In either a gargantuan slip of the tongue or a momentous gaffe departing from the Bush Administration-approved timeline, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told troops in Iraq that the Sept. 11 flight over Pennsylvania was “shot down,” RAW STORY has discovered. The quote was found in CNN’s transcript of a video of the Secretary’s visit to Camp Victory in Baghdad. Rumsfeld appears to suggest that terrorists shot down Flight 93, the flight immortalized with the possibly inaccurate “let’s roll” tale in which passengers struggled to retake the plane, driving it into the ground.Others, however, who have long taken issue with the events as reported, believe the United States shot down the airliner. No doubt Rumsfeld’s remarks will fuel a new controversy among those who find serious flaws in the historical timeline.

Donald Rumsfeld: 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.And that is exactly what we cannot allow to happen.

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I don't think there is anything to this. It wasn't a Fruedian slip. It was just a 'pho-paw'.

It's like the way some people say the WTC was bombed when they talk about the attack. The word just comes naturally to mind.

Of course, some people here do purport that it was literally bombed, but I'm not talking about that.

I always thought that flight was shot down. It's just more easier to make the passengers heroes

Oh come on. The guy with the Q-CARD made a mistake. Happens to Jay Leno all the time.

DENY DENY DENY....and for confirmation please click here: DENIAL and while reading that be sure and click on the word defense mechanism

ah, OK. The article said denial is not used as much by older people. I'll be 51 in April. Is that old enough? If not I'll grow faster , I promise.
As for the subject, Mr. Rumsfeld has a lot of info dumped on him daily. He miss-spoke, happens to me all the time. I'am glad every thing I say is not recorded and analysed as his or other politicians are. My WIFE would kill me!