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

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (2920)	9/22/2003 2:08:25 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

And you don't feel that that is being done as we speak? I sure hope so. Of course, before 9/11 I thought they could scramble plans to defend DC on a moments notice. I remember going on a tour of the White House in 1986 (around the time Reagan was putting up barricades to prevent a suicide car-bombing) and someone asked the tour guide about an attack from a plane. The tour guide told us that the airspace above the white house is restricted airspace, if any plane got within a few miles of the White House it would be intercepted by the military. In fact, some yahoo had tried to fly a glider or something onto the White House premises shortly before I was there, and we were told that he was intercepted and prevented from getting near the White House. Where the hell were these air defenses on 9/11? They had an hour to scramble planes to defend DC, they knew an attack was underway in NYC (or something very unusual), they knew a plane that left DC had been hijacked and was returning to DC. What is the most logical conclusion for the lack of government action? It's seems deliberate to me. How could they intercept some glider who got tooclose to the White House in 1986, but not intercept a plane that was hijacked over Ohio and had turned around towards DC and took an hour to get there. It's defies logic. What I'd like to see in this regard is the U.S pull our troops out of some of the countries that we're currently commiting troops to, like Japan and Germany and Kuwait. Instead, we should refocus our efforts on defending our own country. That is why the military is suppossed to exist after all. It's not suppossed to exist for the benefit of McDonalds or ExxonMobil or some other far flung business venture. It's supppossed to exist to defend our country from attack and they aren't living up to their mission in my opinion.