Reading all this, I was reminded that it is time to remind some here that you should ask yourself again, "how do I know what I know"? Before you post.
It is not a partisan, or an "anti-American", or a "terorist loving" activity to post this information. It does not "undermine the war effort" and "divide us in a time of war". The folks who are doing that, IMO, are our "leaders", and you if you take anything that they tell you at face value. Do the work it takes to be informed, and I can almost guarantee you, you'll "know" less because of it.
Only later did we find this to call the president's remarks into question:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 14, 2004; Page A16
While planning a high-level training exercise months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S. military officials considered a scenario in which a hijacked foreign commercial airliner flew into the Pentagon, defense officials said yesterday.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...18-norad_x.htm
NORAD had drills of jets as weapons
By Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.
One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center...................
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http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html
Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates
scenarios in preparing for emergencies
Story and Photos by Dennis Ryan
MDW News Service
Exercise SimulationsWashington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 — The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in509471.shtml
'99 Report Warned Of Suicide Hijacking
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2002
Former CIA Deputy Director John Gannon, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council when the report was written, said U.S. intelligence long has known a suicide hijacker was a possible threat.
(AP) Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building......
(Edited to add lil "dots" between the quoted article segments.)
......"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
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The quandry that I keep coming back to.....is.....I have a personal standard that makes me hesitant to open my mouth.....if I don't feel confident that I know what I'm talking about. Please tell me how you are able to get past all the uncertainty and doubt that I have because of the inconsistancies of what our federal officials have declared to us....via the MSM press....and on their own official websites.
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In this exchange, I respond to these comments....
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Originally Posted by powerclown
You forgot to quote this part of your source link:
"The investigation was enormously helpful in figuring out who and what to look for as we worked to prevent attacks. It allowed us to see where we as a nation needed to close gaps in our security.
And it gave us clear and definitive proof that al Qaeda was behind the strikes."
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and I haven't seen a response to my reply, since.
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