Posted on 09/16/2002 5:34:36 AM PDT by ConservativeNewsJunkie
Here is your answer:
It kept us from having to do the unthinkable," said Maj. Gen. Mike J. Haugen, adjutant general of the North Dakota National Guard, "and that is to use your own weapons and own training against your own citizens."
Sounds to me like he is saying it didn't happen.
So then in fact you do agree that it was possible the plane was shot down. the only question left is whether or not you think the government told you the truth...
Or whether they were lying to you...
And like all sheeple, posters here would rather hear a lie than a truth that is uncomfortable.
Last time I broached the subject that I thought Flight 93 was shot down I was attacked viciously. The fact that it was shot down does not take anything away from the courage of the passengers who took a stand.I'm normally a debunker of conspiracy theories. But I heard from an extremely reliable source that AF buzz on September 11th was that a 16 had taken the plane down, and on September 12th that buzz had been squelched.
The story that the passengers had stopped the attack is an inspirational one. The story that an Air Force pilot had to do it would be bitter and tragic on a day that had already seen thousands of times too much of that.
I just hope that if it was a pilot, the fact that he did his clear duty no matter how distasteful is in the classified part of his records. In many ways it took just as much courage as a passenger attack did.
-Eric
Almost 100 posts into this topic and, excuse me if I missed it, but I've seen NO reference to the shocking fact that our nation's policy in these unthinkable circumstances is to shoot our brothers and sisters out of the skies!
Meanwhile, are pilots are still not allowed to arm themselves!
Where the HELL is the outrage?
That was debated here
It would have been the right thing to do. No argument from me on that. What bothers me is that it seems that the federal government can never just tell the plain, simple truth. Too many pieces of this puzzle just don't add up, and what makes me even more sure things are not true to the official story is how viciously people attack you for saying that your own gut feeling is that the UA93 was shot down.
Unless all you can think about is the next election.
The FBI shot the Branch Davidians as they tried to escape their burning "compound" as well. The federal government is a mindless beast. Sorry.
Sure it does. You just want the official story to prevail.
Whoa, unum. How do you get "more likely" out of that. If Flt 93 was "shot down" then it had to be hit by a missile, bullet, or super-secret mega ray gun.
For that to be effective, it would MOST LIKELY have to physically deform the aircraft to make it un-airworthy. To do that would REQUIRE (because of Newton's laws, not federal laws) that any separated airplane components (engines, control surfaces, rivets, glass shards...) would be scattered throughout the area along the aircraft's last trajectory when they were "disconnected" from the airframe.
If these parts-is-parts are not found but in a 15 foot deep hole in a single field, then the aircraft must have gone into the ground intact, and not deformed previously.
That is: UNLESS the aircraft was indeed hit with a super-secret mega ray gun, which could be determined by interviewing military pilots to see if they were wearing any tin-foil helmets that day.
The F-16s in the air on Sept 11 were Air National Guard units on training missions. They were not on air defense duty. Hence, no ammunition. At least three plans came from Selfridge Air National Guard north of Detroit. They were unarmed. Their instructions were to RAM the airliners if they came in contact.
Lol...why don't you get to work then and debunk this one?
Yeah, and they didn't mention the possibility that it was shot down by a flying saucer piloted by space aliens, either.
Sheesh.
If they told you they DID shoot down the plane, would you believe they were lying? Absent of any evidence to the contrary, I believe the men who wear our nations uniform.
The best fit for the available evidence is the theory that violent maneuvers caused by the struggle caused some shearing of the airframe. That explains a few parts turning up miles away, an electrical failure causing the recorder to quit, and the plane remaining in the air for three more minutes.
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