The police screen says he is ten years old. He was born in 1985. So Terminator 2 takes place in 1995. So the three year thing makes no sense. I agree with you on time travel but I believe it was Terminator 2 not Terminator 3 that fucks with the first movies time travel theroys. He filmed a scene where Judgement Day was stoped. Its really awful and if it was left in Terminator 2 would have sucked. Also the first movie showed time loops like John Connors concievement, the chip in the lab, and Sarahs picture. There are no such Time loops in Terminator 2. Yet there are a couple in Terminator 3. Sarahs grave. The Terminator knows about it. Where did he get this explaination. Skynet knew nothing of Connors mother so wouldn't know that. John also didn't know where she was buried. The only explaination was the Kate programed this information based on her previous experiance with the Terminator. It also shows that the T-X started the war by using her machine programing power to program Skynet for evil. How Judgement Day begins fits Kyles explaination perfectly. In fact one line "It decided our fate in a microsecond" fits Terminator 3 better then Terminator 2. Thats a bit thought provocing. Really in Terminator 3 it shows that John nieve child self believed in No Fate. His mature adult self tells him that the war is inevidible. Humanity will fall and the machines will rise.