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L.A. contrail a missile launch? Retired general thinks so (op-ed)
Daily Inter Lake.com ^ | Sunday, November 21, 2010 2:00 am | Updated: 8:13 am, Sun Nov 21, 2010. | Jim Cash, retired brigadier general, U.S. Air Force

Posted on 11/21/2010 11:31:21 PM PST by TigersEye

Sliding silently under the mud, muck and fog of national politics, is a current event that makes Bill Clinton’s excursion into the world of elderly sex look tame in comparison. This time the nation’s national security is truly threatened in my opinion, and it involves not only a weak president with limited problem-solving ability, but leadership at the highest levels in the Pentagon as well. The American people would do well to demand a full investigation by an unbiased group, and let the chips fall where they may.

I am referring to the “missile shot” taken off the California coast recently, and the lame response by NORAD, the Pentagon and the White House itself.

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In my opinion, there is absolutely no doubt that what was captured on video off the coast of California was a missile launch, was clearly observed by NORAD, assessed by a four-star general within minutes, and passed to the president immediately. That is the way the system works, and heads fall if there is a failure. This is one of the most important tenets of national defense and its sole purpose of protecting the American people. Even the smallest failure in this system gets intense scrutiny at the highest level.

Now, the question that still must be answered is why NORAD’s muted response was simply that North America was not threatened, and later our government approved the lame excuse that the picture recorded was simply an aircraft leaving a contrail. This decision was made far above the four-star level, and because the system in place demands it, was made by the president himself.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: californiamissile; chat; contrail; jetcontrail; missile; missilemystery; mysterymissile; tinfoilbrigade; ups902
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To: piytar

I’m not the one yelling “Missile!” when I haven’t clue what I am talking about, you are.


381 posted on 11/27/2010 3:47:37 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Finny

Um, thanks. I think.

Did overstate - as I’ve admitted several times - in my first post. Got sat down for it. But I maintain this *might* have been a missile shot, prob a low tech spin-stabilized scud type if it was. Apparently that makes me a conspiracy theory nutjob. Oh well. I also support Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and Lt. Col. West, so I’m used to the charge. LOL.

PS And thanks for cc’ing me on the comment.


382 posted on 11/27/2010 3:49:04 PM PST by piytar (0's idea of power: the capacity to inflict unlimited pain and suffering on another human being. 1984)
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To: piytar

You and your General still haven’t backed up your bullsh*t story about “spin stabilized missiles” by naming an SLBM that does that nor have you stated a single missile that can hang out for ten minutes like that airplane did making that contrail. Go ahead, smarty, we’ll wait.


383 posted on 11/27/2010 3:50:49 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CodeToad

Ya read much? I don’t buy the SLBM idea. Made that clear. Look at the FROG-7A or the like, fired from a cargo container.


384 posted on 11/27/2010 4:01:22 PM PST by piytar (0's idea of power: the capacity to inflict unlimited pain and suffering on another human being. 1984)
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To: DontTreadOnMe2009
"Former Assistant Director at NORAD, General Jim Cash says “there is absolutely no doubt that what was captured on video off the coast of California was a missile launch !!!”!”

LOL, and hasn't been heard from since. Below is the last known photo of him taken after he made his comments...


385 posted on 11/27/2010 6:19:18 PM PST by Rokke (www.therightreasons.net)
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To: piytar
"Ya read much? I don’t buy the SLBM idea. Made that clear. Look at the FROG-7A or the like, fired from a cargo container."

The entire time of flight of a Frog or the like missile is less than 5 minutes from launch to impact and they fly a ballistic arc.

386 posted on 11/27/2010 6:21:48 PM PST by Rokke (www.therightreasons.net)
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To: TigersEye; aruanan
Most folks who write technical and scientific reports and present papers at professional conferences (and I have done so many times) -- when they are describing something precisely -- speak and write like that. And, none that I know live under bridges.

Instead of trying to understand what I said, you compare me to a homeless guy. Is that the best you can do? Remember that term, "mental laziness"? Feel a fit coming on?

No wonder the first word to describe your rants popped up from my Texian Lexicon -- it still fits. And you still need to go back and see who started that discussion -- before I do it publicly for you...

387 posted on 11/27/2010 7:15:13 PM PST by TXnMA (seeB S lies...)
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To: TXnMA

His problem wasn’t the homelessness he was a schizophrenic.


388 posted on 11/27/2010 7:46:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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