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Old 05-16-2003, 04:41 PM   #11
ScottSolomon
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Nobody was thinking 9/11 except the terrorists.
The Columbine gunmen, Tom Clancy, the project Bojinko terrorists, the G8 summit security personell in Genoa, etc,etc all considered the idea of hijacking a plane and craching it into a building. The Columbine kids wanted to crash a plane into the WTC. There are people in the government that do nothing all day long except sit around and think of bad things that may happen. They write reports based upon the intelligence they have and they project possible scenarios based upon that intelligence.

Do I think Bush read any reports? God no. I don't think Bush reads anything. I think Bush is very much like Ronald Reagan. He is a good public face for a comitee that makes all the policy decisions and gives him a script to read. This is why you never get Bush to answer questions in an unscripted moment about anything that is beyond the general talking points of the day.

This committe is made up of Washington insiders, intelligence insiders, security insiders, and generally inteligent people. I cannot imagine that none of these people would have connected the dots - especially given the numerous warnings - that an attack was imminent on American soil ( as opposed to what Condi said ).

Why would it have been inappropriate to make sure that there were attack aircraft in the ready - in case something happened. Why would it have been wrong to put undercover skymarshalls in the air? Why would it have been disruptive to station antiaircraft guns around New York and Wasington ( like they did in Genoa ).

preparation would not have sent the public into a panic.

Did you even visit that site and take a look at what they compiled? Or are you just ready to simis it out of turn?
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