where WAS our air defense on 9/11?

[rusty charly]

"On the morning of September 11, 2001, there were over 4,000 planes flying over the United States — four of them were hostile. America had the most powerful military in the world, yet an enemy attack was so unimaginable that the air defense of the entire U.S. mainland was left up to 14 fighter planes. 9/11 — CLEAR THE SKIES is a minute-by-minute story of how America's air defenses responded to the terrible events of that fateful day."


http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vTitle/9~11+-+CLEAR+THE+SKIES

[billbuckhead]

1. This has always made me crazy. We could have called Canada

if we couldn't defend ourselves.

[Parche]

2. planes

I just want to see a closeup of one of the planes that actually
hit the buildings to see for myself if it was a 767

[impe]

3. This reads like another Plug

piece for the administration's "our pants were down that day" gee we're really sorry but those big bad wabbits,
I mean terrorists outwitted us.

The most plausible story so far for the inpotence of our military on 9/11 is the War Games angle. The military
probably thought it was all part of the "Plan" until the towers were hit. Those involved in the planning of these
war games were in the exact location where the Pentagon was hit.

I believe someone ordered the hit to the Pentagon since this group would be the link to the war games that
day that went horribly bad.

This still proves that it was an inside job that high jacked the war games plan and turned them against our country.

[stickdog]

4. But even if the first TWO hits took us by surprise, Flight 93 didn't hit

the ground until a FULL HOUR later!

So why weren't any of the fighters involved in the war games simply redirected to intercept Flight 93?

[impe]

7. That's the madman's brilliance

behind this scheme. There were dozens of phony blips of high jacked planes on radar. They couldn't tell which were the
real deal and which were the war games simulations. By they time they figured it out, 93 was doomed, since it was still
in the air after all air traffic was ordered down.

Damn this reminds me of that movie war games....

[BeFree]

5. The best available evidence we have...

... is that Dick Cheney was running the show from a White house bunker.

A top admin official who was there, stated that Cheney was relaying orders to staff about whether or not planes should or should not be taken down.

The gist of the evidence details how Cheney was in charge of "war games" that day, and while playing those games, something went wrong, terribly wrong.

Some evidence leads to the fact that it was Cheney who masterminded the whole thing and the 'Boy who would be king' was flabbergasted by it all- evidenced by his complete and total abdication of responsibility to defend and protect America.

Still, there are many pieces to the puzzle yet to be displayed, and until then we just have to speculate, using the best available evidence.

But one thing we know for certain - as you alluded too, America was not defended that day, despite the billions and billions of dollars thrown into the Defense Department.

[demodewd]

6. twenty minutes

According to Michael Ruppert authorities including Guiliani knew that a second plane was heading for NYC twenty minutes before it crashed yet no effort was made to inform and evacuate WTC2.