9/11 and Star Wars:
Billions on Missile Defense
Can't Stop Four Airliners on 9/11
Dear friends,
Remember
Star Wars? Do you remember that highly touted missile defense
system that raised so much controversy during the Reagan and first Bush
years? 130
billion of our tax dollars have been poured into
developing this system. It is designed to detect and
intercept missiles fired from an unknown destination traveling at
well over 10 times the speed of a commercial airliner, and to shoot them
down before they reach their US targets. According the Congressional Budget Office website, ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles) travel at speeds up to 6 to 7 kilometers per
second (approx. 14,000 miles per hour). The report states that missile
intercept systems must take down an ICBM in a matter of
minutes or it is all over.
You
may remember that before 9/11, there were a number of tests of the Star Wars
systems. Some tests failed, while others succeeded. But there
is an important question here. If these sophisticated military
systems were designed to detect missiles fired from unknown locations at
well over 10 times the speed of a passenger jet and take them down
in mere minutes, why on Sept. 11, 2001 could they not detect any one of
the four large airliners traveling at a mere 600 mph? This question
applies especially to Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.
The
New York Times reports that the first plane hijacking on
9/11 was discovered at about 8:20 AM [NY Times, 9/15/01],
well over an hour before a Flight 77 crashed into
the Pentagon at 9:38. The Times reports that Flight 77 was
reported lost at 8:56 A.M, 42 minutes before it crashed. Even if
the FAA radar systems completely failed and FAA officials failed to alert the
military, all military leaders certainly knew within minutes that
the World Trade Center had been hit at 8:46. By 9:03, when the
second tower was hit, they certainly knew there were big problems. How
is it possible that our military's highly touted missile
detections systems could not locate Flight 77 in the 42 minutes
it was known to be lost before it crashed into the heart of the defense
system of the U.S.?
Here's
another related question. Why have we heard so little
about the missile defense system since 9/11? The current US
administration with its high priority on defense is clearly interested
in missile defense. As is made clear in the Congressional Budget Office
report, the program has continued to receive funding and attention from the
military. So why was this billion-dollar system such a hot topic in
the media before 9/11, yet we've heard almost nothing about it since? Could
it be that the power elite didn't want us to think about the questions being
raised here?
An
even bigger question is why isn't our media asking these questions? Why
isn't our military spending many millions of dollars to find out why
military defense systems failed on 9/11? Why is it that the
9/11 commission budget was far less than the budget allotted to the
Challenger Disaster or even the Monica Lewinsky affair? Why aren't we, the public,
asking these questions and demanding answers? Instead of living in fear of
another terrorist attack, let us take action now and demand answers to
these vital questions.
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