http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushlie.html
The gist:
You may have heard the strange story of how George Bush claimed to have seen the first plane hit the World Trade Tower on a television in Booker Elementary School before going into a classroom to hear some children read. This is a strange story because there was no video of the first impact until a day later, when a video shot by a documentary film crew that captured the first impact surfaced.
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QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?
BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE)
Thank you, Jordan (ph).
Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And 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 use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."
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If Bush really did see an airplane on TV hitting the World Trade Towers, then he saw it before arriving at Booker Elementary. A closed-circuit live feed in his limo is the only way he could have seen that first impact on TV. (He was en route to the school when the first plane struck the WTC)
A great many Bush apologists are trying to claim that Bush saw the second plane impact and that Card simply waited a half hour to go in and tell Bush about it, but if the plane impact Bush claims to have seen was actually the second impact, why didn't he notice that first tower was already on fire?
Also, it would be silly to assume that a passenger jet hitting the WTC in clear weather was pilot error. Especially since they were forewarned in July 2001 about "Terrorists planning to fly commercial aircraft into symbols of American culture"
Still stranger was Bush's reaction on being told of the second impact by chief of staff Andrew Card. There was none. Bush simply went on with the school visit and listened to children reading about a pet goat. For twenty minutes.