"'A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.'" Then-President Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card described to Major Garrett why he chose those words and how he wanted to deliver the message to the president. "I did not want the president to react in a bad... way, but I didn't want to say, 'Don't react.' I just prayed that I would give him a message and he would accept it," he said.show more

That moment captures the terrifying realization that the United States was under a coordinated attack. 🇺🇸 Andy Card’s choice of words was deliberate: he needed President Bush to understand the seriousness of what was happening without provoking an impulsive reaction. In a crisis of that magnitude, delivering the truth clearly while maintaining composure was critical. 25 years later, those words remain etched in history. 🕊️

@MajorCBS A defining moment that demanded calm and clarity. Andy Card understood the weight of those words and delivered them with the seriousness the moment required.

@MajorCBS i remember learning later that he deliberately avoided saying "don't react" because he worried it might trigger the opposite

@MajorCBS And now we know there were years of warnings and wasted opportunities through multiple administration's and the result was death and to open our doors and welcome in a subhuman culture that wants us dead. Globalists must be destroyed.

@MajorCBS They knew…