Astounding Cold-Heartedness. Perhaps the most astonishing revelation of the 9/11 Commission hearings to date is the fact that an Air Force general would have, and the Vice President — mind you, the VICE President, not the ostensible President — did in fact issue orders to shoot down CIVILIAN airliners, filled with HUNDREDS of innocent Americans! And the media have not reacted with so much as a second's worth of horror or indignation!
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Since when is the military authorized to kill hundreds and hundreds of Americans?
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The authorities had no idea what the planes were hijacked for until the first actually crashed into the World Trade Center. They had no idea who the hijackers were, nor what cause they were trying to advance thru what might simply have been a grandiose publicity stunt for some extremist cause. Maybe they were Castroists headed for Cuba, where they would have landed safely, killing no one, destroying nothing. Maybe they were anti-Zionists who intended to show that they had greater humanity than the Israelis for having complete control over the life or death of hundreds of Americans, but landed safely to show how much better the Arabs are than the Israelis and the U.S. Government that backs every atrocity committed by Zionists. Maybe they were simple criminals intent on an astronomical ransom for the return of the plane and its passengers. We didn't know.
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But the Air Force was ready to shoot down these civilian airliners and kill everyone aboard! I'm astonished, and appalled.
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I'll tell you this much: if I were on a hijacked plane, I would want my Government to try everything in its power to get me and the other passengers down safely.
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I would want interceptors to deploy not to shoot us down but to force the pilot to land, safely. If the pilot chose to crash into the interceptors that blocked his path to a target rather than land safely and surrender, that would be his choice, not the Air Force's.
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Why would OUR Air Force choose as its first instinct to kill hundreds and hundreds of Americans rather than even try to force the plane down safely? And why would our sitting Vice President gladly order the mass murder of hundreds of Americans?
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Think about this when you go to the polls in November -- and don't stay home, because you need to get rid of people in Government whose first thought is to kill you rather than try to save you.
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You also need to ask yourself why it is that the VICE President issued this order rather than the (ostensible) President. Bush was awake and active in Sarasota, Florida, not asleep in Moscow, Beijing, or India. But no matter where he was, he was accompanied by the famous attache case filled with communications equipment. If Bush were the real President, he would have been the one to issue the order to shoot down those planes. He didn't. "Vice" President Cheney did.
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This shows once again that George Bush is NOT the real President of the United States, but only a front man, a poster boy, a puppet; the public face of a faceless conspiracy that is the real President. And it shows the black heart at the center of the real, Republican Presidency. Cheney wanted the Air Force to shoot down civilian airliners and kill hundreds and hundreds of Americans. Remember that the next time you board an airplane. And if you think our Government's duty is to try to save Americans, not kill them, vote against the Republican Party in November. Don't waste your vote on a protest. Vote Kerry. Vote a straight Democratic line. Democrats care about American lives. Republicans have just proved they don't.
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 12:45 PM