[carl in alaska]

"The irony of that statement is there is NO evidence TWA 800 was struck by a missile."

Have you read any of the other threads on TWA 800? I doubt it, and you're probably not going to read them because you're rigedly locked into your opinion about TWA 800. There's all kinds of evidence that TWA 800 was struck by a missile, but you just choose to ignore that evidence and make bald assertions that "there is NO evidence TWA 800 was struck by a missile." You can make all the assertions you want and ignore all the evidence you want to ignore, but that doesn't change the facts. Like I said, you need to start by reading some of the threads on TWA 800 here at FR. Most of those threads are not written by crackpots. They're written by smart, well-informed people. Right now you apparently know very little about what actually happened to TWA 800 and yet you're rigidly locked into your position. Go read the other side of the story and then see if you can move an inch off of your position.

[Rokke]

Carl,

Have you read any of those threads? If you have, you'll see that not only have I read them, but I actually participated in most of them. My attention was first drawn to TWA 800 back in the days when Micheal Rivero haunted this site. I've seen conspiracy theorists come and go on FreeRepublic. Rivero, BeAChooser, Formerlurker.... Conspiracy theories about TWA 800 started almost before the last pieces of it hit the water, and many of them have been discussed right here on FreeRepublic. Click on the links on my Freepage and you will find some of the older threads. Believe me, you aren't telling me anything I haven't heard before. There is no real evidence TWA 800 was struck by a missile. There are lots of theories, but no evidence. Unless you know something that know one else knows......

[Final Authority]

Going back to the early days on these threads of the apparent shoot down of TWA 800 at some point in time professional spin meisters get in on the thread and become very active denying a cover-up and/or continue a misinformation campaign over the facts, such as the poster who said that there is "no" evidence of a shoot down. Well, on the night of the tragedy I saw the witnesses who saw what was apparently missiles streaking up to the plane. Of course that evidence was squashed. Or the evidence of the chemical residue. The government has nothing to gain by presenting all of the facts of this case.