Rumsfeld makes another "freudian slip" re: 9/11

[RPankn]

Toward the end of a segment today on NPR:

"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..."

www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4244364


In addition to this "slip" over three years ago:

Q: This is a question that's been asked by many Americans, but especially by the widows of September 11th. How were we so asleep at the switch? How did a war targeting civilians arrive on our homeland with seemingly no warning?

Rumsfeld: There were lots of warnings. The intelligence information that we get, it sometimes runs into the hundreds of alerts or pieces of intelligence a week. One looks at the worldwide, it's thousands. And the task is to sort through it and see what you can find. And as you find things, the law enforcement officials who have the responsibility to deal with that type of thing -- the FBI at the federal level, and although it is not, it's an investigative service as opposed to a police force, it's not a federal police force, as you know. But the state and local law enforcement officials have the responsibility for dealing with those kinds of issues.

They and any number of terrorist efforts have been dissuaded, deterred or stopped by good intelligence gathering and good preventive work. It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. 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.

www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html#nosmileys

[RPankn]

Here it is again in a CNN transcript:

"DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: And to change that way of living, would strike at the very essence of our country.

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 -- indeed the word "terrorized" is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be."

edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/24/nfcnn.01.html

Save it before the Ministry of Truth throws it down the memory hole.

[Moses]

 <br>Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash

Defense secretary's remark to troops fuels conspiracy theories

From Jamie McIntyre
CNN Washington



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers.

But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania."

A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been shot down.

"Was it a slip of the tongue? Was it an error? Or was it the truth, finally being dropped on the public more than three years after the tragedy" asked a posting on the Web site WorldNetDaily.com.

Some people remain skeptical of U.S. government statements that, despite a presidential authorization, no planes were shot down September 11, and rumors still circulate that a U.S. military plane shot the airliner down over Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

A Pentagon spokesman insists Rumsfeld has not changed his opinion that the plane crashed as the result of an onboard struggle between passengers and terrorists.

The independent panel charged with investigating the terrorist attacks concluded that the hijackers intentionally crashed Flight 93, apparently because they feared the passengers would overwhelm them.

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 <br>Find this article at:
www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/rumsfeld.flt93
 

[karpomrx]

911 is now part of the Saga of Bush.
It is the rock upon which his divine guidance rests.
Until the facts of this murderous event are known, it will remain the binding agent justifying all manner of criminal behavior.
None dare question the "facts" which have become part of the folklore of a new American Way.
It is too painful to admit that we are being duped, it is too easy to kill and maim others in a misguided spirit of vengance.

[Moses]

I question the Israeli-derived sense of victimization woven into our national psyche, esp. after the far more massive tragedy in SE and Central Asia-- a tragedy on-going, and growing, and apparently beyond our ability to address.