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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (2073)	8/20/2003 12:29:50 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 20039

It has been revealed that the CIA has had 100s of journalists on their payroll over the years. Yes, a fact worth highlighting! Tom

To: Rock_nj who wrote (2073)	8/20/2003 1:06:47 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<But, the above paragraph really reveals that this is nothing more than a thinly veiled propaganda piece. Seek approval from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld every time a plane goes off course or has a malfunctioning transponder that requires the military to scramble jets?!?>>> All good lies have a grain of truth buried in them, and sometimes it's in the way they're phrased. Note how this one is stated; "On Sept. 11, the normal scramble-approval procedure was.....". Also notice how much time was spent on explaining the military was playing intercept games that day. As you mentioned, the chain of approval would be a preposterous way to respond to the kind of emergency even a "typical" hijacking would represent. Obviously, the first priority would be to get a jet on location and in a position to respond to the threat. We have the equipment, we have the man power, and there's absolutely no downside to sending a pilot to observe what's happening up close and personal. Any executive decision would depend almost exclusively on the observations of the pilot AFTER the pilot was in position on the hijacked plane, as in, "They're not responding sir, what should I do?". So, on the day of the attacks, the Air Force was sent on a wild goose chase to play games away from the scene of the crime. The games involved catching hijackers, so special procedures were put in place to slow down response time. Rumsfeld was in charge of scrambling jets to respond to hijackers, so the special procedures were his idea. It's also reasonable to assume the decision to play games that day was also his decision. We know Rumsfeld had openly expressed a need for a Pearl Harbor event to push his PNAC agenda. We know from history that the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the military had been ordered to disassemble all of their equipment and were virtually helpless to respond to the attack. It really isn't all that hard to figure out. The stand down was planned just like everything else, was in place the day of the show, and members of the Bush Cartel were the only ones who could have pulled it off.