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Title: The Whir Before the War
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Published: Jul 24, 2007
Author: John Kelly
Post Date: 2007-07-24 20:30:11 by tom007
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The Whir Before the War By John Kelly Tuesday, July 24, 2007; B03 The recent Answer Man columns about helicopters in the Washington area prompted a phone call from Ray Lustig, a retired Washington Post photographer who lives in the Palisades section of Northwest Washington. Ray has lived in that neighborhood for 39 years. He's had a lot of time to make some detailed observations of its various rhythms. One thing he's noticed is that every major U.S. military action was preceded by increased helicopter traffic over his house, as choppers shuttled people back and forth between the Pentagon and CIA headquarters, which is across the Potomac River from where he lives. Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom -- Ray said they all came after weeks and weeks of helicopters big and small traveling the well-worn air route above his house. I had a hunch where this was going. Uh, Ray, have you noticed anything, say, recently? "The movement in June was truly extraordinary," he said, a near-constant chatter from 6:30 in the morning till 2 in the morning. "I figure they're either planning the endgame of the Iraq war or they're going to bomb the nuclear facilities in Iran." Couldn't those choppers just be full of Pentagon brass taking advantage of the all-you-can-eat salad bar over at Langley?
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
I don't think that those freaks eat all that many salads...
My take as well.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
Big joke in NoVa was during Desert Storm, IIRC, there was a massive call to Dominos for pizza delivery to the Pentagon. Dominos drivers, etc., exclaimed that something was up because of the volume of orders. The story was played up in the press. Later, there came a day when deliveries dropped to zero. Again, Dominos drivers, etc., were commenting that something was up, because deliveries were at the other extreme. Lo and behold, something was happening that night.
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#2. To: lodwick (#1)
#3. To: lodwick (#1)
#4. To: DeaconBenjamin (#3)
there was a massive call to Dominos for pizza delivery to the Pentagon.
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