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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: LPS5 who wrote (25195)7/10/2003 10:08:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Latching onto this sort of fabricated, conspiratorial revisionist history...

And the fact that there were apparently only 4 combat loaded aircraft available at that time for intercept, but not at Andrews AFB, but at Langley, make it irrelevant about any kind of warning having made a potential difference.

The bottom line was we were caught with our pants down, attacked by a means that few credibly believed was a viable threat.

Nearly everyone, minus a few "prophets" out in the wilderness, had been expecting car-bombs, or suicide bombers, not civilian aircraft being used as bombers.

Hawk
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