I have a question....

[andino]

I was watching the 9/11 commission the other day and the subsequent analysis on the late night shows. I seem to remember them saying that NORAD ran world trade center crash scenarios and one on the Pentagon using airplanes. My question is why hasn't anyone brought this up to contradict Condi Rices statements that no one ever thought that this could happen when NORAD ran the scenarios?

Was she just that far out of the loop or did she just BS the 9/11 commission?

[eyesroll]

1. I'm not sure what NORAD, but Condi's either lying or stupid or both

I mean -- that X-Files spinoff, "The Lone Gunmen," featured a remotely hijacked airplane that was going to crash...into the World Trade Center. If a TV writer could have anticipated this, so could someone whose job it is to anticipate this.

[LittleApple81]

2. What do you mean nobody? Nobody in the "liberal mainstream media" maybe.

We have been talking about that everywhere on the real liberal side.

[TexasSissy]

3. What I heard: that was on the list as a training t hing.....

but it was never done. The military had to stick to "likely" scenarios, and that wasn't considered likely. It was thought to be very unlikely, in fact.

Why did they think that? They had not been told about terrorists had used planes as missiles against Americans in other locations. They had not been told that it was so likely a scenario that Richard Clarke took precautions against it at the last Olympics.

[frankly_fedup2]

4. I live your green-dog

Democrat avatar. And your from Texas too. However, I thought the saying was a blue-dog Democrat. Maybe it depends on which part of the country one is in.

[frankly_fedup2]

5. Uh Duh. I LOVE not live. I'm sure you figured it out,

but just goes to show that the spell check will never replace proof reading!

[frankly_fedup2]

6. I watched a movie about 3 wks ago and I had to check

on when it was made and found out it was made in 1991. It had Steven Seagal, Harrison Ford, and other big stars.

Some Arab males had hijacked a plane and they were heading for the U.S. coast. The plan had nuclear bombs AS WELL AS some kind of biological stuff they were going to spread if their conditions were not met. Well, immediately military planes were sent after the plane, and if the ones on the plane couldn't stop the terrorists, the pilots were ordered to shoot the plane down after it got a certain distance from the east coast.

I think it was a John Grisham book . . . the same one that wrote "The Sum of all Fears" with Ben Affleck playing the character that Harrison Ford played in the above movie.

How strange that someone could come up with these types of scenarios, they were going to blow up the plane over the U.S. or crash into the white house or something of the like, but our Government, who by the way, before they take office, is briefed by the ones that are leaving the different branches of office were told about these kind of threats. But C. Rice said none of them could have even thought of such a thing happening, even after they had heard that at least 4 planes had been hijacked.