9:03 am: 2nd plane hits the WTC
9:43 am: Plane hits the Pentagon
40 minutes.
40 minutes to go from "Holy ****! The WTC has been attacked!" to "There are still planes presenting a threat out there." to "One of those planes is heading toward this area" to "One of those planes is targeting the Pentagon" to "Let's move 25,000 people out of the building."
Get real.
And, please, please, enlighten us about the "military news write up shortly after."
Norman Meneta testified to the 911 Commission that he was with Cheney on the morning of 911 when.....a young man kept coming into the room and saying " the plane is 50 miles out, then the plane is 30 miles out, the plane is 10 miles out". At this point the young man asked "do the orders still stand?" to which Cheney replied "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?".
For 40 min. everyone knew we were under attack.
Maby you believe that our military leaders are so incompitent that they took NO action to protect our nations' capital, I don't!
Cheney knew that there was an airplane headed for the Capitol.
Maby you believe Washington was left defenceless. I don't
In 1994 an airplane landed on the White House lawn. We were assured at that all steps had been taken to prevent a terrorist from flying a plane into the White House.
About that same time (1993 - 1994) an al Quida cell was busted in the Philippines. On their computer they mentioned flying airplanes into the Sears Towers, CIA headquarters or other high value target.
A jet taking off from or landing at Regan airport could possibly be hijacked an reach the Capitol before jets could be scrambeled.
Therefore: There would have to be some kind of anti aircraft misles for this possibility.
Obviously such a system would monitor all airplanes in the area and would only bring down an airplane when it was cristal clear that it ment to crash into the White House or other high value target in D.C.
This information would of course be classified.
No reasonible person could believe that our militery leaders would neglect to take the common sense precaution of installing some kind of anti aircraft misles as a last line of defence or fail to put F16' over D.C during the 40 muintes they had to do so.
ETA: unless failing to do so was intentional.
