That's not what he said. You were the one who attached the 40 minute timing of it based on what time the pentagon was hit. It's not that he was forming his own committee, but it wouldn't be far fetched that they wanted explore the options open to congress at this time. Kerry himself explained what his thoughts were, and those have been posted here.
Let me paraphrase Mr. Kerry, ~" I couldn't think..." I wish I could find the original quote. Wasn't he watching the news with Barbara Boxer (?) and some other senator. Then they lumbered down to a conference room and sat around a table doing nothing... which is fine. I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with all the attempts to skewer President Bush over his 7 minute delay due to an ongoing obligation. Kerry even knew much more about the events than President Bush did, as I'm quite sure he was watching Fox News...
Yes. A few minutes isn't going to matter. There's a network of people across the nation gathering intel about what happened. There is nothing he could have done until that was accomplished. Now if he was readying to tee off on the back nine, that would be another matter-- that deserves a knock upside the head.
If it had been Clinton teeing it up I have a feeling lots of people would be talking about his "Charisma" with regards to a situation like that.
The original source is mentioned in this thread I believe. If not this one then in one of the other ones. I think it was a Larry King interview or something.
