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Originally Posted by Rochard
None of this had any impact on anything. Zero. Just because a department of a branch of the military has a drill, it doesn't mean anything was shut down or response time affected.
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I think the fact that most of the jet fighters who were supposed to be on stand by to protect US airspace were gone on exercises is significant and had an impact on military response.
I think the re-organization of the chain of command by Dick Cheney in June three months earlier had an effect on military response on that day.
How in any reasonable sense can you say that the lack of military response that day had zero impact on anything that happened that day?
The fighters weren't there even 24 minutes later when it was all confirmed, the commanders weren't there, their delegates weren't there to act on their behalf...
How can you say
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Just because a department of a branch of the military has a drill, it doesn't mean anything was shut down or response time affected.
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when it was all departments of all branches who were disaffected that day by various reasons such as exercises, absence of military hierarchy, conferences, meetings, answering machines... how?
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