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A news story from September 2002: > CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary D
by throw0101a 5y ago
A news story from September 2002:
> CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.
* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-9-11/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-...
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- 8bitsrule 5y agoIronic, considering that the day before, on Sep 10, Rumsfeld told a group at the Pentagon how wasteful it was. "According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103220058/https://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=430 https://web.archive.org/web/20120103220058/https://www.defen...]