Reply #2: This is a very good post. [View All]

And by the way, I'm open to the third and fourth possibilities. I just haven't seen any evidence of OP yet (which of course rules out M for me). Room for suspicion? Sure, why not? But no real evidence yet.

And according to the recent Frontline documentary, The Dark Side, Cheney thought that two planes had been shot down under his orders. Maybe somebody somewhere can prove that a jet fighter shot down Flight 93, but I just don't think it's true because:

A. The Bushistas are willing to say that the orders were given.

B. They're willing to say that they thought the orders had been carried out in two instances.

C. Far from being a liability, the shooting down of American citizens by American fighters would have been the ultimate trump card in Bush's righteous indignation hand. It would have shown his administration to be resolute in protecting the greater good, and nobody could have seriously faulted him for it.

So I think the plane was ditched by the hijackers as the passengers tried to take it over, as we've been told. (I've never heard a satisfactory explanation of the "missing three minutes" yet from the government, btw.)