I’ve been so busy keeping the Christ out of Christmas (just to spite Bill O’Reilly) that I haven’t had much time to post lately, but this caught my attention tonight-

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.

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I think most Americans have come to terms with the idea that if this plane was headed to a major city and a terrorist was at the stick, shooting it down was the right thing to do. The fact that we weren’t able to shoot it down just helps illustrate how truly inept our government’s response to the attack was.

So, Rummy’s comment is either the truth slipping out or wishful thinking.

The bigger question is why we don’t see clarifications and corrections issued by the White House or the Pentagon when they falsely claim Iraq attacked us.