December 24, 2004

Flight 93 Shot Down? According to Donald Rumsfeld, today on CNN: "And I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten ..."

Did he misspeak? Maybe. ... One month after 9/11, Rumsfeld was quoted on the Department of Defense's own website as saying a missile hit the Pentagon: "Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."

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