"You hate to admit it, but we hadn't thought about this." - Richard Myers Joint Chief of staff
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44621"Five months before Sept. 11, 2001, an air defense planner proposed an exercise scenario in which military officials would have to deal with foreign terrorists who were threatening to crash a hijacked foreign commercial plane into the Pentagon, according to a North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesman.
But the scenario was rejected......
The employee, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, wrote that Joint Staff action officers rejected the idea as too unrealistic........
We believe the 9/11 Commission should ask the Joint Chiefs why they prevented NORAD from training to respond to the possibility that terrorists might hijack commercial airliners and use them as missiles, he said in a statement."
http://www.airforcetimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-2819359.phpRICE: 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.
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000115.htm“The overwhelming bulk of the evidence was that this was an attack that was likely to take place overseas.”-- C Rice
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?the_post-9/11_world=denials&timeline=complete_911_timelineTitle of Aug 6 Memo Given to President Bush "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154More lies.....The motive.....
We were attacked because they hate our freedom. No. It's because of Government interference. This is really insulting to our intelligence.
These guys made videos telling why they want to attack the U.S. and they all said the same thing. Because of our military presence in Arab countries and unwavering support for Israel, and Bush is going to prevent any type of real debate on real issues on what the Government engages in and instead keep things simple and stupid. "They hate my freedom". What an ****.
