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Anything is better than having an intact missile and warhead slam into your ship. At the very least, the Phalanx should be able to chop apart the warhead from the missile body. It helps if you have the system turned on of course, which the Israelis didn't. In any case, you are pretty much...

Uh, no I never said that. The article was about an American carrier steaming towards the Persian Gulf. The question was put forward "Could the Iranians take it out?" Given that no state of hostilities exist between Iran and the United States, this would be a preemptive strike by the...

Anything is possible. But Iran would need to have a deathwish to make it happen. Attacking multi-billion dollar national asset with over 5,000 sailors aboard is tatamount to national suicide. Edit: USS Eisenhower currently has at least 2 Sea Sparrow launchers and 2 RAM launchers...

I so totally missed this thread :frown: Here's a question for all of you 'it was fake' fans: Even the Soviets acknowledged that the United States made the landings. Think they would have kept quiet if they had even the slightest inkling that there was foul play in the moon race...

Greetings Araz, I have read your posts and would like to respond them. Some of what I will post has been posted elsewhere in one form or another. Please do recall that at least some of the terrorists had more than "a few lessons on a Sesna". Here is only one example: Ziad Jarrah of United...

Given the gullibility of people that just love conspiracy theories, I rather doubt that the cam tapes would put it to rest. They'd claim the footage was faked even if it was presented to them right out of the machine mere minutes after that aircraft hit the Pentagon. Hell, JFK's...

Oh wow...my head hurts just from reading all of that legalese...:what: I don't really see anything that points to an inside job though.

Apologies, I got the impression that you believed it. My best advice is to check out this entry at snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.htm You'll find it quite thorough (and better than me wasting PFF bandwidth by posting the entire article here :smile: ) I will post a bit on...

You're welcome :) I had not heard that, do you have a source? I will go on the assumption that that is accurate because real estate developer Larry Silverstein became the new lease-holder on the World Trade Center property on July 24 2001, a mere 7 weeks before the terrorist attacks. My...

Here we go again. At least Cheetah has posted a balanced article though. :cheers: OK, so the WTC was destroyed by a controlled demolition. Sorry, no. If anybody has watched an abandoned building being wired, they know that the following statement is obviously true: Hell, I've only...

Oh good, my favorite subject... I'll leave off refuting that man's nonsense for another time. Instead I'll respond to Asim's belief that it should have been night in Palestine and that the videos of celebrating Palestinians were deliberately designed to " piss off Americans when it was most...

Excellent stuff Jay, thanks.

By "cavemen", I take it that you believe that the al-Qaida terrorists that hijacked those planes just wandered out of Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, into the airport terminals and then took over 4 aircraft without a single bit of training or funding. Is that what you are saying? It sure must be...

Happy to help. Let's take a look at these "scholars"...shall we? Philosophy, 9 members. 7 with no academic discipline English/literature 5 members. Psychology 5 members. Physics 5 members. Theology 4 members. Humanities 3 members. Engineers 2 members (1 of whom focuses her...

The two posters that I was responding to. And me. As I said, that was only a small sampling of the casulties that were Jews. It was posted to refute the nonsense that somehow or another 2500 or 4000 Jews mysteriously missed work that day. Proof? Sources? Reasons for arrest and deportation...

- Webmaster, Feel free to split this discussion off to a new thread as it's hijacking the current thread subject - No discussion of 9/11 is complete without somebody insinuating that the Jews (or the Israelis, the story tends to change a lot) were "in on it" somehow, in some way. Allow me...

Thankfully no. Like TexasJohn I saw it live. I stood up from my desk at work angrily wanting to know who jacked up the volume on all of the TVs (I worked at the call center for a cable company). The first thing I saw was the 2nd plane plowing into the WTC. The ending to Tom Clancy's Debt of...

I have not. I wish I could, but the events of that day are simply too painful for me to relive. Now I'm starting to understand why my grandmother didn't like to talk about World War II.

Because the United States is not prepared to see it's mothers, daughters and sisters in combat. This of course is a rather ridiculous statement when you consider female sailors are allowed on all combatant warships with the exception of submarines. Women have commanded virtually all classes...

That is an excellent question.