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Originally Posted by Muta
What a smarmy response. Did you even bother to ask of the details of the video National Geographic showed?
It was night vision footage showing elite commandos storming the compound after disembarking from a Black Hawk helicopter. Tactics were clearly shown, especially for an elite military squad which is rare. Not even sure why this type of footage should be released.
Ask more questions before spewing off. If you can't see the conflict of interest here, then I'm afraid you're one of those people that will believe everything they see and hear, no questions asked.
You should really try to question things more, get more perspective. More evidence of Flight 77 will never, ever be a bad thing.
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I ask questions. For example, I do realize that there is a 95% chance there is more footage available of the plane. However, I also asked myself what further information, on top of what I already have, would any additional footage give me?
Lets see what the possibilities are, shall we?
1) It would confirm that it was a plane and not a missile, it also might confirm that it was Flight 77
2) It would confirm many other minor details, that really are not in dispute, such as time of impact, place of impact and the physical effects of the impact.
So using my logic, I can obviously discard the 3rd result as pointless. We pretty much know all this stuff without question. So lets focus on the other one.
1) If it was in fact a missile, then where did the plane and its passengers go?
Options involve:
- The plane and it's passengers didn't actually exist, so they never had to get rid of anything. I think with the number of civilians on the plane, the fact that the plane did previously fly commercial flights we can safely assume that this isn't really possible.
- The government taking it somewhere else, and somehow getting rid of the people on board and any existence of them and the plane. This is technically a possibility so we won't discard it yet.
You then need to consider what anyone would have to gain from doing this - ie shooting a missile at the Pentagon while executing people on the plane to cover it up. You might claim that it would be to further increase the American public's opinion towards one that would support invading the Middle East and/or enacting laws to suppress freedoms (ie Patriot Act). Unfortunately it really doesn't do that any more than the previous events of the day did - the Pentagon and United Flight 73 are a mere afterthought when compared to the destruction at the WTC.
So while I have asked questions, I have also put together some answers for myself, something that many people in this thread seem unwilling to do.
I have no doubt that many of the United States Military/Government/Intelligence personnel should have done a better job in anticipating and preventing the 9/11 attacks. I also have no doubt that there exists testimony from some individuals that is skewed to make themselves look less foolish in light of the events of the day. That's how people are sometimes, and we can't change that selfish behavior in 100% of the population. I also have no doubt that when considering the big picture, any of these minor 'cover ups' have little or no effect on the thing I care about most - which is that 2 planes were hijacked and flown into the WTC by terroists and 2 other planes were flown into the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.