A couple of questions...

[Dirty Hippie]

1) How "normal" is it for the VP of the US to be personally in charge of war games? Don't military commanders do that sort of thing?


2) How "normal" is it for there to be so many war games (5 or 6 I think) going on at one time? Is the SOP?

[DrDebug]

1. Please define normal when we are talking about the Bush administration

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to have 7-9 * war games the day they are under attack

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to forget to scramble jets when the nation is under attack

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to read The Pet Goat while two towers are turning into a burning inferno.

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to have a VP personally conduct the false terror attack

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to start an illegal war under false pretences

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to cheat on an election.

Yes, it is normal for the Bush administration to blow up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and then blame Osama bin Laden.

Please define normal

* There were 7-9 war games. Some may be duplicates, so the minimum number is 7 and the maximum known number is 9

1. the NRO plane-into-building drill by the CIA,
2-5. the four NORAD wargames under the titles Northern Vigilance, Northern Guardian, Vigilant Guardian, and Vigilant Warrior (recently admitted by Myers under questioning from McKinney)
6. the preparation for Tripod II in NYC,
7. Timely Alert II at Ft. Monmouth,
(8) the Justice Dept. wargame mentioned recently by Myers in his testimony to McKinney (this may be a mistake on his part)
(9) and yet another assuming the Ft. Monmouth guys were at the Pentagon for some form of exercise

A girl got a pet goat.
She liked to go running with her pet goat.
She played with her goat in her house.
She played with her goat in her yard.
But the goat did some things that made the girl's dad mad.
The goat ate things.
He ate cans and he ate canes.
He ate pans and he ate panes.
He even ate capes and caps.

[RedSock]

3. 12 or 15 war games?

I thought the maximum was 12 or 15 (which probably included some duplicates), though not all involved the Pentagon.

... Now which book did I read that in? (arrgg) Ruppert's?

[mirandapriestly]

2. How normal is it

to not have a press who asks any of these questions?