Maybe because he had self control and isn't an "OMG" panicky type of person.
Does it occur to anyone that if Bush was part of a conspiracy, he would have acted more surprised? Wouldn't that be part of the plan?
Didn't say he was part of a conspiracy - but definitely saying he knew fully well before the attacks on the WTC that the Taliban were planning those attacks. USA was then the most powerful country in the world with a very extensive worldwide intelligence network.
PBS did a timeline on this:
Timeline - Al Qaeda's Global Context | The Man Who Knew | FRONTLINE | PBS
secondly, everyone in the world had an OMG reaction to the breaking news of WTC's attacks. but not Bush. Very telling.
Here's something else to think about - Bush had investments in Middle Eastern oil backed by the bin Ladens. Price of oil escalated after the attacks on WTC.
And George Bush had already planned to launch a war on Iraq before 9/11 because Iraq had a "destabilizing influence on flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East and that he decided US military intervention would be needed."
The source is this: Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC). I quote from their pdf " Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has."
Also, at that time there were concerns about worldwide shortages on oil, and the Pentagon had great concerns about Saddam switching off access to Middle Eastern oil as political leverage and the Pentagon was greatly urging military intervention to protect US' stakes in oil.
At this time, George Bush Sr had investments in Carlyle - who was later one of the biggest defense contractors in the Iraq war. Bush Jr allowed no bidding on those contracts.
In 1998, Haliburton sent parts to Saddam to fix his oil plants that were damaged during the Kuwait invasion. Analysts at that time recommended investing in Haliburton for they would make a huge profit cleaning up after a US-led war on Iraq.
They predicted correctly. And guess who was chief executive officer of Haliburton? Dick Cheney. And did Haliburton make a killing after war was launched on Saddam? Well, I took the liberty of looking up the history of Haliburton and whoa! In January 2002, Haliburton shares were $4.30 each. In May of 2008, they went up to $53.07 That is a 1200% increase in price.
So, that means if you had invested say 1 million into Haliburton shares at $4.30 a share, you would have made a very nice profit of 12 million in May 2008.
As for George Bush Jr himself - his own personal investments in oil is very revealing: he owned shares in Arbusto that nearly went bust. Arbusto was bought out by Spectrum 7 Energy. Spectrum 7 Energy also nearly collapsed. Spectrum 7 was then bought out by Harken. This is where it gets interesting:
Harken bought out Bush's Spectrum 7 shares and in exchange gave him Harken shares, directorship and consulting arrangement. Who was brought on board Harken? A sheik from Saudi Arabia who had ties to bin Laden. something else: According to SEC filings in 1991 - Bush violated federal securities laws at least 4 times by selling Harken stocks while serving as Director of Harken. This matter was quietly swept under the rug because his father was President of the US at the time.
Martha Stewart was accused of the same violations yet she went to prison.
Furthermore, Harken, MCI and Haliburton who received the biggest contracts in Iraq had all been found in violation or implicated in some of the biggest corporate scandals in US history.
All this to say, yeah, no wonder Bush didn't look surprised when he heard about the attacks on WTC. He knew long before the attacks happened that the Taliban were planning to use airplanes as weapons and he knew very very very well as an oil man what that meant in terms of profits for him, his friends and family. He did eventually either sell off his stocks or put them in a blind trust but it cannot be denied that cronyism was very much a huge huge part of the war on Iraq.
So, while your tax dollars funded this war, the top 1% said thanks for making us billions, sorry about your economy collapsing. If you're not happy about it, blame Obama.