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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/4/2002 8:17:41 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33421

That was beautifully written, Lee. Thank you for your service to our country and enjoy the fireworks tonight.

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/4/2002 8:20:18 PM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 33421

I too don't believe in the sacrifice of for oil scenario - but I do think there were serious cock ups at the intelligence and possibly military level. There are so many spin doctors out there that we'll never know, nor will be be allowed to know. But that's all from me on this.

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/4/2002 8:38:11 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 33421

your point is well taken in regard to this thread as to the rest, your well known myopic uninformed approach is also.. not well taken. have a happy 4th, and get a bit of eyesight on your day off. ooops, your profile does you justice. you do realize you can serve and think at the same time right? you know that right? right? or at best, try to turn off the milksop. it's so cow like.

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/4/2002 9:11:30 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 33421

Re: Do you really believe we would offer up as a sacrifice, that many people, a landmark like that and endanger our economy over something dumb like wanting to get involved in a foreign matter? Foreign matter? No, what is being proposed is TWD, Total World Domination by the Corporate/Military Complex. It's not foreign, it's global. Re: Even if someone in power was that sick, do you really think we would have killed some of our best minds and hurt our financial district? I'm just asking the questions. It deserves a much better answer than the Cheney/Bush Secret Government is willing to share. Why do they have so many secrets? Re: A state of readiness and being able to load up missiles and guns to counter a threat that no one ever imagined are two different things There is abundant evidence now that the U.S. government had ample warning from many, many sources. One of the older ones, now suppressed and no longer available to the public, as far as I can determine, was written by the Department of Defense in 1993. The document was titled "Terrorism - 2000" and it did cover the use of jet airliners as missiles. A full eight years before 9/11. Seems to me that would be ample time to get ready. Especially since that was also the year the first WTC attack occurred. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I'll respect your idea that you'd prefer to to only chit-chat about market gambles, but I do have a couple quick ones about military preparedness. If there were a hijacking on the East Coast, and as you suggest, all F-15s and F-16s are stripped bare of all armaments, wouldn't a commanding officer launch a few jets in the hope of intimidating the bogeys with fly-bys or threat of collision while he was loading the second sortie? And wouldn't the F-15 always have a few rounds of 22 mm ammo at ready, "just in case"? Or has this ammo become so technical that it needs to be kept in special lockers like the rockets? Just wondering, Ray

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/5/2002 8:55:19 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 33421

Excellent post Lee. JLA

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (6492)	7/5/2002 2:19:11 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 33421

Do you really believe we would offer up as a sacrifice, that many people, a landmark like that and endanger our economy over something dumb like wanting to get involved in a foreign matter? Indeed... Why sacrifice the WTC when we ALREADY had MORE THAN ENOUGH justification for taking on Al Quaida and the Taliban, based solely upon the bombing of the USS Cole, and our embassies in Africa (in which the majority were non-US citizens). Hawk