No Judy, it's not quite that simple.Quote:
2ndamendsis--how is it possible that NYC only had 3 jet fighters prepared to deal with invaders from the air? That could not happen "naturally", not even with the Clinton cuts. That had to be planned.
Air Traffic Control connects directly with the US Air Force. We do not need computers in the White House to intercept these planes. They may have needed collaboration or approval from the White Houes to take out the planes as they were commercial airliners....but our System is better than that...or should be....if it wasn't on that day....then that was planned....by someone.
We only had 2 or 3 that were not able to scramble quickly.
Computers in the WH don't have anything to do with our planes, lol, but I was trying to explain the mess everything was in.
YES, CLINTON LEFT US VIRTUALLY UNPROTECTED. FACT!
NO, our system USED TO BE BETTER THAN THAT. It is, in fact, up to par now. Air traffic control does NOT scramble our fighters...it's much more complicated than that. We'd also not had all sectors manned properly. That's been rectified.
Try to understand that the PA plane was later and we'd scrambled everything by then. HOWEVER, we did NOT have the numbers that we should have had as they'd been cut during Clinton. Our pilots did the best that they could do with what they had.
Again, I hesitate to say exactly what happened as my memory is off on this one and I'll have to get a refresher from my husband in order to be accurate.
I don't know who knew what but what I do know is that our defenses had been horribly dessimated thanks to Clinton and groupies!
WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HOW WEAK OUR DEFENSES WERE BY THE USS COLE BOMBING. However, everyone gave Clinton a pass and never investigated --- they covered up! So, let's just call a spade a spade and give Clinton his due while we're ripping Bush a new one. Clinton got the ball rolling and everyone had better recognize it. He & his flunkies carry more of the blame than anyone for many terrorist attacks! No matter what, he left Bush with a pile of crap to sort out and fix. I won't stand for his idiology but I won't blame him and his gang for something that began long ago. We reaped what Clinton & Clinton sowed.