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• Thursday, March 5, 2009 02:03 PM

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  CHENEY: Of course, just toppling the Twin Towers will never be enough. No one would give us the war mandate we need if we just blow up the Towers. Clearly, we also need to shoot a missile at a small corner of the Pentagon to create a mightily underpublicized additional symbol of international terrorism -- and then, obviously, we need to fake a plane crash in the middle of fucking nowhere somewhere in rural Pennsylvania.
  
  RUMSFELD: Yeah, it goes without saying that the level of public outrage will not be sufficient without that crash in the middle of fucking nowhere.
  
  CHENEY: And the Pentagon crash -- we'll have to do it in broad daylight and say it was a plane, even though it'll really be a cruise missile.
  
  BUSH: Wait, why do we have to use a missile?
  
  CHENEY: Because it's much easier to shoot a missile and say it was a plane. It's not easy to steer a real passenger plane into the Pentagon. Planes are hard to come by.
  
  BUSH: But aren't we using two planes for the Twin Towers?
  
  CHENEY: Mr. President, you're missing the point. With the Pentagon, we use a missile, and say it was a plane.
  
  BUSH: Right, but I'm saying, why don't we just use a plane and say it was a plane? We'll be doing that with the Twin Towers, right?
  
  CHENEY: Right, but in this case, we use a missile. (Throws hands up in frustration) Don, can you help me out here?...

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