Being the lead crusader, the words and deeds of Bush indicate that he was fully aware of what was happening. To see the obvious, one does not need to rely on the so-called conspiracy theories and speculations. Bush's words are enough for rejecting the official story of 9/11.

Bush was in his presidential limousine when the first plane hit the WTC. He has twice remarked about how he saw the first impact on TV. On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: "How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?" Bush replied, "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower"”the TV was obviously on. I said, it must have been a horrible accident."³²⁶ In fact, there was no live TV coverage of the impact available at that time.³²⁷ Principal of Booker Elementary has also stated that there was no TV in either the corridor Bush came through or anywhere near the classroom he visited.

Two American researchers, Allan Wood and Paul Thompson, point out: "It's doubly strange why his advisors didn't correct him or"”at the very least"”stop him from repeating the same story only four weeks later. On January 5, 2002, Bush stated: "Well, I was sitting in a schoolhouse in Florida. My Chief of Staff"”well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on."³²⁸ This means one of two things: a) Bush is lying about how he learned of the first impact, or b) there was a closed-circuit TV feed, not in the school, but in his presidential limousine on which he received a progress report. Bush's lying is itself evidence of his concealing what he actually knows. Someone with nothing to hide does not rely on lies in the first place.

The widely available video clip of Bush telling a goat story to kids damns the Bush administration, not because of what is in this video, but what should be in the video and is not there. Ostensibly, Bush and his chief of staff, Andrew Card, were reacting to a surprise attack on the United States. Interestingly, Bush did not act surprised and Card did not act like a man delivering an unexpected piece of news. He did not even wait for the president's response. Instead, Card clearly seems to have merely delivered a progress report to which he already knew Bush would not have an immediate response.³²⁹

At that time, two planes had crashed into the WTC. Two more were flying around the country, destinations unknown. Airports surrounded Booker Elementary School, one of them only four miles away. How did the Secret Service know it was safe for Bush to stay in Booker Elementary and make his scheduled broadcast to the nation at 9:30 a.m.?

American researchers did in depth analyses of Bush's words and deeds on September 11 and concluded that Bush has been lying to hide his "prior knowledge" of the event. For example, analysis at What Really Happened website concludes:

The many accounts of what happened to Bush on 9/11 are riddled with disinformation of false threats, omitted details, fudged timing, and more. But around September 11, 2002, the heavily publicized first anniversary of the attacks, there was an obvious attempt to further rewrite the story"¦.Despite the contradictory reports, no one in the mainstream media has yet demanded clarification of the many obvious inconsistencies and problems of the official version. Anyone even asking questions has been quickly insulted as anti-American, accused of bashing the president in a time of war, or branded a conspiracy nut.³³⁰

Any "prior knowledge" is actually a proof of involvement in the planning for the horrible crime of 9/11. Letting such a crime take place is proof that all subsequent actions, particularly the invasion of Afghanistan, were already planned and part of the broader game. It makes no sense for the Administration to have knowingly allowed the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, and even less sense for them to have actively contrived in it, unless this outrage was to be an excuse for "striking back".