9-11, give me a break.

[abaris]

Edit: Apparently Bush's comment several days after was "Get down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed." which to me suggests that yes, it was supposed to be a calming comment, that while America had just been attacked, it wasn't the end of the world, and people should act as normally as they could.

Well, in my parts, and given that nobody put much trust into Bush's faculties even then, we fully expected or at least considered it a possibility that he would nuke Afghanistan. It came as a pleasant surprise that only conventional missiles were fired only days after the attack.