Rat:
>this clip is all over the place... are you serious that
>you still have not seen it?
See, that's what I thought...
You claim that he "admits" to having the building demo'd, and I wanted to know if you ACTUALLY had a clip of him admitting this.
You don't!
What you have is a clip ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8pheNcjVZc&mode=related&search=
Which states (verbatim):
"I remember getting a call from the uh Fire Department Commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire. I said "you know we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is -- is pull it. Uh, and they made that decision to pull, and then we watched the building collapse."
(he later clarified that his use of the word "pull" was not in the context of "demo", but rather "pull the firemen from the building").
Rat:
>debunkers argue that he meant pull the firemen... only
>problem with that is they "pulled" the firemen at 11 am
>that morning... 6 hours before they pulled the bldg.
Let's assume for a moment that it's true that there were no firemen in the building at the time of the those words...(there are statements from FDNY firemen themselves that say they were in the building as late as 3pm, well after the statement by Larry)
Still, assuming the above, what you don't know is whether or not Larry KNEW this to be the case. In all the chaos, he could have assumed there were men with their lives on the line fighting this fire and decided just to throw in the towel and let his building be sacrificed.
See, both can be true -- there can be no firemen in the building AND Larry could have generously been saying something to the effect of "It's been a bad day -- let's not risk losing anymore lives just to save another structure".
In the context of the clip, with his "terrible loss of life" comment, it certainly sounds like to me like a concession rather than a pre-emptive command.
JB