Posted on 11/09/2010 8:05:31 AM PST by Gennie
We should make a reasonable effort to make sure it hasn't been posted, but unless it is in a side bar, they sometimes are hard to find.
Okay so here’s my take;
1. Wherever that missile landed, its on its way to being recovered (assuming it sank into the sea), I guarantee that.
2. Can’t imagine an accidental launch by a U.S. Submarine. I’d have to imagine the number of failsafe’s to such a launch would prohibity something accidental occurring.
3. If it’s China/Russia/N. Korea - we got a problem.
And now the completely TIN FOIL explanation would be that Obama wanted the military to orchestrate a “missile attack” (maybe without a warhead on it) at an unpopulated area in the CA desert in order to start a war with, say, North Korea and, you know, do the diversion thingy; and said missile went off course on the way to its target... But I’m not into tinfoil, just a rumination.
In the meantime, some E-2 on a submarine is regretting asking what the red button is for (as he pushed it)
I knew there was a reasonable explanation for this.
uh oh, my folks live near Vancouver, BC, hope it wasn’t headed there, they aren’t answering the phone. Although I’m sure if there was a strike anywhere, I’d have heard about it by now.
Which is the theory I lean towards but when Stephonopolous was in such a panic his stream of thoughts rattled off the word “bombing” and said it while we were under attack.
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He did the same thing six days later on Chris Matthews.
In the days after 9/11, everybody wanted to come clean about TWA800. Nobody forced the issue and the moment passed.
Given my background, I am going to speculate that this was a submarine launch of a ICMB or surface launch of a Standard Missile.
If this was not a US Navy launch or a test of the THAD anti-ballistic missile systems (such as a test vehicle), and it turns out it was a foreign military doing this; all hell is going to break loose politically for Obama.
Can you see it now?
“Obama lets foreign military launch missiles miles off the coast of California?
OR
Who is protecting American while the king jets off to another vacation?”
I am guessing it was a US military launch because I like Occams Razor so much.
Yeah, if a nuke exploded 14 hours ago over North America you probably would have heard about it by now.
I think your comment is more prescient than even you realize.
Taking at face value that this isn’t a US military launch, the chances are that this is a SLBM from an unfriendly power. What a demonstration! Get within 35 miles of the enemy coast and launch, undetected. No warning. Red October, anyone?
If we can assume that the news helicopter was shoreward of the launch site, the trajectory of the missile appears to be away from the mainland. They seem to have taken the precaution that the projected trajectory would be away from the US mainland. They were pretty confident they could get away too, that we wouldn’t (or couldn’t) prosecute an attack on the launching sub.
And I while I agree that this was, at best, reckless, it seems to have worked. Our entire national defense apparatus is standing there with their mouths agape, having NO CLUE. They didn’t detect the LAUNCH, let alone the sub. We are reduced to looking at some traffic chopper footage to figure out what happened. It couldn’t be any worse than if they set fire to a bag of dog poop on the front porch of the White House, rang the bell, and took off.
Our coup have been counted, so to speak.
“I am guessing it was a US military launch because I like Occams Razor so much.”
Here is hoping you and Occam are right.
Tatt
Well it appeared to be headed towards the sunset, east. And it seems headed towards the NE if the time for the video capture is correct.
No sense getting TOO WORRIED about some unknown cause even when it is quite startling. In the end G-d is in complete command of this world, so stick with doing good and being happy, even in the face of a storm. Or at least trying not to be so bad, and not getting completely INTO CAPS LOCK MODE.
When did the sun start setting in the east?
I know there are multiple threads about this today. The mods locked two or three, and the top two on this search are still active. This one and one from around 6:20 AM.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2624127/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=missile%20launch
X-15 taken out of retirement.
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