Thinking and planning were never W's strong-suits. Personally, I do not think he was composing himself. I think he was a deer in the headlights at best, incompetent at worst in those moments. Certainly not evil.
Actually, no. I don't think he did a good job of dealing with it over the next 8 years. And I think the loss of 4,488 brave fighting men and women are evidence of that -- not to mention the economic cost of fighting a war that had nothing to do with 9/11.