02-02-2016, 12:45 AM
Matt:
That is not the only argument Mike made in his book of course. I mean the thing is 600 pages long. He begins the book with the very astute acknowledgement that there were about 3-5 war games going on that day. And that only two people knew about all of them, Cheney and Rumsfeld. And that this was a very good reason for the late response by air.
To my knowledge, Mike never backtracked on his book at all. In fact, he actually told me once that he thought Cheney was behind the whole thing. (Although I do agree he was wrong about Peak Oil.)
Mr. Locke, when you have been involved in these wars as long as I have, you will understand that the other side will always come up with arguments against even the most simple and visual indications of skull dugggery. This is why Mike did not like to argue in that direction. See, the HSCA did just that, they justified the SBT with a trajectory analysis guy from NASA.
So it took us decades to come up with something better than that, the fact that CE 399 was substituted, and we can prove that today. (See Reclaiming Parkland, pgs. 224-26)
I mean you have seen the whole thing about steel being severely weakened at 1700 degrees right? And the magazine reply to Loose Change? Mike actually predicted the latter based on the JFK case.
That is not the only argument Mike made in his book of course. I mean the thing is 600 pages long. He begins the book with the very astute acknowledgement that there were about 3-5 war games going on that day. And that only two people knew about all of them, Cheney and Rumsfeld. And that this was a very good reason for the late response by air.
To my knowledge, Mike never backtracked on his book at all. In fact, he actually told me once that he thought Cheney was behind the whole thing. (Although I do agree he was wrong about Peak Oil.)
Mr. Locke, when you have been involved in these wars as long as I have, you will understand that the other side will always come up with arguments against even the most simple and visual indications of skull dugggery. This is why Mike did not like to argue in that direction. See, the HSCA did just that, they justified the SBT with a trajectory analysis guy from NASA.
So it took us decades to come up with something better than that, the fact that CE 399 was substituted, and we can prove that today. (See Reclaiming Parkland, pgs. 224-26)
I mean you have seen the whole thing about steel being severely weakened at 1700 degrees right? And the magazine reply to Loose Change? Mike actually predicted the latter based on the JFK case.