Somehow I missed this morsel last weekend.
Rumsfeld speaking to the troops (emphasis added):
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.
This would make for a pretty good tin foil hat moment, but it’s unlikely terrorists would shot down a plane they had already hijacked. I think Rummy is just losing it.
Wow. True, false, or in between (someone else shot it down?), he’s losing it.
Also recall when he recently kept getting Saddam and bin Laden confused. Perhaps the mind can only process so much spin before it starts to become confused.