It won't. This story will go a hell lot further than both the Oil for Food program and the sex scandal.
*sigh*
When was anything ever settled with crackpots?
I vote for "misspoke." Reading the article, sounds like it. I've done stuff like that.
I think he meant brought down (not shot down) in the sense of not letting it land again. It should not be a big deal to anyone. Folks misspeak all the time.
Sheesh....how old is Rummy? 70? Can't they give him a BREAK!!!????
Art Bell and George Nouri will salivate on this for years
The plane auger-ed in under full thrust.
If it were shot down, it would not be so, and the plane would likely not have been in one piece. It was, and it did. So it could not have been shot down. All audio tapes and phone conversations via cell phone also indicate this.
So, there really should be no fuss.
You can call me a conspiracy nut if you want but I am not sold on the idea that the plane was not shot down. Too many "little" things are still unanswered for.
More fertilizer for the kumquats and orange pumpkins.
Even in his misspeak, he is claiming the terrorists shot down the plane, not us.
If I were going the conspiracy route I would say he knows of other terrorist plane downings like 800 and 587. It was a verbal slip in that sense.
I dunno guys.... i'm not much for conspiracy theories.... but i still think that flight was shot down by our jets due to the debris field being so large and i also think TWA-800 was shot down (by terrorists with shoulder fired rockets.... too many people saw con-trails)
He's just pushing their buttons over at scAIR AMERICA.
Actually, Rummy should say something off the cuff about Roswell and later something about JFK and give all the conspiracy wingnuts something to drool over.
Then I can write a few select blog entries and start a new conspiracy movement to prove Rummy has been taken over by a supreme being to reveal all the secrets of the world before the end times.
Before too long, Rummy will have his own set of counter culture worshippers based on nothing other than the mental lapses of an old man.
The DOD transcript has not been posted yet. The CNN transcriber could have misunderstood, however I got a FR post from a new freeper on the day of Rumsfeld speech who posted that Rumsfeld stated shot down. But when I checked on that freeper yesterday, I found that evidently she/he had signed up just to make that one post.
I do so hope the dems and other assorted idiots focus on this kind of side-show. We should be so lucky...
but I doubt it.
I thought that I read he actually said 'brought down' the plane, but some folks heard it as 'shot down'.
I don't know much about the aircrash in Pennsylvania, but I do know this: lies are deliberate; the truth is sometimes told inadvertently. No one ever "blurts out" a lie, but one may sometimes "blurt out" the truth even though he means to keep the truth hidden. The whole idea of "misspeaking" can only mean that one meant to maintain a lie, but inadvertently spoke the truth. No one misspeaks and tells a lie rather than the truth.
Who really cares.....this is long past...besides why not shoot the flight down if it was intended to hit another place in DC...we were under attack....Geeezzzz...isn't that why we have an Air Force!!! I for one would expect our leaders to step up to the plate when under attack and attack back, immediately.