don’t even know how he could stay there, and focus on the book, knowing that his people were being murdered.
Pause and read the last page.
Is it really a virtue to stay calm in this situation and just sit there like nothing is happening?
Like other people pointed out panic does nothing good but doing nothing seems very questionable.
Especially if you consider what went on after 9/11 in the Middle East led by the same man you're respecting for his demeanor...........
why would he panic for something he orchestrated so he could blame the middle-east and go to war out of greed for oil
@@Dickstick 10 minutes would not have made a difference. There are mechanisms in place for the military to respond. I don't see a problem with this, as much as i dislike the guy. Also yes, its children. Being the president has a lot to do with appearances. The president panicking in front of those kids would do more harm than him thinking and letting them have their peace for a few more minutes.
As a kid i didn't understand what was happening, as an adult, a man that shows restraint, self control, and consideration for those around him is a strong man. No matter how he was as a president, or a person, he has my respect for not panicking the students and faculty.
people who rip on this reaction are just upset about cause they don't like him. Like sure he maybe could have have found a way to leave that wouldn't have caused panic but given the situation and what must have been going through his head Bush made a smart move where many weaker men would have panicked and rushed out. He took a few minutes to consider what he had to do now and when he was finished he went immediately into action.
Does he have your respect for murdering millions?
@@veronicaproctor184Oh please, I’d love to see your example of a country or even state for that matter anywhere in the world that has never contributed to death or some kind of malfeasance.
@@maxwellhesher1790 You're kidding me? You think Haiti is going around bombing millions of civilians? Iceland doesn't even have a military. USA has over 800 military bases on the sovereign soil of other countries, second is UK at about 300 or something. Literally nothing else even comes close. USA was invading country after country at the end of the 20th century and continues to now. This isn't the Roman empire, this is modern warfare. WMD was a lie; USA invaded and killed millions of civilians in Iraq bc of oil deposits. They didn't need to do that. If you can't see how that's a heinous evil, then. Wow.
Also love the euphemism on 'contributed to death'. Directly bombing and shooting civilians isn't some indirect contribution. But if you want to be real, then yes, all the countries' governments contributing to the Saudi government's bombing of Yemen also have the blood of innocent civilians on their hands, yes. Why would they not.
The fact this showed up right after a Schlatt short...
...oh god...
We know what he did. "Scum" was the one behind everything.
Not just 99 but 01 as well…
Lemme guess... 💀💀💀
@@megabass9125 even the algorithm knows what "scholorp" did
It's crazy to think it's been almost 22 years now. Feels like it was only yesterday I was in high school watching it all unfold live.
I was 7 months pregnant on 9/11. I was so terrified about what was going to happen my baby stopped growing and was born a month early
@@01SaltyWitch I hope he/she grew to a healthy adult.
Yep yep, i was 10 years old. I watched it live with my mom on TV. All my siblings was in school but i got sick and threw up on the bus. The one and only time i EVER threw up at school/on bus. When we got to the school the bus driver took me to the nurse and my mom came and picked me up. On the drive home my mom stopped at the A-Market _(a small little country store here in the Appalachian mountains)_ the woman behind the counter knew us pretty good and told my mom to turn on the radio to a news station and said that a plane crashed into the twin towers! My mom had a Mercury Cougar. We listened to radio but my mom was just _interested,_ not freaking out yet. When we got home my mom turned on the TV and we watched the building smoking and she realized how serious it was. Then BOOM the second plane hit live on our TV. My mom was standing in the living room floor and she started stomping up and down screaming. I remember seeing the 2nd plane hit and how ny stonach felt like it dropped. Like tge feeling of a roller coaster going over a hill. Y'know? The inertial feeling you sometimes get in cars..
My uncle (mom's brother) was on an airplane, he traveled alot. Shes frantically trying to call him with our house phone. My uncle was the only person i knew who had a cell phone in 2001, the Appalachian mountains is VERY rural. He traveled so his company provided a cell phone. But it wouldn't work. His wife is on the phone with ny mom and theyre both crying and freaking out that my uncle might be on one of the planes! I remember my eyes watering up and telling my mom to stop screaming and crying please, its gunna be okay. But she shouted at me "THEYRE ATTACKING US JAKE!".
Anyways, my uncle was ok. His plane was told to land at the nearest airport immediately. He was stranded at an airport in Michigan. Im a rare case of someone my age who saw it live because i wasnt in school like most people my age. Even my siblings didn't see it happen live and im the youngest in the family.
The crazy thing is... Its almost as if i knew something bad was about to happen because i felt so weird that morning and i threw up before the attacks started. I wasn't even sick the rest of the days after the attacks! Kinda crazy. I remember alot more i could go into but thats the basic overview of my story and where i was on 9/11.
I was just starting kindergarten, sitting on the family room floor wondering why the hell the TV wasn't playing Arthur for like an entire week.
Like, come on, these exploding buildings look cool and all, but where's my Cyberchase?! Haha, I miss being 5, simpler times.
I called my mom’s friend, the secretary at our elementary school, and told her to run to the library and turn on the tv. She asked what channel and I said any channel 😞
He knew that his actions in that moment were going to be broadcast all over the country. He needed to project calm not just to the kids but to the whole world.
Yeah I'm not a bush fan at all but he did exactly what he should have done at this moment. People act like he should have run out of there and started working, when in reality he couldn't have added anything immediately. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were working on trying to figure out what was happening, who did it, what was coming next, what or who else was in danger. He needed to give people time to gather Intel, the more information he has the better decisions he can make going forward.
Yeah, he's the president not the counter-terrorism agency
Glad the cia helped him by letting him know they were about to bomb the towers before he went in
calm or lack of assertiveness and decisionmaking and caring?
Cowards are those who use his seemingly nonchalant actions against him. Cowards are the ones who try to embarrass the president.
All the crap he got. It was a respectable moment. Controlled, and calm in every moment.
bro I cant believe people like you exist, so fucking easy to manipulate
Because it was all going to plan
Because it was planned from the beginning
Tin foil hat meet-up in this comment thread💀🤡
@@thingl7859 Ever heard of operation northwoods?
In 1962 the department of defense proposed a number of staged attacks on American citizens to justify a war against Cuba. One of those proposals was for the CIA to crash remotely piloted commercial jets into civilian buildings. It was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy before his assassination. This is an indisputable fact that's been declassified in the decades since.
Was it a tin foil hat conspiracy back then?
No matter what he would have done, people would have said it was wrong
sure, but if he had excused himself and did his job the people criticizing him would be wrong
@@makhnobuxand what would he do with his presidential power? Move the pentagon so it would not be struck?
@@Eugenetheisopod ridiculous strawman
@@makhnobux wdym
I unironically think he made the right call, and I probably would've done the same in his situation
There was nothing he could do even if he got up. Was he going to become superman or something. I think the best thing is to stay as thats really your only option
yeah he did but what happend in 2003 is not the right call
That's why you're commenting on TH-cam.
@@Virchl-C48yeah but oil
@@senorpapasfritasconqueso true but 100 yeas from now they will be no oil left and what then ?
Fun fact the day after 9/11 the song “hit me baby one more time” alongside over 100 more songs were banned from playing on radio.
EDIT:Jesus why this comment blow up?
Weak americans tbh
They also change the setting of the climax of lilo and stitch. The final version of the scene has them flying a large rather shaped airplane spaceship through an uninhabited island chain, whereas the original scene had them flying a jumbo jet through a city.
And even a pokemon episode
Wow they censored it? Thats crazy. America was already fucked in the early 2000s. I wish I could have been a kid back then. I was born in 2001.
@@Dave-dh7rtlmao kid who was shitting his pants for living calling America f*cked in the early 2000s is hilarious. And you think we're a paragon of paradise today I take it?
Personally, I think it was great that he stayed with the children. That's a great excuse to be still and think thorough before taking action.
Unfortunately he didn’t think long enough about it and we ended up killing countless innocents :(
@@UGMDmake what you just said make sense
@@michaelh.1262it makes sense. we caused unnecessary suffering in response to people unfamiliar and unrelated to the attack.
@@michaelh.1262 an estimated 500,000 people died due to the war in Afghanistan according to the costs of war project and another half a million more in the war in Iraq according to PLOS Medicine. Are the violent actions of a couple dozen terrorist truly worth the lives of more than a million? George W Bush thought so
@@oliverr6925
Iraq didn’t happen until 2003. The initial “first” military action in Afghanistan went after Al Queda took a matter of months and was very targeted; then we had the whole “mission accomplished” and a move towards Iraq in 2003-that’s when things took a nose dive.
…the issue wasn’t reacting without time to think-we might argue we thought too hard about it such that we came up with solutions for problems that didn’t exist (and then the civilian casualties began rolling in).
Exactly, the MSM would've mocked, GW Bush, if he got up and stormed out of the room!
You can't win for lose!
They absolutely would not have. Nobody would even remember.
Staying is what made it a historical event
I am personally not a big fan of Bush, but him continuing to read the book for the children is one thing that I really respected about that man.
I don't respect the man at all, but I acknowledge that he had the presence of mind to not terrify a bunch of children when there was probably nothing he could do to help the immediate response anyway.
@@TheNeilBlack Yeah, I never really liked his politics, but that's one thing I give him a credit for.
I mean, he did allow the pentagon to launder 2.3 trillion, and he did not revealbthe truth about the distraction
I only respect him for this, and his play throughs of cod zombies with trump, obama, and biden
Ok liberal
What he did was heroic, terrifying a bunch of 2nd graders wouldn’t have saved any lives that day
Also doing nothing wouldn't of saved lives eather lol
I think no matter what he did the planes would’ve hit anyways, not much a man on the ground could do to a plane in the sky
Getting up and saying, "My apologies. But I am needed elsewhere" would not have terrified a bunch of 2nd graders.
No fan of bush or anything he stands for. But that was a Chad move.
@@pcs56 who speaks like that to a bunch of 2nd graders you robot 😂
I'm glad he stayed calm and didn't make the kids feel unimportnant. I really don't know what he could have done to improve the situation if he had left the kids immediately.
Maybe he if he didnt plan it, it could have improven the situation idk.
@@Richardo004genuinely curious. what evidence is there that bush legitimately planned 9/11? not attacking you i just haven't heard that theory before and it's everywhere in these comments. couldn't find much on google
@@Richardo004 what
saying "sorry kids but mr president has something very important to do" is a kind of assertive thing, non a panicking one, so he could have been more useful than reading a book doing nothing for the country.
Absolutely. For him to have made the kids day, and to continue to do so through consistency, pose, promise and commitment was smart. What else was there for him to do really? People really need to put themselves in his shoes for that moment, even regardless of whether or not, they will ever be president. What else was there for him to do? People just want to get a reaction.
Bro said “lemme finish my dang story”
At the time I didn't understand it but looking back on it now. Definitely him staying calm was the right move there.
He made sure to be in that environment at that moment. Oh how they learn from the brits 😂
I absolutely agree. Sitting like that in a few minutes of calm probably allowed him to process the words "America is under attack" more than he would have been able to if he'd immediately gotten all the details right at that moment. He had time to let the statement sink in before going to address things.
Last words - "more to come"
Bush's mental stability:📉📉📉
Is this dbh reference or am i just misinterpreting it?
😂
@@scarab9515more planes
@tylergay2012 It's not an attack on Bush you clown, it's a comment on the ominous tone of the sentence given what he had in his mind at the moment.
bro knew
It’s honestly very honorable that he didn’t rush out, thus worrying the children
Yea
9/11 was 100% an inside job and he was in on it.
🤦♂️Imagine all the children that got killed because of bush after this. No one cares about them. And for 9/11 to happen he probably did very many evil things before that
because he planned it dumb
Who gives a f about “worrying” a bunch of kids when the entire nation is under attack!
That must’ve been the most insane day for that class, the president read ur class a book and the most major terrorist attack happened in the same day
What did they expect Bush to do? Catch the falling towers?
With liberty and justice for all.
"My country needs me"
No, Michael Moores is just a two bit hack
I could have
“The fuck was he supposed to do, catch them”
I agree with the faculty. Imagine putting yourself in that scenario. You lead a country with pride, and have the opportunity to read a book to some kids. You are told you are under a terrorist attack. There is nothing you can do immediately to stop the threat, thousands are dying as you speak. All you can do is either burst out of the room and do nothing or keep reading with the stress and anxiety building up behind you thinking of what to do next as you are reading a story book to America’s future. Taunt him all you want he couldn’t just say “quick, turn on the forcefields around New York, shoot down every commercial plane filled to the brim with potential innocents that comes close.”
Its funny how good Americans remember one of the worst US presidents ever. I guess nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Stop drinking tap water for your own sake lol.
Exactly is this really what people are hung up on, among all the atrocious decisions the guy made?? It just goes to show how superficial politics are to the average person. What the fuck man
@@Dickstick If you are going to be political, go do it around family or someone that HAS to hear you shout and preach your not asked or wanted opinion.
This comment had nothing saying what political standpoint this person has, only that they think that was the best course of action in the moment, if you are so smart and intelligent, please, tell us what YOU would do, hmm? I'm curious to know your response so please do humor me.
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*HEY!* This is getting more traction than I would enjoy, so to save future me from getting angry notifs on my 4th when i'm with amazing family when I didn't explain much and people love jumping to conclusions about me:
- No. I do not support either side of the US political parties, I'm not on EITHER side, do not think my opinion is biased off of that.
-My opinion is from OBSERVATION, what OP said is how I interpreted it from reading and looking at exaggeration/context clues.
-I am NOT saying that former president was a good man, he had many faults. I only think he did the right course of action THEN. (Be for real please, what was he going to do? grab the plane like a toy??)
-TO ME I THINK OP shares my thoughts too, that was the 1 of the 2 things he could have done, and excusing himself no matter how politely would have done nothing to change a thing, the towers were already hit.
Have a great 4th everyone, don't spend your time in anger commenting to a stranger(me) because you think i'm wrong, people will think YOU'RE wrong, we're all different. Spend your time with your loved ones in happiness and fun times, it's way more healthy, promise.
Must have sucked to be him sitting there. But I guess thousands had it worse that day too.
“Burst out of the room” NO you can calmly and politely excuse yourself. How ridiculous, only had two options 🙄
He was good at it. He read them the book after he found out what was going on, and he did not scare the children at all. He finished the book up with him. That’s the way you help children to understand our lives.
"More" sent chills down my spine
" more to come" was the books final words
@@Ineffable1111scary, it's like a movie script
I feel like everyone would love history if Vsauce was your history teacher
We meet again
This guy will refuse to answer why he's everywhere but it always fun to try and find him lol.
@@laynemangushe is a bot
Same
I'm pretty sure we all loved our history teachers. They're the one who are actually cool. But that's just my experience, I don't know about you.
I always forget how different 9/11 is for people who were far from it. I was only a 2nd grader too but there was never an opportunity to not panic when you have family who lives/goes to school/works in Manhattan. Ultimately, Bush staying for the children was probably the right move but I think of my 2nd Grade teacher who was a huge comfort by telling us what was going on as calmly as possible.
Imagine if he just stood up like “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! FOR FUCKS SAKE EVERYBODY RUN!! SAVE YOURSELVES!!!”
There was a plane that hit the Pentagon, and another that would've almost certainly hit the White House, had the hijackers not been overwhelmed with the passengers, who refused to let it happen once they had heard about the rest of the attacks. He wasn't able to get to the White House until that evening, so it was a test of strength not to panic.
Those last words are nothing short of poetic
Bush had advisors who were working behind the scenes. He made a committee the school and too these children that he would be there with them. These kids are now in their late 20s, early 30s. They don't have the same memory of that day as the rest of us.
"Where were u when the towers were hit?" I was in school. I was watching the morning news production made for the school, and than my history class switched over to watch local news, as we always did. We were learning about current events and how they can become something in our history books. Even a more ironic class lesson have I had.
These kids however. They get to remember how calm their President was. And how he put his commitments to these young children, first. He did cut his vist short, he didn't stay and vist with the kids and their teachers like he had planned to. Because he did have a job to do. But 20 minutes to make these kids know they were important... nothing could replace it.
Yeah it's a good thing Bush was there or those kids might remember 9/11 as a fucked up and traffic incident.
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that spending time with kids is more important then responding to an attack against the country you're supposed to be running is a moron. Trying to justify that instead of admitting that Bush made a mistake is imbecilic.
Pure publicity stunt. He was literally behind the 9/11 attacks
And then he went on to sanction a couple of horrific wars and a regime of torture that persists to this day.
Glad some American 30-somethings felt important for a bit when they were infants though.
@@shinjinobraveThose two events have no connection whatsoever. Y'all Iraq supporters are wild
I was coming to say something like the 3rd part
Also a the kid of someone who worked in the towers ( thay was late that day thankfully) it spooky to think one hour early I could not be here
Bush made sure he was doing the cutest thing when 9/11 happened
Real talk these people dumb af
Of course he knew.
@@enekaitzteixeira7010he did it lmao.
I was looking for this comment
Yeah nice alibi
It’s nice those kids were teaching him to read! 😊
Lmao
Least he doesn’t need a teleprompter like biden
It was important to him to read to these children. We were all terrified in school when this was happening.. I’m glad these children had a few more moments of peace
It is crazy to think people criticize him for that.
They really think in those 10min he would have turned everything around?
What would the children have thought if he rushed out of that classroom suddenly?
Those people are delusional.
"What would the children have thought if he rushed out of that classroom suddenly?" That he's the president? Doing import president things? I'm not suggesting he scream and run out of the room. Just say "excuse me I'm being called away. It was wonderful to meet you all. I hope to return some day to see what happens to that goat" and leave! The kids might have been disappointed but not scared.
@@maryvon8518and then what? What could he have done with the 10 minutes he saved by leaving early? Even if another attack after the pentagon was on its way what’s he gonna do to stop it? There were no immediate actions he could have done
That’s Michael Moore for you…
@@kinderx16_38 He could have talked to some experts- was their any new threats that seem more credible than they did this morning? Do all agencies know about them? Are the White House and Capitol building being evacuated? Lets make sure. Lets evacuate the 140 infants and toddlers from the Pentagon's daycare. If the president can't find a way to be useful during a terrorist attack then he has no business being president.
@@kinderx16_38 order to shoot the planes down? Yes, that leads to another ethical issue that everyone on board those planes would be killed, and potential civilians on the ground could also be harmed or be killed, but it was still an option nonetheless. I don't get why people are saying what he could have done, with all that super advanced tech.
I miss ms. Daniels. One of the realest teachers I’ve ever had!!! Crazy I was in that class just a few years after it happened
I don't know what realest is.
Liar
Shes not even a real teacher she's a high witch
@@daHalog0dwhat if they weren’t lying? don’t be a dumbass
The fact that the president was at a school reading to kids when this happened is probably one of my favorite facts about 9/11
History has been increasingly kind to GW. It's been a wild thing to watch. In 2001 his reaction was easy to rip...now, I'm way more empathetic.
Wtf? You do know that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed right??? He's a fucking war criminal, period.
Why? Genuinely why? The dude literally started a war in Iraq over nothing and killed hundreds of thousands of people. In what way does he deserve sympathy. Serial killers will be in higher levels of hell than George W. Bush. Not to mention his lack of action during 9/11 and the drafting of the patriot act. Plus the rumors of 9/11 being something of a Pearl Harbor 2: electric boogaloo. As far as I’m concerned if there are any people who deserve torture and hanging it’s Bush and Cheney.
History isn't being kind to him, you're just whitewashing history and forgetting all the fucked up things he did, up to and including literal war crimes
He still had people tortured. Most of which had nothing to do with Al Queda. So he's still a war criminal. At least he's a nice one.
History has been kinda to GW. If you don't consider it us middle easterners to be human.
One, he’s not Batman. He can’t just press a button to save the day. Two, he was trying to keep everyone calm in the room.
Yes, because standing up and walking out of the room would have terrified everyone. No, he was waiting for the piss in his shorts to dry.
@@Craxin01 Challenge for you: Say something good or nice about a person with whom you disagree politically.
@@KodeLiMeor don't be santimonious about war criminals
@@KodeLiMe Like who? And why would that be a virtue?
@@Craxin01 "Why would that be a virtue?" Wow. That question tells me everything I need to know. How about civility? Respect towards a fellow human? Just because you don't agree with someone politically, doesn't mean you have to hate them.
You also need to trust your system so that it not all depends on a single person. In that case I don’t think he could’ve done anything else to prevent new attacks, the defense department should’ve been doing the best they could.
He might address the nation earlier, but not sure how much difference that’d make, although I don’t know what good 10 minutes more sitting in on a story time is good for either.
I agree, I don't know what good 10 more minutes for story time did; he should have started screaming and ran out the room.
"A second reader has mastery"
He was at my little sister's school. I was at Booker High in French class. I was worried about my sister until he left because no one knew what was going on and we thought he'd be a target.
I didn't even realize he was so close by I was in middle school going to the temp school in North Port high, it was like finding out this dudes trained at that little airport in Venice lol
More to come. That absolutely chills me to my innermost core.
The goat wasn't the only thing constantly butting things that day
you really just stole a joke from osama bin laden
Is this where Scary Movie 3 got the idea from? 😂 "I wanna know what happens to the little duck!" 😂
I'm so glad there was no Twitter back then. It's one of those days when you'll always remember where you were.
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2nd day of my music B-tec in Liverpool, watching the news on the tv in the cafeteria.
Outside the high school cafeteria telling everyone that the towers would be fine jet fuel can't melt steel beams😂
i was swimming around my dads ball sack
Not born yet
The words “more” made me shed a tear
That last line in the story is so chilling and fitting to what was currently happening at that moment.😢
what was he gonna do anyways? Use his telekinesis powers to bring everyone and the debris back
HE JUST REALLY LIKED THE STORY
I don’t care for him as a president but he handled this the best he could. People will be so quick to criticize him but put yourself in his shoes. None of us could have handled that any better.
Speaking as a mom with children that age, I know that if a grown up came into my child’s classroom and freaked out, rightly or not, my kid would have a hard time going to school. My child was traumatized by the damn fire alarm durin fire drill practice and now makes it a point to look for fire bells whenever he’s in a public building.
….he was behind the planning of 9/11…he knew it was gonna happen. Educate yourself
I think most ppl could’ve handled it better than that ! Lol a lot of you think if the president of the USA just says , excuse me , I have something I need to take care of that the children’s lives would be ruined lol
Al Gore could never have handled it as well as Bush, I think he was the right man to handle the crisis
@@tegantalks9612I think your child may be autistic or have a sensory issues of some kind, I know several people with those issues and I myself have Asperger's so I can see the similarities especially about fire alarms, of course you're their mother and you know them a lot better than I do but this seems like a sign to me that it's possible they have something relating to that
He had to make a choice! And he chose to do what was calm in the moment.
Great to hear from a "fellow" non-drinker (who coincidentally is about the same age as myself), though in my case/circumstances it was a lot easier not to drink so kudos to Frankie for "holding out" :)
I'd really love a tour of Michael's books to see what other interesting books he owns (and also to see what kind of books inspire his existential crisis of videos).
As much as I despise Bush for his response to 9/11 (striping away civil liberties and starting a pointless war on terror) I think he reacted right in this situation. Had he only remained calm and pressured the Taliban into giving up Bin Laden instead of taking revenge on the people of Afghanistan.
How would he have pressured them? Words can only go so far.
The Taliban themselves stated that "If we give up Bin Laden, we wouldn't be muslim anymore".
@@thepsychicspoon5984 the CIA funded the Mudschahid to fight against the Soviets. I'm pretty sure they could have found some of the people they trained who weren't allied with the Taliban. Just tell the Taliban that if they don't hand over Bin Laden, the US will give money to it's enemies and they will have to fight another civil war. There is a reason the Taliban killed Massoud just two days before 9/11. He warned the west about Bin Laden and asked for weapons. Unfortunately the arms deals to Pakistan were more important.
@@thepsychicspoon5984 The Taliban also said they would extradite Bin Laden if given evidence of his guilt. The US chose not to pursue extradition and then lied about it to the American people.
@@AureaPersona Why didn't the CIA just give up their papers on him, you know, the people that trained him.
But how would that benefit the banks and military contractors
As a staunch leftist, I have to agree with the faculty. He didn’t want to scare the kids. I feel like its been long enough, anybody who says otherwise is just being unnessasarily dismissive imo. I don’t think I would’ve been able to keep it together at ALL.
Pause and read the last page :)
For those awake (vs woke) that's some interesting odds how that particular book (with that last page) played into the narrative so well.
It doesn’t change the fact that he’s responsible for millions of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan
@@bullymaguire1087 some real nuanced thinkers in this comment section. gonna start chanting next?
@@xXx_Regulus_xXx Sorry that the truth hurts your fragile snowflake feelings
I can't describe the feeling swelling in me while listening to this. When news first started trickling out it didn't seem real. I was in high school. It felt like a prank. Then it felt like the world was shifting. There is a more direct line between 9/11 and our current political reality than most care to admit. In a very real way, those attacks destroyed something essential within America.
Well... what was he gonna do? Unmelt the beams?
Booker Elementary isn't on one of the major streets so I don't drive past that often but every time I do I still can't help but think of that day.
OMG, I JUST realized the whole joke/bit/scene with President Leslie Nielsen in Scary Movie 3!
Literally the last words "more to come" gave me goosebumps.
I know that it’s probably just the same book as the one Bush was reading, but knowing Michael I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he actually had *THE* book from that day.
The “more” caught me off guard
I remember coming home from school and my mom was watching the news. I asked her what does it matter what's happening in New York (we lived on the west coast). Oh how wrong I was.
My 5th grade ELA teacher was in that class, she told us all about this, a couple days after she saw it on the news.
“A second baby has fallen off the bed and bumped his head, the mother is not very happy.”
That’s completely irrelevant 😂
The doctor told those monkeys to stop fricking jumping on the bed. They didn't listen until it was to late. RIP Curious George
@@hurinthalion5984 😭
the only time I ever froze and just had a quiet freak out , was when I heard my dad had gotten into an accident. when hearing the details , I knew he wasn't gonna be okay..every other time I was as calm as he seemed. when it came to others , I knew my calmness would help a small a bit to show strength..what good would have been to show em storm out.. it would have been just as seen as what he did here.. the enemies would have said " look at em run ..hes a coward "
He just wanted to find out what happened to the goat.
😂I'm sure that was it.😂
I was in Miami, FL 6th grade history class when it happened and all of the sudden there were bomb threats and parents scrambling to pick up their kids. That one moment changed my life as well as everyone around me forever. The word “terrorist” was foreign to me at that time but soon became burned in my mind. I used to wonder what life would have been without 9/11, but now I’ve been alive longer than the age I was when it happened, so it’s becoming more and more difficult to imagine - The butterfly effect is still fascinating to think about. Life’s weird
I always thought it was neat that he stayed for the rest of his scheduled visit.
Scaring a bunch of children by rushing out wouldn’t have done anything to help the country. His calm demeanor allowed those kids to continue being kids in that moment.
I remember watching the little tv in my parents bedroom during 9/11 when I was about 5. It was really early in the morning because we live in California and we were all getting ready for the day.
My mom was crying because my grandparents were supposed to be coming back into LAX from the east coast that morning (the same trajectory as at least one of the planes that hit the towers), and her panic (which was completely justified) scared me a lot.
My dad calmly walked up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder and it calmed me down big time.
I think that people forget that kids only get one shot at being children. Don’t make them grow up before they need to.
Bro was like, wait a minute, I wanna know how Mr story ends
he knew
I remember that day like it was yesterday. The one story about that day that stands out for me: A friend of my brother worked in IT and was going into NYC. On the way to work He got stuck in traffic, where he watched the Twin Tower go up in smoke, then fell to the ground. That experience was very traumatic to him. See, he supposed to be at work in the WTC that morning when the planes hit. However, just before he left for work, his mother told him that he fixes everybody elses computers and insisted he better fix her computer before he leaves the house. His mother saved his life by making him late for work.
Sarasota county has a strange relation to the attacks. I go to school in the same area that the attackers took flight training, venice FL, and I live in sarasota. Its certainly strange
“A second plane has hit the tower.”
“Yeah, I know that. Damn, trying to read here.”
😂😂😂 awesome comment.
Can’t stop laughing 😂😂😂
Fucking brilliant 👏
did they think he was gonna jump up like “OMG AMERICAS UNDER ATTACK?!” in a room of kindergartners?
i just could NOT have expected the direction of this video from the beginning.
First thing Michael does he captures your attention and by the time he finishes, he leaves you stunned.