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maybe bush is actually a criminal mastermind
and just acts dumb for the media
Uninformed? The Pentagon, lies right next to Reagan National Airport. It had no air defenses that day, there were no specified aircraft to be scrambled to defend the Pentagon. Besides, when Flight 77 popped back up, there was not enough time. You can say all you want, but the simple truth is no one took the idea seriously that we would be attacked that way. As for your idea that they scramble whenever an aircraft goes off course, we had an airliner overflying its destination by 45 minutes a couple years ago and nothing was scrambled.
originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
a reply to: cardinalfan0596
Yeah right. Don't fall for it. The Pentagon just doesn't have jets to scramble because it's not a huge target. How many planes? How many minutes before the second on hit the other tower? What the # do I look like?
January, 2001 The Bush Administration orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family, including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls Church, VA right next to CIA headquarters. This followed previous orders dating back to 1996, frustrating efforts to investigate the bin Laden family. [Source: BBC Newsnight, Correspondent Gregg Palast Nov 7, 2001].
originally posted by: cardinalfan0596
Uninformed? The Pentagon, lies right next to Reagan National Airport. It had no air defenses that day, there were no specified aircraft to be scrambled to defend the Pentagon. Besides, when Flight 77 popped back up, there was not enough time. You can say all you want, but the simple truth is no one took the idea seriously that we would be attacked that way. As for your idea that they scramble whenever an aircraft goes off course, we had an airliner overflying its destination by 45 minutes a couple years ago and nothing was scrambled.
originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
a reply to: cardinalfan0596
Yeah right. Don't fall for it. The Pentagon just doesn't have jets to scramble because it's not a huge target. How many planes? How many minutes before the second on hit the other tower? What the # do I look like?
nobody thought of it? Then why were the training exercises that day revolving around civilian airliners being hijacked and flown in to targets?
originally posted by: jaffo
originally posted by: cardinalfan0596
Uninformed? The Pentagon, lies right next to Reagan National Airport. It had no air defenses that day, there were no specified aircraft to be scrambled to defend the Pentagon. Besides, when Flight 77 popped back up, there was not enough time. You can say all you want, but the simple truth is no one took the idea seriously that we would be attacked that way. As for your idea that they scramble whenever an aircraft goes off course, we had an airliner overflying its destination by 45 minutes a couple years ago and nothing was scrambled.
originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
a reply to: cardinalfan0596
Yeah right. Don't fall for it. The Pentagon just doesn't have jets to scramble because it's not a huge target. How many planes? How many minutes before the second on hit the other tower? What the # do I look like?
Exactly. NO ONE thought that a plan like that was actually going to be attempted or was even possible. They caught us napping and pulled off a huge attack. Going to be very, very hard to pull off something like that ever again.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
-Aeschylus
originally posted by: jaffoWho here EVER thought that psychos would actually fly planes into buildings. Yeah, that's what I thought. Because you generally just can't prepare for or defend against "crazy" very well, as a rule of thumb.
originally posted by: jaffo
I love how this thread hedges its bets and makes very clear that all Truthers are really interested in is hurling insults. So it was either an inside job or they were incompetent. Meaning that no matter which answer it is, the people in charge are complete failures, lol.