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Here We Go Again

by John Cole|  May 25, 20057:53 pm| 6 Comments

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Someone get a damp cloth, a glass of water, and tell Hugh Hewitt to take a seat, because another biased anti-military story has hit the stands:

The Pentagon said Wednesday Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did not authorize the military to shoot down a small plane that prompted evacuations of Washington power centers on May 11.

The Washington Post, citing accounts given by federal officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported that Rumsfeld had given the military authority to take the action, if necessary, against the diminutive Cessna 150 that had wandered into restricted airspace over the Washington area.

Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Rumsfeld gave no such authorization.

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  1. 1.

    Libertine

    May 25, 2005 at 8:08 pm

    Well somebody had to make the call…nobody even bothered to notify Bush, who was riding his bike in the woods at the time.

    What is the controversy? The fact that Rumsfeld tried to make the call in Bush’s absence instead of Cheney?

  2. 2.

    syn

    May 25, 2005 at 8:23 pm

    What’s the big deal about anything anymore since Newsweek declared that “America is Dead”

  3. 3.

    JPS

    May 25, 2005 at 9:41 pm

    Syn, are you asking Newsweek to declare categorically that America is still alive?

    Wingnut.

  4. 4.

    Mr Furious

    May 25, 2005 at 11:11 pm

    “…It never reached the point at which he had to make those kinds of decisions”

    And when, exactly, is “the point” when action is necessary? If they’d waited any longer, the missle fired at that plane would have just pushed it further into the White House…

  5. 5.

    Veeshir

    May 26, 2005 at 5:02 am

    Is Andrew Sullivan guest-blogging here?

  6. 6.

    Veeshir

    May 26, 2005 at 5:02 am

    Is Andrew Sullivan guest-blogging here?

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