Re: Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>If you had actually read what I wrote- and you just quoted- they did
>indeed know it was going to be all over around the time a Silkworm or
>two went down their funnel.

And I quote from you: "But of course you never tell the crew "Oh, BTW,
if we ever do take a direct cruise missile hit, it's all over- pronto"

When in fact the crew *is* told that, openly and repeatedly. Which is
how they knew - it wasn't stealth knowledge as you implied.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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