Rumsfeld said: 'shot down the plane'

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Monday December 27, 2004 13:58 by redjade

oops - perhaps that 'Lets Roll' thing was just fiction? Say it aint so!

''...or the people who attacked the United States in New York, **shot down the plane** over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon...''

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.

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