George Bush thought 9/11 plane had been shot down on his orders

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Does anyone find the following worrying?


George Bush initially thought United Airlines flight 93 had been shot down in Pennsylvania. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

George Bush initially believed the only plane not to reach its intended target during the 11 September attacks had been shot down on his orders, according to leaks from the former president's memoir of his two terms in office.

Bush reveals that he gave the order for any further suspected hijacked planes to be shot down after the first aircraft were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York during the 2001 terror attacks.

He at first thought the crash of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania had resulted from this instruction, although it later emerged that passengers had stormed the cockpit as hijackers flew the plane towards the Capitol building in Washington.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/29/george-bush-thought-9-11-plane-shot-down

[katandmoon]

1. "Passengers stormed the cockpit".... riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Didn't believe it then, don't believe it now.

[EFerrari]

2. After eight years, nothing he says or does is surprising.

We're just lucky more people didn't die on September 11 when this worthless idiot was in office.

[Lasher]

3. I believe flight 93 might have been shot down.

I have a friend who lives in Pittsburgh. She told me she saw video footage on the local news that appeared to show exactly that, flight 93 being shot down by a missile from a jet fighter. She said they soon stopped showing the video and she's never since seen it or heard it discussed.

But then you have those calls some passengers made from their cell phones, and how do you explain that away? So I don't know.

[malaise]

5. The question remains

Who could make cell phone calls from an aircraft in 2001?

[malaise]

4. Well to be truthful

I never believed the official story for two reasons - the cell phones and the speed of the movie release.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. did he give the order or not I wonder?

seems strange that he thought that he gave an order and then couldn't remember?

[Blue Owl]

6. The Decider, eh?

Yeah, sure.