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One terrible pilot

3:08pm JST Tuesday 19 April 2005

A couple months ago I saw some pictures of the Pentagon and decided there's no way a 757 could have crashed into it. Some people have theories on how it happened with wings folding back and oblique angles of attack and rotation to fit a plane that big into a hole that small, but... I don't buy it for a moment.

BUT, regardless of one's theories about that, the book 9/11 The Big Lie by Thierry Meyssan brought to my attention something else.

I began to write my own version, but this page sums it up.

My version for posteriority's sake:

1. Airplanes crashing into the World Trade centers caught the media by surprise, right? No one saw the first plane on live TV because live TV was in the middle of morning shows and the like.

   Later, it turned out that there happened to be some guys doing a documentary on the New York Fire Department and they did film the first crash, but it sure wasn't broadcast live on TV.

2. In this White House press release search for "the terrorist attack?"

   George W. Bush answered, in part:

   I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack."

   My question: how did George see the first plane crash before the second one happened?

Now, it's arguable that he meant, "I saw a plane had hit the tower," and simply attribute it to a grammar flub, something W is good at.

Room

4:46pm JST Tuesday 19 April 2005

Today Hitomi has done a lot of work cleaning my room. That's one thing I've definitely enjoyed while we have been together.