"Because a supposed small airplane hit one of the towers?"
No, because a SECOND passenger jet had hit WTC South Tower. How quickly we forget. Everyone here forgets that Bush was told of the SECOND attack, yet chose to not protect our nation's capital during the initial moments of this war.
McKinley testified that both ground communications with pilots and the radar system of the North American Aerospace Defense Command were designed to protect the country from external attack and thus worked only outside the country's borders.
As a result, military commanders were forced to rely on radar information from the FAA during the terror attacks. Moreover, they could not communicate directly with their pilots and had to go through the FAA.
In some of the more unusual testimony at the hearing, McKinley said pilots of two unarmed jets scrambled out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and intended to crash their planes into Flight 93, the Shanksville plane, if they could not get it to deviate from its flight path.
The planes were sent aloft at the request of the Secret Service, which feared that the hijacked plane was headed for the White House.
No, because a SECOND passenger jet had hit WTC South Tower. How quickly we forget. Everyone here forgets that Bush was told of the SECOND attack, yet chose to not protect our nation's capital during the initial moments of this war.>>>
This is a patently ridiculous assumption. Fighter Jets were scrambled after the 2nd impact at the WTC. Considering the location of the Pentagon to the airport there, there was absolutely no chance in hell that the pentagon flight could have been intercepted, and by most knowledge due to the fact the take off path of the flight goes near the pentagon anyways. The last plane was going to be intercepted but it was tooken out by brave people on board the plane.
Why would DC be a target? They attacked NYC. What makes you think the next target would be in DC? Except hindsight, of course.