The Pentagon is dismissing a comment by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld regarding Flight 93 having been "shot down" over Pennsylvania, saying it was nothing more than a speaking error. As WorldNetDaily exclusively reported yesterday, Rumsfeld, during his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, referred to the flight being shot down – long a suspicion because of the danger the Sept. 11 flight posed to Washington landmarks and population centers. His complete quote was: "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." CNN contacted the Pentagon for reaction to the WND story, and the cable network was told Rumsfeld simply misspoke. "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," CNN reports.

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One might refer to this type of behavior as BACK PEDDLING

Or eye-rolling, as in "For crying out loud! You can't even go to the bathroom without these people thinking it's a conspiracy!"

One little slip of the tougue and he's going to pay for years.