Impeach Bush & Cheney!
"Google" your Voter Registration
Register to Vote
Visit the Democratic Party
Rumsfeld admits MISSILE hit the Pentagon
In an interview Oct. 12, 2001 with Lyric Wallwork Winik from Parade Magazine, Donald Rumsfeld let it "slip" that a missle hit the Pentaon. The Department of Defense OFFICIAL website still has it up for reference (that is hard to believe).
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 [find a lot] 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.
Very interesting! An American Airlines flight - I thought it was 2 American flights and United flights that were "hijacked" on 9/11. And we all know that back in December while visiting the troops, Rummy admitted to Flight 93 being shot down.
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.
Here is something else:
www.defenselink.mil
The secretary was in his office, really not that far away from the side of the building that got hit by the plane. He and another person immediately ran down the hallway and went outside and helped some of the people, some of the casualties getting off the stretchers, etc. When he came back in the building about half an hour later, he was the first one that told us he was quite sure it was a plane. Based on the wreckage and based on the thousands and thousands of pieces of metal. He was the one that told us, the staff that was in the room. So he was really the first one who told us that it was most likely a plane.
Rumsfeld's office was on the OPPOSITE side of the building as the "crash." Rumsfeld went to "help" survivors for about 1/2 hour and when he returned Rummy was "quite sure it was a plane" thanks for that eye-witness report Rummy. But WHY did Rummy not know about danger to Washington?
The American military air defence command was told by the federal aviation administration that a hijacked commercial airliner was heading towards Washington 12 minutes before it hit. But during that crucial time the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and his top aides remained unaware of any imminent danger.
....snip
But while officials knew of the attacks in New York, few imagined that the Pentagon itself could be a target. Following the second attack, John Jester, chief of the defence protective service, which guards the Pentagon, raised the building's state of alert just one level, from normal to alpha, which demanded no more than spot-inspections of vehicles and increased police patrols.
Are they REALLY that dumb or do they expect the American public to buy this? The government is covering up the events of 9/11, that is a fact not a conspiracy theory!
- Login or register to post comments
Printer-friendly version- Send to friend
Join us & contribute
Proud members of the Democratic Party
Copyright 2006 Democrats.com. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy
dumb as a box of hammers
It's a very sad fact but most americans are just plain stupid. I would like to believe ignorant but no, morons is a word which describes them best. To deny the truth out of faith as in religion has now infected our society. It is the main reason the Bush cabal panders to the religous right. Many democrat's also deny the truth of 911 and jump on that Osama been eluden us bandwagon like a dog chasing his tale.
War on Bureaucracy
In a speech September 10, 2001, Rumsfeld made a remarkable statement – the Pentagon can’t account for $2.3 trillion dollars of taxpayers money. One day before the worst on U.S. soil the DoD is telling us that it lost our money. I love that Neo-Con trick of diverting the medias attention away from some important facts and 9/11 gave them good reason to divert from this story.
Lifted from http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2001/s20010910-secdef.html
Rumsfeld was right, he wanted private business to get contracts for basic needs and services so that the military could fight. I’m sure Cheney “twisted” his arm for those contracts too. Rummy says “there's a myth, sort of a legend, that money enters this building and disappears, like a bright light into a black hole, never to be seen again” and then says the Pentagon should be willing to “take risks” with our money. Well, isn’t that how the $2.3 trillion dollars disappeared? He wanted to streamline the money – that was a success, most goes to straight to the VP’s company. And just think about how much money was missing before 9/11, how much money is missing in Iraq and how much is missing from the taxpayer because we have INCREASED their budget. Rummy was right, this is a matter of life or death – so why does Bush continuously say that taxes need to be cut? Oh, I forgot the true purpose of the neo-cons policy – reverse Robin Hood.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Has there ever been any list
Has there ever been any list of who the individuals were who died on the flight that allegedly crashed into the pentagon?
passenger lists
Here is the SUPPOSED list of flight 77. BEWARE, misleading. It says that 64 passengers were on the plane but only 56 people are listed on the manifest and of course NONE of the hijackers. Also, if you look at the other passenger list (link at top of CNN page) and count the ACTUAL passengers and then look at the number government lists as people on plane you are missing about 35 people - not 19 hijackers. Who are the other "missing" passengers?
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Link...?
Link...?
sorry - here is the link
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA77.victims.html
Now, do you think they let George W. Bush do the counting and that is why it is screwed up? Or was it Arthur Anderson?
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000