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RE: "Do you have any doubts that assets were available and ready to go?"

I am not privy to anything more then the general public has at it's disposal.
I just don't know. I want to believe what we hear mostly coming out of sites such as Fox, and many military blog sites as being accurate.
I would hold true to my long dissertation on my personal Microsoft Flights in a F18E Super Bug Hornet I voiced. They are honest and pretty accurate description of what a real flight time frame would entail from KSY airbase in Sicily to Benghazi, for most of any NATO aircraft with like air to ground weapons loaded.
Let us face it. We are somewhat at the mercy of the reporting by so many in various arenas. But surely what say we heard from the two Colonels, on at Rush, the other from the Kedlow show days back, are for the most part on the level.
So much has been brought out that a blurp here and there can fall through the cracks. But the whole main issue does not go away. The POTUS screwed the pooch.
You and I know. Contingency plans should long before have been put in place.
I'll fall back on the fact the Aircraft Carrier group G.H. Bush where pulled out of the Med a few months earlier for their home base Norfolk, thereby leaving this area without the real air power that would have been minutes away. Leaving only two Navy Destroyers in the Med as far as I can see.
If it turns out what we read at BLACK FIVE is correct. Then the Sicily Airbase is taken out of the equation. Likewise. What was available at airbases in Italy proper. Little has been said.
Perhaps we shall continue to get clearer pictures of what air assets as well as ground assets could have been positioned in the area had our government been a bit wiser.
And I say that with the knowledge as has been brought out through the press that a small unit of SECOPS where flown into Tripoli prior to 9/11.