From: * US *
Date: 8/12/2004 5:46 PM Central Daylight Time
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Everyone knew Saddam was probably disarmed and the inspectors
were on the verge of confirming it when Bush forced them out.

Really? Then how come so many people including Al Bore were saying Saddam had
WMD as late as mid 2002?

"...a former Pentagon Air Force Traffic controller writes:
"All those years ago when I was in the Pentagon, this wouldn't have happened.
ATC Radar
images were (and are) available in the understructures of the Pentagon, and
any commercial
flight within 300 miles of DC that made an abrupt course change toward
Washington, turned
off their transponder, and refused to communicate with ATC, would have been
intercepted at
supersonic speeds within a max of 9 minutes by a Fighter out of Andrews.
Period. Why these
planes weren't, baffles me. If we could get fighters off the ground in 2
minutes then, we
could now." ..."

Why would the Pentagon need scope dopes? As an ATC he would need to control air
traffic. How could he do it and no one in federal ATC not know about it? What
would the above scope dope's chain of command be? For that matter who in the
Pentagon had authority to issue such a launch order on such short notice?

Do you always accept stories such as this on faith alone?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired