WOW! I'm following this one!

[BigBadBrian]

This whole thread is TIN FOIL BEANIE TIME.

Now, I've said before, I'm no Rumsfeld apologist. I wished he'd never taken the job. I wished he would've quit and Colin stayed. But.....

When will people learn that it would have been way more advantageous for the Administration to publish the fact that a shoot-down did occur if it did happen?

Also, I worked over sixteen years in the radar/computer /communications/intel field while I was in the service. There is NO WAY IN HELL that the govt could keep a secret of that magnitude.

There would be simply too many radar antennas painting that picture and too many eyes watching those Planned Position Indicators at both civilian and military radar facilities along the eastern edge of the United States.

Most of those sites are data-linked instantly to other sites as well so other people were seeing what was going on.

This is as about as plausible as the shootdown of Flight 800 from a Navy ship. Try to get all those sailors to keep their mouths shut. Uh huh.

[fanofdave]

if everything said must be true:

sammy hagar once said he was abducted by a ufo
so i guess we have to conclude ufo's exist.....

al gore is the inventor of the internet; he said so
therefore it is true


rumsfeld says "they shot it down" so it must be true.

three statements made public, i guess you just pick
the one you want to be true......

[Seshmeister]

I want the first to be true, permenantly.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
I want the first to be true, permenantly.

Me too. :D

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
I want the first to be true, permenantly.

Hell, I even wanted the third one to be true. It would've restored some sense of security in me in flying.

But it's not. Wish it were, though.

[Seshmeister]

I wish I could spell permanently...

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
This whole thread is TIN FOIL BEANIE TIME.

Now, I've said before, I'm no Rumsfeld apologist. I wished he'd never taken the job. I wished he would've quit and Colin stayed. But.....

When will people learn that it would have been way more advantageous for the Administration to publish the fact that a shoot-down did occur if it did happen?

Also, I worked over sixteen years in the radar/computer /communications/intel field while I was in the service. There is NO WAY IN HELL that the govt could keep a secret of that magnitude.

There would be simply too many radar antennas painting that picture and too many eyes watching those Planned Position Indicators at both civilian and military radar facilities along the eastern edge of the United States.

Most of those sites are data-linked instantly to other sites as well so other people were seeing what was going on.

This is as about as plausible as the shootdown of Flight 800 from a Navy ship. Try to get all those sailors to keep their mouths shut. Uh huh.

OMG! I agree with B3 for the second time today! Rumsfeld is an asshole, there is no secret about that, but I do believe the plane crashed not as a result of a shoot down, but as a result of a counter-hijacking.

Some people in here do not realize how hard it would be to keep this shit secret, people (like me for instance) would talk.

And not everything happens for a reason, read about "Chaos Theory" sometime.

TWA800 however, that's another story!

[Cathedral]

"I always have coffee while watching radar" - Dark Helmet

I want Rummy's job. I guarentee all I's will be dotted and all T's crossed...unless it's a capital I, then it won't need dotting.

[DrMaddVibe]

Appears it really was a slip of the tongue. Nothing more. I went back and researched crash scene photos...it wasn't shot down. There would've been debris all over the place and let's not forget the stream of families that had contact with their loved ones on that flight.

Somebody would've blabbed if it was shot. There's no trail of bodies to follow like Ron Brown.