Martok wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:
Peter Hanson, it seems, lied to his father, and his father did not see the plane his son was flying on slam into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/sec1.pdf
Truthers have called people like Hanson liars. Truthers have harassed witnesses who saw flight 93 crash but saw no military jets shoot it down. Truthers will not accept Islamic terrorists were responsible for 9/11.
The thing about that flight 93 and the whole "it was shot down" nonsense is that nobody denies that an order was given to shoot it down. Cheney has written about it, and Karl Rove writes about it in his new book: apparently Cheney confirmed on at least 2 occasions that Bush had given the go-ahead for fighter jets to shoot down the passenger plane to keep it from hitting another building. Bush himself has admitted that. And, at the time, the overwhelming majority of Americans polled on the topic said that they would think that would have been the right thing to do.
Tim Russert's show back in the fall of 2001:
"MR. RUSSERT: So if the United States government became aware that a hijacked commercial airline[r] was destined for the White House or the Capitol, we would take the plane down?
"VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yes. The president made the decision...that if the plane would not divert...as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a horrendous decision to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians, captured by...terrorists, headed and are you going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and kill all those Americans on board?
"...It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, "I wished we'd had combat air patrol up over New York."
If they had to shoot it down, I don't think they would have covered it up. It would have been sad, but most people would have understood.