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nationalize the fed

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5. picking nits and missing the big picture
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 04:12 AM
Nov 2014
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, as Flight 77 was 5 miles (8.0 km) west-southwest of the Pentagon, it made a 330-degree turn. At the end of the turn, it was descending through 2,200 feet (670 m), pointed toward the Pentagon and downtown Washington.

Hani Hanjour advanced the throttles to maximum power and dived toward the Pentagon... Flight 77, flying at 530 mph (853 km/h, 237 m/s, or 460 knots) over the Navy Annex Building adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, crashed into the western side of the Pentagon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77


If it was 400 MPH it wouldn't change the point you missed. But Hanjour demonstrated amazing abilities, didn't he. A descending turn at 2,3,4 or 450 MPH and hitting the ground floor of the Pentagon. Pretty good for someone who couldn't rent a Cessna.

maybe discuss your theory that the base of the wall was the specifically intended target.

You're assuming again, Billy. I don't have a theory. I stated that Hanjour hit the ground floor. Nothing more, nothing less. And he did come out of a 330 degree downward descent and hit The Ground Floor. Pretty amazing. You couldn't do it.

If Marshall has some point that you think is particularly compelling, you should be able to state it

See the excerpt from Marshall's blog. It's right there in the post.

I'm getting pretty bored and tired with intellectually lazy "truthers" who think dumping YouTube videos is good enough.

I'm crushed. Woe is me.

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