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So you suggest that, al Qaeda and Bush were in cahoots to undermine his administration, in his second year mind you? When the distress call from Flight 175 went out two F-15's where scrambled at 8:53, and unaware of their target had already 'kamikazied' into WTC2 they were put on a holding pattern from 9:09 to 9:13. The reason they where not sent into the city was due to the already large constituancy of aircraft, one of which had already 'accidentally' crashed into a skyscraper, already in the area. Already your theory that there was no scrambling of jet is debunked. The main reason these aircraft were not utilized to take down the hijacked planes is quite simple: Mass Confusion. The terrorists had known that they could not coordinate for each plane to arrive at it's intended target at the same time, so they banked (and made a very good wall street worthy investment), on our overly bureacratic Pre-9/11 systems to cause us to stumble, which they promptly did. Had the USAF, Secret Service, FBI, CIA, NYPD, FDNY, FAA and the others had been connected as they are now under the DHS then these pieces of information that each department had that the others didn't could have been relayed to the DHS where it would have been interpreted and orders would have been given down the line of command, whether it be for the fighters of the USAF to shoot it down, the National Guard of the Army to start evac-ing lower Manhattan, for the USN to use SAMs to shoot the aircraft down, for the Coast Guard to secure the ports, or for the Marines to invade Nova Scotia. Whatever the orders were, they would have been 200% more effective at doing them, because at least one person would have all the information. We got lucky with Flight 93, if you can call that lucky. We could very well have lost the Capital building, and with it the record number of books that we have collected in the past 2 centuries. The White House with its 2 centuries of history. The Washington Memorial, Monteceillo, Lincoln Memorial, or something else of grandeur and significance that lies on the Mall. As the Japanese learned, you can never surprise attack the United States of America and get away unscathed. We may pay the price in the short run, but in the long run, it's our enemies that pay the ultimate price. They will lose their lives trying to fight off 'the great satan' but "with God on our side, who can be against us?" Haha, I just realized this was an extremely long post, but I'm sure it will get the point across.
