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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?
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To: Mahatmabenfoo who wrote (532)5/16/2005 2:50:01 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 1183
 
Charles,

Thanks. You wrote a really intelligent and interesting post. So nice to see such a thing in my inbox. :)

Re: As to Carter being the victim of a military conspiracy... have you a shred of proof? Conspiracy theories without proof are a kind of optimism that there is order in the world, if only an evil order.

Yes. The shred of proof is that the military had an excuse for their failure. Their excuse was that they lost too many helicopters, pre-attack, due to sand dust clogging their air intakes. On the surface, this is a perfectly plausible reason for failure if all you are trying to do is to fool most Americans. This sort of transparent tissue of lies is designed for the consumption of the NASCAR following motorheads across the country. As someone who has personal experience with air filters in dusty environments, I can assure you that the Air Force had mechanics in 1979 who would have been conversant with desert conditions and who would have been able to foresee the problems at the staging area of the raid that was planned to rescue the hostages.

This particular transparent lie has a lot in common with the lie of 9/11 that the military had a mere 14 jets available to protect the entire nation via the FAA/NORAD/NMCC system. That this is a total fraud is made perfectly evident by the statement in "9/11: Clear the Skies" [ tinyurl.com ] in which the BBC documentary clearly states that after Flight 93 had been downed near Sharpsville, PA shortly after 10:00 AM that the U.S. military had 300 combat aircraft in the air along the Eastern seaboard and in the vicinity of Air Force One.

Compare this admitted number, 300 combat planes, to what was reported to the American public in the Kean-Zelikow Report which categorically states that there were only 14 jets available in the entire system.

Only the naive take the government at its word.

Back to the the Iran hostage rescue fiasco.... The military had lots of reasons to want Carter to fail in Iran. Don't be so naive as to think that they follow orders that they don't like. Especially when they know that the opposition party is offering much more tasty sweetheart deals all around.
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