1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?
- Attending a Children's reading
2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis?
- Show a sense on calmness
3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away?
- because DC was a war zone and they didn't know if it was going to be attacked
4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur?
- Stop all air travel, Land all air craft already up, Shoot down none reliant air craft.
5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha?
- is a Sucre location with good communications.
6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service?
- So show that he was not a afraid
7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?
- that the terrorist were going to be brought to justice and to stay calm
8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job?
-looking back doesn't help we need to look forward
9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?
- a scenes of closer, relived
Blog discussion- why they attacked ( supporting the Jewish aggression against Muslims, US support if Israel, Economic Sanctions against Iraq, Presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia(Gulf War I) what impact did it have on the US (the air ports were closed, national parks and land marks were closed, sports were delayed, movies games TV shows were canceled or delayed, went to war in Afghanistan) US National Security organizations (DHS,FBI,CIA,NSA, Discuss "church" committee)the Patriot Act was passed, Water boarding at Guantanamo Bay started, NSA began spying, and the Bush Doctrine was passed, The History of Al-Qaeda (started in the late 80's, we first helped them financially, was led an financed by osama Bin Laden, he was a radical Sunni Muslim, AL-Qaeda is know lead by Ayman al-Zawahiri) Bin Laden back round (was born to a rich family, he had 25 kids and 5 wives, joined the afghan resistance after collage, was killed in Pakistan by a navy seal, seal team six,
US problems in the middle east- US vs Afghanistan(Taliban), US vs Iraq(ISIS), US vs Syria, US vs Iran, US support of Israel
Comments
You are missing a bunch of notes that we discussed on Friday.