Will the 9/11 Commission deal with the war games?

[Aries]

On Monday National Public Radio was promoting its coverage of the release of the 9/11 Commission report with a statement that there were war games going on that day. They then played a recorded conversation between a NORAD employee and the FAA air traffic controller who reported the first hijacking, in which the NORAD guy asked "Is this a simulation or is this real?".

Obviously if one was planning an attack such as occurred on 9/11/2001, it would be of benefit to know that war games were being conducted, in order to make a delayed or confused response more likely.

What are the odds of the hijackers picking the day of the war games as the day of their attack, by chance alone?

Will the Commission answer this question, or even acknowledge it?

According to this Elephants in the Barracks - The Complete Failure of the 9-11 Commission
the Commission has avoided this subject. If they don't deal with it, I have to conclude the whole process has been a sham.


#1 – On the morning of September 11, 2001, NORAD was running war games involving hijacked airliners while the National Reconnaissance Offices (NRO) was running a drill for the scenario of an errant aircraft crashing into a government building at the exact same time as an identical scenario was perpetrated. The Air Force was in day two of annual drills testing all of its systems to respond to various threats.

[Chelsea Patriot]

1. They Don't Dare Go Near This!

First, it debunks Rice's assertion, "That no one knew anything about hijacked planes being used as missiles to crash into buildings."

Secondly, The War Game Alibi only works, if all the planes had taken off at their scheduled times. As it happened, one, if not two, of the flights were delayed.

Cheney was suppose to be the one conducting this drill

During this time lag, ample opportunity existed for Dick Cheney to answer the question, "Is this a simulation or is this real?"
If not for the first flight, then definitely for the other three. One has to wonder what Lynn's, not really unexpected, role in the Bunker was, hanging up phones, keeping questions away from her husband.

Thanks to DU, I've known about this "War Game" fiasco for several years. On 9/11/03, I personally did a little re-enactment. Following Paul Thompson's time line, at pertinent points during the attack I would simply and easily pick up the phone and say, "This is not a test! This is real!"
Guess what!! Plenty of opportunity existed to correct any confusion and save the lives of thousands of Americans. Try it sometime, if you can do it through the tears.

These take-off delays and their attendant 40 minute gap are what brings this little charade to halt.

Bush, Meyers, Rumsfield had to fill this 40 minute gap by brazenly going about what had been their scheduled activities for that day...Meyers with Sen. Cleland, Rumsfield playing with himself in a Pentagon backroom, The Anti-Christ having The Goat Chant performed for him.

It's all so overwhelmingly obvious!!!

The most hilarious aspect is that--They think we don't know all this!