Reply #24: I think you may have to rethink your response...

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"09/16/2001 - Updated 11:38 PM ET
Shoot-down order issued on morning of chaos

By Jonathan Weisman, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — With as many as four hijacked airliners believed to be missing, an anguished President Bush authorized U.S. fighter pilots Tuesday morning to shoot down commercial airliners, Vice President Cheney revealed Sunday. Cheney and other administration officials drew a picture of confusion, bordering on pandemonium, that reigned after terrorists plunged their hijacked jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The same misinformation that was plaguing the public Tuesday morning was bedeviling the highest officials in the land."
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Excerpt:

"Posted on 06/17/2004 9:34:49 AM PDT by areafiftyone


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House bypassed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in confusion during the 2001 attack on America and directly ordered U.S. fighter jets to shoot down hijacked airliners used in the strikes, the commission studying the event said on Thursday.

No airliners were shot down, but the independent commission charged in a scathing report that U.S. aviation and military officials responded clumsily to the devastating Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Not only was Rumsfeld bypassed in the normal chain of command for such a shoot-down order, but the command from Vice President Dick Cheney that the airliners be 'taken out' did not reach the fighter planes until after the last ill-fated airliner had crashed in Pennsylvania, the special commission said."
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Looks like one of those two people gave the order, doesn't it?